Fasting people frequently eat Ramadan sweets at breakfast. The Gulf Health Council warned once morest increasing sugar intake or exceeding the medically recommended limit during the month of Ramadan.
The council explained that the permissible limit in the consumption of sugars is estimated for an adult to be 7 teaspoons of sugar (34 grams) per day, indicating that exceeding the medically recommended limit is expected to make a person feel 5 symptoms, namely: lethargy following eating, or fatigue and fatigue during The following hours of fasting, or feeling thirsty, and the accumulation of body fat, in addition to high blood sugar.
He stressed the need for the fasting person to follow a balanced and varied healthy diet during the iftar and suhoor period, and to reduce the consumption of sweets, especially during or immediately following breakfast, to avoid these symptoms.
In general, nutritionists warn once morest excessive consumption of sweets in the month of Ramadan, because they contain a high amount of saturated fat.
Specialists attribute the reasons for excessive consumption of sweets by some in Ramadan to the increased feeling of need for sugars as a reaction to the body following the sugar rate was low throughout the time of fasting, while there is a group that mainly loves to eat sweets a lot in Ramadan and others, and this category is more likely to gain excess weight. With the passage of time.
Some people eat large amounts of sugar during the iftar and pre-suhoor periods, and this raises the calorie rates, and the matter gets worse if the individual is inactive and does not engage in any sports activity, and thus the amount of sugar in his body increases and threatens him with many diseases that start with weight gain and end with increase Chances of developing type 2 diabetes.
