Draft:Fasting

Health effects
When fasting around 24-72 hours it is advised that you are medically supervised in case you start to feel dizzy and weak. Health risks can be dangerous and should not be taken lightly.

Religious Views
Lent is a common period of fasting in Christianity. Eastern Orthodox Christians fast during specified fasting seasons of the year, which include not only the better-known Great Lent, but also fasts on every Wednesday and Friday (except on special holidays), together with extended fasting periods before Christmas (the Nativity Fast), after Easter (the Apostles Fast) and in early August (the Dormition Fast).

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) generally abstain from food and drink for two consecutive meals in a 24-hour period on the first Sunday of each month and use the money they save for charity.

Fasting is a feature of ascetic traditions in religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

Mahayana traditions that follow the Brahma's Net Sutra may recommend that the laity fast "during the six days of fasting each month and the three months of fasting each year".

Members of the Baháʼí Faith observe a Nineteen Day Fast from sunrise to sunset during March each year.

Types of Fasting

 * Tenth of Tevet
 * Autophagy
 * Seventeenth of Tamuz
 * Fast of Gedalia
 * Fast of Esther
 * Tisha B'Av
 * Yom Kippur
 * Intermittent fasting
 * Water Fasting
 * Fast of the Firstborn
 * Ramadan
 * Lent
 * Nativity Fast
 * Apostles Fast
 * Dormition Fast
 * Great Lent
 * Fasting in Buddhism
 * Nineteen Day Fast
 * Daniel Fast
 * Juice fasting
 * Black Fast
 * Fasting in Jainism
 * Sallekhana
 * Inedia