Reasons For Fasting
Reasons to undergo juice fasting may include spiritual or religious reasons, desire to lose weight, or attempts to stop habitual behavior such as smoking, drinking soda, overeating, caffeine addiction, etc. Participants may use juice fasting as an alternative medicine. Participants may believe juice fasting will cure chronic pain, cancer, depression, arthritis, severe infections that resisted antibiotics, autoimmune diseases, and many other incurable diseases. Others choose juice fasting because they believe they can focus on healing specific organs and systems.
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