Is Fasting Safe? Should You Try a No Food Diet?

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What Is Fasting?

The definition of fasting differs wildly. The original definition would be the Zero Diet, where you eat and drink absolutely nothing at all. Other diets considered to be a fasting diet are the ones featuring liquids, like water or water with squeezed lemon juice; or juice fasting. Generally every zero calorie diet is a fasting diet. The medical definition of fasting would be the zero diet. This fasting is extremely unsafe.

How Long Should I Fast?

The question how long a human can survive without food and liquids varies. It depends on the circumstances as well. For instance, an individual subjected to the desert sun without food or water can die after one day, while victims of earthquakes buried under rubble are known to survive weeks.

Scientists have found out that fasting increases the life span significantly. Fasting every other day would be not only beneficial to overall health, but is also a great weight loss method. If only people were able to keep it up. Cutting ingested calories in half is always a good idea and you are not abandoning your favorite foods either!

Nevertheless, fasting for a prolonged time is extremely dangerous and only physically healthy people should fast, and only for a duration of twenty four hours. You can miss out on vital nutrients soon after fasting; dropping important minerals, vitamins, amino acids, to name a few, can result in serious illnesses and consequences.

Simply try to not eat and drink for a twenty four hour period and see how you feel. You may lose the interest for a fasting diet right then and there.

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