{"id":855,"date":"2009-06-19T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=855"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:18","slug":"is-it-safe-to-fast-in-my-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/855","title":{"rendered":"Is it safe to fast in my situation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your results are all right and as long as the fast is not the long one that nears starvation, then everything should be all right and you could do it.<\/p>\n<p>It is more problematic for people with very advanced AIDS (CD4 count below 200), where hunger and starvation may further reduce the ability of the immune system to fight off intruders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am a christian who is HIV positive and not on treatment yet, with a CD4 count of above 1000.<\/p>\n<p>Is it advisable to fast for 7 days? This is a fast where you drink a lot of water, juice and in some cases eat fruit. And then break off at 18:00 in the evening. You eat a meal in the evening. Is there any medical effect on my health as of my status? I don&#8217;t fast for more than 7 days.<\/p>\n<p>The fasting is for spiritual benefit. Is it safe to fast for HIV positive people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}