The significant effect on musculoskeletal metabolism and bone density of the Eastern Mediterranean Christian Orthodox Church fasting

Autor:	Anthony Kafatos, Maria Hassapidou, George E. Manolarakis, Petros Skepastianos, Sousana K. Papadopoulou, Eleni Vasara, Nikolaos E. Rodopaios, Alexandra-Aikaterini Koulouri, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Manolis Linardakis
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	0301 basic medicine 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Bone density Mediterranean diet business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Incidence (epidemiology) Osteoporosis Medicine (miscellaneous) 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Abstinence medicine.disease Animal origin 03 medical and health sciences Eastern mediterranean 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Secondary osteoporosis business Demography media_common
Zdroj:	European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 74:1736-1742
ISSN:	1476-5640 0954-3007
DOI:	10.1038/s41430-020-0667-7
Popis:	Nutritional disorders cause secondary osteoporosis as well as musculoskeletal metabolism dysfunction. The Christian Orthodox Church’s fasting in Mediterranean countries such Greece and Cyprus, or M.C.O.C. diet consists of self-restraint from food and/or food categories for 180 ± 19 days of total, especially of animal protein and dairy products. This case-control study attempts to investigate the effect of this fasting pattern on musculoskeletal metabolism and bone density. One hundred fasters (or M.C.O.C. diet followers; 68 women and 32 men, mean 59 ± 6.5) with 32 years average fasting time and 100 non-fasters (66 females and 34 males, mean 58.1 ± 6.8; the control group of Mediterranean diet followers) over the age of 50, including menopausal women, were interviewed, as well as physically and laboratory examined along with DEXA measurements of the L2-4 vertebrae and hips. Nutrition data gathered through a 3-day food record during a non-fasting period, while energy intakes calculated on a daily food consumption basis. Given the overall low incidence of osteoporosis in the Mediterranean diet, it appears to be more than three times higher than that of M.C.O.C. diet despite the periodic restriction of food intake of animal origin into a slightly hypothermic pattern, which in turn is characterized by increased consumption of multicolored vegetable foods. Abstinence from dairy products and meat does not adversely affect musculoskeletal metabolism or bone density. M.C.O.C. diet seems to be “healthy” eating habit for the musculoskeletal system, as future studies expected to confirm.
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