Al-Marsad newspaper: “The British Nutrition Foundation” revealed healthy steps that the fasting person should follow in feeding and taking care of the body’s needs to make fasting easier and less causing exhaustion and physical fatigue.
Among these steps, according to Asharq Al-Awsat:
Avoid exhaustion of the body
The Foundation said: Once the body consumes all the calories it obtained from foods eaten during the night, the body during fasting hours uses carbohydrates (stored in the liver and muscles) and uses fats, in order to provide energy, so the body is not affected to a severe degree, and the suffering remains for it It is limited to the feeling of hunger and thirst that can be tolerated, that is, without affecting the mechanisms of supplying the body with energy.
relieving hunger
The body has a key to feeling hungry, by increasing or decreasing the production of hunger/satiety hormones, which we can control so as not to cause us too much discomfort.
Among the most powerful of these foods are food products rich in proteins, and food products rich in complex carbohydrates, ie slow-digesting sugars.
Conservation of body fluids
The body cannot store water, but the kidneys work to reduce the amount of water the body excretes with urine. Therefore, avoiding unnecessary exposure to sunlight and hot weather contributes to reducing the amount of water lost by the body through other outlets, that is, with breathing air and with sweat secretions.
Drought
Depending on the number of hours of fasting during the day, the temperature of the atmosphere, the amount of physical effort that the fasting person exerts, and also according to a person’s health condition, the majority of those fasting suffer from a slight degree of dehydration, which causes dry mouth, feeling thirsty and headache, feeling a low degree of fatigue, and few difficulties. in focus. With this degree of dehydration, there is no drop in blood pressure, or an increase in the heart rate, or an increase in body temperature.
Also, this simple state of dehydration has no health damage to it as long as the health condition of the fasting person is originally good, and as long as one is keen to drink water following the time for breakfast.
Eating timing
During the early evening hours, it is worth taking care not to delay eating breakfast, so that the body begins to receive its needs of water and food in a healthy arrangement that benefits the body and does not overburden the digestive system.
Prevention of constipation
Changes in eating habits and lack of fluids during the day, may cause constipation for some fasting people. The first step in preventing this is to eat many foods rich in fiber, such as whole grains, fiber-rich cereals, bran, fruits, vegetables, beans, lentils, dried fruits and nuts, along with drinking plenty of fluids.