Abstaining from cetain foods and activities in order to draw closer ot God. Orthodox Christians fast on most Wednesdays and Fridays and during the Four Lenten Periods. Total fasting (no food or drink) is required before receiving Holy Communion.
depriving a test vector of food for short periods. The term is inappropriate because fasting normally implies a voluntary abstinence from food by the subject, rather than an enforced deprivation, but its use in vector studies is now so common that a contra-recommendation is not justified. See virus transmission tests. Fasting, Post Acquisition fasting of a test vector after acquisition feeding and before inoculation feeding. Fasting, Pre-acquisition fasting of a test vector prior to acquisition feeding. Synonymous with preliminary fasting.
A time when people do not eat so that they can concentrate on prayer and God.
Abstaining from eating food for specified periods of time. "So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed" (Acts 14:23).
A form of sarifice by which faithful Christians join themselves with the suffering and death of Jesus by foregoing food for a specific period of time. On Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday , Catholics are obliged to fast in a modified way. Many Christians fast from Holy Thursday evening to after the Easter Vigil in anticipation of the Lord's resurrection.
going without food or going without certain kinds of food, especially meat.
Skipping a meal or several meals. To obtain the most accurate results for blood lipid profiles, pathologists and other physicians often recommend obtaining a fasting sample. Ordinarily this is done by having the patient not eat after dinner and come in for a blood draw the next morning before eating breakfast.
Going without food, wholly or in part, as in observance of a religious duty
day on which only one full meal may be eaten. The meal may be at noon or in the evening. The other two meals, taken together, should be less than the full meal. Meat may be eaten unless it is a day of complete abstinence from meat.
Abstaining or reducing intake of food to minimal level for a certain period of time.
Abstinence from food for a certain length of time.
Refusing to eat as a method of self-purification to be spiritually strengthened for nonviolent action, or as a protest.
The practice of refraining from eating or drinking for a certain period of time. Muslims fast from dawn to sunset during Ramadan.
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An ascetic exercise whereby one gives up certain foods, usually meat and dairy products, as a means of disciplining the body. Fasting is a part of the ascetic life and a sign of repentance. Orthodox Christians fast on most Wednesdays and Fridays (in memory of the betrayal and crucifixion of Christ) and during four fasting seasons: (1) Advent, the forty days before Christmas; (2) Great Lent, forty days before Palm Sunday and the week before Easter, (3) two weeks before the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul (June 29); and (4) two weeks before the Feast of the Falling Asleep of the Virgin Mary (Aug. 15). See Matt. 6:16; Rom. 13:14; Gal. 5:16, 17.
"Christians are neither under command to fast nor prohibited from doing so."5
Going without food and water, usually for 24 hours. Money not spent on food is donated to the Church as Fast Offerings
Fasting is an effective therapy for a wide range of conditions that include hypertension, digestive disorders, headaches, allergies and arthritis. By resting the body's task of digesting foods, fasting allows the system to purge itself of toxins while fascilitating healing.
starvation; abstinence from eating that may be partial or complete.
Refraining from food (and sometimes drink). Certain tests or procedures may require 12 to 14 hours of fasting before they can be accurately performed.
Fasting is the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food and/or drink, for a period of time. Depending on the tradition, fasting practices may forbid sexual intercourse, masturbation, as well as refraining from eating certain types or groups of food (e.g. meat). Medical fasting can be a way to promote detoxification.
