The popularity of dangerous stunts and “fail” videos show that we are drawn to danger, even if we tell ourselves we disapprove. In the later part of the 19th century, there were people who starved themselves...

(Photo of the Midnight Sun Mosque in Inuvik by the...  ...ts.Other Muslims in the Canadian Arctic set their fasting timetable by more southerly cities:Most in Iqalui...

Dr. Linda Hazzard ran the Institute of Natural The...  ...ternative medical care, which mainly consisted of fasting as a cure-all.Despite little formal training and...  ...s licensed by the state of Washington as a “ fasting specialist.” Her methods, while not entirel...  ...” she wrote in her...

J. Wilson is a beer blogger who is observing Lent the old-fashioned way -on beer. Wilson read about German monks who fasted and sustained themselves with "liquid bread," or the beer they brewed themselves in the 1600s....

I've sat on this story for a week because it seemed like an obvious hoax. But Prahlad Jani, who claims to have consumed no food or drink for seventy years, has spent six days in a hospital in India under strict observat...