Here's an interesting article that explains the importance of breaking a fast, I think everyone should carefully break a water fast to avoid dangerous side effects, I
will definitely keep in mind all these advises while breaking my Water Fast:
"Breaking the fast is equally or more
important a stage than the fast itself. It is
the most dangerous time in the entire fast. If you stop fasting
prematurely, that is, before the body has completed detoxification and healing,
expect the body to reject food when
you try to make it eat, even if you introduce foods very gradually. The faster,
the spiritual being running the body, may have become bored and want some
action, but the faster's body hasn't finished. The body wants to continue healing.
By rejection, I mean that food may not
digest, may feel like a stone in
your stomach, make you feel terrible. If that happens and if, despite that
clear signal you refuse to return to fasting, you should go on a juice diet, take as little as possible, sip it
slowly (almost chew it) and stay on juice until you find yourself digesting it
easily. Then and only then, reintroduce a little solid raw food like a green
salad.
Weaning
yourself back on to food should last just as long as the fast. Your first
tentative meals should be dilute, raw juices. After several days of
slowly building up to solid raw fruit, small amounts of raw vegetable foods
should be added. If it has been a long fast, say over three weeks, this
reintroduction should be done gingerly over
a few weeks. If this stage is poorly managed or ignored you may become acutely ill, and for
someone who started fasting while dangerously ill, loss of self-control and impulsive eating could prove fatal.
Even for those fasting to cure non-life-threatening illnesses it is pointless
to go through the effort and discipline of a long fast without carefully
establishing a correct diet after the fast ends, or the effort will have largely been wasted."
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