Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. I do apprecite it.

Medical literature does show evidence of health benefits associated with periods of limited, voluntary fasting. Obviously, when taken to extremes, such as in Brethairianism, it can be fatal.

I did not go into the stories of people who starved to death while involved in this subculture and it's now intimate association with pro-anorexia groups is a bit frightening.