'Sugar cannot be easily absorbed by the body'

Fasting once a year, for three days, especially without water, can be good for you. When we fast, our body is deprived of external energy sources, it begins to consume its own dead and toxic cells, effectively detoxifying itself.

- PURBASHA KARMAKAR

Fasting once a year, for three days, especially without water, can be good for you. When we fast, our body is deprived of external energy sources, it begins to consume its own dead and toxic cells, effectively detoxifying itself. It's important to remember that fasting's primary goal is detoxification, not weight loss, answered Ritesh Bawri, a businessman-turned-fitness enthusiast and the founder of Breathe Again, to an audience in a recent conference held at the Bharat Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata, on 10 November.

The topic was on 'Reverse Lifestyle Diseases and Enhance Life', where he talked about various solutions describing the science behind it to cure NCDs. He further added, "Meditation is the only time I am allowing my body to shut all the senses while being awake. We are all living hyper-stimulated throughout the day, through our phones and work. Meditation effectively creates 'micro-trauma', which is responsible for shifting our brains from rational to emotional; hence, we build resilience and capacity."

To add, in 2016, WHO reported that 40.5 million people across the globe died from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) or lifestyle diseases. As reported by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) of India, the percentage of mortality increased from 37 percent in 1990 to 62 percent in 2016, and the burden of NCDs increased from 30 percent to 55 percent from 1990 to 2016.