fasting

In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

But not all obesity specialists are persuaded that fasting is the right approach for children.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

At the protest site in the capital Delhi, he began fasting on 28 June and has consumed nothing but salt and water since then, losing more than 9kg.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The early fasting group followed an eight hour window beginning before 10:00 a.m.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Most people weren’t big fans of fasting for thirty days—each day from sunrise to sunset—but I loved it.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

It seems to feel that joy or recreation are not within its portion; that its inevitable career is forced labour and long fastings, until death shall relieve it.

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc

God stands in no need of any external ceremonies of ours, our watchings, fastings, or cryings, to awaken him, who “neither slumbereth nor sleepeth.”

From True Christianity by Johann Arndt

For even if he thinks much of his own holy prayers and fastings in contrast to a poor sinner like me, yet he has not called me a brothelkeeper and archknave, as he has Christ.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

Prayer, fastings, manipulations, and all practicable privacy and quiet were his preferred appliances for closing up the devil’s avenues of access, and of barring him off from man.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

He is a Frank, unused to this hot clime, Young and unpractised in his order's rules, In fastings and in watchings quite untrained.

From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing