fasts

COHEN: It is not always bad when you figure that lots of religions, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, lots of people do short-term fasts and have been doing them for thousands of years.

CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2008 2008

Not everyone thinks long-term fasts are such a good idea: Shigeru Miyazaki, a physician at Tokyo Teishin Hospital, warns that they can "lead to muscle loss, weaken the heart and cause cardiac problems."

Holidays Without Food 2007

The group hates the Pope, celebrates mass in Latin, fasts on Fridays and requires women to wear hats in church.

Mel’s mad at cult slur 2003

This trial tested the safety of short-term fasts two days before and one day after chemotherapy.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

One thing that I experience after breaking my fasts is a healthy BM within the hour after eating.

Intermittent fasting guest blog | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

And as for their going to church and keeping the fasts, that is simply to prevent people talking ill of them, and in case it really may be true that there will be a Day of Judgment.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

And as for their going to church and keeping the fasts, that is simply to prevent people talking ill of them, and in case it really may be true that there will be a Day of Judgment.

The Witch and other stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Lent they never eat till after sunset; their fasts are the more severe because milk and butter are forbidden them, and no reason or necessity whatsoever can procure them a permission to eat meat, and their country affording no fish, they live only on roots and pulse.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

The same was true of Mitchell's so-called "word fasts" -- periods when he refused to speak to staff members or other patients, Miles said.

unknown title ASSOCIATED PRESS 2009

The same was true of Mitchell's so-called "word fasts" -- periods when he refused to speak to staff members or other patients, Miles said.

unknown title ASSOCIATED PRESS 2009