Fasting Will Be Healthy If Done Properly

Iftar is sweet, but it shouldn't be too much. (Between/Xinhua/Yasser Qudih/pras)

JAKARTA Fasting is good for health. This statement is often made by doctors and health experts. Even though you have to endure hunger and thirst, fasting turns out to have many benefits for the body because most of the diseases come from what is consumed.

Launching the page of the Director General of Health Services at the Ministry of Health fasting can actually help the body reduce resistance to insulin and excessive blood sugar levels.

This can happen because insulin helps control blood sugar levels in the body by bringing sugar to the body's cells and making it a source of energy.

In addition, fasting can also improve heart health. A person who fasts for one full month reduces the risk of heart disease, high cholesterol, and hypertension when compared to people who do not fast. Because fasting allows a person to adjust their diet to be healthier.

The article on the benefits of fasting on the Siloam Hospital page also writes that fasting can improve brain function. Fasting is known to encourage protein production that supports the formation and development of nerves.

The protein will encourage the parent cells in the brain to remove new nerve cells, resulting in various chemical reactions that have a good impact on the brain's work system. The protein also helps protect brain cells from abnormalities, such as Alzheimer's.

Other benefits, of course, can lose weight. Increase the body's metabolism so that calorie and fat burning also increases. This will trigger weight loss and prevent obesity.

The concept of Ramadan fasting itself has more or less in common with the fasting intermittent which has proven useful for maintaining weight, even avoiding aging, "wrote the article.

However, these benefits will be felt when properly done. If the weight tends to increase, that is a sign that there are still errors in fasting.

The raid is because you eat too much sweet foods and eat too much when breaking the fast. The recommendation does break the fast with sweet ones, but it should not be excessive.

Consumption of sweet foods with high sugar content, especially foods with excessive artificial sweeteners can trigger a spike in blood sugar levels, make you easily thirst, increase appetite and trigger risk of diabetes, as written on the Ai Care page.

Set a diet by eating healthy foods, especially those that contain fiber. In addition, exercise must also continue. Fasting does not mean that you are lazy to exercise. Do exercise in the afternoon or evening.

The recommendation of fasting is actually not only for Muslims. Other religious people also have fasting services that are often performed at certain moments.

Catholics aged 18 to early 60 years carry out the pre-Paskah fasting for 40 days, which is calculated from Wednesday Abu to Good Friday. This service is known as pantang and fasting.

Especially for fasting, Catholics are only allowed to eat once in a day. Meanwhile, for those aged 14 years on the benchmark, they eat the most preferred foods as written in the Ikatholics.

Likewise, Protestant Christianity. Fasting into worship is not mandatory that is tailored to personal needs. However, currently, many churches have set fasting as routine worship with rules according to God's word as quoted by SinodeGKI.

The meaning of fasting for Christians is a form of self-appropriation before God, a symbol of regret and regret, and the deepest expression of a request to God.

Meanwhile, Buddhists have a fasting ritual called Uposatha. When fasting, Buddhists are still allowed to drink but are not allowed to eat from noon to early morning. Also, not allowed to watch, use cosmetics, perfume, and have sex.

In Hinduism, fasting is called Upawasa. For example, Upawasa Siwa Ratri, Hindus are not allowed to eat and drink from sunrise to sunset. Then, fasting on Nyepi Day which is carried out from dawn to dawn the next day.

This means that health can be said to be only a handful of benefits. The deeper thing, fasting is a way to improve human spiritual quality so that they can control themselves from the temptation of lust and continue to do good according to His orders.