Thursday, July 3, 2014

Fix Fasting Cholesterol Levels

For centuries, humans do fasting as a self-cleaning behavior to healthy physical, mental, spiritual. In this modern era more and more research evidence reinforces the healthy benefits of fasting. It should be improved cholesterol levels due to fasting.

One of the research on the health benefits of fasting Ramadan was published in the American Journal of Applied Sciences in 2007. Study was designed to evaluate the effect of Ramadan fasting on plasma lipid profile and serum glucose on a number of Jordanian students.

Reported in these studies that fasting brings many changes in sleeping patterns, physical activity and eating habits. The change may lead to changes in metabolism on health and disease.

The study was conducted in the month of fasting month of October 2006. Subjects were 70 male and female students from three healthy Jordanian universities. Their mean age 21 years.

The parameters are calculated weight, pulse rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure. All the parameters for the four-week month of fasting was significantly lower than that seen before the month of fasting. Two weeks after fasting, body weight and other parameters tend to return to its pre-fasting. The good news, it is still in the parameter numbers before fasting.

They checked blood sugar, triglycerides, cholesterol, bad cholesterol (LDL), good cholesterol (HDL) one day before, the first week, second, fourth month of fasting and two weeks after fasting. Apparently, the good cholesterol increased significantly during the fasting month. This indicates a positive relationship between pulse and fat intake. Also indicate a negative relationship between systolic blood pressure and body weight.

Looks bad cholesterol was significantly decreased at the end of the fasting month. Not also seen the rise of blood sugar at the end of fasting.

The study proves that Ramadan fasting did lose weight, bad cholesterol significantly. Fasting also convincingly raise levels of good cholesterol. It does not look too elevated triglycerides and blood sugar at the end of the fasting month.

Research conducted by Kamal Mahmoud Mansi Saleh Al-Bayt University at Al-Mafrag Jordan was concluded that the effect of Ramadan fasting on blood lipid profiles either because there is no restriction of food intake. Blood lipid profiles better is of course beneficial for the prevention of coronary heart disease.

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