15/09/2026
Health Benefits of Fasting 🍽
"To Lengthen Thy Days, Lessen Thy Meals."
-Benjamin Franklin-
Fasting is the abstinence from all or some foods, drinks or both, for a set period of time.
It is a practice that dates back centuries and plays a central role in many cultures and religions.
Several Studies have found that Fasting have many health benefits.
Essentially, Fasting cleanses our body of toxins and forces cells into processes that are not usually stimulated when a steady stream of fuel from food is always present.
Common types of fasting include :
-Water Fasting : Involves drinking only water for a set period of time.
-Juice Fasting : Involves drinking fruit or vegetable juice for a certain period.
- Intermittent Fasting: Intake is partially or completely restricted for a few hours up to a few days at a time and a normal diet is resumed on other days.
In case you have any chronic medical condition, on medications or under the care of a Physician, consult him/her before embarking on any form of Fast.
Fasting helps to reduce blood pressure, blood sugar, blood cholesterol , protects you from obesity and it's associated complications and it improves overall fitness and extend longevity.
"There is no prayer without fasting. And fasting without prayer is nothing but self-torture. This is ‘thoroughly sound. Here fasting has to be of the widest character possible. Fasting of the body has to be accompanied by fasting of all the senses. And alpahar, the meagre food of the Gita, is also a fasting of the body. The Gita enjoins not temperance in food but ‘meagreness’; meagreness is a perpetual fast. Meagreness means just enough to sustain the body of the service for which it is made. The test is again supplied by saying that food should be taken as one takes medicine in measured doses a measured times and as required, not for taste but for the welfare of the body. “Meagreness” is perhaps better rendered by “measured quantities.”
- Mahatma Gandhi-
