fasting

People who lowered their protein intake lost weight and body fat and showed improvements in fasting blood sugar, despite often consuming more total calories.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026

"Fasting, or controlled deprivation of food, is linked to a longer and healthier lifespan," says Dr Longo, who has spent three decades studying the effects of fasting.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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

The late fasting group used an eight hour window beginning after 1:00 p.m.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Aimee considered opting out by claiming low blood sugar from involuntary fasting, but she decided against starting out the year as the class hypochondriac.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

In these tears were all Nancy's broken hopes and lost aspirations, all that she had sacrificed and stifled and tried with prayers and fastings, for Anne-Marie's sake, not to regret.

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti

Sometimes it would be in an over-weening desire to rule, and then his rule would go far and beyond that of Francis', in fastings, and similar austerities.

From Brother Francis Less than the least by Douglas, Eileen

Much have I envied your Art, who vouchsafeth to those who adore her Visions of heavenly splendor denied to fastings and vigils.

From Poems by Howells, William Dean

The path he has chosen lies through the thorny shrubs of endurance, afflictions, necessities, distresses, stripes, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watchings, and fastings.

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

His daughter at Arcetri was in despair; and anxiety and fastings and penances self-inflicted on his account, dangerously reduced her health.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir