Target blood sugar levels in diabetes are achieved through manipulation of diet, exercise and medication. A change in any one of these three things can skew blood sugar levels and create complications associated with hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia. Fasting during the month of Ramadan is a religious activity that devout Muslims practice whether they are diabetic or not. Since such fasting involve...

background: in 2-4% of couples in fertile ages, recurrent pregnancy loss (rpl) occurs which consisted one out of 300 pregnancies. the aim of this study was to comparison insulin resistance (ir) in patients with rpl to normal individuals. materials and methods: in a case-controlled, prospective study, 49 non-pregnant, non-diabetic women with early rpl as the case group and 49 non-pregnant, non-d...

Background: Religiously motivated Bahá'í fasting (BF) is a form of intermittent dry celebrated by abstaining from food and drinks during daylight hours every year in March for 19 consecutive days. Aim: To test the safety effects BF on hydration, metabolism, circadian clock. Methods: Thirty-four healthy volunteers (15 women) participated this prospective, exploratory cohort study. Laboratory exa...

The susceptibility of mice to intravenous injection of coagulase-positive hemolytic staphylococci was estimated by (a) observing the extent and time of mortality of infected animals; (b) determining the number of colonies of cocci that could be recovered from the liver and spleen at various intervals of time after infection. Complete deprival of food for 36 to 48 hours immediately before infect...

A 34-year-old obese male (96.8 kg; BMI, 30.2 kg m(-1)) volitionally undertook a 50-day fast with the stated goal of losing body mass. During this time, only tea, coffee, water, and a daily multivitamin were consumed. Severe and linear loss of body mass is recorded during these 50 days (final 75.4 kg; BMI, 23.5 kg m(-1)). A surprising resilience to effects of fasting on activity levels and physi...

BACKGROUND We examined independent influences of contextual variables on cardiovascular risk factors in Shilin county, Yunnan province, South-west China. METHODS Three villages were selected from each of the ten townships based on probability proportional to size. In each selected village, 200 individuals aged > or = 45 years were chosen based on simple random sampling method. From 6006 indiv...

Introduction A common clinical feature of inherited defects in the mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation (FAO) pathway is the presentation of cardiac abnormalities. Chronic energy shortage and accumulation of -possibly toxiclipid metabolites may be key contributors to the pathogenesis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in FAO disorders. Previous studies have shown that increased myocardial lipid con...

background: cries of the newborn could be due to pain, thirst, hungry and fear from new environment. in our study we evaluated the effect of the sucrose drops on pacifying the children prior to a painful intervention or procedure with regards to the fasting condition of the children. methods: this triple blind clinical trial was conducted on 60 otherwise healthy children aged less than 1 year w...