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 PREPARATION FOR THE FAST

HEN disease appears in humankind, it is, as said before, not only a warning but a curative process. The disturbing element needs removal, the tired, abused organs need rest and repair. Instinctively real food desire, true hunger, disappears; in fact, for some time previous to actual disability, hunger has been absent. Appetite or stimulated demand for sustenance may, however, remain in evidence even after illness is manifest; but disease and hunger cannot exist at the same time within the human body.

Bodily functions are swift in their adaptability to circumstances, and bodily organs accomodate [sic] themselves and their labors even to abuse. Consequently, in a system accustomed to years of excess food supply, nature carries on existence in spite of handicap until accumulation and subsequent decomposition institute disease. Were the subject to 51