At 03:08 PM 2/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Fasting for a day is not a real fast and has no "fasting" benefits.
>However undereating is 'healthier" than overeating.


What is your definition of "real fast"?   My American Heritage Dictionary
defines it as:
"To abstain from eating all or certain foods"  No time frame given.

What are the benefits of fasting as you see them?  When do they begin to
take effect?  1 day, 2 days?  A week?  Is there an 'optimal' fasting
time?  Certainly a pointer to a few studies supporting your statement
shouldn't be too much to ask.  Really shouldn't take you much longer than
typing in 'yahoo.com'

Tim