period of fasting

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• fasting — 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… …   Universalium

• Fasting — is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period, usually a single day (24 hours), or… …   Wikipedia

• FASTING AND FAST DAYS — FASTING AND FAST DAYS, the precept (or custom) of refraining from eating and drinking. In the Bible Although the origins of the ritual of fasting are obscure, several current theories claim that it originated as (1) a spiritual preparation for… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• fasting —    Fasting is the practice of abstaining from food or drink for religious purposes, usually for a specified period of time. It passed into Protestantism from its Catholic and Jewish roots, but only in an attenuated form as a voluntary, occasional …   Encyclopedia of Protestantism

• Fasting and abstinence of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria — Part of the series on Copts Culture …   Wikipedia

• Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church — For Roman Catholics, fasting is the reduction of one s intake of food to one full meal a day. This may or may not be accompanied by abstinence from meat when eating. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that all people are obliged by God to perform… …   Wikipedia

• Fasting girls — Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma Fasting girls is a Victorian term for young females, usually pre adolescent, who, it was claimed, were capable of surviving over indefinitely long periods of time without consuming any food or other nourishment …   Wikipedia

• fasting — fast·ing fas tiŋ adj of or taken from a fasting subject <fasting blood sugar levels> <fasting urine> also occurring from or caused by fasting <fasting hyperglycemia> * * * fast·ing (fastґing) abstinence from all food and drink… …   Medical dictionary

• fasting — adj. abstaining from eating adv. on empty stomach n. fast, period during which one abstains from eating; act of abstaining from eating fæst /fɑːst n. act of abstaining from eating; period during which one abstains from eating v. abstain from… …   English contemporary dictionary

• Juice fasting — is a type of fasting and detox diet in which the practitioner consumes only fruit and vegetable juices. Being available only in digestible carbohydrates, these foods are digested rapidly as the juice digestion process expends only a small amount… …   Wikipedia

• endocrine system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction  group of ductless glands (gland) that regulate body processes by secreting chemical substances called hormones (hormone). Hormones act on nearby tissues or are carried in the bloodstream to act on specific target organs… …   Universalium