Soon the fasting of the month of Ramadan will start, and we think that it is probably useful to look at ways to try to maintain a healthy diet during fasting. Fast for 12 to 14 hours or more, can cause dizziness, fatigue and a decrease in metabolic rate, a way to keep calories or energy. Following some simple guidelines to ensure that the diet remains balanced and healthy during this period of fasting:
Do not skip Sohour
Even if the thought of sleep is more attractive that one to wake up to force to swallow some foods, do not skip Sohour(meal before the dawn prayer). This is the most important meal of the day. For many years, research has shown thatSohour provides essential nutrients and energy required for concentration, while removing the symptoms of hunger, such as headache, fatigue, drowsiness and agitation. Moreover, it allows to maintain our metabolic rate in good working condition, it is therefore vital to consume a sufficient amount of food at the time of the Sohour.
Eat a variety of foods
Especially now, when your daily intake is limited to two meals, you will need to provide more efforts to include foods from all categories. Our body needs at least 40 different nutrients per day, to ensure a good development and good health. Although most foods contain more than a single nutrient, no food alone does not provide all the necessary nutrients. In addition, foods have benefits that cannot be reproduced in a pill. It is therefore important to eat a variety of foods per day, in order to ensure that we take all these nutrients. The way to ensure the variety, and therefore a balanced, diet is to choose foods every day within each of five food categories:
Breads, cereals, and other starches
The fruits and vegetables
Meat, fish and eggs
Milk, cheese and yogurt (dairy products)
Fats and sugars (these contain very few nutrients and they are high in calories and their consumption should be limited)
Eat foods low glycemic index (GI) to Sohour, to help regulate glucose levels in the blood.
Carbohydrates are now classified according to their response or glycemic index. The GI measures the speed at which carbohydrates of a food are converted into glucose and enter the blood. Therefore, it tells you what carbohydrate-rich foods fill the hunger for a long time. More the IG is low, more food into glucose transformation is slow, and better. Therefore, choose low GI foods helps maintain a normal level of glucose in the blood, decreases the stomach cramps and satisfies the appetite without providing an excess of calories. In addition, by controlling the level of glucose in the blood, you avoid binge eating as a result of the high level of glucose in the blood. Click here for a list of the most common food products and their current IG. Remember to include low GI foods in each meal, and to avoid eating high GI foods only, but mix them rather with low GI foods, which will give an intermediate general IG.
Pay attention to your way of cooking
By making slight changes in your habits of cooking, you can produce dishes with exquisite tastes which are also good for your health. Although culinary specialities are an important part of the family, many of these valuable tradition favourites have a fat content too high depending on the new generation of cooks who take health to heart. You don't have to deprive you of these old favourites, arrange them simply! Here's how:
By removing all excess fat before cooking them or use veal meat, deer, chicken or soy as options low in fat. Remove the skin from the chicken before or after cooking. Choose white meat (breast) instead of red meat (thigh and wing.)
Reduce consumption of fat during cooking whenever possible:
- Cook the onions in a small amount of water or even in broth of vegetables, instead of oil or butter.
- Use adhesive anti pans and vegetable coatings (such as Spray'n Cook) rather than oil or margarine, if it is frying. ;
- Baking, grilling or roasting instead of frying;
- Cook roasted meats or chicken on a rack so the fat can drip;
- Vegetables should be steamed or boiled with as little cream or margarine as possible;
- A the preparation of rice, pasta and other starches, season with herbs, spices and broths instead of add fats;
- Prepare soups, thick sauces and other sauces in advance; so they can be chilled and the layer of fat that is formed on the surface can be removed;
- Try adding herbs and spices to add flavor and zest to a low-fat cuisine. Herbs such as basil, bay leaf, oregano or rosemary, add flavour and chromatherapy specific color to meat and vegetables. Spices such as cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg highlight the sweet taste of food, and mixtures of seasoning, such as chili powder, curry, give a rich range of flavours.
Avoid consuming too much salt
- Use garlic, dry mustard, pepper, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes to add flavour to the meat and vegetables;
- Add slices or juice of lemon to white meat and fish;
- Use herbs and spices instead of salt;
Make healthy changes to your recipes
Use your usual recipes, but begin by dividing into two fat. If a recipe provides for cream or whole milk, use unsweetened concentrated milk or skimmed fresh milk. If a recipe provides a whole egg, use two egg whites;
Eat enough carbohydrate-rich foods, especially those that are rich in fiber.
These foods provide the energy body. They are often incorrectly labeled as a cause of weight gain and unnecessarily limited. They are rich in B vitamins, and an excellent source of fibre. Keep in mind that foods rich in fibres have a greater effect on satiety than those with low fibre content. Examples of fibre-rich foods include Brown rice, whole grains, fresh fruits and raw vegetables.
Do not forget fruits and vegetables
Fruits and vegetables add color and variety to the menu.They are often called "protective foods", because they help the body to fight disease and disorders. This because they are rich in vitamins and various minerals sources. Another benefit is that their calorie content is relatively low and that they also contribute to our daily fiber requirement.
Drink enough
Always include the water in your diet and limit your consumption of beverages containing caffeine; the latter is diuretic and does not provide the necessary hydration.
We all know that maintaining a balanced diet by eating healthily, has a vital effect on our well-being. Try to follow the principles cited above, so this period of fasting does not deviate too much of the principles of good nutrition.
The month of Ramadan approach. It will still be a month full of mercy for those who will have the chance to attend and make efforts to reap the fruits.
It is a period of revitalization of piety, of faith and excellence. This is the month where we renewed his Covenant with Allah, where is full of faith for the year to come, where is our spiritual armor. Unfortunately this month will pass without affecting a large part of us. Woe to those who remain insensitive to all these benefits!Blessed, on the contrary are those who fill their nights in prayer and their days by the extraordinary taste of control of their instincts!
It is a period of revitalization of piety, of faith and excellence. This is the month where we renewed his Covenant with Allah, where is full of faith for the year to come, where is our spiritual armor. Unfortunately this month will pass without affecting a large part of us. Woe to those who remain insensitive to all these benefits!Blessed, on the contrary are those who fill their nights in prayer and their days by the extraordinary taste of control of their instincts!
The month of Ramadan is the month of the gift of sharing and the month of generosity, these Hadiths of the Prophet (Salla Allahu ' Alaihi wa Sallam) are there for we remind you:
Allaah says (meaning of the verse): " (are these days) the month of Ramadan during which the Quran was descended as a guide to the people, and clear evidence of the right direction and discernment. '' So, whoever of you is present in this month, he fasts! And whoever is ill or on a journey, while he fasts an equal number of other days. -Allah wants for you ease, he does not want the fix for you, so that you fill out the number and that you proclamiez the greatness of Allah to guide you, and that ye may be grateful! "(Quran 2/185).
Fasting or Sawm, is a moral and spiritual Islamic property unique. His virtues and his merits are unlimited. The main reason behind the young is the noble goal At-Taqwa(piety).
Allah, exalted is he, says (meaning of the verse):
The Prophet said: «Shaban is a month which lies between Rajab and Ramadan and that people forget . Commenting on this hadith, Ibn Rajab said: "this proves that it is strong recommended filling his time with acts of obedience, because Allah, exalted is he, like this attitude. For their part, some predecessors loved pass the time between Maghrib and 'Isha' prayers in prayer, saying that it was a time where people failed to perform acts of devotion.
This emphasizes the merit of mentioning Allah, exalted is he, at a time where those who invoke Allah are lacking, so Abu Salih said: "Allah, exalted is he, appreciates that evokes it in a market", because it is a place where people neglect the performance of acts of worship.
The merits of engaging in acts of devotion to the moments where they are neglected:
It is forbidden for a woman to fast during her menses. Of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (God be pleased with him), the Messenger of Allah (
) said: «the woman who has its rules does not stop praying and fasting? .(Bukhari)
And the mother of the believers, ' Aisha, the wife of the Prophet () responded, while it questioned the on knowing why the woman, according to its rules, was expected to meet the days not fasted but not not made prayers: « that happened from the time of the Messenger of Allah (); "so, he ordered us to fulfil the young but we not ordered to repeat the prayer . (Year-Nassa'i, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud)
) said: «the woman who has its rules does not stop praying and fasting? .(Bukhari) And the mother of the believers, ' Aisha, the wife of the Prophet (
) responded, while it questioned the on knowing why the woman, according to its rules, was expected to meet the days not fasted but not not made prayers: « that happened from the time of the Messenger of Allah (); "so, he ordered us to fulfil the young but we not ordered to repeat the prayer . (Year-Nassa'i, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud)
Time is life, the life of man consists only seconds and minutes as he lives time after time, and each time that flows from our life brings us more life from the beyond.
Although time is the most precious thing that man takes to preserve, it being the easiest to lose. Although we allow anyone to steal our money, we allow - unfortunately - even we applaud the flight of our time and our lives, what is the worst disaster, because money can be recovered while one lost moment could be offset by all the gold in the world. So is the real loser that squanders and loses his time. The Prophet, , said: "there are two benefits which many people do not know the true value: health and free time" (Bukhari)
, said: "there are two benefits which many people do not know the true value: health and free time" (Bukhari)
For most Muslims, the month of Ramadan, means much more than the simple ventral and sexual abstinence. It is an opportunity to revitalize the soul.
The so-called al-layl "Taraweeh prayer", the breaking of fasting, the Iftaar, in family or between friends are the highlight of the year for many Muslims. However, for many Muslim moms it is becoming increasingly difficult to assume their roles: work, child, home maintenance and the new responsibilities which it is supplemented during Ramadan.
For most Muslims, the month of Ramadan, means much more than the simple ventral and sexual abstinence. It is an opportunity to revitalize the soul.
The month of Ramadan approach, with all the beautiful meanings it carries to add more radiation and brightness conjugal life, resolve disputes between spouses and ease their afflictions and their concerns. This month brings the hearts, ennobles them and increases the love, affection and harmony between spouses.
To achieve this goal, there are points that both spouses must take into account during this month. During Ramadan, the mode of daily life changes, hours of sleep, food and labour are upset, which can cause a change in personality and the nature of the person. This requires both spouses to adapt to the new situation, to exercise self-control and to change habits, to cooperate to save time and to give priority to the tranquillity of the other party so she can perform acts of worship without any discomfort or hassle.
Children are the joy of life, the adornment of this lower world, what remains to man after his death, if it educates well ("when the son of Adam dies, all his works stop except three: charity whose benefits are being perpetuated, his knowledge which serves other and a pious child who invokes Allah in his favor "). The month of Ramadan is a wonderful opportunity that leaves its imprint on our children, if we manage to well exploit. This can affect their conduct in all situations of life.
Peculiarities of the month of Ramadan
Allah, exalted is he, has awarded the month of Ramadan for the other months by a large number of properties and virtues that are mentioned in the Quran and the authentic Sunnah of the Prophet (Salla Allahu ' Alaihi wa Sallam). In the following lines we reviewed some ahaadeeth which highlight some of the peculiarities of this blessed month.
Allah, exalted is he, has awarded the month of Ramadan for the other months by a large number of properties and virtues that are mentioned in the Quran and the authentic Sunnah of the Prophet (Salla Allahu ' Alaihi wa Sallam). In the following lines we reviewed some ahaadeeth which highlight some of the peculiarities of this blessed month.
