{"id":5745,"date":"2021-08-29T07:04:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T01:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2021-08-29T07:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T01:34:40","slug":"fasting-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/29\/fasting-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasting cure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I remember seeing my grandma doing a fast during Chatt puja. Everyone from the family will sit together cook, but Nani would be fasting, without even water and, she would be in the best of her voice: laughing, chit-chatting, and running around. I saw my mom as well every week: Sunday and Tuesday are on fast. I found her perfectly talking, cooking, and chit-chatting with us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On reading books on Greek culture, mention of fast is also prevalent. In Islam, the holi month of Ramzan lasts for a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days back, I picked Upton Sinclair,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/apache2.pum.edu.pl\/~fasting\/upton.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fasting cure<\/a>. The book talks about the positives of fasting and how many lives gotten cured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was Vinay who told me about intermittent fasting and its positives. I have been regularly practicing it. In the early days, I felt awkward considering my morning run schedules. But with time, I have been practicing 12-14 hours fast. I fast to calm my brain. The trick is simple, stop eating after sunset.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the practice of fasting has existed for so long, there must be some positives from it.\u00a0But can everyone fast, I don&#8217;t know: consulting a physician before practicing would be a wise idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember seeing my grandma doing a fast during Chatt puja. Everyone from the family will sit together cook, but Nani would be fasting, without even water and, she would be in the best of her voice: laughing, chit-chatting, and running around. I saw my mom as well every week: Sunday and Tuesday are on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/29\/fasting-cure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fasting cure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[1186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5746,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}