Talk:Water fasting
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[edit] Citation for dangers of water fasting?
I don't think we need a citation for this. The requirements of human food for energy and brain activity are well documented and accepted. If anything, a citation should be provided showing someone operating in average strains of daily activity on nothing but water for a while to see how it goes. Can we please remove this? Tyciol 05:22, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Aren't the dangers of water fasting more specific than those of non-compliance with the documented requirements of human food for energy and brain activity? For example, mental confusion resulting from electrolyte disturbance (particularly in the case of distilled water fasting)?
I'm not a medical professional nor a dietician, but I have experienced this personally and had to counter the highly unpleasant effects by drinking commercially available sporting drinks known to address electrolyte disturbances. (please see the wikipedia entries on mental confusion and electrolyte disturbance). I think a citation or at least more detail on the matter would be useful, especially considering the type of medical emergencies that could result from ignorant attempts at distilled water fasting.
[edit] (Water?) Fasting and Judaism
I don't think the little blurb at the end is called for. It doesn't deal specifically with water fasting, and Judaism's use of fasting in general is detailed much more comprehensively in the article on fasting. Well-intentioned, perhaps, but this information is being presented neither encyclopedically, nor in the appropriate location, nor, I'm afraid the reader might feel, substantially impartially. Thrashbarg 04:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
