The practice of fasting is as old as recorded human history, and is often associated with religious and spiritual rituals.
Part of that association is likely related to the altered physical and mental state of people who purposefully don’t eat or drink in the normal way: in some cases not imbibing anything at all, in others avoiding everything but water,…
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