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Fasting
15 / Female
Every two weeks I like to go one day with out eating, or skipping a meal. I do not do it to lose weight but I have heard it is good for you ( I still drink water ) and it helps to flush out toxins in your body. Is this true? I regularily eat small meals throughout the day that are healthy and I get usually 2-4 hours of exercise a day. After fasting for a day I continue with my normal eating pattern and I do not try to eat a lot to make up for it.
This is beneficial, right?
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uh i do not think it is a good idea because you body could go into starvation mode where it thinks you are starving so it holds onto fat and calories much more and burns them more sslowly.
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no you should NOT be doing this. when you dont eat you arent letting your body get nutrients which is very bad and will make you weak. its not beneficial and ive never heard of it flushing out toxins. to flush toxins out of your body there are different spa treatments for that and if you cant get to a spa you can close your bathroom door and let the shower run hot and then soak up the steam.
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No, this is not good. It's never good to deny your body of nutrients. There are other ways to flush out toxins, certian foods do the trick! 2 to 4 hours of exercise a day requires a lot of calories in return, or you aren't doing yourself any good. (And I'm not just talking about the days you fast, you probaly need to start eating larger meals. But keep them healthy) If you burn more calories than you are eating and you don't need to lose weight, you probaly will and that's not good!
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no...it's not good for you...u should eat...my friends did it once and one day passed out rfom doing that...and 2-4 hours of exercise is a lot of excercise when your not eating...u should have about 30 mins of exercise a day...while eating a normal eating pattern...
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There can be no opinions on this matter...bottom line is that depriving yourself of nutrients is never good for you under any circumstance. If you really do exercise for 2-4 hours per day...do you know how many calories you need? and if your body doesn't get them, all it does is store whatever it does have and it becomes bodyfat. Muscles are mostly water (about 72%) and when you prevent food energy in the form of glycogen to getting to them...you retain the fat and this is what happens during fasting.
Your body is going to get all out of whack if you do this and can give you about a 97% probability that your whole diet and exercise problem will fail and you will need to start all over again to get your body back in the right groove to handle the rigors of the fitness lifestyle.
Keep eating and stop listening to what you hear nowadays...there are provisions being made to help stop people from making ridiculous claims like this and putting uneducated, easily influenced people at risk.
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Fasting, if done correctly, is immensely healthy for you. Yes, you do flush toxins out of your body when fasting but usually it is during a 3 day fast that this occurs not a one day fast. That doesn't make your one day fast unhealthy. What you are doing is giving your body a rest, which is well deserved and needed. Your eating habits sound good as well as your work out program. If anyone thinks it is a problem then they need to look at all religions. Christ fasted and we know of one of his biggest fasts that lasted for 40 days and 40 nights. Paul the Baptist fasted and lived mainly on honey and carob. Christians have lost sight of what Lint is about. During Lint we are suppose to fast for the month before Easter. That is part of it is what we are giving up for the month. We are allowed to eat something, like a bowl of lintel soup and a roll for the day, but that originally was as much as we were to eat. We've lost sight of this. Muslims have a huge religious fasting called Ramadan. They take a whole month and fast to bring them closer to God. They are more diligent about it then Christians are but their fasting is from sun up to sun down. They are suppose to do the same thing as Christians are during lint and only eat a bowl of lintel soup but today the majority of them eat whatever they want while the sun is not up. For centuries fasting has been used for reaching enlightenment, energy and health. It is healthy. I've even known people who have cured cancer by going on a juice fast until the cancer goes away. I have included some websites that will give you information about the health benefits of fasting. Good Luck and Happy Health!
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Everyone has a different opinion on fasting but i think one every two weeks is a little to much, I think once every two months should be more like it. It does get rid of some toxins in your body and cleans out your liver. And although it detoxifies your body you are also not getting the nutrients you need. So once every two months should be better than every two weeks. And though some say its beneficial most likely you wont be able to tell much of a diffrence for a long time. But your liver and colon will thank you lol.
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I used to fast to try and lose weight and it's not healthy at all it actually makes your body store more of the fat that you intake...hope i helped.
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Its not healthy at all.. and not beneficial.
Depriving your body of its nutrients even for one day isnt good. Water is good it does flush your body out, but dont skip meals. Even for a day.
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fasting is in no way good for your body... it doesnt flush out the toxins in your body, it actually saves fat and everything that is romotly BAD for you. when you fast, your body doesnt get rid of ANYTHING, it just all stays in you! if you want a healthy body, just eat regularly....the is the best way to clean out your body! eat healthy like you do on all the other days and dont fast...
hope i could help
take care and good luck
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yes it is benificial and it is good that you do this. it helps purify the body and also it helps cleanse your mind. it makes you think more clearly. but just be sure to take it easy and not over do it. i went 3 days on a fast, but no more than that is what i would reccomend. so kudos to you!!!
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