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In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a 31-year-old-woman on a low dose of Ozempic had fasted for 10 hours before a routine endoscopy prior to bariatric surgery last fall.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Cardiff Crown Court heard that she was a devout Pentecostal Christian who had fasted for many years.

From BBC • May 2, 2023

I had fasted all day and was tired and depressed.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2018

These genes were much more active when the men had fasted before exercise than when they had breakfasted.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017

When he had fasted so long he manifested the great power of his godhead, by which he might, in all this present life, without earthly food, have lived, if he had been willing.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham