What do Mahatma Gandhi and reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian have in common?
They are both fans of fasting – for moral and political reasons for the first, for the weight loss it would induce and better health for the second.
This ancestral practice found in all human societies has long been spiritual: Ramadan, Lent, Yom Kippur;
Hindu and Buddhist fasts… These religions see in depriving oneself of food a way of detaching oneself from material constraints and turning towards the essential: the relationship with God and fellow human beings.
Today, it's health that we're talking about most, particularly on social networks where there's a real fasting madness.
Influencers and internet stars are full of praise for its benefits, while books like
The No-Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
, by Edward Hooker Dewey, as well as
The Japanese Art of Fasting,
…
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