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What is Fasting?
Fasting is a sacred honored tradition in many religious and cultural circles. In short, fasting is theabstinence from food or drink, or both. In the past, fasting is usually accompanied by inner soul searchingand reflection - it helps to get in touch with your spiritual self. With the right direction, fasting can also aidour body's natural detoxification process and cleanse away all the toxins in our body. During fasting,resting adequately is essential in order to enhance the recovery of the body.
How Does Fasting Come about?
Even thousands of years ago, people have already understood the medical and mental health benefits of fasting. Thousands years ago, fasting was only served as a religious experience and was used to fully focuscommunal energy into enhancing prayer and spiritual experiences. Sometimes in order to remember asignificant event, fasting were used as a commemoration of many of these events. Fasting hence wasthought of something spiritual and special.Today, people fast for health reasons than religious reasons. Fasting speeds up the body detoxification process and revive your body's organ functions. The common forms of fasting are water fasting and juicefasting. Water fast serves as one of the most efficient ways to detoxify your tissues and blood - it involvestotal abstinence from food, while continuing consumption of water (and water alone- no soda or juice). Normally, water fast can last from 3 days to 10 days, and even longer if under medical supervision.The fact that you stay away from food allows cleansing to take place in your body. The first phase of water fasting forces your body to delve into stores of energy that it normally wouldn't (since you're not eatingfood). The lipid cells that have been dormant for years, storing both good and bad substances, are beingfreed. Because the lipids contain toxins, when you free the lipid cells, it uses the energy and releases thetoxins from those lipids.Once the toxins are gone, your body immediately begins to detoxify itself. During the first few days of water fast, people usually feel rather ill as their bodies release toxins from their lipid cells. After all, thesetoxins have been stored inside your lipid cells for years, even decades, as by-products of "junk food" andthe Western lifestyle. These signs that your body is releasing the toxins include gastrointestinal upset, fever,headache, neuromuscular weakness and fatigue. After a few days of toxin onslaught, these symptoms clear up and the body finishes detoxifying itself.
What do you gain from water fasting?
When you fast, the water will replenishes your body's source of vital life energy - water. Without water, thehuman body cannot function, repair or sustain. Drinking nothing but water renews the body's building blocks with fresh raw material (oxygen and hydrogen) to renew itself. Water fasting flushes your cells withthis fresh material and forces the old toxins and chemicals into the bloodstream. There, they are detoxified by the liver, kidneys and skin.Water fasting is considered very challenging but it can be rewarding as you would feel a total cleansed body. Once you have completed a longer fast, you can maintain your new level of health by using smaller water fasts. 1-3 days on water fast every now and then will help keep your body "in tune" and detoxified.But definitely, a proper diet and lifestyle will contribute to keeping your body free and clear of toxinaccumulation.Emma Deangela is the author of detox and fasting site at Detox Diets and Fasting. Combining both Asianand Western philosophy, Emma Deangela has helped many people by giving them health consultation tomake their lives better and healthier through natural health philosophy. Visit Body Detox to discover thehealth philosophy that lead many people to a healthy life.
 
Starvation
Starvation is a severe reduction in vitamin, nutrient, and energy intake, and is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation (in excess of 1-2 months) causes permanent organ damageand, eventually, death. The term "inanition" refers to the symptoms and effects of starvation
Types Of Fasting
1. Juice Fasting :-
The juice fast, as the name suggests is a fast where you only exist on fruit and vegetable juices. Juice fasting has gained immense popularity, especially with people who are trying to lose weight. Itis a great method of detoxification fasting also and is advised by many dieticians for various reasons.2.
Spiritual Fasting:-
Spiritual fasting, as the name suggests, is a religious fast, where the person whois fasting can eat fruits, vegetables and water. Choice foods like meat and wine are not allowed.
Benefits Of Spiritual Fasting
* Fasting strengthens and purifies the spirit. When we cease to cater to the demands of the flesh, then wecan listen to the soul and the spirit.* Religious Fasting brings us closer to God. To purify our spirit and to get used to the rigors of fasting,we turn we God, Thus we get closer to God when we fast.* Fasting gives strength to our prayers. It has been mentioned in the Bible that most of our prophetsfasted before or during times of adversity or when they wanted to ask something from God. Even today,holy men advise that you fast in order to give power and purity to your prayers.* Spiritual Fasting increases will power. It is extremely tough to deny the flesh, especially in a worldwhere we are used to pampering its every whim and fancy. Controlling and curbing our natural desiresgives a strength to our will that comes into play throughout different situations in life. 
3. Fasting To Lose Weight :-
It is a good exercise both for the weight loss and religious purpose. It isa safe way to lose your weight Fasting has been practiced for thousands of years but it was primarily for thereligious purpose.During fasting, you will have to keep yourself hungry for all the day. Since there is nothing in the stomach,so it will shrink a bit. People do fasting for the religious purpose but now it is being used for the weight loss purposes as well. Muslims fast for the whole month. During fast they eat nothing from before sunrise tosunset. They train themselves by eating nothing throughout the month. Although skipping a meal for thewhole day is a difficult thing but it proves very good for the weight loss. After fasting month, people become very slim.
4. Colon Cleansing Fasting:-
When fasting and colon cleansing is considered, there are some factorswhich need to be seriously observed. It includes the effect that fasting has on the metabolism of the body.When the food is denied to the body, it would translate the calorie decrease akin to starvation. When suchthings occur, the body goes in the mode of the metabolism would begin to slow down drastically for theconservation of stored fat.
5.The Absolute Fasting: -
An absolute fast is when one abstains from both eating and drinking.Even water is not allowed on absolute fasts. This fast is not advised for more than three days. This is moreon the sides of Christian fasting or religious fasting and not for people fasting for health reasons.
 
6. A Regular Fasting :
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Traditionally, a regular fast means refraining from eating all food. Most people still drink water or juice during a regular fast. When Jesus fasted in the desert, the Bible says, "After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry." This verse does not mention Jesus being thirsty.7.
A Partial Fast :-
This type of fast generally refers to omitting a specific meal from your diet or refraining from certain types of foods. Daniel 10:2-3 says, "At that time I, Daniel, mourned for threeweeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the threeweeks were over." In Daniel 1:12, they restricted their diet to vegetables and water: "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink."
8. A Full Fast :-
These fasts are complete - no food and no drink. Acts 9:9 describeswhen Paul went on a full fast for three days following his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus:"For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything." Esther also called for this type of fast inEsther 4:15-16: "Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 'Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa,and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. Whenthis is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.'" It isrecommended that this type of fast be done with extreme caution and not for extended periods of time.
9.. Liver Cleansing Fasting10. Detoxification Fasting11. Water Fasting
Water fasting and tea fasting are the classical and strictest forms of fasting, since, for a certain time, there is no calorie intake at all. Water fasting leads to weight loss, tocleansing and purification of the entire organism and to an introduction of healing processes. The immunesystem is strengthened and your immune system is activated. Traditionally, water fasting has been usedonly for purification and religious or mystical purposesAnd the list goes on...I have not actually done all of the various types of fasting. However, reading about the many benefits of various types of fasting to the body (and spirit) and how it is actually a cornerstone of healing (the naturalway), has opened my mind to it. No wonder even some of the world's great spiritual leaders have taken tothe different types of fasting.Whatever types of fasting or frequency you choose to engage in, those who have journeyed down that pathrecommend starting slowly, and building up as you progress. Extra care is important because you would notwant to jeopardize your health, even for the sake of rapid weight loss. Even if there are studies pointing outthat human beings can live up to two-and-a-half months without food, most health care professionals do notrecommend fasting that long. Fasting, as distinct from dieting, means that while the body subsists withoutfood, it will systematically cleanse itself of everything except vital tissue.When we talk about types of fasting, there is what is known as a total fast and partial fast. The differenttypes of fasting may also be categorized by the type of food or liquids involved. There is the intense water fast, and the popular juice fast. Another type, which limits food intake to raw vegetables, fruits and saladsalso lead to less calorie consumption. Whatever types of fasting you set your heart and mind to, what isimportant is that it is not imposed on the body or forced just to adhere to external custom.
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Yewande Ogunnaike

Thanxx 4 The Confirmation!

reply12 / 05 / 2010
Yewande Ogunnaike

Spiritual Fasting:- Spiritual fasting, as the name suggests, is a religious fast, where the person who is fasting can eat fruits, vegetables and water. Choice foods like meat and wine are not allowed. Benefits Of Spiritual Fasting * Fasting strengthens and purifies the spirit. When we cease to cater to the demands of the flesh, then we can listen to the soul and the spirit. * Religious Fasting bri

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