what are you talking about?
Maybe because of their religion?
Fasting can't kill you, you are right. Starvation can though.
Fasting in excess can kill you but fasting for short periods has actully been proven to improve you health by removing toxins and stuff.
It depends on the kind of fasting your doing. Fasting religiously means fasting from dawn to dusk, thats abt 7-10 hours depending on where u are and what the season the fasting month comes in. P.S if ur sick, old or pregnant, u can leave it. Or u think are going to faint or get sick, you can break ur fast. This type isnt done for losing weight,jjust to let people know how poor people live without food.
Religiously fasting hasn't killed anyone.
Firstly fasting can kill you beacuse you deprivng your body of nutriants that you need to keep you running, there are many sider effects that happen from there you begin to get tired very easily, you are not able to carry out things you use to and also, your body will gradually start to decline in health, when you truely run out your body slowl starts to eat its slef in the fact that it eats the muslce from areas of your body like vital organs and then starteating muscle. In the end you, will end up a skelton most possible, in hostipal either with a drip to give you vital nutriants. If it gets to late you will eventually die...
To correct one of the answers on here, anoerxia is when you do in fact starve your self because you have a body view is distorted. making your sick and having binges is a eating disorders called Buleima, which can often lead to anoxeria...
remember the saying a human boday can last
3 seconds with out air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks out food... Fasting is not a good idea cause it can seriously harm your body and later lift potenial as well..
yes some people do fast like religions, like the muslim religion but they only fast during day light hours then eat once the sun has gone...
I would seriously not advide any one to fast it will do more damage than good.