Members are also encouraged to give the money they save by not eating as a fast offering, which will be used by the church to financially assist those in need.
In this meeting, rather than predetermined speakers on particular subjects, the members are given the chance to voluntarily bear extemporaneous testimony to one another of gospel truths.
Fast Day was started by Joseph Smith, as described by Brigham Young: During the 19th century, almost a fifth of converts in the United Kingdom were miners by profession.
[2]The LDS practice of intermittent fasting has been studied in the context of Mormons' lower rate of coronary artery disease and cardiac mortality.
While this phenomenon has been attributed to LDS Church's prohibition on tobacco and alcohol use, fasting practices have also been hypothesized to play a role.