Salam Alaikum sisters. 🌸How are you feeling today? How is your fasting going?

Most of you knowing that I was studying medicine and as a professional health specialist and a health educator I would like to tell you few important things what you can do good for your body during the fasting in Ramadan.

✨FIRST R.E.M.I.N.D.E.R: ✨

1. WATER and AIR IS OUR LIFE.
60% of our body is water. So hydration is more important than food.
Means, you need slowly to hydrate yourself after long hours of dry fasting.
The best is pure WATER 💧, then natural/organic Coconut water, mineral water, raw vegetables and fruits.

AIR- you must spend more time outside! Just go for short walks to the park, forest, even your garden. Fresh air not only cleans your lungs, it can also boost your mood, lower your heart rate, increase energy levels and even improve digestion.
Also notice how you are breathing and if you are stressed or anxious do some exercises.

✨SECOND R.E.M.I.N.D.E.R:✨

When you fasting your cholesterol level will go up ⬆️ Sometimes doctors finding higher cholesterol levels than normal during the fasting or if person loosing weight and they immediately scaring people that it will affects their cardiovascular system , formates atherosclerosis and all. Also they most likely won’t recommend you to eat eggs and red meat and prescribe you statins to reduce the cholesterol.

Well, don’t rush to take medicine and don’t worry about it!
Fasting increases serum total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B and it’s normal.
I’ll prepare full lecture about “bad” and “good” cholesterol based on the studies and will explain InshaAllah later.

But what you can do good for yourself is to REDUCE SUGAR ( THE BEST IS NO ADDITIONAL SUGAR AT ALL 🍫 🍩🍪🍬🍰…) AND REDUCE QUICK CARBS ( like 🍕 , pasta 🍝, white bread 🥖, pastries 🥐 …).

Sugar is directly linked with the cholesterol what is accumulating and causing damage to your vessels.

Natural sugar what includes in vegetables, fruits and berries is more than enough for our bodies. So if you very much craving for sugar you can eat natural dates, dry figs, dry apricots, you can consume 10 g of natural and unprocessed honey 🍯.

✨THIRD R.E.M.I.N.D.E.R:✨

We all knowing additives in food causing problems but when we fasting and not having energy to cook buying ready made meals from the shops. We all want better to focus on spiritual upgrading than standing in the kitchen. And I know very well what happens when you start looking into the ingredients of products and you realise that you can't eat anything from the shops.
So in this case I highly recommend to do one thing:

1. You eat everything except those foods that contain the following two ingredients:
a) fats as palm oil or vegetable oil;
b) flavor enhancer E 621, otherwise known as monosodium glutamate, and all others whose first number is 6.
That's all and nothing more, and you’ll see what happens. 😊 Later I’ll text more about it InshaAllah.

Btw food products what our bodies can digest are without labels. So choose food without labels.

And THE LAST BUT NOT LEAST ADVICE IS - SLOW DOWN! Do everything in your own pace. This life, tasks and goals are temporary.
Focus on yourself, improve your health holistically, prepare yourself to meet Allah SWT.

Wishing everyone good health and healthy way to fast.❤️