Fasting has been healing mankind [since] Adam and Eve..
True. For most our existence, fasting has been as common as sleeping.
A constant ready supply of food, where that exists, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Primitive humans had to go many hours between meals out of necessity and still do in many cultures today. Success in hunting and gathering is far from a given.
Nowadays, it takes a towering, heaving effort of the will for the typical person in an industrial nation to fast, because food is always available.
True. For most our existence, fasting has been as common as sleeping.
A constant ready supply of food, where that exists, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Primitive humans had to go many hours between meals out of necessity and still do in many cultures today. Success in hunting and gathering is far from a given.
Nowadays, it takes a towering, heaving effort of the will for the typical person in an industrial nation to fast, because food is always available.