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I have read 2 posts on this list that made me think: Am i weird?

Firstly, about Kefir and Yoghourt.

john roberts said:

" I suspect raw plain yogurt is likewise un-appealing "

Are you kidding?

It's delicious!

I LOVE the clean sour taste of fresh, un-mucked-about-with yoghourt.

I really think it's delicious.

I must admit that i have never tasted Kefir, and will have to investigate it

(must look up that Kefir.net site), but if it's anything like similar to

Yoghourt, i reckon it will be good.

If making Kefir is easier than making Yoghourt, it should be ok, as i have

had some experience with Yoghourt making, and found it fairly easy to do:

Mix milk with a spoonful of the previous batch of Yoghourt, keep it warm

(about body temp.) for about a day, and voila! (Although i have to admit

that i like the stuff i buy in the shops better than the stuff i have made

myself. Better texture, mainly). Starting it off is the hardest part, you

have to make sure you buy a LIVE yoghourt to seed your first home-made ones,

or you will get the wrong bacteria in it, and you _won't_ be happy.

Taking the Yoghourt theme a bit further, I have found that low-fat or no-fat

Yoghourt, a couple of bananas and a small amount of something alcoholic

(Jamaican Rum is good), blended together and frozen to be a great dessert.

Keep stirring it every once in a while until it's frozen to get a good

texture.

Maybe i should be posting this in the recipes section of the website. How do

i do this via email? Anyone know?

My second point is about fasting.

The question was: how do you fast?

Mike Hester responded to this one with a good description of his fasting

routine. He said that he didn't have anyone else's experience to compare it

with, so i thought i'd contribute my totally different experience (different

in almost every way).

I felt that Mike's post might possibly put some people off the idea of

fasting, as it seemed a bit involved. I'm not trying to criticise or

anything, just present a contrasting view.

My one experience of fasting (bear in mind that this was when i was about 17

yrs old) was remarkably easy, and my immediate reaction to the original

question was: " It's easy. You just stop eating! "

Which is exactly what i did.

I fasted for an entire week. In my youthful enthusiasm, i figured that a

week was not likely to be harmful, as it usually takes more than a month to

actually die of starvation (yes, i looked this up).

As it happens, i was ok (please understand, i'm NOT advocating that anyone

tries to fast for a week. I am a long way from 17 now, and i wouldn't even

consider trying the same thing again).

On reflection, maybe I was lucky that i didn't harm myself by fasting for

such a long time.

But my point is, i didn't do anything special except stop eating, and it was

very easy.

I ate normally the day before the fast, and the next morning, simply had a

glass of water instead of breakfast, and continued like that for the whole

week.

I was hungry for a day or so, (although not ravenously), then i just simply

forgot about food. I don't remember feeling weak or faint or anything. I

continued my normal daily routine (nothing strenuous, as i was a student at

the time, and loafing was pretty high on my agenda), the only thing

different was that i wasn't eating. And if anyone is wondering, No, i wasn't

cheating by getting calories via alcohol.

After the week was up, i started drinking small amounts of fruit juice, then

small amounts of solid food, working my way up to my normal eating habits

gradually over the next day, so as not to shock my digestive system too

much.

I was rather surprised at how easy it was, no uncontrollable urges to eat,

no stomach cramps or cravings or anything, so i just kept on until the week

was up. I believe i did have a bit of a gnarly breath for a little while,

but a bit of brushing and mouthwash soon coped with that. I certainly didn't

get people rearing back from me when i said HEllo. Oh, and now i think of

it, i did have a bit of headache on the first day, but that went away quite

quickly.

The reason why i never repeated the experience was because i didn't really

feel any different for it, and i like eating, so basically i thought what's

the point? (I had never heard of CR back then, and to be honest life

extension is probably going to be the last thing on the mind of a seventeen

year old male. I don't even remember why i tried it in the first place. Just

an experiment, to prove to myself that i could, probably).

I think the message is that everyone IS different, so there is no single

answer. You have to find out what suits you for yourself. My opinion is that

if you don't eat for a day or two, it's no big deal. Our bodies are quite

capable of coping with short periods of no food without trouble. Our species

wouldn't have survived otherwise.

So if you think fasting might benefit you, try it, is my advice.

Just make sure you don't dehydrate, or you _will_ be in trouble.

Don't be afraid of it, but do be cautious, and watch for warning signs. My

experience was probably the opposite end of the spectrum to the woman that

Mike mentioned, who passed out.

Most people will probably be somewhere in between.

And do bear in mind that i was young when i did this, and even though i

wasn't particularly robust (two pints of beer used to be enough to give me a

major hangover the next day), i think that my youth at the time probably had

a lot to do with how easy i found the experience.

Any more fasting stories, anyone?

BEN

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