In the news . . .

• The story of Angus Barbieri, who went 382 days without eating -- Diabetes.co.uk (rev. 07 January 2022)
  
  
• Breaking the Ramadan Fast in Quarantine -- The New York Times (12 May 2020)
  
  
• The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting -- Jane E. Brody, The New York Times (17 February 2020)
  [Nicholas Nassm Taleb is also a fan of intermittent fasting.]
  
  
• Gross, Aaron S., Jody Myers, and Jordan D. Rosenblum (Eds.). 2020. Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food. NY: New York University Press.
  
  
• How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later -- The New York Times (07 November 2019)
  
  
• Extreme fasting: how Silicon Valley is rebranding eating disorders -- The Guardian (21 February 2019)
  
  
• India Jains say 'many children have fasted' -- TS Sudhir, BBCNews (14 October 2016)
  
  
• India parents investigated after Jain girl dies from 68-day fast -- TS Sudhir, BBCNews (10 October 2016)
  
  
• Can giving up food make you work better? -- BBCcapital (3 October 2016)
  
  
• What happens to the body when you fast -- BBCfuture (16 August 2016)
  
  
• Fasting in the Summer Heat -- The New York Times (01 July 2016)
  
  
• Eating disorders at Ramadan: One teenager's experience -- BBCNews (13 July 2015)
  
  
• Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does To Your Brain & Why Big Pharma Won’t Study It -- CEcollective-evolution (11 December 2015)
  

In the news . . .

• India Jains say 'many children have fasted' -- TS Sudhir, BBCNews (14 October 2016)
  
  
• India parents investigated after Jain girl dies from 68-day fast
  
  
• Can giving up food make you work better? -- BBCcapital (3 October 2016)
  
  
• Fasting in the Summer Heat -- The New York Times (01 July 2016)
  
  
• Eating disorders at Ramadan: One teenager's experience -- BBCNews (13 July 2015)
  
  
• Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does To Your Brain & Why Big Pharma Won’t Study It -- CEcollective-evolution (11 December 2015)
  

• Anderson, Maureen. Fasting: Releasing the Miraculous Through Fasting & Prayer. Tulsa, OK: Harrison House, 2012.
  
  
• Bahmani, A. "Islamic fasting and its effect on pre-diabetic population." Scientific Journal of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences 18, no. 1 (2013): Pe40-Pe46
  
  
• Bell, Rudolph M. Holy Anorexia. University Of Chicago Press, 1987.
  
  
• Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa. Vintage, 2000.
  
  
• Bynum Walker, Caroline. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, 1988.
  
  
• Christian Fasting: A Theological Approach -- Bible.org
  
  
• Fagan, Brian. Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World. NY: Basic Books, 2006.
  
  
• Federman,Adam Federman. Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2017.
  
  
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. NY: The Free Press, 2002.
  
  
• Gross, Aaron S., Jody Myers, and Jordan D. Rosenblum (Eds.) Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food. NY: New York University Press, 2019.
  
  
• Holy anorexia -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Idleman, Shane. Feasting & Fasting: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. El Paso, TX: El Paso Publications, 2018.
  
  
• Jeûne genevois [Switzerland, public holiday, fasting] -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Jotischky, Andrew. A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food & Fasting in the Middle Ages. Continuum, 2011.
  
  
• Lelwica, Michelle Mary. Starving For Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women. Oxford University Press, 2002.
  
  
• Luard, Elisabeth. Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004 [2001].
  
  
• McCullough, Megan, and Jessica Hardin (Eds.) Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Food, Nutrition, and Culture Series. NY: Berghahn, 2013.
  
  
• Mol, Annemarie. Eating in Theory. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2021.
  
  
• Rubin, Jordan, and Dr. Josh Axe. Essential Fasting: 12 Benefits of Intermittent Fasting and Other Fasting Plans for Accelerating Weight Loss, Crushing Cravings, and Reversing Aging. Shippensburg, PA: 2020.
  
  
• Simoons, Frederick J. Eat not this flesh: food avoidances from prehistory to the present, 2nd Ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
  
  
• Therapeutic Fasting - Worldwide Links
  
  
• World Religions
  
  
  • Buddhist
  • Christianity
    • Catholic
      • Eucharist
      • Proscriptions
        • fasting
      • Black Fast
    • Poustinia
  • Hindu
  • Islam
    • Ramadan
    • Proscriptions
      • halal
      • Haraam
      • Islamic dietary laws
    • Food According to Quran and Sunnah -- Muttaqun OnLine
  • Jain
    • Santhara (voluntary death by fasting)
  • Jewish
    • Seder
    • Proscriptions
    • Break fast
      
      
  • American Indian
    • Vision quest
  • ritual anthropophagy see Anthropophagy