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With terrible symptoms during a fast, did you know that not using heroin can kill you? On Star Trek, these people were addicted to a drug but were convinced that they needed it to live. So if you have a strong heroin addiction and you stop taking it, it can kill you.

So people have an addiction to different things in their food that have been added by man. When you stop taking it, the body detoxifies and gets rid of that stuff. Naomi Allen of Australia was addicted to heroin. She got hooked on the pure stuff in Thailand. I loved her deeply. In the hospital, they slowly reduced the amount of heroin she got until they stopped it. She then died (heart stopped) and they injected her with heroin and she came back to life. They released her saying that they could not detoxify her of the heroin.

Note that this had worked earlier in her life but she got back on it again and was taking methadone as a replacement from the doctors. Many say that methadone is worse than the heroin.

Christians think that it is not good to do fasting for health benefits. I like the both sides of fasting. They believe in fasting for problems in life like if you are confused about a decision, or you are having a lot of bad luck or you are having financial troubles. Ben Franklin says that you earn money by fasting. He says that a penny saved, is a penny earned. I have seen how fasting can change around my luck.

Dr Shelton ignores the spiritual side of fasting. The Christians ignore the physical side of fasting. I embrace both sides. Gabriel Cousins, MD is a psychiatrist. He embraces both sides of fasting. Many people think that people on a raw foods diet need to get their head examined. He promotes being on a raw foods diet. He has written a few books like Conscious Eating as apposed to unconscious eating. The most addictive thing in foods may be HFCS. Some describe it as it is the devil! » Why High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Your Worst Enemy! on  Journal of Healthy Living