To fast one day per month could protect against the cardiovascular unrests. It is of the less what the results of a preliminary investigation led by researchers of the Intermountain Healthcare of Salt Lake City, in the States-Unis1s 2, indicate.
The rate of cardiovascular unrests at the Mormon (members of the church of the saints of the last days, based in Salt Lake City) attracted the attention of the American researchers. They noticed that he/it was distinctly lower to the one of the other American citizens.
One first assigned this difference to the fact that this Church recommends to its adepts to abstain from smoking and to drink the alcohol. While searching more, the team of researchers found another hypothesis that could explain this gap: the Mormon fast the first Sunday of every month while jumping two meals on one period of 24 hours.
The researchers analyzed the medical files of the patients of the center then medical Intermountain having undergone a x-ray of the coronary arteries. According to their results, the patients who practiced the monthly fasting ran about 40% less risk to endure obstruction of the arteries, compared to those that didn’t take to this practice.
After having pondered their results according to the factors as the tobacco addiction and the consumption of alcohol, the researchers concluded that the monthly practice of the fasting stayed the factor of most meaningful prevention.
These results don’t prove however not that the practice of the fasting can contribute to warn the cardiovascular unrests, recognize the authors of the survey. The hypothesis is worth in spite of all the pain that one leads of the studies more pushed to this topic, they add. According to them, the medical reasons justifying to jump some meals on a regular basis could exist. A notion that is far from making the unanimity among the physicians and the nutritionists.
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