The
present study was undertaken to identify the effect of religious fasting on
health of women in urban and rural society. Fasting means absolute abstention
from taking any kind of food for a definite period with a view to give rest to
the different organs of the body and their processes, thereby helping them to
get cleaned. Waste products and impurities which can show seeds of disease in
the human body can be removed in simplest, easiest and most natural way through
means of fasting. In other words fasting have several health benefits including
increasing insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity and
increase in life span. The present study was conducted on hundred respondents
of Sonbhadra district of which fifty respondents were from rural population and
fifty were from urban population The data was collected by a pretested and
predesigned questionnaire-cum interview schedule method .The study revealed
that the rural population follow more rigid fasting pattern than urban
population without taking any food sometimes even water which is not true for
health. Restricted food and meals during twenty four and twelve hour fasting
cause weakness, headache, flatulence, acidity and constipation more in rural
women than urban women. The study shows that although rural women fast strictly
on the fasting day but on the day next to fasting they take extra or
compensatory diet to overcome the weakness whereas in urban population a less
per cent (fourteen) does the same, because they were liberal in food intake
during fasting.
Key words- fasting, health benefits, complications, flatulence.
By Richa Singh and Sunita Singh
(Full
article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)
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