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<li>Fasting is helpful in reducing the symptoms in some psychological disorders like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia etc.</li>
<li>Fasting is helpful in reducing the symptoms in some psychological disorders like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia etc.</li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Upavasa(fasting) during pandemic: <span style="font-weight:normal">The importance of fasting is described in janapadoddhvamsaneeya vimana adhyaya. Regular practice of fasting was very helpful for COVID-19 patients.Fasting has an added effect to vaccination which strengthen our immune system during the pandemic and after the pandemic also.<ref>Horne BD, May HT, Muhlestein JB, et al;Association of periodic fasting with lower severity of COVID-19 outcomes in the SARS-CoV-2 prevaccine era: an observational cohort from the INSPIRE registryBMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;e000462. doi: 10.1136/bmjnph-2022-000462</ref></span></li></ol>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Upavasa(fasting) during pandemic: <span style="font-weight:normal">The importance of fasting is described in janapadoddhvamsaneeya vimana adhyaya. Regular practice of fasting was very helpful for COVID-19 patients.Fasting has an added effect to vaccination which strengthen our immune system during the pandemic and after the pandemic also.<ref>Horne BD, May HT, Muhlestein JB, et al;Association of periodic fasting with lower severity of COVID-19 outcomes in the SARS-CoV-2 prevaccine era: an observational cohort from the INSPIRE registryBMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;e000462. doi: 10.1136/bmjnph-2022-000462</ref></span></li></ol>
== Myths and misconceptions related to fasting ==
<ul style="text-align:justify;"><li style="font-weight:bold">Fasting vis-a-vis starvation<ref>Moacir Couto de Andrade Júnior (2017) Metabolism during Fasting and Starvation: Understanding the Basics to Glimpse New Boundaries. J Nutr Diet 1:e102.</ref>: <span style="font-weight:normal">People think food is the only energy source for our body. If they fast, they will starve their body, but fasting and starvation are different.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Fasting can be used for underweight people: <span style="font-weight:normal">Fasting can be judiciously used in the person who cannot gain weight. As metabolism is improved through fasting,the body regains the capability to assimilate proteins, fats, carbohydrates, starches, sugars, minerals, vitamins, and all other essential nutrients necessary because all organs work appropriately after fasting.<ref>Mansell, P I, and I A Macdonald. “The effect of starvation on insulin-induced glucose disposal and thermogenesis in humans.” Metabolism: clinical and experimental vol. 39,5 (1990): 502-10. doi:10.1016/0026-0495(90)90009-2</ref></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:bold">Weakness: <span style="font-weight:normal">In the clinical features of appropriate langhana therapy, lightness of the body, lack of drowsiness, exertion or fatigue, and many other symptoms are mentioned.These indicate positive physiology. Thus, weakness is not the outcome mentioned for langhananeither it is expected. Only after the Shodhana kind of Langhana this maybe found.</span></li></ul>
== References ==
== References ==