Why Should You Include Fasting In Your Lifestyle?
- Guest Post by Brad Pilon, MS
There are many reasons why you should include fasting as a part of your everyday lifestyle, many of which have nothing to do with diet.
Fasting as a concept has been around as long as the hills, though it has been taken to extremes at times and made to look like a less than viable part of a normal and sensible health and weight control plan.
Fasts have been undertaken through the years for reasons as diverse as political causes (Bobby Sands comes to mind) and religious fasts.
The Bible and many other religions promote fasting as a way to get closer to God, and to achieve enlightenment. There is also some physical evidence that deprivation can lead to a heightened state of awareness, no doubt some of which comes from the lack of additional food the system must process.
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