What are the health benefits of fasting?

Question

What are the health benefits of fasting?

Answer 1

There are no health benefits other than you lose weight unhealthily.

Answer 2

Apart  from the spiritual benefit, it helps you with your weight.

Answer 3

One gets tolerance in his/her personality. When one fast for a period of time as mentioned in Islam. The unnecessary fats get reduced. It’s a servicing of your body. When u feel hungry and don’t have food. The body takes the deposited energy from you body. Its a basic recycle of ur energy.

Many are able to get rid of their bad habits like smoking-drinking -watching p**n. etc

Person is tuned in a better human

Answer 4

fasting cleanses the body of intoxicants  and bild spiritual growth

Answer 5

Hello,

I do not really see any benefits for the following reason: you go a while without eating so then when you do eat, you eat a lot, making you gain weight.  I am sure that you would drop a couple of pounds, but then when you eat again, you will gain it all back and look chubbier than you were before.

Catherine B.

Answer 6

There are none.  You rob your body of nutrients and it loses efficiency.  First, it uses all available stores, leading to fatigue.  Second, it pulls nutrients from your muscles and organs and you lose the ability to recover.  Third, you get sick and death is very possible.

So the only health benefit I can think of is you die and have no more worries.