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Eating Well & Staying Healthy During Ramadan
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Ramadan is a blessed month of spiritual fulfillment. We anxiously wait for it and celebrate its return. We are all well versed in the benefits of fasting, so I will not mention them here. What we often times forget is the somewhat depleted state we sometimes find ourselves in during the last ten days of Ramadan. Or are you the type that has a hard time starting, but finish off strong? Either way, I would like to share some practical tips to keep you healthy and enjoying all of Ramadan.
Moo Culture
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#8
Almost every spiritual practice views milk as a divine beverage that sustains humanity. Many cultures throughout history flourished on diets composed mostly of dairy products. Milk is mentioned in the Qur’an and the Prophet
drank milk every night. Yet milk has come to be associated with disease. How is this possible?
Good Soy, Bad Soy
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Soul Food
June
Before we continue with our series on Macro nutrience, I would like to bring up the topic of soy and the health concerns it poses. It is touted as a health food, but is it and what does the research say?
Soy is everywhere. If you walk into a store and read the label of a packaged food item, you would be hard pressed to find one that did not contain soy. How did this obscure product in the US become the commercial mammoth of the 21st century, raking in $4 billion in 2003?
Vitamins & Minerals
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Soul Food
March
Everyone has their favorite “one time I was at the mosque” horror story. These stories circulate so often with some of them being so outrageous that it is easy to pass them off as tales of urban legend. They happen so often that these types of situation are part of the fabric of our community and we often accept then as “normal.” As if rudeness is an acceptable thing. When I find myself on the receiving end of one of these unpleasant encounters I can not help but think that the person would do well to take a B-complex vitamin.
Making Sense Of ‘Low Carb Diets’
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Soul Food
February
Humans are the only of Allah’s creations to be endowed with such large brains.
This large brain size requires a steady and large supply of food to keep it functioning and one of the ways human’s keep this large brain functioning was by cultivating a sweet tooth. Our ever increasing desire for sweets could be taken as a testament to our intellectual prowess; since the brain operates on the simplest of sugars, glucose.
Are You Sugar Sensitive?
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Soul Food
January
THERE IS A SAYING THAT SUGAR FOLLOWED THE QUR’AN and rightfully so. Muslims have a sweet tooth and were the first to engage in the international trade of sugar. This passion for sweets was passed on to Europe. It was this passion for sweets that helped fuel the colonization of the New World in order to establish sugarcane plantations. Even today, sugar remains a sweet indulgence. According to the USDA, the average American consumes 20 teaspoons of sugar a day and 200 pounds a year.
Nourishing The Muslim Body
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Soul Food
October
THERE IS AN OLD ADAGE THAT STATES, “You are what you eat,” but how literally should we interpret this statement? If we think about it, we are recreating ourselves everyday with what we place into our mouths. The building blocks of life, glucose (sugars, but not the kind you think), fatty acids (fats, both saturated and unsaturated) and amino acids (proteins), too often lack vital energy in the diets of Americans and at a growing rate in the diets of people living in developing countries. When we do not adequately provide our bodies with quality nutrients, we are recreating and changing ourselves from the state we were in at birth, into something inferior due to our poor food choices. Our bodies are not separate from our soul, so we must too recognize this soul altering phenomena. This alteration begins at the moment of birth.
