Sufism and Religious Practices in Modern Lifestyle

A comparative study of religious and non-religious lifestyle : Emphasizing health behavior and cardiovascular diseases

Abstract Goal: The purpose of this study was to review the differences between religious and non-religious lifestyle in health behaviors with a particular emphasis on cardiovascular health. Method: The method of this study was the analytical method. Results: The review of researches suggested that the religious and non-religious health lifestyle have some differences and similarities and the...

Religious Coping and Health-Promoting Lifestyle among Iranian Infertile Women

Background: Infertility is recognized as a stressful and critical experience worldwide and across cultures and disrupts individual, marital, family, and social stability. Religion is a source of support in dealing with health-related problems. This study aimed to examine the relationship between religious coping and health-promoting lifestyle (HPL) among Iranian infertile women. Methods: A cro...

Words of Ecstasy in Sufism

Lifestyle Practices and Obesity in Malaysian Adolescents

AIM To determine the influence of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) on obesity profiles of 454 Malaysian adolescents aged 12 to 19. METHODS Validated PA and SB questionnaires were used and body composition assessed using anthropometry and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). RESULTS Gender-specific multivariate analyses showed boys with high levels of total PA and modera...

Diet, Lifestyle, Ideology: Vegetarians in Modern Beijing

The new century saw the development of a new kind of vegetarianism in Beijing. Unlike the conventional vegetarians who chose the diet out of religious belief, the new generation of vegetarians and vegans in Beijing incorporated multiple new motivations including health, environment and animal welfare which were generally imported from the ‘West’. By combining the ‘western’ vegetarianism with lo...