“Fasting is, without any doubt, the most effective biological method of treatment… it is the ‘operation without surgery’… it is a cure involving exudation, reattunement, redirection, loosening up and purified relaxation. While fasting, the patient improves her or his physical health and gains much. But he or she will have neglected the most important thing if the hunger for spiritual nourishment that manifests itself during fasting is not satisfied.” said Otto Buchinger, Sr., M.D., Germany’s great, self-described “fasting therapist,” who founded the most famous of several renowned, European Buchinger Kliniks in 1952.

For perhaps the first time in your entire life, fasting affords a physiological rest to the digestive, assimilative and protective organs of your body. Fresh fruit and vegetable juices require little digestion, and are quickly assimilated from the upper digestive tract. Therefore, most of the 10% of bodily energy normally involved in your mastication, assimilation, digestion, and elimination is freed up. This is another reason you’ll feel more - not less - energy throughout properly-done juice-fasting - unlike the physically debilitating weakness water-fasters experience.

Additionally, these many fruit and vegetable juices all supply excellent energy, minerals, vitamins, live enzymes, and other nutrients necessary to enhance health during the fast. By providing much of the body’s daily caloric needs with easily-digested juices, the release of toxins from the fat cells is much more gentle and gradual.

Adopted from an article, courtesy: http://www.healingdaily.com