Day 4: Breath awareness and fasting: how to stave off food cravings and dark thoughts
Channel: The Fasting Atheist
Date: 2017-12-02

This vlog will chart my 40 to 60 day water fast and provide references to materials on primary research into the health effects of fasting.
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1. Unfounded comment about lower grade fuel coming from ketones ... to be corrected in Day 6 video; 
unfounded comment made about faster's tongue: comments made to balance this in today's video
2. For some professional input on faster's tongue:
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-your-tongue-turn-white-while-fasting
3. Breath awareness: the greatest tool in the toolkit of the long faster. I will touch on this point today, and then elaborate on it in the video for Day5
4. Debunking the "Detox" Industry
i) https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwizyMiImevXAhVHfbwKHWNvDGgQFggvMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2014%2Fdec%2F05%2Fdetox-myth-health-diet-science-ignorance&usg=AOvVaw3TEFYzHhREeuM4xUSajRjI
ii)https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-myth-health-diet-science-ignorance