The "research" is politically motivated, it is thus garbage. Especially considering that it would be dangerous to publish the result if it were to show the other way, not that they would want to publish it.
Besides, not having even a drop of water for longer than 12 hours during summer is dangerous, not only to fasting people themselves but to the society as a whole since they drive cars and they have higher rate of fainting during that. But doing those for the name of religion is somehow acceptable in our society..
This is published in Nature, which does not traffic in garbage. This is an observational (not experimental) study which means that the subjects already planned to fast in observance of Ramadan, and the paper discussed what was observed wrt to health and cancer indicators. It's not a polemic.
> Besides, not having even a drop of water for longer than 12 hours during summer is dangerous, not only to fasting people themselves but to the society as a whole since they drive cars and they have higher rate of fainting during that.
It's clear that many in the world do exactly that. It might be interesting to see a study similar to above as to whether accident rates increase during Ramadan.
Besides, not having even a drop of water for longer than 12 hours during summer is dangerous, not only to fasting people themselves but to the society as a whole since they drive cars and they have higher rate of fainting during that. But doing those for the name of religion is somehow acceptable in our society..