I have had clients with potentially life-threatening conditions such as obesity with incipient heart failure, or who came to me with cancer, that were unable to stop work for financial reasons, or who could not afford a residential fasting program, or who felt confident in their own ability to deal with detoxification in their own home.  These people have fasted successfully at home, coming to see me once a week.  Almost inevitably, successful at-home fasters had already done a lot of research on self healing, believed in it, and had the personal discipline to carry it out properly, including breaking the fast properly without overeating.

Foods To Heal Chronic Illness

Sprouts     Baby Greens    Salad        Juices     Fruit
alfalfa     sunflower      lettuce      beet       grapefruit
radish      buckwheat      celery       celery     lemon
bean        zucchini       zucchini     lime       lime
clover      kale           kale         orange     orange
fenugreek   endive         radish       parsley    apple
wheat                      tomato       tomato     raspberries
cabbage                    cabbage      cabbage    blueberries
carrot       carrot     grapes
spinach      apple      peaches
parsley      grapefruit apricots
sweet pepper lemon      strawberry

Fruits should be watery and lower in sugar.  Some examples of poor fruit choices would be pineapple, ripe mango, bananas, dates, raisins, figs.  Fruits should not be combined with vegetables.

Vegetables should not be starchy, packed-full of energy.  Poor vegetable choices would be potato, parsnip, turnip, corn, sweet potato, yam, beet, winter squash.  Sprouts and baby greens are vegetables and may be included in salads.

Juices should not be extremely sweet.  Apple, orange, beet and carrot juice should be diluted with 50% water.  Fruit juices should not be mixed with vegetable juices or with vegetables at the same meal.

Salads should include no fruit.  Salad dressings should be lemon or lime juice, very small quantities of olive oil, and herbs.  No salt, soy sauce nor black pepper.  Cayenne can be okay for some.

I have also helped chronically ill people that were not mentally prepared to water fast, but were able to face the long-term self-control and deprivation of a raw food cleansing diet that included careful food combining.  These people also regained their health, but it took them a year at minimum, and once well they had to remain on a diet tailor-made to their digestive capacity for the rest of their life, usually along with food supplements.

Jim was such a case.  He was 55 years old, very obese, had dangerously high blood pressure poorly controlled with medication, and was going into congestive heart failure.  He was on digitalis and several other heart medications plus diuretics, but in no way was his condition under control.  He had severe edema in the feet and legs with pitting, and fluid retention in the abdominal region caused a huge paunch that was solid to the touch not soft and squishy like fatty tissue.