Fasting is the restrain from food for health, ritualistic, religious, or ethical purposes.Fasting provide several health benefits, including weight loss, improved blood sugar control, and decreased inflammation. It also offer protection against certain conditions like cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. Most types of fasting are performed over 24–72 hours. Intermittent fasting, on the other hand, is between periods of eating and fasting, ranging from a few hours to a few days at a time. Fasting has been shown to have many health benefits, from increased weight loss to better brain function its helps with losing weight, it promotes blood sugar control by reducing insulin resistance, it releases inflammation in the body, It enhance heart health by improving blood pressure, triglycerides, and cholesterol levels,it increases growth hormone secretion, which is vital for growth, metabolism, weight loss, and muscle strength, it extends longevity, and it aids in cancer prevention.

Here are the different types of fasts:

- Water fasting: Involves drinking water only for a set amount of time.

-Juice fasting: Is only drinking vegetable or fruit juice for a certain period.

-Intermittent fasting: Intake is partially or completely restricted for a few hours up to a few days at a time and a normal diet is resumed on other days. can be broken down into different ways, such as alternate-day fasting, which involves eating every other day, or time-restricted feeding, which entails limiting intake to just a few hours each day

-Partial fasting: Certain foods or drinks such as process foods, animal products, or caffeine are eliminated from the diet for a set period of time.

-Calorie restriction: Calories are restricted for a few days every week

Each fast is beneficial to having better health, its all about what works for you.