Following the instructions I was given, I started fasting the day before the procedure.

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David Lawee, head of the mergers and acquisitions group at the Internet search giant, says its fasting will end any day now.

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The itinerary also includes a day of fasting.

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On Jan. 19, the first day after the Muslim fasting month, a quarrel broke out between a Muslim migrant and a Christian minicab driver in Ambon, the provincial capital.

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At risk are the elderly, frail and sick whose devotion to their religion means they will be fasting for up to 18 hours a day.

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And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already done some research which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.

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If you are fasting, you should eat normal sized, well-balanced meals with plenty of liquids to avoid dehydration before a day without eating, she said.

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