Ramadan Fasting during the month of Ramadan is a religious obligation, practiced by millions of people around the world. Ramadan fasting is essentially a fundamental change in lifestyle for one lunar month. This type of fasting may have significant effects on lipid profile. Although there is no scientific consensus about the effects of fasting on cardiovascular risks such as changes in lipid pr...

Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the beliefs, experience and diabetes management strategies of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) Muslim patients that chose to fast during Ramadan. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A semistructured focus group interview was conducted with 53 participants with T2DM. Participants were purposefully sampled and asked to share their perspective on Ramadan fasting. All interviews wer...

Religion seeks its expression in diet, and for many individuals dietary practices reflect religious persuasion. Most religions have dietary norms or instructions. For some religions these precepts are very specific about what, how and when to eat or avoidance of certain foods. In his essay ‘Religion, spirituality and a vegetarian dietary’, Blix (2001) noted: ‘Since the dawn of civilization, the...

Religion seeks its expression in diet, and for many individuals dietary practices reflect religious persuasion. Most religions have dietary norms or instructions. For some religions these precepts are very specific about what, how and when to eat or avoidance of certain foods. In his essay ‘Religion, spirituality and a vegetarian dietary’, Blix (2001) noted: ‘Since the dawn of civilization, the...

The past two decades have seen a rise in the number of investigations examining the health-related effects of religiously motivated fasts. Islamic Ramadan is a 28 - 30 day fast in which food and drink are prohibited during the daylight hours. The majority of health-specific findings related to Ramadan fasting are mixed. The likely causes for these heterogeneous findings are the differences betw...

Approximately 50 million Muslim adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) go without food or drink from sunrise to sunset during the month of Ramadan, despite having a religious exemption.1 For many Muslim people with diabetes, Ramadan is a religious conviction and the intermittent fasting is a key component of its observance. The EPIDIAR (Epidemiology of Diabetes and Ramadan)...