FASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fasting mean? 

• FASTING (noun)
  The noun FASTING has 1 sense:

1. abstaining from food

  Familiarity information: FASTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abstaining from food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fast; fasting

Hypernyms ("fasting" is a kind of...):

abstinence (act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fasting"):

diet; dieting (the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods))

hunger strike (a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest)

Ramadan ((Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan)

Derivation:

fast (abstain from eating)

fast (abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons)

 Context examples 

Perhaps this extended daily fasting period enables repair and maintenance mechanisms that would be absent in a continuous exposure to food.

(Longer daily fasting times improve health and longevity, National Institutes of Health)

However, the colchicine group showed improvement on the Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance test, which also estimates how much insulin is needed to keep blood sugar at a normal level while fasting.

(Gout treatment may help prevent obesity-related type 2 diabetes, National Institutes of Health)

Fasting, in which food isn’t consumed (but water is), represents the extreme form of restriction.

(Health Effects of a Diet that Mimics Fasting, NIH)

After fasting, the patient receives an injection of insulin and the level of C-peptide (a substance released with insulin by the pancreas) in the blood is measured.

(C-peptide Measurement, NCI Dictionary)

Diagnosis from abnormal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) but normal glucose levels when fasting and two hours post-prandial.

(Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, A1, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition referring to fasting plasma glucose levels being less than 140 mg per deciliter while the plasma glucose levels after a glucose tolerance test being more than 200 mg per deciliter at 30, 60, or 90 minutes.

(Glucose Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms appear in infancy or childhood and may be triggered during fasting or illness.

(Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase, Medium-Chain Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms appear in infancy or childhood and may be triggered during fasting, illness or exercise.

(Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase, Long-Chain Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Diagnosis from abnormal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and abnormal fasting or post-prandial glucose levels.

(Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, A2, NCI Thesaurus)

After accounting for age, sex, race and baseline weight, the researchers found that the people who lost the least weight during the calorie-reduced period were those whose metabolism decreased the most during fasting.

(Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology, NIH)