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This is the main reason why we are expected to fast: to discipline our physical appetites in order to concentrate on the spiritual realm. Rather than being satiated and dull as the result of too much food and drink, fasting makes our senses sharper and we become more aware of the spiritual realm. Put very simply--Jesus commands us to fast and pray. The saints take fasting seriously and the church commands us to make fasting part of our life. Why not take up this discipline with a new intentio...

Our motivation for fasting and observing Lent matters.

Ash Wednesday is a significant part of the liturgical calendar of Christianity and is associated with putting a cross of ashes on one's forehead. But what do the crosses mean?

Even though sleep is a hot topic these days, the sleep deprivation epidemic continues to plague us, with a third of Americans getting fewer than seven hours of sleep a

Feb 16, 2021, 17:48 IST AMARAVATI: Andhra Pradesh Government Chief Whip Gadikota Srikanth Reddy said that the fasting TDP leader Palla Srinivas was taken to Hospital on humanitarian grounds on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference here on the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) issue, Srikanth Reddy said that Palla Srinivas who was on fast was taken to hospital on humanitarian grounds as he was recently recovered from Covid and criticised opposition leader N Chandrababu Naidu for politici...

SEREMBAN: The Special Meeting of the Muzakarah Committee of the National Council on Islamic Reli­gious Affairs will discuss the guidelines for taking vaccines during the month of Ramadan for Muslims.

Health education program reduces risk of cardiovascular disease People who participated in a health education program that included both mental health and physical health information significantly reduced their risks of cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases by the end of the 12-month intervention - and sustained most of those improvements six months later, researchers found. People who participated in the integrated mental and physical health program maintained significant improveme...

• Nov 13, 2020 If youre in need of a silver lining about 2020, look no further than cardiologist DR. ANAND CHOCKALINGAMs take on the effects of COVID-19 on heart health. He says emergency calls for heart attack victims have actually gone down; he believes thats because peoples daily stress levels have gone down due to the ongoing hold placed on life as we know it. November 13, 2020

Older adults who are classified as having "prediabetes" due to moderately elevated measures of blood sugar usually don't go on to develop full-blown diabetes, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Fasting linked to anti-aging process Fasting is an integrative part of the anti-ageing process, this means that fasting leads to cell rejuvenation and may even help in the treatment of diseases, according to studies. I don’t know what you think about fasting, but it always sounded a little scary to me, several days without eating is almost hard to believe. This practice, was somehow, usually associated with some religious beliefs. However, nowadays, there are several longterm studies that adv...