Sentences with phrase «days of abstinence»

If you ever played the children's game, Chutes and Ladders, you already have the concept: when you achieve a higher number (or more days of abstinence / capacity), you go up the ladder (more parenting time); when you land on a problem, you go down a chute (less parenting time).

Tired of insignificant one - night stands with nobodies, Mya (Meagan Good) challenges herself to withstand ninety days of abstinence, which Harvey has modeled after the Ford Motor Company's 90 - day probation period preceding employee benefits.

If I understand you correctly, you shed 9 kg of scale weight with 15 days of abstinence over a 21 day period?

The percentage of normal sperm also peaked at one to two days of abstinence for low - count men.

«After only two days of abstinence, sperm from patients with male factor infertility initiate a process of quality degradation,» Dr. Eliahu Levitas of Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, and colleagues report in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

But the abstinence data we have indicates that while those effects are detectable, they seem to go away after more than three days of abstinence.»

THC accumulates in the tissues of the body and then slowly releases over time, meaning that chronic users can test positive for cannabis even after 30 days of abstinence.

When my husband and I got married we decided that we were fed up with fasting on days of abstinence but not really feasting on feast days.

Not exact matches

Some days you can find a burger or lasagna oozing with cheese in the Cantina — we haven't taken an abstinence - only approach to nutrition management — but on an average day, more than half of our employees eat a salad, even when presented with yummier choices.

It is a considerable test of endurance since the ninth Moslem month lasts a full thirty days and demands abstinence from food, drink and sexual relations from dawn to dusk.

For example, a reduction in the number of binges, hospitalizations, days lost from work, arrests for drunkenness per year represent significant improvement, even though the ideal goal of permanent abstinence is not achieved.

For Christians, the wild celebrations of Mardi Gras come before the solemnity of Lent, a last chance to celebrate before the abstinence marking the 40 days to Good Friday and Easter.

The fasts consisted of complete abstinence from food for 25 to 30 days.

Attention to Scott's work comes as the World Health Organization observes World No Tobacco Day on May 31 to encourage a global 24 - hour abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption.

However, a single self - administered infusion of cocaine at the end of abstinence, even after 60 days, fully reinstated tolerance to cocaine's effects in the animals that had binged.

The primary measured outcome was carbon monoxide - confirmed self - reported 7 - day point - prevalence abstinence (the proportion of the study population abstinent at a specific point in time) at 26 weeks.

Differences in regional blood volume during a 28 - day period of abstinence in chronic cannabis smokers

It's a bit like an alcoholic trying to drink just one glass a day — extremely tough (which is why abstinence is the recommended approach for overcoming this kind of tendency).

Your cheat day could start off what the researchers at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center of the University of Washington call «the abstinence - violation effect.»

Short - term abstinence from ejaculation for 3 weeks can actually increase testosterone slightly (17), with a significant spike of 145 % in T at the 7th day (18).

I'm on day 6 of a 30 day abstinence.

Extreme periods of food abstinence (such as fasting one day and eating ad libitum the next day) may actually have the inverse effects.

Fasting can also be defined as an extreme form of dietary restriction, which entails the abstinence from all food, but not water, in a chronic manner as intermittent fasting or periodically as cycles of prolonged fasting lasting two or more days.

Eid ul fitri is a Muslim holiday; a day of celebration after a month of fasting and abstinence in Ramadan.

Standard stuff that, somewhat refreshingly, mostly rises above knee - jerk claims of sexism, except for the factually incorrect assertion that, «Every day, actresses such as Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson and Eliza Dushku seem to be swearing off nudity like teenagers joining abstinence clubs.»

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Last week, Mumbai woke up to some startling news: the sale of meat would be banned for four days in the city out of respect for Paryushan Parva, a Jain festival marked by fasting and abstinence.

Participants in the MDFT condition reported fewer days of substance use as well as a tendency to report increased abstinence from drugs and alcohol.

Yesterday I decided to up the ante in the abstinence stakes and give the last few days of Dry July a whirl.