discipline

anyway, the fasting being done during ramadan is like reversing the body clock when it comes to the meals... no food from dawn to dusk, but they can eat from early evening to early morning... the fast is during the day... so, if you sleep the night and don't bother to wake up and eat... that through and through fasting... i am not also a muslim... but i have lots of muslim friends...

in a Catholic's point of view, fasting may not only come in the form of food. To us, it means denying the things that we are comfortable with. Like for example, instead of riding a public transportation, you walk your way home and offer it to God as a small mortification for the sins you have committed. When in office, i dont eat as much as i could because i am on a diet and i dont know if this could be considered as fasting as well because it favors my goal to have healtheir physique. One way to fast is that you eat a portion of your food and save a major portion for the hungry people in the streets. And since, you can handle a little morsel, i dont see any reason why i should caution you if you think you can manage.

hi kumar Although we do not practice Ramadan here in my US except for the American muslims who of course practice Ramadan. A lotof us overweight American could benefit for one month of not eating much thats for sure.I realize that itdoes b ring you really much closer To God.Some of us Americans do fast for lent but thats another story.

fasting is one way indeed to open up ourselves for God's presence. It said during a sermon of one of our pastor - fasting opens up ourselves for the holy spirit to come into us, so we can grasp clearly God's wisdom. I wanted to participate doing such at least once a month, but I can't right now because I am pregnant.