27th
Why I Love Fasting
So, I’m fasting tonight and tomorrow, ostensibly due to the holiday, though I’m not that observant and my pre-fast meal was decidedly non-kosher.
But I really like to fast, and this is a good excuse to do it. If nothing else, others are doing it as well, so that’s cool.
The reason I like to fast, though, is that I think it’s healty. Not because it’s “cleansing,” which is what the hippies think, but because fasting is a good way of replicating pre-modern eating patterns.
Prior to the invention of agriculture, we’d have had a lot more variety in eating intervals. It’s a joke to think that cavemen ate 3-squares, so to speak. Sometimes they’d have a huge feast (after a kill) and then other times they’d totally go for a long time without eating.
The key is that there’d be no consistent rhythm — an idea which is anathema to our highly scheduled lives of regular eating intervals, defined work times, and other rituals (like going to the gym MWF).
Randomness is the only real rhythm of life. Even a healthy heartbeat is more like a jazz drummer than a metronome. Get cool to it.
