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Fasting is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. Maybe someone could explain what "non-intermittent" fasting would be?

• skinkestek 4y ago
  I'd say the difference is if there is some regularity to it. Intermittent fasting can be fasting Monday to Friday and only eating in the weekends like how I think one HN-er described his 5/2 diet. It can be OMAD (one meal a day) or something else. The main thing is you fast and stop fasting repeatedly. None-intermittent fasting is when you just skip food for a day like I did last week or for a few days like I did as a teenager.
  • broast 4y ago
    An important distinction is while fasting for Ramadan, you can't ingest anything at all, including water. Unlike intermittent fasting where practitioners might still have 0 calorie coffee to stay stimulated, and water to stay hydrated.
    • skinkestek 4y ago
      Agreed. I think it is correct to say that Ramadan fasting is intermittent but intermittent fasting is not Ramadan fasting, except the subset of fasting that is Muslims fasting during Ramadan. I also think some others, among them Christians, fast completely. Personally I am Christian but when I fast, the vast majority of the times it has been because I was bored or needed to focus, and I didn't punish myself by breaking fast once a day but just went without food a day or two or three until I became bored of that too or family demanded I ate.