Kwaresma or Lent season allows us to have a long holiday. Lent is a season where Christians observe fasting, abstinence, praying, and other acts of penance. Some take advantage of the long holiday to go on travel for a vacation away from home. 

How about you, how did you spend or observe the lent? Did you go on a vacation or practice fasting, which is observed during Ash Wednesday and Good Friday of the Holy Week? Fasting is actually not done only in observance of Holy Week, some do this before going for a medical check-up like a blood glucose test, others do fasting for health reasons, while following a specific diet or special products to cleanse and get rid of body toxins.

Cleansing our body in a way of fasting or detoxification is beneficial. It promotes weight loss due to the decrease in food intake, gives our digestive system time to rest, and helps to dispose of toxins in our body. Although this act is beneficial for our health, doing this is not for everyone, especially those with health complications such as cancer, severe diabetes, and people in senior years. If you are planning to do body cleansing, you must have the willpower, must be physically active, and healthy, and find a partner like food supplements that will give your body complete vitamins and nutrients in place of the reduction of food intake. Continue reading →