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Fasts may seem like just another celebrity/media driven health fad, but in fact, humans have been fasting for thousands of years.
Many of the great doctors of ancient times and many of the oldest healing systems have recommended it as an integral method of healing and prevention.
Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, believed fasting enabled the body to heal itself. Paracelsus, another great physician, wrote 500 years ago that "fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within."
Ayurvedic medicine, the world's oldest healing system, has long advocated fasting as a major treatment.