Fasting News

WHEN he breaks his Ramadan fast most nights, Hindu man Kartik Mohandas meditates while his Muslim friends recite Islamic prayers.

The Month of Fasting 2014 - Ramadan 1435, is winding down. There are only a few more days in the month during which Muslims all around the world fast from dawn 'til dusk each day.

RAMADAN: Sayed Rezai is joined by Griffith and Leeton Shia Muslims taking the chance to eat and drink between 6pm and 5am.

What we do is we wake up at 4. Then the kids wake up at 4:30 for the pre-dawn meal.

TEHRAN Reza Akrami, head of the presidential council for cultural affairs, is on the opinion that President Rouhani's meetings with rival conservative and reformist groups would yield positive results.

YOUNG workers in a major Chinese factory city are mysteriously dying in their sleep, a devastating trend thought to be linked to overwork.

I was recently a guest at a renewal of wedding vows here in West Cavan. The event was held in a hand built garden roundhouse.

Muscat: Eid is a special time of the year not only for Oman, but the entire region.

The history of cancer treatment includes a long list of quack diets claiming patients can eat their way back to good health, but one approach, which involves eating less and minimizing carbohydrates, appears to produce genuine benefits.

The Israeli soda device maker SodaStream, often touted for its harmonious workforce of Israelis and Palestinians, has fired 60 Palestinians after a dispute over the food provided to them after 16 hours of fasting for Ramadan.

Laylat Al Qadr is considered the holiest night of the year for Muslims, and is traditionally celebrated on the 27th day of Ramadan.

Looming just around the corner is that time of the year again, where all the goodies are brought out, where all mothers leave no stone unturned in preparing that beautiful dish, the day when everyone is in high spirits after a month of fasting.

As the holy month of Ramadan rounds its last corner, we visit the Muslim enclave of Ramkhamhaeng, an area that young people from the South now call home It is the final week of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.

On Tuesday, the President holds his sixth White House Iftar dinner, in celebration of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, in which Muslims fast all day and then have a big meal after sundown.

Its one of those basic, unquestioned rules of medicine: don't eat anything for 8-12 hours before having a cholesterol test.

A high-fat diet promotes postprandial systemic inflammation and metabolic endotoxemia.

Pharmacological Strategies to Counteract Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain and Metabolic Adverse Effects in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Muscat: Fasting during Ramadan is an obligation for Muslims, but for non-Muslims, it's a way to feel closer to the society around them and understand the meaning of the Islamic holy month.

The aromas of Tex-Mex - cheese, chips and enchiladas - wafted through the two-story house.

Each evening, Zakaria Orchi has been meeting up with friends at a favourite cafe to lounge away the hours, just as they used to during Ramadan nights in Syria's capital before war broke out.