The Difference Islamic Fasting and Intermittent Fasting: Problems and diseases in the human body as a result of fasting!
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| Problems and diseases in the human body as a result of fasting! |
Introduction:
Fasting is the third of the five pillars of Islam. Fasting is the name of
abstaining from all kinds of food, wickedness, fornication and all kinds of
pleasures from dawn to dusk. According to Islamic law, it is obligatory for
every adult Muslim to fast every day of the month of Ramadan, which means
observance.
According to religious law, fasting is
extremely harmful from a medical point of view for a healthy lifestyle. The
disadvantages of fasting are as follows:
01) As a result of fasting, the body is
deprived of water and essential nutrients for a long time
02)
There is no proper timetable or regular intake of food and fluids in daily life
03) Fasting people eat more on the last night
to spend the whole day in Tenetun.
04)
Due to a long period of abstinence from food, the body has a great need for
food or hunger, so the fasting people are forced to overeat in Iftar.
High-calorie
foods that are harmful to health are common throughout much of the Iftar diet.
A)
High fat and spicy food fried in oil: Onion, Purple, Chop, Pakora, Shik Kabab
etc.
B)
Foods with higher sugar: Dates, date juice, Bundia, Ruh Afza, Tang, Cold drinks
etc.
Muslims
often try to equate fasting and intermittent fasting, which is a
misinterpretation or a lie. Today, in the 1st episode of the whole of Ramadan,
I will highlight the differences between fasting and intermittent fasting so
that the nefarious attempt to prove both to be the same with gonjamil can be
reduced to some extent.
In
addition to this, I will answer some important questions so that your
misconceptions about fasting will be shattered and there will be no ambiguity
or confusion in reading the other parts of the article.
Note
that the main attraction of the whole of Ramadan will be in the 2nd to 5th
episode. So I hope no one will miss 1 article of this series:
The
second episode will answer the lies and misinterpretations of Islamic cleric
Zakir Naik about fasting.
The
3rd episode will have a description of the health harms of Rosa with medical
reasoning, information and explanation
The
3rd episode will have a description of the health harms of Rosa with medical
reasoning, information and explanation
The
5th episode will contain misleading statements of Hadith about fasting and its
socio-economic and state harms.
Anyway,
let's start with the Q&A session -
Is
Islamic Fasting and Intermittent Fasting the same thing or is there really no
difference between the two?
Answer:
Islamic Fasting (Roza) and Intermittent Fasting (diet system introduced by
doctors) - not synonymous or the same thing. While there are some similarities
between the two approaches, there are some differences.
1) Islamic Fasting or fasting rules:
To complete the meal before dawn throughout the month of
Ramadan, i.e. to prepare for fasting, and to refrain from eating and drinking
from dawn to dusk.
Breaking the fast at sunset and breaking the fast and eating
normal food at night
On the contrary
Rules of Intermittent Fasting
A) Normal Diet 5 days a week and Restricted Diet 2 days (Men
can consume up to 600 calories and women up to 500 calories).
B) There is no restriction on drinking water, juice, milk-free
tea-coffee or artificial sweetener rich zero calorie drink but it is
recommended to drink it whenever you feel thirsty. Let's see -
Recommendations vary on what can be consumed during
the fasting periods. Some would say only water, others would allow tea or
coffee (without milk or sugar) or zero-calories drinks with artificial
sweeteners. Yet others would allow "modified fasting" with limited
caloric intake (e.g., 20% of normal) during fasted periods rather than none at
all.
Source: www.livestrong.com/…/330829-a-list-of-foods-to-drink-when-f…
So the differences between the two are:
A) In order to walk tirelessly all day in fasting, one
should eat a lot in the last night's sehri, whereas in 5: 2 diet based
intermittent fasting there is no provision to eat a lot in the morning.
B) Drinking water is prohibited from dawn to dusk on fasting
while there is no restriction on drinking tea, coffee or artificial sweetener
zero calorie drink without water, juice, milk in 5: 2 diet based intermittent
fasting.
C) Fasting continuously for 1 month or 30 days, intermittent
fasting only 2 days in a week i.e. only 6 days in a month.
Islamic fasting has a provision to abstain from food for 30
consecutive days. On the other hand, 5: 2 diet based intermittent fasting can
be eaten whenever you like but only 2 days a week or only 7 days in a month.
This calorie intake should be limited to 500-600 calories per day. Let's see -
Dieters are recommended to consume a ‘normal’ number of
calories five days a week and then, for two, non-consecutive days, eat just 25%
of their usual calorie total - 500 calories for women and 600 for men.
Source: www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-52-diet
Thus, fasting and 5: 2 diet based intermittent fasting are
by no means the same thing.
Question: What are the statements of the official medical
sites of the developed countries in medical textbook and medical science about
Intermittent Fasting and Islamic Fasting?
Answer:
There is no chapter on Intermittent or Islamic Fasting in any
of the most popular medical textbooks on Internal Medicine. This is because
modern medicine does not consider any type of fasting to be beneficial for the
body.
Link:
A)
Harrison's Principles of Internal
Medicine 20th Edition:
https://drive.google.com/open…
B) Goldman-Cecil Medicine, 2-Volume Set, 26th Edition:
https://drive.google.com/open…
C) Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine 9th edition:
https://drive.google.com/open…
D) Davidson’s Principle & Practice of Medicine, 23rd
Edition: https://drive.google.com/open…
E) Oxford Textbook of Medicine 5th Edition:
https://drive.google.com/open…
02) The US government's Center for Disease Control &
Prevention (CDC) site did not say a word about the benefits of rosacea.
Source: https://search.cdc.gov/search/index.html?query=fasting
03) The UK Government's National Health Service (NHS) site
has published some anti-medical and unscientific reports about fasting, but
those links have been removed from the site in the face of widespread protests,
and there is currently no report on the health effects of fasting.
Source:
www.secularism.org.uk/…/nss-asks-nhs-choices-to-review-advi…
Q: Is there any special significance to the statements of
Muslim doctors or researchers about fasting?
Answer: Absolutely not. Because -
01) The Middle East and Islamic
states are governed and governed by strict Sharia law. The people of these
states are extremely weak in English and are extremely underdeveloped in
education and medicine. Because all the best books on all subjects, including
medicine, are written in English. Some countries in the Islamic world do not
have enough money for research and some countries do have enough money,
education, materials and manpower. As a result, the researchers of the
Islamic countries are nominal researchers, they do not have a research
mentality but a religious mentality. They do not want the religion of Islam to
be proven wrong in any way. The main goal of these so-called studies is not to
find out the truth through research, but to find out how to justify religion in
this way.
If there is a direct contradiction
in the research done in the Islamic countries, then those researchers are
either fired or they are isolated in the society. Physicians lose patients and
their income decreases. Some may be the victims of public outrage. Again, you
could face arrest or long-term imprisonment for beheading or beheading for
heresy- Due to this fear, the doctors and researchers of the Islamic
states do not speak against the rosary even if they forget it, but they
conclude without describing some of the harmful aspects of the rosary - there
is no physical harm in fasting.
In countries that do not have strict Sharia law, doctors and
researchers in those countries are always in fear for the above reasons.
Those who are somewhat moderate Muslims are stuck in a
dilemma between their own blind faith and the knowledge gained from medicine,
and try to mumble without revealing the real truth.
"Yeah, I mean, fasting is good, but there are some
things to follow or avoid."
Such duplicitous statements prove that they want to be in a
compromised opportunistic position between Islam and medicine - a sign of
dishonesty and immorality.
02) There is no medical explanation or evidence (Mechanism of
Action or Pathophysiology) in the information about fasting in Islamic sites,
there is only self-evident claim based on blind devotion to religion which is
utterly irrational and unscientific. The information on these fake sites is by
no means acceptable as there is no information in any recognized medical
textbook including Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in support of their
claim.
03) Although some ordinary Muslims who are ignorant of
Islamic history want to console Al-Razi, Ibn Sina and Abul Qasim as Muslim
physicians, the reality is that
a) Doctor Al Razi was
an extreme critic of religion which is why he is called an apostate on various
Islamic sites.
Source: www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H043.htm
And
B) Physicians Ibn Sina and Abul Qasim took a tactical
position without directly criticizing religion and continued their research.
However, on various Islamic sites, they are also called heretics.
Source:
www.bakkah.net/…/the-reality-of-ibn-sina-avicenna-famous-sc…
According to ancestral sources, the goal of Muslim
physicians and researchers was to research and discover, not to become Imams,
Huzur or Hafez by reciting the Qur'an.
Bigger than that, science has come a long way in the last
few hundred years, that is, the knowledge of the age of Razi-Sina-Qasim has not
stopped. In the last 500-1000 years, no great physician or physiologist has
emerged from Muslims who has discovered or theorized anything about physiology
or medicine.
04) From 1901 to 2019, 218 people have been awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, of which only 1 is not a Muslim doctor
or researcher. From this it is clear that Muslims are extremely weak in
medicine or physiology and there is no doubt that the research of such a nation
can be trusted.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physi…
05) In order to avoid criticism and
controversy that many Muslims live in the UK, in the past, reports were
published on the NHS site without going directly to fasting, such as fasting is
not recommended or not recommended in such cases or consult a doctor before
fasting. Not only that, these nonsense was written by Muslim
physicians who defended their religion or wrote a combination of both medicine
and religion. Following widespread criticism and protests, all reports on Rosa
were removed from the NHS site.
6) It is noteworthy that in Islamic
countries, writing against Ramadan means 'losing the patient' because the
majority of these patients are fanatics or moderate religious. Therefore, no physician
in the Islamic world wants to lose the patient by writing down the harmful
aspects of fasting directly and does not push himself towards financial and
professional loss. The same is true of Muslim doctors in exile because, If
not in dire need, the people of Europe and America go to their local non-Muslim
doctors who are skilled in medicine. They do not go to incompetent Muslim
doctors. On the other hand, the majority of those who go to Muslim doctors are
Muslim patients from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and the Middle East.
That is, the statements of Muslim physicians about fasting
or the research of researchers have no special significance.
Q: What are the side effects of 5: 2 diet-based Intermittent
Fasting?
Answer: According to the National Health Service (NHS) of
the United Kingdom, the side effects of 5: 2 diet-based intermittent fasting
are -
01) Difficulties sleeping
02) Bad breath (bad breath, a known problem with low
carbohydrate diets)
03) Irritability
04) Anxiety
05) Dehydration
08) Excessive sleepiness during the day (daytime sleepiness)
07) Feeling very hungry and weak and having a negative
impact on performance at work (very hungry and have less energy and this could
affect your ability to function, such as at work).
06) It is not suitable for pregnant women, people with
diabetes and people with eating disorders (IF may not be suitable for pregnant
women and people with specific health conditions, such as diabetes, or a
history of eating disorders).
According to a 2013 report on the
NHS site, intermittent fasting is not safe for everyone. Interested persons
should therefore discuss the matter with the General Practitioner.
If you are considering it then you
should first talk to your GP to see if it is suitable for you. Not everyone can
safely fast.
Source:
www.nhs.uk/…/food-…/news-analysis-does-the-52-fast-diet-work
The 5: 2 diet has become popular
because it appears to be effective immediately despite widespread publicity and
widespread future harm, but popular means that it is not necessarily scientific
or beneficial.
That is to say, 5: 2 diet-based
intermittent fasting is widely accepted by the ignorant and drunken general
public, but in the eyes of modern medicine it is unacceptable or controversial.
As a result, no recognized health organization recommends this method with 100%
certainty.
Various researches on intermittent
fasting in different journals have come in the past, are coming now and will
come in the future. Religious bigotry, business reasons, attempts to gain
popularity - etc. will come for various reasons. But it is not possible to
accept a research paper as true without verifying it or closing it without any
observation, and it is wrong to post all that information on a medical textbook
or on the site of a government health agency.
Q:
How many more side effects of Islamic fasting than intermittent fasting?
A:
Islamic fasting or fasting has many times more side effects than intermittent
fasting. Let's see -
Roger
side effects = all side effects of intermittent fasting + 6 additional side
effects
1)
Dehydration and the many health problems that result from it - this is the
biggest cause of health damage
2)
Weight gain due to overeating in Sehri to walk all day in a state of starvation
3)
Overeating and weight gain in Iftar due to extreme hunger due to long hunger
4)
Eating high calorie oil fried fat and sugar in Iftar, drink soft drinks and
gain weight
5)
Weight gain from waking up after Iftar to Sehri
6)
Sleep disturbances and weight gain due to staying up all night or waking up in
the middle of the night for fear of missing the fast
Q:
Who is more interested and curious about Islamic and Intermittent Fasting?
A:
Let's see -
1)
Religious people who are superstitious about this because of the religious
provision called fasting
2)
Proponents of Alternative Medicine, sellers of vitamins and herbal supplements.
3)
The general public who are confused about the business promotion of the media
4)
Media people who want to loot business benefits by promoting these
5)
A section of nutritionists and dietitians who consider themselves equal to the
doctor
Q:
How do you proceed to find impartial information about the physical effects of
the rosary?
Answer:
It
takes a few years of study in a medical school to learn the logic,
interpretation, or methodology of various subjects related to medicine, and it
is necessary to practice not only biblical science but also the ward-based hand
pen of the hospital. As a result, the general public does not have the ability
to know and understand about medicine from non-medical general sites by
searching Google everywhere.
So,
first of all, everyone has to keep in mind that -
Anyone
who is not a physician or a researcher - saying or writing whatever they like
is not acceptable. In other words, it is absolutely inappropriate to follow the
following people to get health and medical information
01)
Religious leaders or gurus: whose speeches do not contain the slightest trace
of science or logic-information-proof.
02)
News reports of journalists and TV channel reporters published in newspapers:
those who have no knowledge of medicine or very little, that is, incomplete and
vague and there is always a lot of research in medical science, some of which
is right and some is wrong.
03)
YouTube channel, Facebook and personal / general site / blog: Those who are not
physicians or physicians but 3rd world fanatical physicians who do not have
knowledge but religion is the main thing.
So,
it is foolish to blindly believe these posts, articles, non-videos and video
blogs in a hurry.
So
how do you get 100% accurate and unbiased information? The answer is - to get
100% accurate and unbiased information you need to proceed step by step in the
following steps -
01)
1st Line Reference: Information from internationally recognized textbooks
02)
2nd Line Reference: Official sites of medical advanced countries such as CDC,
NHS
03)
3rd Line Reference: Most popular and established private medical sites such as
Medscape, Merck Manual, Medline, WebMD, Mayoclinic, Medicinenet and then
Healthline, Medicalnewsdaily (weak due to the addition of information on
alternative medicine)
04)
4th Line Reference: Research database site information such as PubMed, PMC,
Academia.edu, Embase, Google Scholar, etc. Database site information, but these
are relatively weak references because not all research is correct. In other
words, these sites contain a lot of inaccurate as well as unreliable
information mixed with accurate and recognized information.
Similarly,
ignorant people inspired by the story of fasting in different religions have
tried to establish this unscientific subject in different ways over the ages
but it is not right to do so according to the logic-information-interpretation
of science.
Therefore,
information from unknown general / non-medical / alternative medicine sites or
research on Islamic fasting or intermittent fasting or religious site
information is not acceptable in any way.
Question:
What are the harmful effects of irregularity in eating and sleeping due to
Islamic fasting?
A:
The harmful effects are as follows -
01)
People who eat more food at night have less overall calorie or energy intake
than people who eat more food in the morning (Overall Daily Intake). Fasting
lasts from evening to night and lasts from night to evening. As a result, the
risk of weight gain is undoubtedly higher among fasting people.
Similarly,
consuming the same amount of food at night instead of during the day increases
a person's body mass and weight.
Source
A)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19650955
B)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9040548
02)
The problem of high level of uncontrolled eating occurs most in the evening or
at night and the least occurs in the morning.
Source:
a)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21661003
03)
Weight loss with regular intake of small amount of food with a balanced break.
On the other hand, irregular intake of large amounts of food for a long period of
time with unequal breaks increases the production and storage of body fat which
leads to weight gain. Obesity, high cholesterol levels, glucose intolerance and
blood flow problems are also more common in such people.
During
fasting, one has to abstain from food and drink for a long time, there is an
unequal break between meals twice in a row, one has to stay up late for sehri
or wait till dawn which causes irregularities in food intake - these factors
contribute to weight gain. Among such individuals there is a widespread
abnormality in the secretion of the hormones insulin, glucose, leptin, ghrelin,
cortisol and melanin.
Source:
A) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20122134
B) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17579633
C) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19150931
D) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4927039
E) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1905998
04)
People who wake up at night are more prone to abdominal pain, diarrhea,
constipation, functional bowel disease. Meanwhile, the incidence of these
diseases is more prevalent among the fasting people as they wake up at night
for fasting.
Source:
A) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20160712
B) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20143038
05)
The incidence of metabolic disorders, indigestion, obesity and sleep problems
is higher among people who wake up at night. Not only that, eating less at
night with the family and eating more at night alone increases the daily
calorie intake and increases the risk of obesity.
Source:
a)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19360495
b) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23588858
c)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20524802
d)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11600731
08)
People who sleep less than 6 hours a day have less secretion of appetite
producing leptin hormone but more secretion of appetite-producing ghrelin and
orexin hormones which increase food intake and appetite. The net result of
staying up late at night in fasting and being forced to work during the day is
comparatively falling asleep on a particular day that contributes to weight
gain.
Source:
A)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15602591
B)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12899679
C)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20357041
D)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23899597
Lack
of sleep means increased intake of snacks or snacks at night which contributes
to weight gain in fasting people.
Source:
A)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21966060
B)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19056602
08)
Insulin becomes ineffective when sleep is reduced, glucose tolerance decreases,
the risk of type-2 diabetes increases.
A)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20846701
B)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19567526
08)
People who have little and irregular sleep - high levels of fat, sugar, salt
and fast food addiction increases and the amount of vegetables, protein and
bran foods decreased.
Source:
A)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21527892
B)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21715510
09)
Sleep deprivation reduces the secretion of thyroid hormone and adiponectin
hormone. As a result the body consumes less energy or burns calories.
Source:
A)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21471283
B)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20815195
C)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20723551
10)
Excessive sleepiness during the day plays a role in weight gain. Because of
staying up late, fasting people feel weak during the day and try to get rid of
the fatigue that can contribute to weight gain.
Source:
A)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23616752
B)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15033134
writer:
Mushfiqu Imtiaz Chowdhury
Researcher and doctor
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