(isim) oruç tutma, perhiz

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fasting
Present participle of fast
Those who fast for health cite many benefits of fasting: rest for internal organs; improved digestion and circulation; greater mental and spiritual clarity and energy; elimination of drug cravings; improved sleep; weight loss Adherents say that fasting can relieve symptoms of emotional depression and anxiety and foster a feeling of well-being Advocates of fasting during illness believe that this restraint aids healing; eating, they believe, taps energy for digestion that could be better used for recovery In addition, some claim that fasting may release a hormone that stimulates the body's immune system in its fight against disease (6)
on empty stomach
Abstaining from food, usually for religious or ethical reasons. In ancient religions it was used to prepare worshipers or priests to approach deities, to pursue a vision, to demonstrate penance for sins, or to assuage an angered deity. All the major world religions include fasting among their practices. Judaism has several fast days, notably Yom Kippur. For Christians Lent is set aside as a 40-day period of penitence before Easter, including the traditional fast days of Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. In Islam the month of Ramadan is observed as a period of total abstention from food from dawn to dusk. Fasting to make a political protest is often referred to as a hunger strike; hunger strikes have been employed by, among others, 19th-century female suffragists, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and late-20th-century Irish nationalists. Moderate fasting is also sometimes practiced for its claimed health benefits
action of the verb to fast
{i} fast, period during which one abstains from eating; act of abstaining from eating
The most ingenious method of fasting I know of is that recorded in the Mappemonde Papistique, p 82 A Venetian saint had certain boxes made like mass-books, and these book-boxes were filled, some with Malmsey wine, and some with the fleshiest parts of capons and partridges These were supposed to be books of devotion, and the saint lived long and grew fat on them
abstaining from food
The practice of refraining from eating or drinking for a certain period of time Muslims fast from dawn to sunset during Ramadan
(see abstinence)
{s} abstaining from eating
(isim) oruç tutma, perhiz
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