Fasting In Different Cultures And Its Benefits - Part 3 - Water Fasting

Water fasting is a type of fasting in which you consume only water for a set period of time. It's like rebooting your digestive system by not eating anything for a few days and you take in zero calories. It is not possible to survive on water alone. Your body can not function without calories and nutrients; they are the batteries and building blocks of life. But a short term water fasting can help your body a lot and you will still feel very awake, alert, focused, not hungry, energetic.

Albert Einstein gave famous equation, E=MC2. We can convert Mass into Energy and Energy into mass, I mean we can convert Fat into Energy and Energy into Muscles.

Our ancestors incorporated fasting into cultural traditions and many religions participate in ritual fasting to this day. There is nothing normal about eating three times a day, as our culture basically made this up and is now drilled into our heads. Eating cornflakes in the morning to be energetic or a Snickers bar in the afternoon to not feel hungry is just a lie sold by the food industry. Our ancestors didnt ate cornflakes or drank Nesquik and they survived for hundreds of years in good health. Not eating for several days was very normal at that time, as they didnt had a fridge to grab a snack every time they wanted.

Living longer, feeling sharper, getting less sick, and reducing impulsive eating all sound pretty good. But some people might tell you that fasting for several days is somehow bad for you. The opposite is true! Fasting helps lower blood sugar levels, decreases inflammation, strengthens your immune system and has even been used as a technique by diabetics to improve insulin sensitivity. If many of our illnesses today come from too much food and poor diets, then simply eliminating food for a period of time would seem to have benefits. No junk food, sugar and fat will benefit our body.

You should prepare yourself and choose a good time to go without food, when your body does not require too much energy. There is no set time that water fasting should last for, but medical advice generally suggests anywhere from 24 hours to 3 days. So you can start with three days for the first time and increase in the second time, if you feel good about it. It is important to only consume fresh, clean, high-quality water. And when ending a water fast, a person should not eat too much at once but build up gradually to avoid a stomach ache or feeling sick.

Many great healers and thinkers, like Plato, Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Socrates have praised the benefits of fasting. Today, millions of people continue to fast for both religious and physical purification. People may undertake water fasting to lose weight, for spiritual or religious reasons. So why not try it out :)

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