IMO - the reason journalists don't do this is due to inflated ego and inflated sense of self-importance. If we see the results up front - their writing may not matter to a good number of people who won't read on. They believe their writing is actually good so they make you get through it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#37119484)

1. Fasting is hard for the first few days but gets easier, so if you get over the hump of 2-4 days you don't need to be Gandhi to keep going for several more.

2. There's some evidence that regular fasting can significantly expand one's lifespan.

3. There's also evidence that if you lose weight via total fasting you're more likely to keep it off long-term. Of course, it also helps that if you have the ability to fast, if you DO gain it back you have a good way to lose it again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#27459498)

why is it in a google document

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#27460194)

that's because fasting and self-denial actually changes your brain and personality

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#31169209)

legians weighed him at 121.5 pounds,

thirty-six fewer than when he had

begun. His other vitals were interest-

ing only for being uninteresting: nor-

mal pulse, normal respiration. At

noon, he ate a peach, which went

down without trauma. He followed

with two goblets of milk, which the

collegians thought imprudent on a

stomach so long inactive. But the milk

not troubling him either, he ate most

of a Georgia watermelon, to his col-

leagues’ horror. In succeeding hours he

added a modest half-pound of broiled

beefsteak, a like amount of sirloin, and

four apples. His lubrication was wine

and ale. By the following evening he

had reclaimed eight and a half pounds.

After three days he had regained nine-

teen and a half, and after five more he

had recouped all of the lost thirty-six.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#31169347)

this spacing?

it makes it

rather hard to

read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#31169371)

http://www.thepathoftruth.com/falsehood-exposed/veganism.htm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#31169964)

...

Although by American standards I could not properly be called fat—my weight being somewhere in the loftier 160s—even this mass the World Health Organization deemed unhealthy for a man five-foot-nine, and some distant athletic part of me was compelled to agree.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#31169385)

my brunchtime familiars—spitting

forth flecks of whipped cream and

nearly choking on her waffle—when

apprised of my fast. I replied, purely

to educate her, that her extreme de-

votion to three meals a day, every

day, might earn her a tumor. In the

same altruistic spirit, I said that since

she had just passed fifty and was get-

ting on in years, she might care to

know that regular fasting showed po-

tential as a means of retarding aging.

She was sullen until her side of ba-

con arrived.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#31169764)

It's insane!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#31170425)

http://charleycropley.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FASTING-ART-Harpers.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#32256957)

I've done 5 days but can't imagine 10+

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2826053&forum_id=2#35406869)