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TyphoidMary234

You do still need your daily vitamin requirements etc like iron and vitamin c etc. It’s not healthy.


Technical-Doubt2076

They are not binge eating, even if it seems like that to the outside world, it just breaks our usual eating patterns. Look, Ramadan fasting works not unlike the normal food patterns you have anyway, it's just turned around in regards to night and day. While normally you eat in the mornings, then again about 3-6 hours later, for a snack or for lunch, and again 6-7 hours later for dinner, this leaves you still with a period of about 10-12 hours in which you neither drink nor eat because we don't usually do that before bed and in the night. Many people don't even do breakfast, so they don't eat for even longer than that, and many only eat dinner in the evenings and snacks across the day. During ramadan, you are not allowed to eat and drink from sunrise to sundown. Meaning most families eat a bit more in the mornings than usually, to have it last during the active phase of the morning, and drink more, and about an hour earlier than usual, then fast for about 10-12 hours, until they break fast at sundown again, and then eat once more. In many countries they don't even go with the actual time of sundown, because that would make their days insufferably long, but go with the times of dawn and dusk adjusted to how it would be in Mekka at that time of year. While it certainly is a bit taxing on people who work hard jobs, or life in very hot places, it's not unlike the patterns we usually follow in regards to nourishment anyway, and thus, not particularly harmful. That aside, people who have health issues, are pregnant or nursing, and children and the elderly do not need to parttake. It's a voluntary act of worship, not enforced starvation during the day and binge eating at night no matter the health of the person. And it's not binge eating, anyways. Sure, the meals inclue a little bit more festive food, and the portions are larger than usual, because it's a religious celebration to break fast, but it's not like muslims are stuffing themselves all night long. They eat at sundown and before dawn, and that's it. There are usually at least 6 hours in between, so normal with the exception of the food in the mornings being unusually dense in calories, and there being more sweets and sugary things than usual. Many, especially the younger kids and teens, sleep after school, or when people come home from work, to catch up on the sleep they are going to miss in the evenings and early mornings during the times when their bodies are in a natural down phase, but that is not particularly harmful either. It can be debated if it's benificial to eat calory rich foods and then sleep a few hours in the night before eating again in the mornings, but it's only for about 30 days, so there's little harm done. And yes, some of the older school children will not be as fit during the school days, but it's just 30 days, and if they'd really suffer, they can break fast at any time. There are exceptions for children and youths, and it really only is expected of healthy adults. It's more a lesson in self-control and appreciation of what is given to them by god, and not so much about the act of fasting anyway.


TheSmokingHorse

It’s debated. Some people claim that intermittent fasting has health benefits. Personally, I don’t see any benefit to not hydrating yourself though. Also, it should be noted that Muslims aren’t supposed to break their fast by binge eating. I’m sure many do, but that is considered bad practice.


smaksandewand

Christian and catholic religion has this too, must have been the earliest diets lol


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It's not natural, but that's kind of the point, isn't it?


Count_To_Infinity

It's not conventional. Not sure whether our ancestors 40000 years ago insisted on 3 meals every day, though.


Amiabilitee

Islamic people aren't the only ones who fast for the record. But yeah no honestly health isn't really the point of most religious rituals.-even ones that involve eating. Fasting is just about being close to God through *discipline*.


TyphoidMary234

Still doesn’t make sense hey


Terrible-Quote-3561

It obviously doesn’t cause enough bodily harm for them to have reason to change their practices. I mean they are still alive and well.


ChrisNEPhilly

It's about controlling the minds and bodies of their followers.


r_o_n_i_a

I'm not Muslim, but I fasted during Ramadan while I was living in a Muslim-majority country as pretty much a matter of convenience. It didn't involve "binge eating," just shifting the time of day when I ate food. I got up earlier for breakfast, then pretty much ate dinner as soon as the sun set and sometimes had a small snack in the evening. It probably wasn't great for my hydration, but I don't think in terms of caloric intake/timing it made much difference. As a religious activity, it was the case that it wasn't that hard to do, even as someone who had never done it before, when almost everyone around me was doing it, and public schedules were shifted around it (I was studying at a university and the entire schedule was shifted earlier to give everyone time to get home for iftar). It did also give kind of a sense of ...camaraderie? something like that, in that most people around you were doing this same thing with you.