Fasting | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Fasting


00:01:24 1 Health effects
00:01:33 1.1 Medical application
00:02:17 1.2 Cancer
00:02:55 1.3 Mental health
00:03:12 1.4 Weight loss
00:03:36 2 Other effects
00:03:54 3 Political application
00:05:33 4 Religious views
00:05:42 4.1 Bahá'í faith
00:07:20 4.2 Buddhism
00:09:52 4.3 Christianity
00:11:08 4.3.1 Roman Catholicism
00:14:00 4.3.2 Anglicanism
00:16:55 4.3.3 Eastern Orthodoxy
00:18:22 4.3.3.1 Fast days
00:19:13 4.3.3.2 Rules
00:21:35 4.3.3.3 Fast-free days
00:22:18 4.3.4 Methodism
00:24:38 4.3.5 Oriental Orthodox
00:29:31 4.3.6 Church of the East
00:30:36 4.3.7 Lutheran
00:32:13 4.3.8 Reformed
00:34:34 4.3.9 Pentecostalism
00:36:54 4.3.10 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
00:38:54 4.4 Hinduism
00:45:19 4.4.1 Vaishnavism
00:45:48 4.5 Islam
00:49:16 4.6 Jainism
00:49:32 4.7 Judaism
00:53:55 4.8 Sikhism
00:56:56 4.9 Taoism
00:57:43 4.10 Yoga
00:58:30 4.11 Other
00:59:17 5 In alternative medicine



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Fasting is the willing abstinence or reduction from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast or dry fasting is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period. Water fasting refers to abstinence from all food and drink except water, but black coffee and tea may be consumed. Other fasts may be partially restrictive, limiting only particular foods or substances, or be intermittent.
In a physiological context, fasting may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight, or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal. Several metabolic adjustments occur during fasting. Some diagnostic tests are used to determine a fasting state. For example, a person is assumed to be fasting once 8–12 hours have elapsed since the last meal. Metabolic changes of the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after eating).
A diagnostic fast refers to prolonged fasting from 8–72 hours (depending on age) conducted under observation to facilitate the investigation of a health complication, usually hypoglycemia. Many people may also fast as part of a medical procedure or a check-up, such as preceding a colonoscopy or surgery. Fasting may also be part of a religious ritual.