{"id":1652,"date":"2008-09-14T12:29:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/09\/14\/ramadan_diet_poses_health_risk"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:08:56","slug":"ramadan_diet_poses_health_risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/09\/14\/ramadan_diet_poses_health_risk","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan diet poses health risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&amp;click_id=13&amp;art_id=vn20080914093305299C824902\">From the South African Independent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPoor dietary and lifestyle habits during Ramadan pose grave health risks to fasting Muslims, local doctors and dieticians have warned.<br \/>\nNight-time binge eating and consuming too much sugar and cholesterol-rich food may have a severe effect on the health of many Muslims observing the fast, health experts have warned.<br \/>\n&quot;High incidences of diabetes and hypertension in the Muslim community are aggravated by bad diets during Ramadan,&quot; Dr Faisal Suleman said.<br \/>\n&quot;Lots of people break their fast with oily savouries that cause high cholesterol. There is also a lack of exercise during the month.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#39;t really imagine how people can eat such stuff after a long day&#39;s fasting; I need the energy boost, and although I sometimes eat curry, I make sure it&#39;s got plenty of vegetables in it.  Otherwise it&#39;s pizza (of my own making) or pasta with tomato and vegetable sauce with fish.  I&#39;ve also cut out all the diuretic stimulants (tea, coffee, hot chocolate), excepting the days when I&#39;m travelling and therefore not fasting (but still have to get up early, so I drink coffee).  A few difficult days at the beginning excepted, I think this has been a very healthy Ramadan for me <em>ma sha Allah<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the South African Independent: Poor dietary and lifestyle habits during Ramadan pose grave health risks to fasting Muslims, local doctors and dieticians have warned. Night-time binge eating and consuming too much sugar and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramadan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-qE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41764,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/41764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}