Benefit of Fasting for Health

Effect of fasting on the health of the physical mechanisms covering various aspects of health, among others, namely:

* Provide an opportunity to rest the digestive device,On days when not fasting, digestion tool in the body to work hard, therefore rightly digestion tool given a break.

* Clean your body of toxins and impurities (detoxification). By fasting, means restricting calories in our body to produce enzymes that can clean antioxidant substances that are toxic and carcinogenic and expelled from the body.* Increase the number of white blood cells. White blood cell function to ward off disease so that with the addition of white blood cells can automatically boost the immune system.

* Balancing the acid and alkaline levels in the body,* Improve the function of hormones, rejuvenate the body's cells,* Improve the function of organs
better if it begins to break their fast by eating a date, or with fruit and drinks are sweet like honey. This doctrine implies health because fruits and sweet drinks that are ready to use fuel that can be immediately absorbed by the body to restore energy after a day the body was not supplied by food and beverages. Glucose contained in fruits and sweet drinks are the main energy source for body cells. Effective glucose needed when the body requires energy input needed.
Exhortation is not simply a meal to gain power over the prime pilgrimage fasting, but also implies that fasting during the fasting necessary preparation so that work productivity and daily activities are not disrupted.At the time of iftar meal supply and nutrition should be attempted to meet the required elements of the body, including six types of nutrients are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. The importance of nutritional balance are often less aware of because the results are not directly visible. Someone who lack certain nutrients as dangerous with their particular nutritional advantages. Eat a well balanced portions and nutritional affects the central nervous system and biochemical conditions of the body. Eat a balanced meal that is not short but not too excessive, which adjusted for age, quality and quantity of motion and body condition.

In some people, at the time of fasting have any complaints such as feeling weak and lethargic or decreased stamina, as well as digestive disorders like flatulence and gastric disorders. Some certain foodstuffs such as honey, ginger, kencur, temu lawak, and other materials can be used to overcome the decreased stamina, bloating, and stomach upset during fasting.

Here are some natural ingredients that can be used in order to stay fit and fresh fasting.

1.honeyUsefulness: increase stamina and maintain stabilitias body to remain healthy and fit, launched a process of metabolism, for beauty and youth, prevent indigestion, etc.

2.KURMA Usefulness: increasing stamina and energy, preventing & overcoming anemia (anemia), launched an exile, as a sedative (merileksasi a strained muscle cells), prevents uterine bleeding.

3.JAHE (Zingiber officinale ROSC.)Usefulness: increased stamina, overcoming flatulence, colds, nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, fever, etc.

4.TEMU lawak (Curcuma xanthorrhiza)Usefulness: high cholesterol, improve stamina / tonic, anemia, gastritis / dyspepsia, flatulence, and others.

5.KENCUR (Kaempferia galanga)Usefulness: improving stamina, eliminate bad breath, inflammation of the stomach, bloating, nausea, vomiting, colds, and others.

6. Red Potatoes (Ipomoea batatas)Usefulness: flatulence, fart peluruh, colds, stomach disorders

7.Turmeric (Curcuma domestica Val.)Efficacy / effect; gastritis, gall expedite expenditure thereby reducing flatulence, nausea, and taste begah in the stomach.

8.KAPULAGA (Amomum cardamomum)Usefulness: for gastritis, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal bloating, sat.

9.Kayu Manis (Cinnamomum burmanii)Usefulness: for gastritis, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal bloating, sat.

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20 benefits of fasting for health
 

1. When fasting was an increase in HDL cholesterol and apoprotein alfa1, and a decrease in LDL proved very beneficial for the heart and blood vessel health. Some of the research "chronobiological" show during Ramadan fasting affect circadian rhythms decrease the distribution of body temperature, hormone cortisol, melatonin and glisemia. Various minor changes that despite the apparently also contributes to the improvement of human health.


2. Psychological state of calm, quiet and not filled with anger when fasting was able to reduce adrenaline. When angry permanent increase of 20-30 times as much adrenaline. Adrenaline will minimize muscle contraction bile, peripheral blood vessels to narrow, broaden pebuluh coronary blood, increasing blood pressure rterial and increase the volume of blood to the heart and the number of heartbeats. Adrenaline also adds to the formation of cholesterol from fat low density protein. Various things can apparently increase the risk of vascular disease, heart and brain, such as coronary heart disease, stroke and other.


3. The number of dead cells in the body reaches 125 million per second, but who was born and meremaja more. When fasting terjdi massive change and the conversion of amino acids accumulate in the food. Before being distributed in the body happens to reformat. Thus providing new opportunities stem cells to repair and restore the function and performance. Diet during fasting can supply fatty acids and essential amino acids during meal and break the fast. Shoots forming protein, fat, phosphate, cholesterol and others to build new cells and clean the fat cells that clot in the heart.


4. Fasting can reduce blood sugar, cholesterol and controlling blood pressure. That is why fasting is highly recommended for the treatment of those suffering from diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity and high blood. Under certain conditions, a patient is even permissible to fast, except those who are already suffering from severe diabetes, coronary heart disease and kidney stones. Fasting can keep a full stomach caused a lot of eating is the main cause for various diseases, especially obesity, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and diseases caused by excess of other nutrients.


5. Was among the benefits of fasting in terms of health is intestinal cleaning-intestines, improve the work of digestion, cleanse the body from the remnants of food and sediment, reduce obesity and excess fat in the abdomen.


6. Includes benefits of fasting is to break the appetite. Because excessive, either in eating or drinking and menggauli wife, could encourage the desire to do evil, and the resulting reluctance ingratitude towards idleness.


7. Termination of water consumption during fasting is very effective in improving the concentration of urine in the kidneys and increase the osmotic strength of the urine until you reach 1000 to 12,000 osmosis ml / kg of water. In certain circumstances this will be member protection against renal function. Lack of water in the fasting was able to minimize the volume of water in the blood. These conditions result in performance boost local mechanisms regulating the blood vessels and increase the prostaglandins that in turn spur job function and red blood cells.


8. In the fasting state was able to boost the immune system. Research shows when fasting occurred pengkatan lymphocytes tenfold. Although the overall white blood cells did not change apparently mengalani T cells increase rapidly. Accidental changes in low density lipoprotein a (cholesterol), not followed by the addition of HDL. LDL lipoprotein which is a model for meberika stumulatif influence the immune response.


9. In recent pelitian showed that decreased levels of apobetta, increased levels of apoalfa1 than before fasting. Such conditions may alienate seragan heart and blood vessel disease.


10. Endocrinology research shows that a diet during fasting which is rotatif become a burden in food assimilation in the body. This situation resulted in spending the digestive system hormones and insulin in large quantities. The decline of these hormones is one of the secrets of living long term.


11. Other benefits shown in research on male fertility. In the research carried out research on the hormone testosterone, prolactin, lemotin, and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), turns out the final results of the research conclusions of fasting beneficial in sperm formation through changes in hypothalamic-pituatari testicular hormones and the effect of two testes.


12. Another benefit that needs further research is the influence of fasting on improving arthritis patients (gout) or rheumatoid arthritis. Parameters studied are neutralizing cell function (neutrophil) and patients with clinical progression. The study concludes that there is a correlation between improvement in arthritis and improving the ability of neutralizing cells in killing bacteria.


13. In a journal endocrine and metabolic research reported fasting is associated with hormones and male sexual performance. The study observed virility hormone levels (testosterone), stimulants sac (FSH) and lemotin (LH). Changes in various hormone levels in the week. In the early stages of the hormone testosterone which showed a decrease resulted in a decrease in sexual desire but do not disturb the fertility of the network. But only temporarily because of a few days after fasting hormone testosterone and sexual performance increased rapidly over the previous.


14. Even a researcher in Moscow doing research on a thousand patients with mental disorders including sizofrenia. It turned out that about 65% with fasting there is a significant improvement of mental condition. Various other studies have shown it also reduces the risk of Ramadan fasting kompilkasi obesity, protects the body from kidney stones, reducing youth sexual upheavals and other diseases more


15. Our thoughts are slowed down when hungry, it becomes sharper. Instinctively, this scientific evidence could be accepted related to the fact that in many cases, the problem of hunger is a matter of survival. So naturally, if a hunger to make more sharp and creative minds. A group of students at the University of Chicago were asked to fast for seven days. During that time, proved that their mental alertness increased and their progress in various assignments campus also got a "remarkable".


16. Includes benefits of fasting is to narrow the blood flow path that is the way to the devil in himself the son of Adam. Because the devil went to Adam's children through the path of blood flow. By fasting, then he is safe from interference demons, the power of lust lust and anger. Hence the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam made the fasting as a fortress to prevent lust lust marriage, so he was able to govern people who are not married to fasting


17. A scientist in the field of psychology called Dr. Ehret said that for more than just the physical benefits, ie in order to get the mental benefits of fasting activity, a person should undergo fasting for more than 21 days.


18. Another psychiatrist, Dr. scientists. E.A. Moras, said that a female patient had suffered from mental illness for more than eight months. The woman has been treated here and there, including to the neurologist with less satisfactory results. He asked her to fast. Women's mental condition has improved, and even declared cured after fasting for five weeks. In our brains, there are cells called "neuroglial cells." The function is as a cleanser and constitutional brain. When fasting, the neuron cells are dead or ill, will be "eaten" by this neuroglial cells.


19. A research paper by Dr. Ratey, a Harvard psikiaters, revealed that the regulation and limitation of calorie intake will increase the performance of the brain. Dr. Ratey do research on those who fasted and monitored their brains with a tool called "functional magnetic resonance imaging" (fMRI). Results of monitoring was concluded that each individual object shows the activity "motor cortex", which increased consistently and significantly.



20. Scientists in the field of neurology, named Mark Mattson, Ph.D., a neuroscience lab chief at NIH's National Institute on Aging. The research results showed that the right diet such as fasting, can significantly protect the brain from de-generative diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. The research shows that restricting caloric intake diet with 30% to 50% of normal levels, decrease the heart rate and blood pressure, and at the same time rejuvenating the brain cells.


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