Allan Cott, M.D.

"British doctors are now using fasting for weight control. Dr. T. Lawlor, for example, has fasted patients for intractable obesity at Botley's Park Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey. The patients ranged in age from 21 to 45, and were fasted up to 40 days. All of them tolerated the experience very well; a few even experienced euphoria. At Glasgow's Rushill Hospital, researchers concluded that 'total fasting is the most efficient method of reducing weight in obese patients.' Dr. T. J. Thompson, a Scottish doctor who supervised the fast of a woman who lost 97 lbs through 35 weeks of fasting, observes that not only is fasting the best way to lose weight, but that partial restriction of calories is ineffective."

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