TEHRAN (IQNA) – Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of blessing marked by prayer, fasting, and charity. It’s the most sacred month of the 12 months for Muslims.
Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) has stated, “When the month of Ramadan begins, the gates of heaven are opened and the gates of Hell are closed and the devils are chained.”
For some years now fasting hours have gotten longer and the climate is hotter which can trigger some difficulties.
Nonetheless, the Iranian conventional medication has supplied us with some helpful ideas which each assist to rid the physique of waste materials constructed up in physique for a number of months by giving it a whole break from meals and transfer in direction of a more healthy life.
Fasting provides folks an opportunity to enhance their bodily and psychological well being.
First rule: Eat calmly throughout Ramadan
Fasting, the best way it is suggested in Islam by abstaining from consuming and consuming from daybreak to sundown, is the very best technique to make sure a wholesome physique.
Equally, when somebody comes down with an sickness the physician usually advises them to abstain from utilizing foodstuff that makes them sick within the first place after which begin consuming meals and drinks which assist them to revive well being.
Beginning to eat from the sundown proper earlier than going to mattress would possibly result in shedding urge for food for Suhur -the meal consumed early within the morning by Muslims earlier than fasting- which is a crucial meal and skipping it’d trigger issues.
Some of the vital guidelines to maintain wholesome throughout Ramadan is to eat calmly and attempt to eat much less earlier than going to sleep.
Get up early for Suhur
It’s higher to get up early for Suhur (an hour or an hour and a half earlier than the decision for prayer) so that you’d get hungrier. If potential, it’s higher to remain up till the dawn so that you simply give time to your physique to digest the meals you had.
Not having Suhur is a big mistake. The human digestive system converts meals into vitamins that the physique wants and as soon as there isn’t any meals digestive acids eat away on the lining tissues of the abdomen and result in abdomen ulcer and painful sores within the abdomen lining or small gut.
Breaking quick with date and lukewarm drinks
It’s important to not fill the abdomen with heavy meals and drinks as soon as fasting hours finish. Due to the impacts of fasting on emptying of the digestive tract throughout lengthy fasting hours the Iftar meal- when folks finish their quick at sunset- shouldn’t be heavy and full of meals and drinks.
It’s usually suggested to interrupt the quick with some lukewarm water, weak tea, heat milk, or heat honey water and date after which have a lightweight meal 20 to half-hour later.
If you don’t really feel consuming proper after the sundown it’s advantageous. Let your physique resolve the appropriate time to eat.
Don’t forget to incorporate enough quantities of fruits, milk, wheat and its derivatives, rice, and meat in your food plan throughout this month.
Say no to fatty, salty, spicy meals, fizzy drinks
It’s higher to keep away from consuming or minimize down on fatty, salty, spicy, and fried foodstuff and fizzy drinks each at Suhur and Iftar.
Usually, the meals eaten in the course of the month of Ramadan must be small in amount and wealthy in vitamins.
Keep away from these foodstuffs:
Attempt to reduce on some greens similar to leek, tarragon, and onion, particularly for Suhur meals as consuming them would possibly work up a thirst in the course of the day. It’s higher to eat salads, particularly lettuce with cucumber for Suhur.
Attempt to keep away from consuming an excessive amount of Ash-e reshteh (a kind of thick soup that includes reshteh (skinny noodles), greens, beans, chick pea, and lentil) or beef that are all thought-about as heavy meals.
Breaking quick with chilly water is unhealthy for our well being
Ingesting chilly water on the Iftar is the worst potential behavior. In easy phrases, the abdomen has gotten fairly scorching attributable to lengthy hours of fasting and being empty. Subsequently, consuming chilly water may cause injury each to the abdomen and the liver (which is in shut proximity of the abdomen). It’s like pouring chilly water inside a scorching glass container which may break or injury it.
Eat much less sweats
It’s higher to chop again on sweets similar to halve (a dessert made with flour, rosewater and oil), Sholezard (an Iranian conventional saffron rice pudding dessert), or Zulbia and Bamiyeh (conventional deep-fried sweets) as they’re wealthy in sugar and fats and consuming them in massive portions would possibly work up thirst, trigger poor digestion, spoil urge for food and will increase dangers for weight problems.
It’s higher to eat them in very small portions and two hours after Iftar.
Greatest foodstuff to eat in Ramadan
Consuming meals data-x-items that are bitter, have cooling traits on the physique and are excessive in water content material (with regard to at least one’s temperament) similar to lemon, barberry syrup, pomegranate juice, and recent tamarind are really helpful in the course of the month of Ramadan.
To finish the Iftar meal after consuming lukewarm drinks you may have some toasted bran bread, cheese, and walnuts or some greens. If you don’t want to have cooked meals for Iftar can have some butter, bread and their favourite jam as an alternative.
Ideas for avoiding sever thirst
Scent apple, cucumber, lemon, and rosewater, washing or spraying face and neck with chilly water and rosewater, keep away from spending lengthy hours exterior, don’t contain in psychological and bodily actions particularly in scorching locations, rub violet or almond oil on the stomach, cheeks, brow and behind the ears, and take rests in darkish and funky locations with cool scents could assist to keep away from sever thirst.
Consuming an excessive amount of tea, water, and watermelon at Suhur doesn’t quench thirst, it relatively results in elevated urination and inevitably will increase thirst in the course of the day.
Stopping constipation in Ramadan
To forestall constipation, it is suggested to devour lettuce, cucumber, dried fig and plum at Suhur meal.
Backside line
Generally, fasting would shrink the abdomen, lower the urge for food, and lead to weight reduction. Subsequently, insisting on consuming as a lot as one used to eat earlier than holy month of Ramadan would possibly trigger nausea, Acid Reflux, and so on.
