"I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn’t eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations."
- Cobie SmuldersActress Cobie Smulders, who portrayed Robin Scherbatsky on the hit television series "How I Met Your Mother," once related a personal story that illustrates the negative consequences of extended fasting. She stayed in a desert retreat for a period of eight days without eating. She started having int…