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Isn't Ramadan bad for your health? Please don't take offense to this question?
I heard you have to not eat or even drink water from sun rise to sunset. Wouldn't that put your body into starvation.
Then after you break the fast you feast on oily stews of meat and brothy rice and very thick, delicious food (I have had food at my Muslim friends house before, It was great)
Isn't this bad for a person's health? One of my muslim friends said they are not even allowed to take medicine during ramadan
8 Answers
- Anonymous5 years ago
No, we drink and eat enough after we break the fast so it wont harm us when we're fasting, also we do this because god want us to feel what poor people feel and go through everyday, but since it's only for a month and we even have enough time to provide the body with enough food it's not harmful at all and if the person is too sick and can't continue fasting he can break the fast and take the medicine.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Someone called CPS because some kids at my daughter's school weren't allowed to eat or have water all day. They were stick skinny as it was. I don't think this rule should apply to children. It's dangerous for their heath. But that's what happens when you follow a backwards religion that has no regard for women or children. Personal safety and human rights trump religion any day.
- See leVelLv 75 years ago
Long time fasting is very bad for health, the muslims don't enjoy any better health then the non-fasting world. They suffer the same illnesses, plus more kidney problem than any in the world.
- Anonymous5 years ago
No, that would not put your body into 'starvation'. Early man developed in hunter-gathering environments in which people often might not get anything to eat for more than a day at a time - far longer than the dawn-to-dusk of Ramadan - and our bodies evolved to cope with that. In fact, some people consider that for optimum health we ought only to eat every other day.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Think its ment to be a type of sacrifice but not eatin n drinking for a day wont hurt you people can live for over a week on very little
- ?Lv 75 years ago
Salam No we Muslims do not feel bad for our health by fasting even we feel healthier besides we will have stronger taqwa