Fasting Video

[S11m]

The first 6½ minutes are mostly about the "spiritual benefits" of fasting - and then she wonders why some people think it is a fad.

Hippocrates said:

"To eat when you are ill is to feed your sickness" and fast for colds and fevers.

She mentions "initial discomfort of Fasting" - but I did not get it.

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[Stoozie Administrator]

Thanks for this

That's interesting that the idea of a spiritual aspect to it doesn't resonate with you.

[S11m Volunteer 70lb IF20 in reply to Stoozie]

There are psychological aspects to fasting and weight-loss, and, if spiritualism makes people happy, it will have theraputic benefit

[Stoozie Administrator in reply to S11m]

Agreed! I started it as a Lent thing, and carried on for the health benefits

[S11m Volunteer 70lb IF20 in reply to Stoozie]

...and don't forget Ramadan!

[GosportNancy in reply to Stoozie]

A spiritual aspect doesn't resonate with me at all either. I'm humanist and I guess as soon as anything remotely spiritual comes up it puts me right off.

[gman1961 IF16]

Very interesting,

Thanks for sharing.

Gary

[GosportNancy]

I guess we have all heard the saying "feed a cold, starve a fever". I have always taken that to mean that if we carry on eating when we are ill we could end up feeling a lot worse which has always been the way with me.

As a result, at the first sign of a cold I drink plenty of clear fluids (mainly water) and eat very little, if at all, and my colds disappear within a day or so,while all around me I have people with colds that last a week.