We all desire excellent health and yet it is not always possible to achieve a standard of healthy living that we hope for, however most of us harness the desire to be healthy and feel good in our skin and the good news is that this can be achieved!
You must have heard about Buddhist fasting or spiritual fasting too?
Dry fasting is practiced in some health retreats as it is helpful to lose weight and also lose addiction to certain food habits.
Juice fasting is practiced quite a lot these days as fasting helps you to control your weight and juice maintains blood sugar levels. Even practising proper Fletcherism (chewing to water) or chewing well before swallowing your food assists in digestion and proper metabolism.
In eastern regions of the world Ayurvedic fasting is practiced and it is believed that some humans can survive for long periods without food or water also known as breatharianism. Sometimes these wannabe yogis end up being under medical supervision or being put on a careful refeeding program. However, still some advanced breatharians do accomplish breatharianism, or inedia.
Some Health Farms and Fasting Centers specialize in nature cure, natural hygiene or living on raw food with enhanced mineral assimilation and others offer water fasting and juice fasting or juice feasting or the juice feast.
Fasting, excercise and diet
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Not much, fasting doesn't work. If you want to lose weight do not eat any junk and do an elimination diet by not eating wheat. I know someone who is on the diet and has already lost a lot of weight!
All of it...you would be dead
Fasting isn't a viable way of losing weight. Whatever you lose you are more than likely to put back on once you start eating again.
Fasting won't help lose weight. It will actually make you gain. To lose weight all you have to do is eat balanced diet.
Actually, you won't lose much weight because a five foot, five person who weighs 120 pounds is basically already at it's ideal weight, henceforth, it would be hard for a lean person to lose a lot of weight through fasting. Actually, the more overweight you are, the more weight you lose through fasting and overweight people lose lots of weight through fasting faster as well. :) Hope this helps!!
There are no bad points. Everything is good about fasting. It helps the person lose weight, seek refuge to Allah, etc;
If you fast long enough you can lose enough weight to die of starvation. But I don't recommend it.
==another answer: Fasting is a way to get closer to God, not to lose weight! So yes it is safe when you have God's help! If you are not depending on God then i suggest you not do it.
Yes, absolutely! Exercise and a healthy diet go hand in hand in weight loss.
You will lose about 10 pounds in first week then it will drop to around 1-2 pound a day, and no you will not put it back on providing you eat healthily of course, water fasting is very beneficial not only for weight loss but for many other benefits.