The custom of fasting during Lent started at a very early date, but the length of the fast varied, eight days being customary at first, but the time was extended to forty days, after the analogy of the period included in the Lord's temptation, Matt. 4:2.
Your waist shape is also determined by the integrity and position abdominal wall muscles and your abdominal skin. Liposuction isn't great at managing either one of those and procedures like tummy tucks can help there. The compression garment helps with skin retraction and minimizes swelling.
Compression stockings can help with syncope by optimizing the blood flow in the legs and thereby improving the blood circulation overall. Unfortunately there are many possible causes of syncope and to discuss them in depth here would go far beyond the intended scope of this article.