Themes and Tracks
- Nutrition and Lifestyle (Sleep and Physical Activity): Dietary behaviors and nutritional intakes; body composition and anthropometric changes; metabolic, inflammatory, and immune indicators related to nutrition and fasting; grocery shopping and food purchase; food waste, and food safety during Ramadan; hormonal changes that regulate sleep and eating behaviors during fasting; eating, metabolism, and circadian rhythm; behavioral and lifestyle changes (sleep, physical activity, smoking, alcohol, and drug abuse), the effect of fasting on athletes and physical performance.
- Medical and Community Health: Benefits and adverse effects of fasting practiced by patients with obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, cancer, and inflammatory diseases; medical emergencies; fasting by elderly people, schoolchildren, pregnant and lactating women, and people with special needs; adherence to prescribed medications, emergency visits.
- Social, Psychosocial, and Mental Health: Stress, work productivity, road traffic accidents, marriage and divorce rates, family conflicts and violence, family interaction, and suicide. Shopping behavior: food, clothes, furniture, household appliances, and luxuries; devotional rituals and religious activities, and their relationship to health and behavioral aspects during the month of Ramadan.
- Environment, Sustainability, and Development:Environmental impact of fasting, Role of fasting in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).