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 The question regarding the duration of a fast is, then, one that can never be answered with certainty, and it is to be remembered that each individual develops his own case, and that each case has its own limitations and requirements. In view of these conditions, the fact is to be faced that no matured human body, in which disease is manifest, can be brought to health within a limited period of time. It has required years of abuse and of drugging to cause disease, and it is unreasonable to assume that nature in a few short weeks or months can bring about the physiological changes necessary to perfect functioning.

The fast completed, the body exists in a sphere of natural condition, and there are no circumstances in which there is so much of real gratification in the simpler acts that constitute physical life. To eat rationally, to eat only at the demand of hunger and not to excess, become exquisite pleasures, marred with no grief for the flesh pots nor for the loss of appetite.

What the fast requires is ability to follow logically the details of a great but simple law, the law of hunger, which, once obeyed, brings health for the asking, and demands