For your reading pleasure Rayaan....
On the topic of 'Fasting - Adverse effects'
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Adverse_Effect...ic_Fasting
http://www.keralaayurvedics.com/media/ar...blems.html
On the topic of 'Fasting - General'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting
http://www.whale.to/p/quacks.html
http://www.prettythin.com/fasting.htm
On the Ayurvedic 'Fasting practices and History'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads
Basically all statements to the effect that I am right. You do NOT FAST during your supposed Holy Days. All you do is turn you eating habits upside down and gorge at dusk and at dawn....you HAVE TO.
The best you can say is that you do not eat or drink during daylight hours this is not a fast...because I do this every night!! Big deal!! Why I am bothering is that I feel people should really look into their religions and question why they are suppose to do such and such and be informed of the risks and precautions of that practice (hence the quacks URL).
Depriving the brain of glucose will bring you closer to your god....do it for long enough and you will be brain dead.
On the topic of 'Fasting - Adverse effects'
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Adverse_Effect...ic_Fasting
http://www.keralaayurvedics.com/media/ar...blems.html
On the topic of 'Fasting - General'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting
http://www.whale.to/p/quacks.html
http://www.prettythin.com/fasting.htm
On the Ayurvedic 'Fasting practices and History'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads
Basically all statements to the effect that I am right. You do NOT FAST during your supposed Holy Days. All you do is turn you eating habits upside down and gorge at dusk and at dawn....you HAVE TO.
The best you can say is that you do not eat or drink during daylight hours this is not a fast...because I do this every night!! Big deal!! Why I am bothering is that I feel people should really look into their religions and question why they are suppose to do such and such and be informed of the risks and precautions of that practice (hence the quacks URL).
Depriving the brain of glucose will bring you closer to your god....do it for long enough and you will be brain dead.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
