What's It Mean to Fast?

Fasting is the willful refrainment from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight, or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal.

What does it mean to go fasting?

Fasting, according to the Bible, means to voluntarily reduce or eliminate your intake of food for a specific time and purpose. "When you give up eating, don't put on a sad face like the hypocrites.

What is the real meaning of fast?

moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse;a fast pain reliever;a fast thinker. done in comparatively little time; taking a comparatively short time: a fast race;fast work. (of time)

Chloe Bennett

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