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How to use the word fasting in a Sentence?

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Fasting is not compulsory if you’re feeling not well. So in that regard — anything that can jeopardize the mission or maybe put the crew member at risk — we’re actually allowed to to eat sufficient food to prevent any escalation of lack of food or nutrition or hydration.

Sultan Alneyadi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As we age, we experience slower and less complete healing of our tissues, we wanted to understand what controls that regenerative ability and how fasting impacts this process. We found that fasting induces resilience in muscle stem cells so that they survive during deprivation and are available to repair muscle when nutrients are again available.

Thomas Rando

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's almost like a fasting, like a Lent fasting -- you're not supposed to eat any meat.

Paola Sergi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If this is part of your protocol, then try it out and see how you feel, keep in mind that while you're fasting, lower-intensity workouts will probably help you feel steadier and less fatigued compared to a high-intensity workout.

Stephanie Mansour

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Do not skip meals if you don’t feel well. Fasting is only good when you live well with discipline.

Clifford V. Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Your body is being starved when intermittent fasting happens, people may develop binge eating disorder or bulimia as a result, leading to all sorts of other physical and psychological problems.

Lynn Slawsky

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There is no splendor on the streets, the mosque space is in silence, the new atmosphere we will feel, absorbing the true meaning of fasting that we run, let's welcome the blessing Ramadan as a moment to break the chain of transmission of the plague for the sake of personal safety, relatives and the entire nation.

President Joko Widodo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are at a transition point where we could soon consider adding information about intermittent fasting to medical school curricula alongside standard advice about healthy diets and exercise.

Professor Mark Mattson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's a fine sermon about fasting when the preacher just had lunch.

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Whether you're thinking about trying a fasting system for preventive reasons or as a treatment, the doctor should be involved, there are many factors that must be considered, like your current diet, or whether you have diabetes or a metabolic disorder.

Valter Longo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You may not know how your body will respond to, say, low blood sugar, or, some people find that fasting seems like a piece of cake until around 3 o'clock, and then suddenly cravings come on and you end up eating all sorts of things you normally wouldn't.

Libby Mills

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Clearly, there is need for caution, because diabetic people are prone to hypoglycemic episodes, and hypoglycemia can be fatal, people do not want to put them themselves at risk by fasting without consulting a doctor.

Abhinav Diwan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Intermittent fasting has been in a hinterland for many, many years. There's been really no data on it.

Jason Fung

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In Eastern Orthodoxy, for example, the fasting rules are pretty elaborate -- no milk, no eggs, no meat, no fish with blood systems, and sometimes no leavened bread, even though the foods for Lent are really wonderful and tasty, they still remind you that you are in the middle of a fasting period and therefore, your eating habits continually reinforce the spiritual disciplines you're supposed to be working through.

Richard Valantasis

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think you’ll see in the next year or two, and particularly the next five years, a lot of [results from studies] on intermittent fasting on human subjects with diseases or [who are] at risk for a disease.

Mark Mattson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The human fasting mimicking diet (FMD) program is a plant based diet program designed to attain fasting-like effects while providing micronutrient nourishment (vitamins, minerals, etc.) and minimize the burden of fasting.

Valter Longo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She was a practicing Muslim, she believed in the religion, and she was just doing the five prayers a day, the fasting... there was nothing to show that she was out of the ordinary.

Mohammad Abuershaid

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There was nothing to show that she was extreme at all, she was a practicing Muslim, she believed in the religion, and she was just doing the five prayers a day, the fasting... there was nothing to show that she was out of the ordinary.

Mohammad Abuershaid

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The current study further suggests that extending the overnight fasting duration in overweight individuals with a habitually short overnight fasting duration leads to weight loss, at least in part due to reduced daily caloric intake.

Frank Scheer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If a Muslim who is fasting sees a woman's 'aurat' then it'll just erase their benefits.

Harussani Zakaria

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Heat or no heat, this is my responsibility, normally, I drink a lot of water but, thank God, I am fasting now, so I just have to try to keep going.

Ziad Radi

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Several factors could explain the positive association between time spent sitting and higher all-cause death rates, prolonged time spent sitting, independent of physical activity, has been shown to have important metabolic consequences, and may influence things like triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, cholesterol, fasting plasma glucose, resting blood pressure and leptin, which are biomarkers of obesity and cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.

Alpa Patel

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We think that nighttime fasting is a feasible lifestyle [while] something like diet is not.

Ruth Patterson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They should have been less hungry at night because the fasting period was shorter, we know that there is something going on here.

Travis Masterson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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