Health benefit of fasting

Few days ago, I wrote about fasting where I explained the reasons why we need to fast - Why fast?.

One of the reasons why I said we need to fast is that fasting has a lot of health benefits and I promised to write a post on the health benefits of fasting.

Before I go into the health benefits, let me first make it clear that fasting is biblical and as a Christian in order to develop ourself in the spirit, we need to fast.

Fasting is also common to all other major religions. This I explained in one of the post Similarities in different religions I dropped some days ago. So, even if you are not a Christian, in whatever religion you found yourself, you still need to fast.

Having said that, we need to understand our ability and know our health status before we can fast. It is not advisable for some people to fast due to their health status. For example, people that have ulcer should not even try to fast and if they do, it should be for a short time. So, if your health status will not allow you to fast, God will understand. As it's not even a sin not to fast.

The following are the health benefits of fasting

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Fasting Improves Body Composition and Fitness
Fasting Promotes Greater Satiety
Fasting Boosts Metabolism
Fasting Supports Fat Loss and Ketosis
Fasting Encourages Better Insulin Sensitivity
Fasting Improves Cardiovascular Health
Fasting Lowers Blood Pressure
Fasting Decreases Blood Sugar
Fasting Improves Blood Triglycerides
Fasting Promotes Heart Health
Fasting May Slow Aging and Enhance Longevity
Fasting Decreases Inflammation
Fasting Increases Resistance to Oxidative Stress
Fasting Improves Cell Recycling
Fasting Increases Growth Regulation
Fasting Protects Your Brain
Fasting Reduces Harmful Protein Production
Fasting Promotes a Healthy Stress Response
Fasting Enhances Recovery From Injury
Fasting Supports Healthier Collagen in Skin

These and many more are the health benefits of fasting. Since fasting is a thing of many religions, we all don't have any excuse for not fasting. As we can all see, apart from the spiritual growth, it also have many health benefits

Thanks for reading

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nmalove (63) · 7 years ago

So what are the health benefits

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fatherfaith (68) · 7 years ago

They are right there

I opened your post 3 times last night, and i just saw the picture, i didn't the post.. I guess my network was bad.. Thanks for sharing this

drotto (48) · 7 years ago

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minnowsupport (70) · 7 years ago

catherinedouglas (43) · 7 years ago

Thank you for sharing.

Welcome

eprolific (65) · 7 years ago

Wholesome benefit couple with the spiritual strength if doing it in the right way

Yes sir

royalheir (47) · 7 years ago

Thank God or this post. You know my blood pressure was actually around 164/100, later became 150/100 about three weeks ago. J started a number of days dry fast and finished last week. I went for my normal check up like four days ago and to realize the blood pressure has really gone down so supporting your post there are a lot to gain in fasting

Wow, thanks for the testimony sir

aqsaali (51) · 7 years ago

Yes dear fast is very beneficial for halth

Yes