So now there are the Gandhian fasts, the labor strife, the laments from industrialists.

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Jobs began with two-day fruit fasts, eventually going for a week or more.

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Some people should generally not undertake fasts for health reasons, including pregnant or breastfeeding women and small children, Gans said.

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Afterwards, when the crowds had dispersed, I met up with Anna Maria Arabia, who heads up the nation's peak scientific body FASTS (the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies).

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