OK It's a Muslim tradition. You don't eat nor drink ANYTHING until sunset. You can eat between Sunset and Sunrise. Why we do it is because the people that have nothing to eat, we must feel like them. I did. I'd probably lost weight. I'll go check if I did.

Edit: I lost 2 kilos.

It's quite a nice tradition but I got my own thing to lose weight and it's not bound to any religion. I just skip lunch and sometimes breakfast and only eat dinner.
This vacation during like 6 weeks I haven't had Breakfast but sometimes lunch and guess what? I lost quite some weight.

I only got so far because my mom and dad started nagging. I wanted to go further because a human can at least survive 7 days without eating. Can't say it's healthy but it was an experience I wanted to have once. I must say that I can't say that it's something that can't be done.

Ramadan is something that... well... is perhaps usefull but I rather do not bind myself to a religion. I rather keep neutral at that point but I do respect people's religions and don't want to offend them.

Tis nice, but I'm still going to eat. :3