Eastern Orthodox Christians fast during specified fasting seasons of the year, which include not only the better-known Great Lent, but also fasts on every Wednesday and Friday (except on special holidays), together with extended fasting periods before Christmas (the Nativity Fast), after Easter (the Apostles Fast) and in early August (the Dormition Fast). The fast includes refraining from consuming any food or liquid from sun up until sundown.ĭetails of fasting practices differ. Muslims fast during the month of Ramadan each year. Examples include Lent in Christianity Yom Kippur, Tisha B'av, Fast of Esther, Tzom Gedalia, the Seventeenth of Tamuz, and the Tenth of Tevet in Judaism. Religious views įasting is practiced in various religions.
Other progressive campaigns have adopted the tactic. Chávez regarded a spiritual fast as "a personal spiritual transformation".
In all, ten men survived without food for 46 to 73 days.Ĭésar Chávez undertook several spiritual fasts, including a 25-day fast in 1968 promoting the principle of nonviolence and a fast of 'thanksgiving and hope' to prepare for pre-arranged civil disobedience by farm workers. 100,000 people attended his funeral, and the strike ended only after nine other men died. Sands had just been elected to the British Parliament and died after 66 days of not eating. In Northern Ireland in 1981, a prisoner, Bobby Sands, was part of the 1981 Irish hunger strike, protesting for better rights in prison. Gandhi's fasts had a significant impact on the British Raj and the Indian population generally. The political leader Gandhi undertook several long fasts as political and social protests. A spiritual fast incorporates personal spiritual beliefs with the desire to express personal principles, sometimes in the context of social injustice. A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt, or to achieve a goal such as a policy change. It has been argued that fasting makes one more appreciative of food, and possibly drink.įasting is often used to make a political statement, to protest, or to bring awareness to a cause.
See also: Category:Food and drink appreciation Fasting may also be part of a religious ritual, often associated with specifically scheduled fast days, as determined by the religion. Intermittent fasting is a technique sometimes used for weight loss that incorporates regular fasting into a person's dietary schedule. Many people may also fast as part of a medical procedure or a check-up, such as preceding a colonoscopy or surgery, or before certain medical tests. Metabolic changes in the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after eating).Ī diagnostic fast refers to prolonged fasting from 1 to 100 hours (depending on age) conducted under observation to facilitate the investigation of a health complication, usually hypoglycemia. For example, a person is assumed to be fasting once 8–12 hours have elapsed since the last meal. Some diagnostic tests are used to determine a fasting state. Several metabolic adjustments occur during fasting. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see " Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal. Willing abstinence from, or reduced consumption of, food and/or drinkįasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking (see Water fasting and Juice fasting).
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