On Fasting and the Law

This works both ways - arrested for EATING when you're supposed to be fasting...
or the opposite....

Arresting People for Eating in Their Cars During the Ramadan Fasting Month in Iran is Illegal

 https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2017/06/arresting-people-for-eating-in-their-cars-during-the-ramadan-fasting-month-in-iran-is-illegal/

So it's not supposed to happen but it does apparently.

 Her father, who owns a jewelry store, has said that he and his wife had tried to persuade the eighth grader to break her fast earlier, but that she had insisted on continuing for 68 days, to match the number of letters in a Jain mantra.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/world/asia/india-jain-fasting-death.html

So...

“These are our religious rights as per the Constitution, and no one can stop us,” Mr. Gandhi said in an interview.

He added that many observant Jains had undertaken fasts more extreme than Aradhan’s; he said he knew of 13 people who had fasted for 180 days.

Last year, a challenge to Jainism’s most extreme form of fasting — santhara, or a fast unto death — reached India’s Supreme Court, generating debate over when the state should be compelled to interfere in individual religious practice.

 This is actually an official tradition of Jainism - you're considered a saint if you die from fasting....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/world/europe/denmark-muslims-ramadan.html

Meanwhile... Christian or Nonmuslim Europeans freak out from Muslims just eating in the early morning and late evenings!!  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44209471

 id fasting throughout the working day raised challenges for modern society.
She cited potential risks for bus drivers and in hospitals.
Bus companies were among the first to say they had no problem with Ramadan.
Arriva, which runs a number of bus routes in Denmark, said it had never had any accidents involving drivers who were fasting. "So de facto it's not a problem for us," spokeswoman Pia Hammershoy Splittorff told Berlingske Tidende (BT) newspaper.

 Meanwhile "intermittent" fasting including a 16 hour fast a day - is now gaining popularity - or an 8 hour fast a day..... as considered very healthy.

Turns out there are 25 holidays and events throughout the year associated with a tradition of fasting (with Yom Kippur being the only holiday that is commanded of us). Twenty-five!

hmmm....

So I guess fasting does "activate" the law.  https://www.asiaone.com/health/starving-live-fast-dieting-craze-feast-or-farce

In June, in a story headed "Five day 'fasting' diet slows down ageing and may add years to life", the Daily Telegraph in London reported that researchers at the University of Southern California had developed a nutritional regime that calls on followers to eat 34 to 54 per cent of their normal calorie intake on five days at least four times a year, with a specific composition of nutrients.
A trial of 19 humans placed on the so-called fasting mimicking diet once a month for five days had shown decreased risk factors and biomarkers for aging, diabetes, cancer and heart disease, and no major adverse side effects, the Telegraph quoted the researchers as saying.

 So someone says they lose about 12 pounds during Ramadan - over a month. I will lose that much in 3 days sometimes - while working in the forest and fasting!!

So I don't do normal fasting - I do "energy feasting" - which combines meditation with fasting.

But modern "classical" physics is not going to understand this.

Unlike modern Western cleansing methods, bigu has a strong religious influence. It was initially perpetuated by Taoists as the first step towards immortality: abandon food, which the body converts into waste, and instead absorb qi, a type of spiritual energy. In doing so a person feeds their soul, leading to spiritual immortality.