10 Important Benefits of Fasting

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Fasting is associated with abstaining your self from food, drinks for a period of time. It has wide range of health benefits and cleanses your body from within. Intermittent fasting involves helps in weight loss and also improves productivity. It breaks the routine and gives your body a shock and helps you fight many diseases. Let’s talk about the benefits of Fasting.



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1. Cleanses the system:

Detoxification of the entire system is the purpose of fasting.  The digestion process is an ongoing process. The nutritive part of the food gets assimilated in the form of blood, marrow etc. And the rest of the part is excreted out as pee, cough, poo etc. There is still a portion of impurities left in the body and assembles to create toxin and  cause various diseases. To eliminate these toxins fasting is very essential.



2. Helps in weight loss:

Abstaining yourself from all kind of food puts a restriction on your calorie intake which reduces body weight and removes those extra inches from the body. Body is using more calories than its consuming.

3. Improves your digestive system:

When we fast, our organ gets time to rest. Our digestive system is continuously working, so its important to give your body a break; so that it can cleanse, re-build and maintain.



4. Helps in healing the body:

Our body has a natural way of healing itself, but when we eat all day long, the energy is used more for digesting the food rather than healing. Therefore, fasting helps in eliminating the toxins from the body and fulfills the deficiencies in the body.

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5. Eliminates cancer cells:

The cells that have gone bad  in the body are termed as cancer cells. Fasting kills cancer cells. Studies have shown, fasting may reduce the chances of cancer.



6. Replenishment of new cells:

When we fast, the body destroys the old damaged immune cells which are not required any more and replenish the body with the new cells.

7. Fights infection:

 Detoxification helps the body in getting rid of the chronic inflammation and improves over all health of the body.

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8. Keeps the heart healthy: 

An improved lifestyle has a positive effect on the heart. Intermittent fasting reduces bad cholesterol and lowers the risk of heart disease.

9. Fasting generates new brain cells: 

Fasting has a positive effect on the brain. It increases the nerve cells in the brain which further induces the brain productivity, boosts mood, increases your focus and sharpens your learning skills.

10. Increases human growth hormones:

Human growth hormones (HGH) is linked to increasing muscle strength, growth and production, improves metabolism. Fasting increases the level of HGH in the body. It stimulates robustness and liveliness.

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