Top 7 Facts To Know About Fasting
Fasting is abstinence from food or drinks for health, religious, or ethical reasons. The abstinence can be complete, partial, temporary, or intermittent fasting. Fasting is used therapeutically since the 5th century BCE when Hippocrates advised abstinence from food for patients with some illnesses. Furthermore, fasting was practiced in some religions to prepare persons, particularly priests, for approaching their deities.









