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Whether your fast will turn out to be a success or a failure will depend largely on how you break your fast. Breaking a fast is the most significant phase of it. The beneficial effect of fasting could be totally undone if the fast is broken incorrectly. As Dr. Otto H. F. Buchinger says: “Even a fool can fast, but only a wise man knows how to break the fast properly and to build up properly after the fast!”

The main rules for breaking the fast are:

1.  Do not overeat!

2.  Eat slowly and chew your food extremely well.

3.  Take several days of gradual transition to the normal diet.

First day: Eat one half apple in the morning and a very small bowl of fresh vegetable soup at lunch, in addition to the usual juice and broth menu.

Second day: A few soaked prunes or figs (with soaking water) for breakfast. Small bowl of fresh vegetable salad for lunch. Vegetable soup made without salt at dinner.

Two apples eaten between meals. All this in addition to the usual juices and broths.

Third day:     Same as second day, but add a glass of yogurt and 5-6 raw nuts (finely ground in a seed grinder) for breakfast. Increase the salad portion at lunch, and add a boiled or baked potato. A slice of whole grain bread with butter and a slice of cheese with soup at evening.

Fourth day: You may start eating normally, adhering to a cleansing Airola Diet. If you fasted longer than 10 days, the break-in period should be extended one day for every 4 days of fasting.

In order to benefit from fasting to the greatest possible extent, it is of paramount importance that

after fasting, a build-up diet of vital natural foods be maintained. Such a diet will supply the

healing and regenerative forces of your body with all the needed elements, so that the cleansing,

regenerative, rejuvenative and healing processes, initiated by the body during fasting, can be

continued.

But first and foremost, always keep in mind the first rule of breaking the fast; do not overeat! This rule also happens to be the first rule of keeping healthy and staying younger longer.

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