I believe a said 1-2 weeks, not 2-3 weeks, but I defer to the late, great
Dr. Shelton, as quoted by Ward below.  In all fasts that I have
personally taken, I never try to take the fast beyond what I feel my body
is capable of.  I might have an initial goal of 2-3 weeks or whatever,
but I always take fasting one day at a time, and believe that is how
everyone should approach a fast.  If it feels wrong, stop.

Bob Avery ([log in to unmask])

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From: Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Shelton on fasting in pregnancy
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:23:56 -0500
Message-ID: <v03007800aeb3b47e9bab@[204.95.83.254]>

Bob, a word of unsolicited advice: your radical extremism is showing
visibly up into the red zone here. Be careful you don't go overboard here
or you may damage your credibility. Advising a pregnant woman to fast for
2-3 weeks is unheard of, and not recommended by any hygienic physician I
have ever heard address the matter, not even by Herbert Shelton himself.

>From "Fasting Can Save Your Life," by Herbert Shelton (1964):

(p.55) "...there are also conditions in which a fast, at least of anyy
length, is inadvisable, even impossible. In states of great emaciation,
in advanced stages of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and in advanced
tuberculosis, there is nothing to be gained from a fast. Fasting in
cancer of the liver and in cancer of the pancreas is especially to be avoided.
Where there is great fear of the fast, it is well not to undertake it.

"In pregnancy, fasting should be resorted to only in cases of urgent
necessity. In cases of morning sickness, common in the early stages of
pregnancy, fasting a few days will prove of benefit. Apart from this, if
there is no acute disease that makes a fast essential, the woman should
avoid fasting while pregnant. By this I do not, of course, mean that she
cannot miss an occasional meal or even fast for a day or so, if she finds
it helpful.

"As fasting causes the milk of the nursing mother to diminish, and it is
not increased when feeding is resumed, the nursing mother should avoid
fasting unless her adviser considers it an urgent necessity. It is
important for the expectant mother to maintain high-level health during
pregnancy and the nursing period."

(p. 188-189) "When the pregnant woman feels the first faint beginning of
nausea and vomiting, she should voluntarily cease eating at once. Neither
she nor the child will be hurt by ceasing to eat. A prolonged fast might
injure the baby, but a few days of abstinence in the early days of
pregnancy, such as the woman with morning sickness will have to undergo,
will help her.

"...My experience has shown that 3-10 days are enough to enable the body
to put its house in order and there is no more nausea and vomiting
throughout the remainder of the pregnancy."

--Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]> Wichita, KS