The body needs food to survive. Survival instincts therefore push the body to seek food when it is hungry. However it is not always true that the body gets food when it needs it. A person may decide not to eat for a period because of a specific reason. That is called, fasting.
There is another form called Starvation which means people are willing to eat but they starve to get food due to their low economic condition. A person who is hungry but cannot eat not because he doesn’t want to is starving. Starvation is mainly due to their poverty.
While fasting is chosen by the individual to fulfill their personal needs, Starving occurs naturally due to their poverty. Starving occurs as a result of lack of food but fasting can be done in the midst of plenty of food. People who fast are not affected health wise while the people who starve may even die due to starvation.
The difference between starving and fasting is that a person who starves lacks food and a person who fast does not. However fasting and starvation has a thin relationship between them. During fasting, the person feels the pains a starving person goes through, and it has the potential to change people’s attitude to the less privileged in the world.Therefore a starving person lacks food while a person who is fasting may not be in lack of food.
Scientifically speaking, fasting is a great tool to improve the body chemistry and improve the body’s metabolic rate. It helps to check one’s weight. However starvation shuts down most of the body’s processes. It is a mechanism the body uses to preserve energy reserve when the body is not being replenished with new nutrients. When the body’s nutrients are not replenished earlier enough, the body will eventually shutdown and death may eventually occur. Starving to death is a slow but painful death.
Starving and fasting has only a small line of difference between them. Both starving and fasting people go through the pain while the person who is privileged can change their fasting habits if they wish but a person who starves cannot due to their economic status.
Though it is conscious, a person who is fasting cannot deny that it is a painful experience that requires discipline and determination to complete it. This gives the person a feel of what it is like to live on a hungry stomach. As a result, it can potentially increase their sympathy towards the hungry in society.
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