ost healthy adults in Muslim communities practice fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. This kind of fasting involves daily abstinence from food and water, from sunrise to sunset, a period that lasts approximately 12 to 17 hours, depending on the season and geographical latitude. Ramadan is a lunar month, which lasts 28 to 30 days and its length changes along the solar year. Ramadan fasting...

essential is to have the patient under observation for two or three days, during which he lives his ordinary life, and partakes of his ordinary food. In this period the twenty-four hours urine is measured, the total sugar estimated, and, if possible, the blood sugar calculated. Should the case be a severe one, the patient elderly or debilitated, and any considerable quantity of diacetic acid pr...

an experiment was carried out to estimate growth parameters of broiler chickens received artichoke extract in their drinking water using gompertz non-linear model and to compare gompertz non-linear regression equation and artificial neural network modeling in terms of their ability to predict body weight of broiler chicks at day 42 of age. a total number of 250 one- day- old ross 308 broiler ch...

This study was designed to investigate the possible beneficial effects of consuming a sodium-rich carbonated mineral water on lipoprotein metabolism and to determine whether consumption of this water influences endothelial dysfunction (ED) in postmenopausal women. Women included in the study were amenorrheic ( 1 y), healthy, and not obese (BMI 30 kg/m). The subjects did not take estrogen replac...