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"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself; art cannot become manifest; strength cannot be exerted; wealth is useless, and reason is powerless."--Ardmore Herophiles, M.D., 300 B.C., Father of Anatomy and physician to Alexander the Great

"True happiness is impossible without true health. True health is impossible without the rigid control of the palet." --Mohandas K. Gandhi

"A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of one's willingness to be personally challenged. But, the tendency to avoid challenge is so omnipresent in human beings, that it can properly be considered a characteristic of human nature. However, another characteristic of human nature, and perhaps the one that makes us most human, is our capacity to do the unnatural, to transcend and, hence, to transform our own nature."--M. Scott Peck, M.D./psychiatrist, from his book, THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

"Nothing will work unless you do."--Dr. Maya Angelou, a remarkable Renaissance woman, being a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director

START-TO-FINISH, SKILLED, VETERAN, PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION IS THE KEY TO YOUR--AND OUR--SUCCESS!

[FCI NOTE: As human tastes differ, all those with time for the details may enjoy reading most everything here. Those with less time, as well as Type-A's and ADD's (those suffering Attention Deficit Disorder), can cut right to the entree (avoiding the hors d'oeuvres enroute) by scrolling halfway down to FCI's various-length Programs and fees; or near the bottom, for what's included with all Programs, or directly to the bottom, clicking for the online Juice Fasting Agreement all new clients must send from our site. Thank you so much.] In America today, for example, there are 90 books on fasting in print, most all of which are mutually antagonistic and will hopelessly confuse any intelligent Cybernaut. The only thing they all hold in common is their recommendation that one should never do a prolonged fast without skilled, veteran, professional supervision, initially. Quite simply, one without experiential knowledge and distilled wisdom in our field can't be expected to know how to deal with all that can arise (physiologically, psychologically and spiritually) throughout a prolonged fast. Therefore, supervision by one with decades of experiential knowledge as a wise and professional mentor or therapist of scientific fasting (as opposed to solid-food and powdered-shake diets which fail 99% of the time, according to Washington Post research), will allow you to fast with the clean, clear confidence which only proven, distilled wisdom provides. FCI's clients on all continents and in all time zones, year in and decade out, thank me/FCI sincerely for our supervision's critical importance in providing them not only with discipline and confidence in our Programs, but also with support and inspiration to succeed; peace of mind throughout, and the wisdom to address any question which could arise during their Program--all absolute imperatives for the success of any therapeutic modality. Also, an experienced practitioner or guide--one who has researched the international literature; tested the myriad, global approaches, as well as studied the best fasting centers and clinics on Earth, as I have while living 10 years outside America in 55 cultures--can explain the myriad physiological, psychological and spiritual changes one can undergo during a scientifically designed, therapeutic, health-enhancing juice-fast. Because FCI supervises the most skillful juice-fasts on this particular planet, we've developed, over three and half decades, our world's largest, nonresidential fasting clientele--with an extraordinary 98.5% Program-completion rate--by mastering both the cognitive structure that is knowledge of scientific fasting, with the more important, reflectively internalized decades of experience which confer therapeutic wisdom. Quite simply, FCI provides every one of its global clients, now representing 220 nations, with superior scientific professionalism on a personal basis, impeccably respecting each and every one's confidentiality, privacy and nobility. So, let Fasting Center International now be your guide to a modern, pleasant, scientific, health-restoring and rejuvenating juice-fast. The cost is absurdly inexpensive, considering the alternatives, and by moving you back toward optimum health, can keep you out of $1600/day hospital rooms in your future. Thus, skillful juice-fasting, as proven in clinically-monitored tests of in-hospital patients (not well-beings such as you and me) lasting up to 55 days at Sweden's world-famous Karolinska Institute, which annually awards the coveted Nobel Prize for Medicine, is preventive medicine of the very first order. AMERICA'S NEWEST EXPORT: GLOBESITY! Thus, we hope you value yourself enough to finally now honor yourself with this magic-carpet ride up into the stratosphere of human potential--virgin territory for the vast majority of human beings who spend their entire life in clouded consciousness, never realizing how awesome their TRUE potential really is. . .physiologically, psychologically and most importantly, spiritually (that inner desire for wholeness we all must finally address if we're to ever resolve our many addictions, including those which have presently resulted in America's staggering obesity epidemic, now being exported worldwide via our high (animal) protein, high fat, fast food mania (laced with antiboitics, toxins and pesticides from chemically-grown feed, and growth hormones: natural hormones estradiol, progesterone and testosterone, and the synthetic hormones zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate). Presently, one-third of America's adults (59 million) and 15% of our children are already overweight/obese, with another third of U.S. adults overweight and gaining). Recently, I was invited to address this epidemic in an upcoming documentary film, "The Heavy Truth," noting that during my recent sabbatical through 55 countries, only a handful did not have McDonald's supersizing the locals (over 30,000 restaurants in 119 nations; Subway, 22,909 in 81; Pizza Hut, 12,274 in 85; Burger King, 11,220 in 61; Wendy's, 9700 worldwide; Taco Bell, 6780; Dairy Queen, 5900; Baskin-Robbins, 4500; Arby's, 3400; Papa John's Pizza, 3000; Applebee's, 1671, etc., with the smaller friers following suit, now that many chains feel they've "saturated" the U.S. market : Denny's, Domino's Pizza, Jack In the Box, Krispy Kreme, Winchell's Donuts, et. al. In this regard, FCI's experience as the global leader in our field over the past 35 years has long confirmed the more recent diagnosis of Harvard-trained botanist and M.D., Andrew Weil, regarding the absolute necessity of all addictive personalities (and that's most all of us, if you include the socially acceptable, addictive behaviors which do not attact the same attention as alcohol and smoking Joneses, represented in the lines in every Starbucks on Earth, as well as in exercising or working compulsively, making money, surfing TV channels or the Net, falling in love serially, etc.) finally coming to grips with the comcomitant existential anxiety or spiritual angst. Writing in "Natural Health, Natural Medicine," p. 132, Doctor Weil concludes: "Addiction is not a psychological or pharmacological problem, and cannot be solved by the methods of psychology or pharmacology. It is, at root, a spiritual concern, because it represents a misdirected attempt to achieve wholeness, to experience inner completeness and satisfaction." Thus, why not follow the intuitive wisdom which led you here and allow FCI to be your 35-year-veteran guide on this marvelous peak or transcendental experience which both the Buddha and Christ did before you, as did all three Fathers of Western Medicine and nearly every great thinker our species has produced, female and male, leaving us, historically, with more glowing testimonials to scientific, therapeutic fasting's myriad detoxification, rejuvenative and regenerative benefits than all other healing modalities combined. . .a marvelous self-improvement journey rewarding all with the courage and discipline to do it with FAR greater health, happiness and healing power.         --Dennis Paulson, Founder/Director, Fasting Center International, Inc.; optimum health consultant and internationally-published author

To: Dennis Paulson, CEO, Fasting Center Intl., Inc.   Dear Dennis: Your Program constituted my first fast, and it was everything you said it would be, as well as having a few, unexpectedly-pleasant bonuses.   You said I'd lose 20 lbs., and I did. You said my mind would become clearer than those around me, and my friends wanted to know what it was that made me clearer than they were. You said people would notice a glow to my skin and a whitening of my eyes, and they did. You said I would feel serene and light, and I was.   This would have been, in and of itself, better than a gold-plated guarantee; but wait, there's more. There are no more cravings for coffee, colas, beer, or other alcoholic drinks, so I am out of the caffeine-up, alcohol-down cycle. I have no desire for any meat, which means no more after-lunch let down, and my digestive and eliminative organs are functioning easily and regularly.   My ability to concentrate, be creative, and increase energy output, both physical and mental, is at a far higher level than before the fast. And lastly, I've reached a long-standing goal which was all but forgotten in the toxic mists of my former self--to be in tune with my inner (spiritual) senses.   You've put your knowledge into an effective, concise, understandable, and practicable Program, which gets the results you represented would occur. I feel lucky to have found Fasting Center International, and have access to your accumulated knowledge.   Sincerely, John Perry, American screenwriter

Back in December, 2001, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., warned that: "Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in America, and could soon cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking. More than 61% of U.S. adults are overweight (30%) or currently meet the scientific definition of obesity (31%); among adolescents, 15%, and some 300,000 Americans die each year from health problems directly related to obesity. This is probably the most sedentary generation of people in the history of the world!"

The surgeon general's report defines overweight as having a body-mass index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9, or being approximately 20-to-25 lbs. overweight. People with a BMI of 30 or more are considered obese, and are roughly 30 lbs. or more over their healthy weight. (BMI takes height and weight into account, and is computed by multiplying body weight in pounds by 703, then dividing that amount by height in inches squared.)" [FCI NOTE: If you wish to calculate your own Body-Mass Index--to determine whether you are underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese--pull up (www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/).]

Dr. Satcher said his "call to action" will seek to promote the recognition of obesity as a health problem, and help Americans learn how to eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly, recommending that obesity be classified officially as a disease, to encourage insurance companies to reimburse for weight-control expenses. " This is not about aesthetics and it's not about appearances," Satcher said. "We're talking about health!" Satcher estimated that 1200 Americans die daily from weight-related illnesses, with rates of overweight and obesity rising across all U.S. age, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic groups.

However, with nearly two-thirds of American adults now overweight or obese, Doctor Satcher's warning wasn't taken any more seriously than his precedessor's 1996 announcement that just over half the adult population was then overweight or obese, facing increased risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, depression, several forms of cancer, and many other chronic ailments; that people in their 50s were the fattest; that extreme obesity was becoming more common, and that obesity was even increasing among preteens, with 12% of U.S. kindergarteners having a body-fat index putting them at risk for obesity.

Unfortunately, things have only gotten worse since the 1996 warning, when Dr. Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania concluded: "It's just eating too much. Physical activity hasn't increased enough to make up for it." Four years later, Dr. Satcher would report that just one-third of U.S. adults met experts' recommendations for at least 30 minutes of exercise 5 days per week, obviously preferring the couch, food and TV instead, after having primarily sat at work all day, plus another 1.5 hrs. sitting in traffic (U.S. commuting average). Nearly three years later, in October, 2002, H.H.S. Secretary Tommy Thompson warned: "The problem keeps getting worse. We've seen virtually a doubling in the number of obese persons over the past two decades, and this has profound health implications. Obesity increases a person's risk for a number of serious conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and some types of cancer." By 2005, the U.S. Institute of Medicine had announced that over 9 million American kids over 6 were already obese, not surprisingly following the dietary and lifestyle examples of their closest adult role-models.

'DIET' SCAMS LEAVE MANY CYNICAL & HOPELESS!
Intelligent Cybernauts everywhere realize that America has, over decades, exported not only its high fat, high protein, low fiber, processed and packaged, fast food mania around our globe, but has also exported its countless 'diet' schemes designed to fail 99.5% of the time (Washington Post conclusion, after researching 26,000-plus popular diets foisted on the American public over the past 70 years), so people have to go back and pay through the nostrils over and over and over again, leaving many feeling hopeless about ever losing weight permanently.

Likewise, many were scammed by greedy physicians pushing expensive 'diet' pills for the Drug Industry--to over 18 million Americans annually, in the case of Fen-Phen, the powerful diet drug combination for which American Home Products, parent company of the manufacturer, eventually had to cough up more than $4 BILLION to settle thousands of legal suits filed by those whose health was damaged by the drugs.

Similarly, few know that the allopath who devised the hotly-debated weight-loss plan favoring steak and eggs over spaghetti and vegetables--which more than 30 million Americans have now tried--was hospitalized for cardiac arrest one year before dying in April, 2003, of complications from a fall. The New York City medical examiner's report showed that Dr. Robert Atkins was an obese 258 lbs. at his death, suffering from heart disease, age 72.

Among physicians criticizing the Atkins Diet, the U.S. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a leading advocate for preventive medicine and good nutrition, has been speaking out about the dangers of high-protein diets since its founding in 1985, stating at AtkinsDietAlert.org: "Studies show that meat-heavy, high-protein eating patterns are, over the long run, linked to osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer and renal disease, and pose particular dangers for people with diabetes." Further, in an appearance on the Discovery Channel's "Second Opinion With Dr. Oz," fasting advocate Joel Fuhrman, M.D., added: "Popular diets such as the Atkins Diet, the Zone Diet, and the South Beach Diet result in short-term weight loss, but the critical question is whether these diets are safe," citing the medical journal Angiology, where a study of people on the Atkins Diet for one year experienced a decreased blood flow to their heart by 40%, plus increased inflammatory markers. Dr. Fuhrman added that ketogenic diets like the Atkins plan can also cause cardiomyopathy or dilation of the heart, and that scientific research also shows a six-fold increase in certain cancers at the level of saturated fat seen in some of these popular diets.

Is it any wonder that by the time they arrive here at FCI, some 'diet cycle' survivors are almost too cynical to realize that the oldest, fastest, safest (biochemically) and least expensive weight loss and detoxification method on Earth is and always has been scientific fasting (not ethically-misnomered, extraordinarily expensive 'diet' scams foisted on suffering, trusting patients by money-hungry allopaths who know their OptiFast and MediFast diets have continuously damaged health and even killed over 60 Americans, in the case of OptiFast)? Or further, that FCI is actually teaching this marvelous, self-improvement technique for life?! Here are several, representative examples of what that discovery 'sounds' like:

"Through the years, diets always, always failed me. So did Weight Watchers and NutriSystem, with the painfully boring meetings and packaged foods. But Fasting Center International's 50-day Program was wonderful for me! I lost 30 lbs., learned how to keep it off, and I am really happy it worked so well for me!" --Katherine Kennedy, American marketing executive

Fr: a Budapest, Hungary, client, 68, following a 40-day Program he did while his wife, 58, did our 50-day: "As a writer and retired marketing/advertising man, I found my way to FCI in search of help with a digestive problem. The more I researched the Program, the more I came to realize that I had stumbled upon a rather remarkable resource, one that clearly represented a safe means of losing some weight and might even play a part in dealing with my recurring nasal polyps. I was also open to the possibility of experiencing a heightened spiritual awareness. For all these reasons, I decided to give it a go. In my relatively short FCI Program, I shed more than 20 unnecessary lbs. I haven't been this slim in decades! "As for the nasal polyps, by the end of my Program, there was enough improvement to suggest that when I am able to do the Total Detoxification Program recommended by FCI's Director, there is every reason to hope for a complete reversal of this problem. I sincerely believe that this is so. "This short offering would not be complete without mentioning Dennis Paulson, the Founder and Director of FCI. His knowledge and expertise are boundless; his support, total and constant. I can honestly say that I don't think I have ever come across anyone so powerfully at the top of his or her game than this remarkable individual, nor anyone who more effectively and convincingly walks his talk. "I would recommend the FCI Program to anyone as a cornerstone in the rebuilding of good health. God bless and happy fasting!"--Emmanuel Elliott, Budapest

Interestingly, during global economic ebbs and flows, popular 'diet' programs, globally, increase and decrease on national radar screens. However, ever since going on this mighty World Wide Web in 1995, Fasting Center International has, in every year, helped ever greater numbers of kindred souls (including avant-garde M.D.s, psychiatrists, D.O.s, D.D.S.s, and Ph.D.s in most all fields) take back greater degrees of control over their precious body-mind-spirit complexes!

Unlike 'diets', scientific fasting has been around for millennia because it actually works, just as it did in the days of the Buddha (for 49 days); Mohammed; Elijah, Moses, David, Anna, Daniel and Christ (all of whom did 40-day fasts); all three recognized fathers of Western Medicine (Hippocrates, Galen and Paracelsus--who diagnosed fasting as ". . .the greatest remedy, the physician within"); those great Greeks from whom the West received both its math and its logic--Socrates, Plato (who said he'd fasted for "greater mental and physical efficiency!"), Aristotle and Pythagoras (who wouldn't even reveal his higher tenets to his most advanced students until they had all done 40-day fasts), right on down through St. Francis (who did 40-day 'ephiphany' fasts every year prior to Lent), Gandhi, and all the equally great and noble women, historically, whose identical fasting accomplishments went unrecognized and unrecorded by the patriarchal societies they suffered in.

"My juice-fast was a renewal period for me. I got in touch with my body again, as if I'd experienced some type of metamorphosis. My body was in need of a complete overhaul, and the detoxification gave it just that! I experienced a superior feeling, being in control of my body, without relying on caffeine or any other stimulants to control my mind and moods. I also lost 21 lbs., and feel terrific! My skin is glowing, and for the first time in my life, I feel spiritually purified! --Ming Wu, 25, Hong Kong computer technician

Today, fully half of Fasting Center International's clients are not fasting to lose weight, however. They're already in relatively good shape, outwardly, by their own standards. They simply know and feel they're quite toxic inside, and want to regain the energy they've previously enjoyed; heighten their clarity of consciousness; enhance their spirituality, and for the first time in their lifetime, give their entire system (particularly their digestive, assimilative and eliminative organs) one well-earned rest, as their entire, precious body-mind-spirit complex is detoxified, rejuvenated and regenerated.


WHAT PROGRAM IS BEST FOR ME?
As with those fasting primarily to remove unnecessary weight, those fasting for any or all the abovementioned detoxification reasons also choose 20-, 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-, 70-, 80-, 90-, 100-, 110- or 120-day Programs, depending upon their goals.


FCI'S 20-DAY PROGRAM:

Our 20-day Program includes 3 days to skillfully enter the fast; 14 on fruit and vegetable juices and combinations thereof, plus our alkalinizing vegetable broth that's scientifically designed to help rebalance you biochemically, as well as maintain your delicate electrolyte balance throughout your fast (missing from the less skillful water-fasting a few still do. . .partly why that's such an unncecessarily debilitating, deleterious regime) and specific detoxification herbal teas, plus 3 to intelligently break the fast. Over three and a half decades, FCI's average client--male or female--has lost one lb./day for the first 20 days, then 1/2 lb./day thereafter, on down to the body's next metabolic set-point, whatever that may be. Keep in mind that a minimum of 5 of those lbs. are fecal matter from one's colon, which is replaced upon resumption of eating. Thus, your overall weight loss will be approximately 9 lbs.

At the current, World-Wide Web Special Rate , our FCI 20-day Program is only $359--most of which you'll save on solids not taken during the fast. And not only will you have this magnificent, self-improvement skill for the rest of your life, but it will help keep you out of US$1600/day hospital rooms in your future. Again, when simply considering the alternatives, FCI's modest fee becomes absurdly inexpensive!


FCI'S 30-DAY PROGRAM:

Four days transitioning in; 22 juice-fasting, plus 4 to transition out. Overall weight loss: 16 lbs. FCI's current Web Special fee: $459. FCI recently had a client from China doing our 30-day Program for spiritual enhancement and detoxification. She began at 106 lbs., very quickly fell to 98, and never lost another pound throughout her Program, as that was her body's base metabolic set-point, which it fought to maintain. Similarly, a brilliant young doctor of medical microbiology and researcher at a major British university, 21, recently did FCI's 20-day Program, beginning at 74 lbs. (4' 11") and finishing at 66. Elated with the results, she waited 2.5 weeks and did our 30-day Program.

As FCI's Founder/Director and a lifelong athlete, I live at optimum health, doing what's necessary to maintain the interior equivalent of a Ferrari. Long carrying a body-fat level between 5-and-10% ('average' U.S. male is 10-20%; avg. female, 17-27%), I obviously don't fast to lose weight. In my own longer fasts (40-50 days or more), I continue my heavy workload (7-day weeks, interrupted only by periodic sabbaticals), as well as my regular gym weight-training sessions three times each week. As always, whenever I do prolonged fasts, I literally ask myself toward the end, unfailingly: "Why on Earth do I eat solid food, if these levels of human consciousness, energy and spirituality are available?!"

Personally, as FCI's Director, I do fasting experiments which are not part of FCI Programs, just to see what would happen. For example, during a previous 61-day Program, I did not adjust my liquid intake--as FCI requires of all clients not fasting to lose weight--and over the first 40 days of fasting, my weight dropped from 155 to 125 lbs. From fasting days 41 to 51, I didn't lose another pound, as that's my body's base metabolic set-point, which it fought to maintain. Post-fast, it took less than two months of eating 'regularly' to bring my normal weight back to 155. (Unlike most, I eat only twice daily, although still covering all nutrient bases, so I'd have replaced the necessary weight more quickly if I ate three meals daily, but remember that I'd not have lost nearly as much weight, had I done what all others not fasting to lose weight are required to do throughout their Programs.)


FCI'S 40-DAY PROGRAM:

Prior to 1995, this was the Program our 'average' client did, worldwide: 5 entering, 30 fasting, and 5 breaking it. Average overall weight-loss: 20-to-25 lbs. Web Special fee: only $559, again, most all of which will be saved on solid foods not taken throughout. [NOTE: Please read on for the Program which FCI's 'average' client now does, worldwide--our TOTAL Detoxification Program!]


FCI'S 50-DAY PROGRAM:

Five to enter, followed by that 'magic number' of days so many of our species' greatest thinkers fasted--40--plus 5 days to intelligently break it. Loss: 27-32 lbs. Special Web fee: $659. Is it worth it?

"I emailed Fasting Center International weighing 180 lbs., 5' 4" tall, discouraged and exhausted. I had no idea that my new life was just beginning!! I lost 33 lbs. in 40 days of actual fasting, and NEVER experienced any hunger or sugar withdrawal (I was a serious chocolaholic and a severe espresso drinker--10 cups a day!). If I can do this, anyone can! I now feel confident, beautiful and ready for life, once again!!" --Diane Sprague, American insurance company executive

"After 40 days of following your FCI juice-fasting Program, I not only lost well over 50 unnecessary lbs., but I now can look in the mirror each morning and recognize myself again. Towards the end of my fast, I found myself effortlessly able to work long hours at my business, and still have the energy and desire to spend quality time with my family. I feel as though I have now discovered the fountain of youth!" --Larry Robertson, American small-business owner

FCI'S 60-DAY PROGRAM:

Five entering, 50 juice-fasting, 5 skillfully breaking the fast. Avg. weight-loss: 34-40 lbs. Current Web Special fee: $759.

"The 67-day fast that I completed through the guidance of Dennis Paulson of Fasting Center International has been one of the great milestones of my development. Initially, the fast was part of a new transitional period in my life, during which I was working through lifelong blocks and shedding toxic, negative baggage. Over the long term--now a year later--the fast has provided me with a new level of sustained physical and spiritual strength, clarity, and health. My new understanding of myself and my clearer focus on my goals, plus my increase in stamina to reach those goals, I attribute in large part to my fast. I believe it was just the assistance I needed at the time to achieve a new level of both intellectual honesty and physical stature. . .to be who I want to be in life." --Heather Hiles, 23, U.C. Berkeley graduate student and policy analyst

FCI'S 70-DAY PROGRAM:

Five entering, 60 juice-fasting, 5 skillfully breaking the fast. Avg. weight-loss: 40-46 lbs. Current Web Special fee: $859.


FCI'S 80-DAY PROGRAM:

Five entering, 70 juice-fasting, 5 skillfully breaking the fast. Avg. weight-loss: 46-52 lbs. Current Web Special fee: $959.


FCI'S 90-DAY PROGRAM:

Five entering, 80 juice-fasting, 5 skillfully breaking the fast. Avg. weight-loss: 52-58 lbs. Current Web Special fee: $1059.


FCI'S 100-DAY PROGRAM:

Five entering, 90 juice-fasting, 5 skillfully breaking the fast. Avg. weight-loss: 58-64 lbs. Current Web Special fee: $1159.


FCI'S 110-DAY PROGRAM:

Five entering, 100 juice-fasting, 5 skillfully breaking the fast. Avg. weight-loss: 64-70 lbs. Current Web Special fee: $1259.


FCI'S 120-DAY PROGRAM:

Five entering, 110 juice-fasting, 5 skillfully breaking the fast. Avg. weight-loss: 70-76 lbs. Current Web Special fee: $1359.

Know that FCI reserves the right to preclude some clients from doing our longest Programs, if there are contraindications prior to or during one's Program. Otherwise, those with the necessary goals to accomplish may do so, as did recently a Queens, NY, physician (oncologist), 48, doing our 110-day Program to resolve clincal obesity and the eating disorder behind it, along with fibroid tumors which Conventional Medicine could only recommend surgery for. Also, as our online Juice Fasting Agreement states, all clients have the option at any point of breaking their Program into two supervised segments, which must be completed within one year of signing on.

Again, these are our 'average' weight-loss figures, established over 35 years at FCI, Inc. Those not fasting to lose weight will not lose nearly as much in longer fasts, while those fasting primarily to lose weight may well lose more. Know that any FCI Program can be upgraded for US$9.95/day. One client who extended FCI's 80-day Program 10 days to 90 (80 days of actual juice-fasting, during which time he dropped 60 unnecessary lbs. and even more importantly, permanently resolved his five active ulcers, for which he'd been eating Zantac daily like candy), is a multimillionaire, well known U.S. designer of women's clothing. At the time, he owned the largest, high-fashion women's clothing store in the world.

He came to FCI during August at 230 lbs., wanting 170 by the following January when he was opening a new, 10,000 sq. ft. store in Beverly Hills, California. Three weeks into his 90-day Program, he announced he'd stopped taking Zantac, as the ulcer pain was completely gone. Halfway through his 90-day Program, he called from his newest store to say: "I don't have any more questions, Dennis; I just wanted to thank you again for your Program. I don't think I could have opened my new store if I wasn't doing this. Before, the pressure was literally eating me alive. Now, through this heightened clarity I'm so much enjoying, I've been able to actually change my approach to everything! Now, whatever comes, I deal with what I can; what I can't, I now delegate, which I was never able to do before, successfully. So, yes, your Program has absolutely changed my life, and I'll be sending you a lot of clients, believe me!"


FCI'S MOST POPULAR, TOTAL DETOXIFICATION PROGRAM:

Amazingly, since 1995, the majority of FCI's clients in 220 nations have elected to do FCI's patented Total Detoxification Program--their chronological-age number plus 17, in number of actual juice-fasting days! Personally, as Founder/Director, I'm continually blown away by such courage, commitment and discipline. . .to oneself! . . .to increasing one's own health, happiness, and healing power! See FCI's online FASTING JOURNAL (www.fasting.com/journaltoc.html) for dozens upon dozens of representative testimonials from clients who've recently done such Programs. Also, please do keep in mind, if choosing FCI's Total Detoxification Program, that you'll need 5 days of transitioning on each end of the actual juice-fasting days--to intelligently enter, and then skillfully break this magnificent cleansing and healing modality. And know, my friends, that this will be one of the most extraordinary experiences of your entire life, as testimonial after testimonial attests!

NOTE: Please do not feel intimidated by the fact that over half of all FCI clients, worldwide, today elect to do our Total Detoxification Program (age + 17). Realize that these are highly motivated, courageous individuals electing to totally detoxify a lifetime of accumulated chemical toxins and abuse, as well as resolve serious health and/or weight problems. Often, they know they've long lacked discipline with food, caffeine, nicotene, alcohol or other drugs and/or medications, and are now incredibly determined to make their character stronger through this self-discipline and humbling experience of finally denying themselves these addictions, in order to once and for all break free from these deleterious, health threatening, behavioral patterns. They are finally being very good to themselves and their precious body-mind-spirit complex, as well as ensuring themselves of a greater chance of experiencing spontaneous healing when a future need arises for it (utilizing their now-stronger immune system, which is always your body's first line of defense).

Realize, of course, that others, perhaps for the first time in their lives, are choosing to truly uplift themselves spiritually, or draw closer to their God in prayer. And once they make these extraordinary commitments to themself, and then begin to reap fasting's incredible rewards--a new feeling of well-being, with a clearer eye, a sharper brain, a springier step, and a greater efficiency in their work--wild horses could not deter them! For example, a 50-year-old high achiever had let her weight and health slip away from her while focused elsewhere. Having lost one eye at age four, she's legally blind in the other, yet had completed law school and today heads a Legal Aid Foundation in the U.S.

Although simply reading FCI's extensive website was a momumental chore, she chose our Full Monte--her 77-day Total Detox. Program. On F47 (fasting day 47), she was down 36 lbs., enjoying a heightened clarity of consciousness she'd only previously dreamed of having, assuring me: "I never realized how long 67 days [of actual juice-fasting] truly is. But, there's no way on Earth, now that I'm two-thirds done, I wouldn't finish this. I feel absolutely on top of the world!" [In fact, she would eventually extend her Program to 90 days, doing 80 days of actual juice-fasting.]

Know that a somewhat smaller number of FCI clients, globally, today opt for shorter Programs, more in concert with their own present motivation and schedule. Ego, of course, should never be a part of such decisions, and that includes the illusory ego's weak, recalcitrant, lazy, negative, self-sabotaging aspect which can try to dissuade you from more wisely following the intuitive wisdom which led you to FCI, and from choosing a Program which is actually commensurate with the goals you're wanting to accomplish. Thus, the simple yet solid logic of the majority here who annually choose our most popular, TOTAL Detoxification Program--"I don't want to just clean the basement and attic, but my entire temple!"

Or, said another way by a Royal Oak, MI, broadcast engineer, 30, on F31 (fasting day 31) of the 60-day Program he began in hopes of resolving skin problems, allergies, asthma and depression: "I must say, those people who stop fasting after 20 days are missing EVERYTHING! All the work, without the best rewards. Among many other benefits, I've gone from 220 lbs. to 185 and feel fantastic! My eyes have been opened so wide, and my whole life is changing, because of it."

In review, FCI's experience in supervising the world's largest, nonresidential fasting clientele over the past 35 years is that: 1) the vast majority of our clients have never fasted a day before approaching us; 2) the majority, year in and decade out, elect to do our most popular, TOTAL Detox. Program (age + 17 in number of actual juice-fasting days, plus 5 transitioning days on each end. . .to detoxify a lifetime's accumulation of chemical toxins, drugs, uneliminated metabolic wastes, etc.); 3) 98.5% of our clients complete the Program they undertake, year in and decade out, and 4) those who underset their goals only partially accomplish them, of course, and even if they then wish to extend--once they realize how beneficial and easy this marvelous, self-improvement technique truly is--they cannot get beyond their initially-underset goal. Granted, it's entirely psychological, but sadly true 9 out of 10 times. . .obviously, an unnecessary, fear-of-failure, self-sabotaging 'hurdle' erected on the road which the other 98.5% here take each year called 'Success.'


WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARDS?
All of FCI's clients receive our superb "LIFETIME OPTIMUM-HEALTH PLAN," which is the intelligent follow-on missing from most 'diet' programs, worldwide (another reason they have failed people 99.5% of the time over the past 70 years, according to Washington Post research). Our 60-page "LOHP" includes the latest nutritional biochemistry, as well as the oldest wisdom from those very healthiest, most long-lived cultures on Earth. . .what they're doing we're not! Follow its advice, and you can learn how to keep unnecessary weight off for life, as well as move closer to your optimum health potential--still the birthright of most! Plus, you'll then have this marvelous, self-improvement tehcnique for life, should you ever 'backslide,' as well as for short, annual maintenance fasts.


CAN I STILL WORK & EXERCISE?
All but the wealthiest of our clients do, so you can, too. A recent FCI client was actually in training for the Los Angeles Marathon during her fast. Throughout her own 50-day Program, she ran 10 miles each morning, six days every week; worked out in her gym most evenings, and also worked four, 14-hour days every week as an emergency-room physician--where she had to be 'up' for everything that came through that 'ER' door for 14-hour shifts! She also worked two days each week as a psychotherapist. Likewise, a prominent physician (psychiatrist and pediatrician) in the University of California system, 49, was in training for the Western States Ultramarathon (race 100 miles while climbing 32,000 feet) throughout his prolonged FCI Program, training 6 hrs. a day on weekends, including 2.5-hr. nonstop runs up hilly mountain trails.

Any more questions about energy while scientific juice-fasting? (The above, by the way, are achievements which those few who still do unnecessarily enervating water-fasts can only dream of, advised as they are to spend most of those debilitating fasts in bed, especially since they're not taking the four minerals necessary each day to maintain the body/brain's electrolyte balance, as all FCI clients do with our powerful 'Mineral Cocktail'--FCI's alkalinizing vegetable broth which is also scientifically designed to help re-balance the vast majority of our global clientele whose systems have become unhealthfully acidic from high meat-intake diets?)

WHEN SHOULD I START?
There is no 'special' or 'optimum' time to do your fast. The best advice is to follow your intuitive wisdom which led you to read this far, as your schedule permits. Post-fast, FCI recommends to all our clients, worldwide, that once you've removed those unnecessary pounds you've been so uncomfortable carrying, plus done your body's necessary detoxing (understanding, again, that takes most people, in number of actual fasting days, your chronological-age number plus 17, to totally detoxify your precious body of a lifetime of accumulated abuses, drugs, chemical toxins, metabolic wastes, etc.), that you consider doing a week or two a year, thereafter, much like a Spring Cleaning. In a way, it's similar to what you might do in tuning your far less precious automobile, at least annually. :-)


OKAY! I'M READY! HOW DO I START?
For those concluding, 'It's time to just DO it!, for you to be accepted for start-to-finish, personal, online supervision as a noble client of Fasting Center International, as well as be eligible for FCI's current Web Special fees, please read our online, legally-binding, e-commerce Juice Fasting Agreement (click at bottom of this page for it), filling in the Program length, fee, shipping address, payment method, etc., knowing you may send a cashier's check or money order, or more conveniently use your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover card. To save you back-scrolling, here are our Programs choices:

20-day Program (lose 9 lbs.)	US $359
30-day Program (lose 16 lbs.)	US $459
40-day Program (lose 20-25 lbs.)	US $559
50-day Program (lose 27-32 lbs.)	US $659
60-day Program (lose 34-40 lbs.)	US $759
70-day Program (lose 40-46 lbs.)	US $859
80-day Program (lose 46-52 lbs.)	US $959
90-day Program (lose 52-58 lbs.)	US $1059
100-day Program (lose 58-64 lbs.)	US $1159
110-day Program (lose 64-70 lbs.)	US $1259
120-day Program (lose 70-76 lbs.)	US $1359
Most Popular Program--Total Detoxification	5+age+17+5
To calculate your fee for our most popular, Total Detox. Program--age + 17 + 10 transitioning days--simply choose the closest Program from the above list and multiply the additional days by the US$9.95/day extension fee. Any questions, please email FCI (FastMaster@fasting.com) or call 818-590-2536. For those few who underset their goals, as well as for those wishing to upgrade any Program (up to our 120-day maximum, if no contraindications), extensions are available ($9.95/day). FCI Gift Certificates also available year-round, for all wishing to give loved ones, friends or colleagues FAR greater health, happiness and healing power. . .for life! We're sorry, younger friends, but fasting's contraindicated for those under 18, as you're still forming bone and teeth. :-(. Meanwhile, hook your parents up to improve their health first. :-) FCI NOTE: Shipping and handling fees are automatically added to all Program fees: $20 for all FedEx "2-Day" shipments within the contiguous 48 U.S. States (those requesting faster shipment pay the additional charge); those outside the contiguous U.S. pay the FedEx "International Priority" fee to ship their own Program package.

SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR 'COUPLES'!
FCI considers any two people fasting together as a 'couple.' You do not have to be related, or even living in the same State or country. . .just signing on for Programs together, and fasting at the same time. In order for two people to immediately qualify for our Couple's Discount, both Juice Fasting Agreements must be sent at the same time. However, to accommodate scheduling differentials, FCI does allow a 15-day 'grace' period between when the first and second party actually send their Agreements, in which case the discount will not be factored in until the second Agreement is actually received (since only then is each qualifying the other). Regardless, both clients must begin their Programs within 15 days of the first client sending her/his Juice Fasting Agreement, never longer. There are no exceptions to FCI's 35-year policy of treating all clients equally in this regard. This means that if two people send their online Agreements within 15 days of each other, but do not both begin their Programs within 15 days of FCI's receipt of the first client's Agreement, that negates the discount and FCI will retroactively charge their Programs at the standard Program fees clients pay, globally. If you are contemplating taking advantage of this Discount and this is not perfectly clear to you, kindly call or email FCI.

At FCI, for those who do qualify for our Couples Discount, if doing the same length Programs, the second person will pay only half of that Program fee, and both share that savings equally. However, if doing different length Programs, the person doing the shorter Program comes in at half-fee, since FCI must be available to supervise the other throughout her/his longer Program, so calculate accordingly, knowing that each must fill out a separate Juice Fasting Agreement. Again, please contact FCI via email or phone (see bottom of this page for contact information) if we can help you with calculations, or if you've any questions on this discount, whatsoever, as FCI does not want to initially grant this Couples Discount to two people who do meet the qualification of sending their respective Agreements within 15 days of each other, but then one or both fail to actually begin their Program(s) within that same 15-day 'grace' period of the first sending her/his Agreement, in which case they fail to meet this Discount's qualifications, and will be retroactively charged the same fee all others are who similarly do not qualify for it. Such retroactive charges can cause disappointment in such cases, so FCI wants the parameters of this Discount perfectly clear from the beginning, so no such disappointment ever arises (and especially since we don't want any client's failure, in this regard, projected onto us).

FCI MARKETS NO JUICES NOR JUICING INGREDIENTS, BROTH, TEAS, SUPPLEMENTS, JUICERS, ETC.

FCI does not market or provide the liquids or products a client chooses to consume or use throughout her/his Program, although our Programs do include all of the necessary information on what all clients consume/use throughout, along with suggestions on what works best and may also be available in their area of the world, from their local retailers or on the Web. Ideally, you'd juice fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, but know that the vast majority of FCI's clients, globally, do not have their own large juicer. Most, however, do have a small citrus-juicer, on which you can do orange, grapefruit and lemon. Beyond that, our clients seek out fresh juice bars, as well as companies which ship in plastic (including organic), and those which ship in glass to their local organic supermarkets, health-food stores, nutrition centers, etc. Thus, always try to find toxin-free, organic juices whenever possible, but if not available, FCI's clients use whatever is (avoiding those, of course, FCI advises all clients against using). Also, the specific detoxification teas which our Program recommends are widely available most everywhere today, as are all of the absolutely crucial, though quite common ingredients for the alkalinizing and electrolyte-balancing vegetable broth it takes only 30 mins. to cook (for your two-day supply. . .far simpler than organizing solid-food meals anywhere on Earth today, as FCI clients happily discover).

EXACTLY WHAT WILL I RECEIVE FROM FCI?

Once you've chosen a Program you feel comfortable working within--and again, it would ideally be commensurate with what you're wanting to accomplish, so you reach the end having accomplished your goals--simply send your online Juice Fasting Agreement (again, click at bottom of this page for it). Then, throughout your entire Program, it's your responsibility whenever questions arise (physiologically, psychologically or spiritually), to email FCI. Email is not only the fastest, least expensive and most efficient method of communicating with us throughout your Program, but (1) we want you to have and keep our pertinent emailings/letters in a Fasting File on your computer, backed up intelligently on a DVD, CD, disk or tape for future years' fasts (since FCI is teaching you this magnificent discipline for life, and does not re-send anything), and (2) you would not remember phone conversations even one year later, in all probability.

From a compassionate viewpoint (a key ingredient FCI looks for in those we choose to work with each year), anyone on our Program phoning in their questions would obviously jump themselves ahead of you and all your suffering sisters and brothers kindly awaiting their turn in FCI's first-come, first-served, global email lineup. Any client may call in an emergency at any time, of course, although as Director, I can't recall when one last occurred on our scientific Program. Beyond FCI providing you with skilled, veteran, professional supervision of your Program from start to finish, as well as sending you, on any day you elect to check in, many dozens of 'windows' in on kindred souls on the same day of their Program as you--for both your education and inspiration as FCI addresses their questions which may not have even arisen in your Program--we're also teamed with Federal Express to ship our Programs to our clients in the 220 nations they live in, worldwide. In addition to the New Client Letters emailed to all new clients within 24 hours of signing on (addressing issues such juicing, socializing, exercising and traveling while fasting), your FedExed Program package will include:

1. Your copy of our online Juice Fasting Agreement electronically signed/sent from our site by you (click on GIVE ME THE 'REAL' ME; I'M READY! at bottom of this page);
   
2. Your FCI Things-Needed-to-Start List;
   
3. Your FCI Transitioning-In Program;
   
4. Your FCI Fasting-Days Program;
   
5. Your FCI Broth Recipe;
   
6. Your FCI Transitioning-Out Program, and
   
7. Your LIFETIME OPTIMUM-HEALTH PLAN, including 60 pages of the latest nutritional biochemistry, plus the oldest wisdom from the healthiest, most long-lived cultures on Earth--what they're wisely doing that most of us are not. . .as yet.
   

DO CLIENTS MAINTAIN THEIR GAINS, POST-FAST?

    One of the most common questions among the hundreds of prospective clients visiting FCI's Virtual Office each day of every year is, "Do clients maintain their gains from fasting, or fall back into old habits?" Excellent question. The fact is that most do maintain, for two principal reasons. One, they worked hard to achieve fasting's myriad benefits, and two, they love the way they feel, post-fast. Therefore, they chose to let their old, less skillful dietary and lifestyle habits fade into the ashbin of history, in favor of FAR greater health, happiness and healing power. (Those who assume it has to take years to let go of an unskillful actions need only touch a hot stove once.)

    What do such positive changes actually 'sound' like and inspire, post-fast? Here's just one, representative example: Marian Dvere, 54, was inspired to fast by her son, Jan, 35, a telecommunications consultant and small business owner based in Prague, Czech Republic, who did a 61-day Total Detox. Program (TDP); gifted her with her own Program (he also gifted his father and second wife with Programs, his sister, a childhood friend, his girlfriend and her brother, plus a half-dozen Czech colleagues). She's writing here one year after completing her 82-day TDP, having just inspired a friend's friend, suffering fibroid tumors, to sign on for a 74-day Full Monte:

      "Hi, Dennis/FCI! (Confidential) is a friend of a friend. We've never met, but plan to. I just love sharing this great gift you offer with anyone who will listen. I love the way I feel, and want everyone to enjoy this level of health! Thanks for the note. It's good to hear from you. I just finished a Fall fast of 35 days. I'd did one in the Spring, as well. My plan is two a year, or as needed. When I start having trouble sleeping, I know it's time. Take care, dear friend. Ciao, Marian Dvere."

Questions, email or phone FCI. Email: FastMaster@fasting.com; phone: 818-590-2536 (know that the best time to catch Founder/Director Dennis Paulson, himself, with the least interruption, is between 10-4, California time).

GIVE ME THE 'REAL' ME; I'M READY!
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