Understand Fasting-Fasting Defined

Fasting Defined:

Understand Fasting-Fasting Defined: Fasting is defined as the avoidance of consuming food, fluids or both for some time.

Some reasons for fasting:

• Religious or Spiritual:    Many religions practice fasting as part of their worship.
• Diet: Some diets have an element of fasting
• Intermittent fasting:  Intermittent fasting is a popular adjunct to the Keto diet where you fast for a set time daily.
• Pre Operative: when going for a surgical procedure that requires anesthesia you will be asked to fast from the night before (not to drink or eat the night before surgery)  so to avoid a severe complication called aspiration.

• Blood Test:  Many blood tests require a period of fasting for accurate results
  • Blood glucose test
  • Cholesterol test
  • Triglyceride level test
  • High-density lipoprotein (HDL) level test
  • Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) level test
  • Basic metabolic panel
  • Comprehensive Metabolic panel
  • Kidney function panel
  • Liver function test
    
    

• Colonoscopy:  You can not eat for some time before a colonoscopy to ensure the bowl is free of stool.