Why Fast?
- Christine Baumgarthuber
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Why Fast? is written by Christine Baumgarthuber and published by Reaktion Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 178914826X (ISBN 10) and 9781789148268 (ISBN 13).
A sober engagement with the diverse meanings of intermittent fasting in human culture. Fasting from food is a controversial, dangerous, and yet utterly normal human practice. In Why Fast?, Christine Baumgarthuber engages our fascination with restrictive eating in cultural history. If fasting offers few health benefits, why do people fast? Why have we always fasted? Does fasting speak to something deep and immutable within us? Why are our bodies so well adapted to intermittent fasting? And, what might this ancient, ascetic ritual offer us today? Thoughtful and considered, Why Fast? is a sober reconsideration of a contentious practice.
