several religions recommend periods of fasting. one of the most frequently asked questions of ms patients before the holy month of ramadan is weather fasting might have an unfavorable effect on their disease course. this debate became more challenging after the publication of experimental studies suggesting that calorie restriction prior to disease induction attenuates disease severity. we cond...

This study deals with the effects of daily intermittent fasting for 15 h upon the development of diabetes in sand rats exposed to a hypercaloric diet. The same pattern of daily intermittent fasting was imposed on sand rats maintained on a purely vegetal diet (control animals). Over the last 30 days of the present experiments, non-fasting animals gained weight, whilst intermittently fasting sand...

Obezite, dünyada morbidite-mortalite riski yüksek hastalıklara büyük oranda zemin hazırlayan salgın bir hastalıktır. Obezitenin tıbbi beslenme tedavisinde farklı diyet yaklaşımlarından biri olan aralıklı oruç uygulamaları son yıllarda artmıştır. Aralıklı 12 saat ile birkaç gün arasında değişen zaman aralıklarında tutarak enerji alımını tamamen sıfırlama veya sınırlandırmayla karakterize biçimin...