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Background: Fasting, or the voluntary restriction of solid food consumption, has been practiced widely by different cultures and religions and used in clinical treatments for a variety of reasons.This study aims at assessing the effect of fasting on stress, quality of life & sleep pattern among healthy college students. Materials & methods: 30 healthy individuals were randomly selected. Fasting was given as intervention for 8 days with 2 days (1st and 8th day) of boiled diet to assess the sleep pattern, level of stress and quality of life using PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index), PSQ (Perceived Stress Questionnaire) and SF-36 (Short Form Survey) respectively. Statistical analysis was performed by paired t-test using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version-26. Results: Based on statistical analysis, p value of sleep variable is 0.001, p value of pain is 0.01, p value of general health variable is 0.054, p value of emotional wellbeing variable is 0.003 and p value of energy variable is 0.001 which indicates that there is significant improvement in quality of sleep, pain levels, general health and emotional wellbeing of the subjects. Conclusion: It was observed that there was improvement in the quality of sleep and general health and reduction in pain and fatigue.