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SynthesisFrontiers in nutrition2022

Religious fasting and its impacts on individual, public, and planetary health: Fasting as a "religious health asset" for a healthier, more equitable, and sustainable society.

Khaled Trabelsi, Achraf Ammar, Mohamed Ali Boujelbane, Luca Puce, Sergio Garbarino, Egeria Scoditti, Omar Boukhris, Saber Khanfir, Cain C T Clark, Jordan M Glenn and 4 more

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Synthesis in Frontiers in nutrition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Khaled TrabelsiResearch Laboratory: Education, Motricity, Sport and Health, Sfax, Tunisia.
Achraf AmmarDepartment of Training and Movement Science, Institute of Sport Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Mohamed Ali BoujelbaneHigher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Luca PuceDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Sergio GarbarinoDepartment of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Egeria ScodittiNational Research Council, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Lecce, Italy.
Omar BoukhrisHigher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Saber KhanfirFaculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
Cain C T ClarkCentre for Intelligent Healthcare, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Jordan M GlennDepartment of Health, Exercise Science Research Center Human Performance and Recreation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States.
Omar A AlhajDepartment of Nutrition, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Petra, Amman, Jordan.
Haitham JahramiDepartment of Psychiatry, Ministry of Health, Manama, Bahrain.
Hamdi ChtourouHigher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
Nicola Luigi BragazziLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Religious fasting is practiced by people of all faiths, including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, as well as Hinduism, Judaism, and Taoism. Individual/clinical, public, global, and planetary health has traditionally been studied as separate entities. Nevertheless, religious fasting, in conjunction with other religious health assets, can provide several opportunities, ranging from the individual to the population, environmental, and planetary levels, by facilitating and supporting societal transformations and changes, such as the adoption of healthier, more equitable, and sustainable lifestyles, therein preserving the Earth's systems and addressing major interconnected, cascading, and compound challenges. In this review, we will summarize the most recent evidence on the effects of religious fasting, particularly Orthodox and Ramadan Islamic fasting, on human and public health. Further, we will explore the potential effects of religious fasting on tackling current environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition/food restriction and planetary health. Finally, specific recommendations, particularly around dietary intake during the fasting rituals, will be provided to ensure a sustainable healthy planet.

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faith-based fastingglobal healthlifestylenutritionpublic healthsustainability

Identifiers

PMID36505246
PMCPMC9729557

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