Effect of Vegan Diet During Greek-Orthodox Religious Fasting on Symptoms of Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Religious fasting observed in diverse populations may influence the reporting of digestive symptoms. Greek-Orthodox (Byzantine style) religious fasting is prolonged and similar to a vegan diet. We aimed to evaluate the association between functional gastrointestinal symptoms and disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI) with this religious fasting. METHODS: We investigated Romanian participants in the Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology Study who observe Greek-Orthodox religious fasting, by adding specific questions on religious fasting to the study questionnaire. Data were analyzed in connection with the reported gastrointestinal symptoms. RESULTS: 2015 Romanians were included in the analyses. Overall, 716 (35.5%) of the respondents practiced some fasting, of which 446 (62.3%) fasted on Easter and Christmas, 90 (12.6%) observed all fasts, and 625 (87.3%) practiced weekly fasting. Of the latter, 167 (23.3%) fasted every week and 90 (12.6%) reported symptoms during fasting. There were no statistically significant associations between Greek-Orthodox fasting, to any degree, with upper or lower DGBI or gastrointestinal symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The results from this representative sample show that a substantial proportion of the Romanian population adheres to Greek-Orthodox fasting. However, in contrast to the a priori hypothesis, we did not have sufficient evidence that religious fasting is associated with the prevalence of DGBI, or with functional gastrointestinal symptoms.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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