Fasting means / Fasting doesn't mean

Fasting means
- Fasting is a natural form of human existence.
- Fasting means living off the body's own reserves.
- Fasting means that the organism can live off its own resources through self-control.
- Fasting is the behaviour of independent people with the freedom of choice.
- Fasting deals with the whole person, with each single body cell, one's the soul and the spirit.
- Fasting is the best way to stay or get fit and therefore helps to change certain ways of lifestyle or habits.

Fasting does not mean
- Fasting does not mean starving
- Fasting has nothing to do with deprivation or insufficiency.
- Fasting is not a diet.
- Fasting does not have to be religiously motivated, nor is there anything sectarian about it.