RE: Fasting Vs Starving
Even the hospital grade saline sachets have lots of glucose, but luckily tend not to have the garish colourings and synthetic flavours.
Do you not suggest they get those nutrients from supplements, even added to their junk diet?
One question I can't seem to find an answer to is whether it is OK to take such nutrients during a water fast. I hope you read my first post on this - I'm not doing it for weight reasons. Most things I've read rightly point out that most supplements have fillers that may interfere, or reset, the ketogenesis, but I do wonder if they would also affect the blood counts I discussed in the post. I'll need to research this further.
Today I cam across @mariahvitoria, who seems to have done 30 (or is it 54?) days of fasting to lose weight. She seems happy, but I haven't delved deeply into her precise regime.
I'm not a big believer in supplements for myself. I prefer eating than drinking for nutrition. I have used various powders in smoothies, but they are usually just one ingredient such as chorella or bean protein.
I'd rather see the junk diet improved in most cases. Since I am normally talking to people who are morbidly obese and getting almost no nutrition in what they do eat, small improvements over time are fairly life changing.
I'm also not doing the keto lifestyle. I am low carb, but not keto, and do not have a way or desire to check blood counts. I will take a look at your first post. I'm pretty sure you can do what you want on this fasting - it's not like there are any fasting police watching you.
Dang! 30 or 54 days of anything is a miracle of it's own. Few people can go a week on this from what I have seen in my weight loss groups.
I'm not sure how one can eat without any nutrition!
For me, it's not so much what I do eat - which tends to be fresh - but what I avoid, which is anything with preservatives or highly-processed or toxicolas.
Have you ever tracked your nutrition? Do it for a few days or weeks and see how it goes. I regularly see people getting almost none. It's a sad eye-opener and sometimes helps people. I'm with you on the "eating less toxins", which is one of the pillars of my plan.