RAMADAN MUBARAK to ALL
Feel better: fast
EVEN NON-MUSLIMS ARE REALISING THE MERITS OF FASTING.
Going for days or weeks without food may sound radical. But the benefits could extend way beyond weight loss By Roger Dobson
Forget about cutting the carbs, bin the brown rice, dump the detox and stop chomping on raw carrots. If you want to lose weight, avoid heart disease, deafness and dementia, be happier and smarter and live longer, you might try a "new approach" - fasting.
( We, Muslims have known this for 1428 Years - O ye who believe! fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint,- سورة البقرة , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #183 )
These benefits may not be what the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, had in mind when he went seven days without food last week in a tent inside York Minster to highlight the plight of those caught in the conflict between Lebanon and Israel. But his fast may have done wonders for his health; fasting is now being promoted in various guises as a way to a better, longer and lighter life.
A theory that hunger and a lack of food trigger a primitive survival response that provides better protection for the body's organs in times of famine is now in vogue. "Recent studies seem to favour a stress response that evolved early in most species to increase the chance of surviving adversity, such as calorie restriction,'' says Dr Eric Ravussin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Baton Rouge. Some beneficial effects seen in the fasting diets may also stem from the fact that they tend to be more nutritionally balanced that most diets.
Posted 1 year ago on 10 Aug 2010 17:57
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