
Eat, Fast, Feast
Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul - A Christian Guide to Fasting
By: Jay W. Richards
Paperback | 7 January 2020
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Wellness minded people today are increasingly turning to intermittent fasting to bolster their health. But we aren't the first people to abstain from eating for a purpose. This routine was a common part of our spiritual ancestors' lives for 1,500 years.
Jay Richards argues that Christians should recover the fasting lifestyle, not only to improve our bodies, but to bolster our spiritual health as well. In Eat, Fast, Feast, he combines forgotten spiritual wisdom on fasting and feasting with the burgeoning literature on ketogenic diets and fasting for improved physical and mental health. Based on his popular series “Fasting, Body and Soul” in The Stream, Eat, Fast, Feast explores what it means to substitute our hunger for God for our hunger for food, and what both modern science and the ancient monastics can teach us about this practice.
Richards argues that our modern diet-heavy in sugar and refined carbohydrates-locks us into a metabolic trap that makes fasting unfruitful and our feasts devoid of meaning. The good news, he reveals, is that we are beginning to resist the tyranny of processed foods, with millions of people pursuing low carb, ketogenic, paleo, and primal diets. This growing body of experts argue that eating natural fat and fasting is not only safe, but far better than how we eat today.
Richards provides a 40-day plan which combines a long-term “nutritional ketosis” with spiritual disciplines. The plan can be used any time of the year or be adapted to a penitential season on the Christian calendar, such as Advent or Lent.
Synthesizing recent science with ancient wisdom, Eat, Fast, Feast brings together the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of intermittent fasting to help Christians improve their lives and their health, and bring them closer to God.
About the Author
Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the author of Money, Greed, and God and the New York Times bestsellers Indivisible and Infiltrated. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a contributing editor at The American magazine (american.com) and the Enterprise Blog (blog.american.com) at the American Enterprise Institute. He also has lectured on economic myths to members of the U. S. Congress. He has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and he has appeared on Larry King Live. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
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ISBN: 9780062905215
ISBN-10: 006290521X
Published: 7th January 2020
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 21.1 x 14.1 x 2.6
Weight (kg): 0.33
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