Tim - I get too many e mails and on top of that, I type really slowly.
As far as I know the reason for fasting is to detox the body. A minimum
of 10 to 14 days is needed depending on who you ask: basically, you
would eat raw for 3 days, followed by 7 days of juice or water fast and
another 4 days to ease the body back to "regular" foods. The last 3 to 4
days are very important. One can really mess up by breaking the fast
consuming normal foods.
Eating several almonds after a fast will quickly fill you up - kind of
shows you how much we over eat. I use to fast for 7 days at a time since
I was on the thin side.
Thomas
PS: Obviously even 2 weeks isn't enough to eliminate all the toxin that
have resided in the intestines for decades, but you will still feel a
big difference.