For over 50 years, Americans were led to believe that diets high in carbohydrates but low in dietary fat was healthy and normal. Now, over 34 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, 95% of that population having Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Insulin resistance is a kno…
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This study focuses on the degree to which three religious rituals--Sabbath observance, fasting, and circumcision--took on a particular shape for ancient Israel during the period of the Babylonian exile (ca. 6th cent. B.C.E.), and influenced the final shape of the covenant narrat…
While diving, seals are repeatedly exposed to hypoxemia and ischemia/reperfusion. While on land, seals experience sleep apnea and prolonged periods of absolute food and water deprivation. Prolonged fasting, sleep apnea, hypoxemia and ischemia/reperfusion increase oxidant product…
This is a close textual reading of the Hebrew text of the biblical book of Esther with special attention to descriptions of the human body. Esther's narrative is rich with corporeal descriptions including feasting and fasting, beauty competitions, and body positions. The transit…
Hypohydration and fasting are used as means to achieve body mass loss and Ramadan fasting is practised by millions of Muslims as a religious custom. Although both hypohydration and fasting have been studied extensively, the effect of hypohydration and Ramadan style fasting on ma…
Cross-sectional evidence associates breakfast omission with negative health outcomes. The present work aimed to examine if these cross-sectional associations have a causal component, by conducting randomised control trials in healthy humans. It was established using lean individ…
This study is a rhetorical-historical analysis of Mark 2:13-22. Our aim is to isolate the audience, constraints, and primary exigence of Mark's presentation, as well as the origin and development of his source material. The following questions are pursued: Why did Jesus eat with…
Massekhet Ta`anit, a tractate of the Babylonian Talmud that addresses fasts in response to drought among rabbinic Jewish communities in Iate antiquity, envisions rainfall as a tangible manifestation of divine blessing and a key signifier of the relationship between God and Israe…
In this thesis, I examine the health, welfare, and distributional implications of the society's institutions and public policies in three separate chapters. In the first chapter, I show that exposure to Muslim religious fasting month during gestation results in significant decli…
Fasting during Ramadan is one of Islam's five basic pillars. For one month, Muslims are expected to fast, every day from dawn to sunset. Fasting is incompatible with the use of several dosage forms. This dissertation examines Egyptian community pharmacists' role in helping patie…
This study seeks to understand the practices and perceptions of presidents of Christian higher education regarding spiritual disciplines in strategic planning. The literature analysis provided no evidence or scholarly discussion on the use of spiritual disciplines in strategic p…
Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a highly prevalent chronic disease and one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States (US) and in West Virginia (WV), a mostly rural Appalachian state. West Virginia has the highest prevalence of diabetes …