• Fasting is abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person...
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  • Intermittent fasting is any of various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting (or reduced calorie intake) and non-fasting over a given...
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    observed fasts to appease their gods. Former nations such as Assyrians and Babylonians observed fasting as a form of penance. Jews observe fasting as a form...
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    sense, dopamine fasting is a reaction to technology firms which have engineered their services to keep people hooked. Dopamine fasting has been said[by...
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    Numerous cases of fasting girls were reported in the late 19th century. Believers regarded such cases as miraculous. In some cases, the fasting girls also exhibited...
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  • fast "during the six days of fasting each month and the three months of fasting each year". Members of the Baháʼí Faith observe a Nineteen-Day Fast from...
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    Ramadan (category Fasting in Islam)
    spiritual rewards (thawab) of fasting are believed to be multiplied during Ramadan. Accordingly, during the hours of fasting, Muslims refrain not only from...
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  • engaged in fasting Isuzu Faster, a model of pick-up truck FASTER, stock trading and financial settlement system of New Zealand's Exchange (NZX) FASTER (software)...
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  • the self in deep concentration is fasting (upavāsa). Fasting can be done to purify both the body and the soul but fasts are also done as a penance. The...
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    towards different forms of fasting (Skt. upavāsa or anaśana). The Buddha is known to have practiced extreme forms of fasting which led to his emaciation...
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    historically observes the disciplines of fasting and abstinence (from meat) at various times each year. For Catholics, fasting is the reduction of one's intake...
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  • often used to diagnose illnesses and such methods include fasting blood sugar (FBS), fasting plasma glucose (FPG): 10–16 hours after eating glucose tolerance...
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    Kordich's contributions to juice fasting propelled the diet to today's current version. In the twenty-first century, juice fasting has remained trendy with people...
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  • Fast & Furious, also known as The Fast and the Furious, is a media franchise centered on a series of action films that are largely concerned with street...
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    Muslims migrated from Mecca to Medina. Fasting for the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Fasting during the month of Ramadan is specifically...
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  • sunset. Fasting is obligatory for men and women once they attain the age of 15. If one eats unconsciously during fasting, this is not breaking the fast as...
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    Lent (redirect from Lenten fast)
    the Black Fast, which enjoins fasting from food and liquids, with the allowance of one vegetarian meal after sunset. This form of fasting continues in...
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  • Booker Prize judges took the unprecedented step of naming Fasting, Feasting as runner-up. "Fasting, Feasting | the Booker Prizes". "Books of the moment: What...
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    Impaired fasting glucose is a type of prediabetes, in which a person's blood sugar levels during fasting are consistently above the normal range, but...
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    Provinzialsamlinger (1791). Claus Frederik Fasting was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the only child of Fredrik Fasting (1718-69) who was vicar at Nykirken and...
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  • app Fastic is operated by Fastic GmbH. The app uses a freemium model and provides fasting and meal plans, a nutrition tracker, advice on fasting and nutrition...
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    worship to the god Vishnu by fasting or just symbolically; the idea was always to receive self-discipline and the benefits of fasting and it was connected to...
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    Ta'anit (redirect from Fasting in judaism)
    key. Nevertheless, fasting is conducive to atonement, for it tends to precipitate contrition. Therefore, the Bible requires fasting on Yom Kippur. Because...
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  • Fast X (also known as Fast & Furious 10) is a 2023 American action film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay written by Dan Mazeau and Justin...
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  • (disambiguation) Faster (disambiguation) Fasting This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fast. If an internal link led you here, you...
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  • Fast bowling (also referred to as pace bowling) is one of two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling. Practitioners...
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    Coptic Orthodox Church, observe fasting periods according to the Coptic calendar. In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, fasting is defined as going without water...
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    Fastly, Inc. is an American cloud computing services provider. It describes its network as an edge cloud platform, which is designed to help developers...
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  • emergency surgery (since fasting time is reduced), full stomach and altered gastrointestinal mobility. Increased fasting times leads to decreased injury...
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    The Fasting Cure is a 1911 nonfiction book on fasting by Upton Sinclair. It is a reprinting of two articles written by Sinclair which were originally...
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