Haven't almost 1Bn people intermittently fasted during Ramadan for centuries?
Shouldn't there be enough evidence to get an idea if there's possibly a correlation?
Shouldn't there be enough evidence to get an idea if there's possibly a correlation?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377932/ > A total of 215 women were included in the study, 123 women fasted, and 92 women did not fast. Only 2.8% of women knew that fasting is forbidden in pregnancy. Sixty five percent of women reported weakness as the main reason for not fasting. The rate of gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension and preterm delivery was higher among women who fasted (17% vs 14%, 7% vs 2%, 9% vs 9%) respectively, compared to non-fasting women, but were not found statistically significant. There was no difference in anthropometric measurements of newborn, among both groups.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931121/ > Fasting during pregnancy was associated with reduced birthweight, in particular for fasting during the first trimester (-352ˑ92g, 95% CI: -537ˑ38; -168ˑ46). Neither dietary composition nor altered sleep were directly associated with birthweight. However, dietary composition during Ramadan outside of fasting hours seems to moderate the fasting-birthweight association, which disappeared for women switching to high-fat diets.
Medical science has clearly shown that this is bad for your kidneys. Possibly catastrophically bad.
Who should I believe, science or medieval superstitions?
As a Muslim, I can tell you we tend to over eat, generally after we break our fast. It kind of defeats the whole point of fasting. In most cases its unavoidable as breaking fast is a social event for most people.
Im guessing before food got abundant the results would be quite different, but again back then most of the world had little to eat any way.
The goals of fasting during Ramadan are not to train people for intermittent fasting. Its because the religion/god said so, and to some extent make you feel how the poor feel as thats how life works for them everyday.
There is also a thing about fasting every Monday and Thursday which pious people tend to do often. But in general I have seen only good things happen to people who eat less. Muslims or not.