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I don't think we need a citation for this. The requirements of human food for energy and brain activity are well documented and accepted. If anything, a citation should be provided showing someone operating in average strains of daily activity on nothing but water for a while to see how it goes. Can we please remove this? Tyciol 05:22, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Aren't the dangers of water fasting more specific than those of non-compliance with the documented requirements of human food for energy and brain activity? For example, mental confusion resulting from electrolyte disturbance (particularly in the case of distilled water fasting)?
I'm not a medical professional nor a dietician, but I have experienced this personally and had to counter the highly unpleasant effects by drinking commercially available sporting drinks known to address electrolyte disturbances. (please see the wikipedia entries on mental confusion and electrolyte disturbance). I think a citation or at least more detail on the matter would be useful, especially considering the type of medical emergencies that could result from ignorant attempts at distilled water fasting.
I don't think the little blurb at the end is called for. It doesn't deal specifically with water fasting, and Judaism's use of fasting in general is detailed much more comprehensively in the article on fasting. Well-intentioned, perhaps, but this information is being presented neither encyclopedically, nor in the appropriate location, nor, I'm afraid the reader might feel, substantially impartially. Thrashbarg 04:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
"I don't think we need a citation for this. The requirements of human food for energy and brain activity are well documented and accepted. If anything, a citation should be provided showing someone operating in average strains of daily activity on nothing but water for a while to see how it goes. Can we please remove this?"
Why would you want to deprive the public of information? We are talking about censorship from what appears to be a biased opinion. Have you read any publications on fasting? Joel Fuhrman in his books has over 2,000 references to various medical publications to support his research. And btw, I have operated in average strains in daily activity on nothing but water. Further more, you have to remeber that humans have not always had food in such bountiful amounts. We are made to survive periods without food. Evolution and all.
As an FYI, after 54 hours for women, and 72 hours from men, the body switches fuel. The brain which primarily operates on glucose switches to ketones which is stored in the fat, and the body switches to burn mostly fast as opposed to an undesired amount of musicle. Human brain activity survives this just fine. Please reference your sources that are well documented and accepted to the contrary. Eydaimon (talk • contribs) 03:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Water fasting is often used in political protest. I am suprised that there is no section (or comment) mentioning this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.62.160.172 (talk) 17:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I've added citation needed tags to the lead because, well, because it needs citations! Also, while including the citations please remove the word "supposedly", which is a weasle word and underhandedly detracts from the credibility of the ensuing statement. Either it does have health effects (according to studies) or it doesn't (according to studies) or some specific group of proponents claim it does (according to published sources)...etc etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.246.77.14 (talk) 05:29, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
Indeed, part of the trouble is that "water fasting" isn't really much of a topic in RS, since most "fasting" permits water (since without water, you're gonna die pretty quick). I suspect it might be better to merge this into the main fasting article where a brief mention of fasting with and without liquids might be placed? Alexbrn (talk) 12:10, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
I would like to disagree with the following quotation from the article: "While there is no scientific evidence that any detoxification occurs because of water fasting" Here's a study published in the National Health Institute website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748731/ Pay attention to the following from the "Discussion" section: "Fasting for a certain period of time can eliminate body waste, diminish gastrointestinal irritation, and refresh digestive and respiratory organs. In particular, inhibition of gastrointestinal irritation helps repair the mucous membrane and blocks any supply of unwholesome food, which can be allergens, for a certain period of time [11]."
I think this should be corrected.Svetoslav80 (talk) 17:33, 20 July 2017 (UTC)