This quoted text is a wrong interpretation in my opinion. It is driven by the consensus that plants are good for the human being. They are not that good. Actually, most plants are poisonous and for a good reason, that is their only way to avoid being eaten. Animals can always run, not the plants. We got accustomed to some of the poisons, so that is why we can eat some of the plants. We can also eat plants when they DO want us to propagate their seeds by giving us fruits. Needless to say, they never intend for us to eat the seeds themselves. Those are their babies and they want to protect them. So most seed-based nutrition will only get you in trouble.
Talking about total fasting against partial plant-based fasting, I am just using common sense here. When a human is fasting, the only thing the body can use as fuel is its own fat. In fasting, we are burning 100% fat.
How does that compare to a low carbohydrates diet????
I have read somewhere, (google it…) that cancer cells can only ‘eat’ glucose, so if you only eat fat, you are effectively starving the cancer cells.
I think vitamin C addition is a bonus.
Coincidentally, I have been fasting twice this week for 36 hours each, and I use a lot of “Stur” water enhancer. That product has 0 calories. It is sweetened with Stevia leaves and has 100% vitamin C daily value per dose.
I consider fasting beneficial for general health following a very common-sense hypothesis. Since we have been around hunting and gathering for a lot longer (from a few hundred thousand years to a few million years) than we have used agriculture (the earlier evidence is around 9000 years), it is easy to see that we have adapted our bodies to be starving once in a while. So, starving is part of our normal pattern of nourishment. I think.
The article is still worth reading for its basic research.
>> “The researchers said that while fasting remains a challenging option for cancer patients, a safer, more feasible option is a low-calorie, plant-based diet that causes cells to respond as if the body were fasting.”