Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging

Re:Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging by mrfusion on Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:39PM (#9741770)

Why 19 hours? Are you in a northern latitude? Makes me wonder would people in Antarctica not fast at all?

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Re:Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging by krmmalik on Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:46PM (#9741806)

I'm in the UK. Your observation regards antarctica is correct.

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Re:Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging by leereeves on Thursday June 18, 2015 @06:44PM (#9742060)

And north of the Arctic circle?

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Re:Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging by hackerbloos on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:00PM (#9742097)

If you live in Norway you are allowed to regulate your fasting in accordance with the sunrise and sunset in Mecca. For other places where the sun is visible most of time you are allowed to regulate your fasts according to any other country with a more reasonable schedule.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/ramadan-guide-t...

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Re:Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging by Guest1827 on Friday June 19, 2015 @04:35AM (#9743608)

Fasting is limited with te following condition. Quran 2:187 "and eat and drink, until the white thread of dawn appear to you distinct from its black thread; then complete your fast Till the night appears;" So if it never dawns, or the sun almost never sets, it's impossible to exercise islamic fasting.

So instead of thinking sanely, people come up with "solutions" like 'then exercise your fasting according to meccahs timezone' and such.

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