Rishi Sunak fasts for only 36 hours.
Neville Hodgkinson, 80, decided to go ten days without food
To celebrate turning 80, I went on my first fast. No food, tea or coffee. Just water. For the first few days it was hell, but the after-effects have been very positive. It’s said that fasting can help with diabetes and Alzheimer’s. Rishi Sunak fasts for only 36 hours a week. My fast was meant to last for ten days, but my naturopath (or natural-health practitioner) saw that, after four days, I was in such discomfort and so weak that he weaned me back on to food earlier than planned. My appetite had already shrunk, so it was a slow process. First, the water of one fresh coconut (absolute ambrosia – it felt as if the nourishment was reaching every cell in my body). Carrot juice with fresh curcumin, and a few nibbles of coconut flesh, on the sixth day; stewed apple, grated carrot and pomelo (like a giant grapefruit)...
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