**If I don't eat, I'll be hungry!**

What we call "hunger" is really just a symptom of our addiction to food. Just as a drug addict needs a regular dose, we are just as dependent on our daily food doses. It's not hunger that gets to us - how can we dare to claim that we are "hungry" when we know the current situation of hunger in the world? -It is simply the desire to eat. It is our subconscious program, our inner hard disk that opens the same file at the same file at fixed times: "Attention, it is time to take something... to take something..."

But it is easy to deprogram oneself, if one does not respond to the message that enjoins one to eat, after two or three days of fasting, the feeling of hunger disappears. All fasters are familiar with this experience. know this experience well. Shelton called this "hunger felt at the beginning of the fast as "gastric irritation". The hunger does not appear until much later, rarely before six or before six or seven weeks of fasting, and often much later, depending later, depending on the subject. This natural return of hunger is the signal that the body gives us to warn us that it has burned all its resources resources, and that it is time to refuel to avoid irreversible and permanent irreversible and permanent damage to the body.

Since ancient times, food deprivation has been used for a variety of reasons, most often spiritual, medical, and more recently, vindictive, without death occurring for many weeks.

All species, even those that fast on a scheduled and regular basis, such as bears, are often forced to go without food when hunting is poor or adverse external conditions make food scarce. These animals do not suffer because of this. They continue to lead normal lives while waiting for the next opportunity to eat. It is clear that most animals have the ability to go for long periods without feeding. This, in itself, does not prove that fasting is either necessary or beneficial to the human species, but we can consider this first observation as worthy of interest.

What about the human species? Can we live without eating? In the Bible, fasting is mentioned about thirty times. It is said that Moses, David, Jesus and Elijah fasted for up to forty days. Prince Siddhartha Gautama is said to have fasted for forty-nine days under the famous sacred fig tree in Bodhgaya, India, before finding enlightenment and becoming the Buddha.

As for the "political" fasters, who are rather called hunger strikers, they are legion and their experience is interesting. The most famous of them, Gandhi, fasted seventeen times, several times, several times for twenty-one days, to free his people from British from British colonial occupation and to promote the unity of all the of all the peoples of India and all its religions. Gandhi said fasting is the greatest gift that God has given me. 

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