16 Hour Fasting
Today, the fasting we believe to be a fad has actually been practiced by our ancestors for thousands of years. Many of our Shastras also clearly mention not to eat after sunset and in the morning, until the sun has reached its peak, never to eat before it. Our ancestors didn’t name it 16 hour fasting. But their daily lifestyle was such that they were following it automatically. Thousands of scientific studies are also proving that you can get so many benefits by giving your body a break from food daily.
The Right Method To Do 16 Hour Fasting
Everyday, you must not eat anything between dinner & breakfast for 16 hours. You can adjust these timings according to your schedule. If you eat dinner at 7 Pm today, then have solid food at 11 Am the next day and if you eat at 6 Pm, then break your fast at 10 Am with solid food. During these 16 hours, you can have water, coconut water or any veggie juice. Maybe it sounds difficult right now. But it’s not difficult at all. Truly! Because you sleep through most of this 16 hours gap. Come let’s understand the 3 biggest benefits of fasting.
Rest For All Your Organs
You’re putting non-stop pressure on it. Before we’re able to digest last night’s dal, we stuff parathas, idlis, dosas inside us in the morning. Before we digest that, we stuff our lunch on top of it. To digest all this, your stomach end up working 24 hours. It works overtime on most days. It doesn’t even get a single day off.. If you put so much pressure on it, soon it will stop functioning properly. The food you’ve eaten won’t get digested. It will keep accumulating inside and give birth to all kinds of diseases. But with 16 hour fasting, we give a break to our stomach not just our stomach, all our other organs get a break too. Pancreas get a break from producing insulin, liver gets a break from making bile and the stomach gets a break from producing digestive juices. During fasting, all of your organs thank you.
More Productivity
When you eat heavy foods like paratha, chiwda, biscuit, chai or eat without giving a break all day long. Most of your energy will be used up by your digestion more than 70%. So start this from tomorrow and see how it boosts your energy. When you sit to work, what took you 2 hours to do will only take an hour now. All this is only possible because your food pressure won’t keep pulling you down.
Better Nutrients Absorption
We don’t keep our stomach empty for sometime, no matter how many green veggies, juices, fruits and nuts you consume, it’s not going to help at all! because your stomach has no space to digest them at all It’s already full but with fasting, your stomach is emptied, it gets more space. So if you truly want to take in the nutrients of your food, then give your stomach a break every day.