About gall stones

I also saw the info on fasting and gallstones on the internet and then
continued researching the issue and also checked 2 natural health books.
Another website said that “prolonged fasting” might cause problems, not
short term fasting. I believe the first website that mentioned fasting
wasn’t specific. To me, short term is a day or few days, and not
longer. Long term fasting is a week and longer.
In Prescription for Nutritional Healing
fasting isn’t mentioned at all as a cause of gallstones, however “rapid
weight changes can cause gallbladder problems. A study published in the
Annals of Internal Medicine revealed that yo-yo dieting that is -
repeatedly losing and gaining weight due to dieting - increases the risk
of gallstones by as much as 70 percent.”
For treatment of a gallstone attack, the Prescription for Nutritional
Healing states “to eat no solid food for a few days, consuming only
water, then adding juices and then adding solid foods.”

This makes perfect sense as it helps the body heal. After my last
attack, rather than returning to normal eating, lighter is better. I
found that just drinking apple juice for a few days really helped, and
the pain didn’t return.
Being vegetarian actually reduces your chances of getting gallstones
because less animal fat is consumed. This was mentioned on a website I
found. Eating sugar is what causes gallstones. Avoiding animal fats
is actually healthy. However your diet may have been lacking in certain
healthy fats.
The other book, Healthy Healing states that stones are caused by: “too
many fatty and fried foods, and the lack of ability to digest them,
chronic indigestion and gas from too much dairy and refined sugars, food
allergies, parasite infections can lead to calcium composition stones,
high cholesterol sediment, birth control pills, and lack of regular
exercise.
Namaste,
cathy