#11 The Fasting Cure
Curious Insights from History
English - April 06, 2019 14:00 - 13 minutes - 6.07 MBHistory Education history john walker curious insight about books non-fiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today we talk about a book by Upton Sinclair called The Fasting Cure. It is an old book, but is amazingly modern considering the recent understandings of what fasting can do for health.
This is a good general article about water fasting:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/water-fasting
This is the actual text of The Fasting Cure by Sinclair Lewis:
http://apache2.pum.edu.pl/~fasting/upton.pdf
This is an interesting podcast on intermittent fasting: https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-79/
STEM talk is one of my favorite podcasts.