You could have rounded it out to 30 days since it was hours away from it. The dictionary defines broth as "liquid in which meat, fish, grains, or vegetables have been cooked." I never heard of breaking a fast with cooked food. Especially with cooking taking out the taste, so people usually add salt to the broth.
Did your tongue clear when you had genuine hunger? Sometimes the body needs food even though it is not done cleaning out stuff. Also with real hunger, you can start eating again instead of converting to a juice fast.
Just like Dr Shelton gave enemas to 6,000 fasters before he stopped, the hygenists had learned that it is better to break the fast with solid food, instead of juice, like a half an orange every 2 hours which Dr Fuhrman uses to break fasts of up to 50 days. People do juice fasts of up to 120 days.
Also Arnold Ehret says that fast is really broken when you have your first bowel movement which solid food helps with. Actually for me, after going weeks without a bowel movement during fasting, it comes very quickly. It feels like the peristalsis starts again as soon as you start eating. I like to ask MDs how do you stop peristalsis without drugs or surgery to hear them say that they do not know. Then I tell them with fasting.
I have read lots of fasting books but never read the above, but they did not say that it does not stop. But it is common sense that when you have all that stuff in there that is not coming out, but then comes out like crazy when yous start eating, it is obvious. So technically, you did starve yourself for around 8 hours.
Although I understand how it is. In Philadelphia, there are bad areas where if you accidentally bump into someone or put down someone, they will kill you and spend the rest of their life in prison. But while in prison they will brag about how they killed a guy who bumped into them. This is called biting off your nose to spite your face. The one word for this (even though it has multiple meanings) would be ego.
Oddly the name for these areas is the name of the areas where the Nazis would put all the Jews at first-- ghettos. Please note for everyone reading this that the professional fasters like Joel Fuhrman, M.D. recommend that people fast under the supervision of someone like them where they check the blood every couple of days.
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