fasting

But not all obesity specialists are persuaded that fasting is the right approach for children.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The researchers examined the popular 16:8 approach to intermittent fasting.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

According to the research team, even a 12 week period of intermittent fasting could provide an effective medium term option for weight management among adults who are overweight or obese.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

When Potti Sriramulu began fasting in October 1952, he was asking for something then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had repeatedly resisted: a separate state for Telugu speakers.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Ocean thought Navid was hilarious, and I tried to explain that he wasn’t doing a bit, that Navid was really just, like, super annoying when he was fasting, and Ocean shrugged.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

Morning and evening she kneels in church, and, like Anna, serves the Lord with fastings and with prayers.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana

Wisely they desire that, before all things, the soul may be slowly purged, tried, subdued by fastings; that it may not be burnt in its pride, that it shall not triumph at the stake.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules

In speaking of himself, he says he was “in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often.”

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

He is worn out with long fastings and continued abstinence and prayer.

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 3 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The reason was, that for all his fastings and penances, he was a lazy Camel, and he wanted to graze without the trouble of walking about.

From The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India by Crooke, William