fasting

"It was actually quite an interesting time to be there, and realising how important religion is to the people of Morocco and how seriously they take the fasting ritual," Smith said.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

It is the fasting warming content, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

The researchers examined the popular 16:8 approach to intermittent fasting.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

The next morning we woke early and set out for the chapel, telling our hosts that we were fasting so as not to give them any further bother.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Her fastings may be said to have been almost unintermittent, so that Jerome thought it was only by the grace of God that she survived until her fiftieth year without weakening her digestion.

From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain

And shall not my fastings, vigils, disciplines, prayers be as effectual for their souls?

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Little suspecting the frame of mind his communication is to find us in, and that, in place of doughty deeds and chivalrous exploits, our thoughts are turned to fastings, mortifications, and whipcord!

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

These visions or experiences—call them what you will—have generally occurred after long fastings, when the spirit probably is less restrained by mortal bonds.

From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood

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