We welcome back the month of Ramadan, where the days are so long and so hot.
We all want to send off each month of Ramadan having gained a new experience and a new awareness in our lives.
I will share a wonderful discovery that I have experienced over the years, I am very excited because I know that this information will cause you to reconsider your nutrition in your life after Ramadan.
We unnecessarily turn our worship into torture due to the mistakes that are considered right during Ramadan
What kind of a mistake is the idea that one should eat a lot in order not to feel hungry?
To stay full throughout the day, we need plenty of bread for sahur, We consume rice, pasta and cheese. This is our current food culture, but this will change after Ramadan, because with a few simple changes, you will immediately notice the comfort of a brand new experience. You can be sure that from now on, all your Ramadans will be more comfortable.
What is the solution?
No matter how much you eat, you will be able to postpone your hunger for 1-2 hours at most, but you will deepen your feeling of hunger 2-3 times more, and the thirst you will feel will start from the first hours of the day. You will deepen your hunger and increase the severity of your hunger.
Why?
Because we are not aware of the amount of water required for the digestion of each overeaten bite, for example, for the digestion of a food containing 100 grams of protein in the stomach, blood will be required. The amount of fluid withdrawn is more than 200 cc. With the fluids released from the intestines and bile, 300 cc of liquid passed from the blood to the intestinal system. The next step will be 500 cc of water to clean the wastes that will form in the blood. Since we did not make this calculation, especially if we have a sahur containing protein such as cheese, sausage, salami, your mouth and tongue will be dry in the morning. you wake up. These people keep the hardest fast, God knows whether it will bring great rewards or torture the body.
The trio of cheese, watermelon and bread consumed at sahur is considered the most innocent and most popular light sahur. Let's see what we see when you look carefully. .
Salted cheese will naturally increase your water needs due to its water-retaining properties. Cheese contains dense protein, Therefore, the 4th-8th day of digestion. Plenty of water will be used to clean the uric acid that will be released during the day, and the amount of water to be used to clean the uric acid that will be formed due to 100 g of protein will be approximately 500 ml. Since you cannot drink this water, your thirst will be even deeper.
Now, sweet watermelon has a strong diuretic effect, creating a difficult urine output in your body and consuming your limited water resources, so you will have a very difficult day ahead of you.-
2. It is a well-known myth: Drinking plenty of water to avoid being thirsty will cause you a separate problem. Excess water that you drink to avoid thirst will not only be of no benefit to you, but will also cause many harms.
Excess water cannot be retained in the body and is eliminated from the body within 3 hours at the latest. You cannot find enough water in your body in 7-8 hours, which is the time when we actually need water.
Let's talk about drinking too much water. The first problem is that it prevents the stomach from reaching a sufficient acidity level, thus there is no healthy digestion. How do you understand this? As a result of not being able to digest what you eat, you spend your day with a gassy intestine. This is one of the mistakes of those who wake up in the morning with bad breath.
Any extremely sweet food can be metabolized using 10-15 times more water than the amount of sugar consumed, and this water is needed to regulate the rising sugar in the blood.
In addition, water will be needed again in the process of converting this sugar into energy. Desserts such as jam, molasses and halva cause insulin release as they increase blood sugar rapidly, therefore the foods that make you hungry the earliest are dough and sugary products.
According to these rules, foods that should be avoided during sahur.
Jam, halva, molasses, kashar and cheese varieties. Salami, sausage, soudjouk, all kinds of bread, pasta, pastry.
CORRECT CHOICES FOR SAHUR
Almighty Allah has given different properties to foods.
Foods that give water to the body as they are digested, and foods that draw water from the body as they are digested. At the beginning of my article, I shared how water is used in our body at every stage of digestion, I think this is understood.
Now, my body at every stage of digestion. I want to talk about foods that give you water.
For example, let's say you eat carrots and lettuce, eggs with butter, herb yoghurt, tzatziki, cucumber, pumpkin with yoghurt, avocado, and purple beet. Almost very little water is consumed to digest these products, which is why they are removed from your blood. Not only is the water not withdrawn, but you start the day without feeling thirsty in the first hours of the morning due to the water slowly flowing into your blood from sahur to the morning. As the water of the fresh lettuce and carrot will continue to be absorbed from the intestines in the later hours of the day, hunger will continue on the 6th-7th day. You will notice that you are as comfortable as if you were drinking water from a fountain, even during the hour.
I recommend eating 1-2 eggs with butter, only the yolk should be soft-boiled, a glass of water is sufficient for the digestion of the egg, as the metabolism waste of butter does not require much water like meat. Your water cost will not be high.
You will not experience a feeling of deep thirst. I would also like to share an unknown detail,
FATS ARE FOODS THAT REDUCE WATER LOSS IN OUR BODY.
How do we have this effect? does?
While fats are digested, a small amount of water is released, the sweat-reducing effect of fats should also be taken into account, and as for another reason why fats are preferred for sahur, the water needed to clean the breakdown products of fats is extremely less compared to meat, milk and cheese. .
And another very important reason why we prefer fats is that fats require plenty of water for digestion, meaning that the more fatty foods you eat, the more water you can retain, but despite all these beauties, there is a significant problem with fats. ,
Fats have the potential to cause oxidative effects on the veins, in other words, they burn the veins. What to do then? The solution to this is to consume powerful antioxidants along with fats, otherwise you will not suffer from thirst, but you will increase your aging and vascular problems.
Then what do I mean by powerful antioxidants?
The most powerful antioxidants are the green vegetables and purple vegetables that we know.
So, prepare quality salads even for sahur, use plenty of olive oil, walnuts, and olive oil in your salads. Enrich with almonds and hazelnuts
Wrong moment In order not to be misunderstood, I need to state from the beginning that the oils I mean are only unprocessed, unrefined oils, such as plain butter, cold-pressed olive oil, coconut, etc. These are fats.
The most common reason for shortening the duration of hunger, that is, getting hungry quickly, are all foods with a high glycemic index. In other words, it is dough and sugar, the more you eat of these products, the more you guarantee that you will feel hunger deeply.
I hope that this information will help you have a very comfortable Ramadan. Bread is one of the main depleters of the body's water resources, so you should not eat bread at sahur. very important.
IF YOU NEED TO LIST FOODS THAT PROVIDE WATER TO THE BODY
All fatty foods; Unroasted almonds, walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts soaked in water overnight. Butter, Olive oil. , coconut.
All vegetables; purslane, arugula, cucumber, cress, cabbage, purple lettuce, especially carrots keep you full and can be used instead of bread.
SAMPLE SAHUR MENUS
1-) A tzatziki with purslane, carrots. , eggs in butter, 3-5 walnuts soaked in water
2-) Walnuts or almonds soaked overnight in purslane salad, menemen in butter (tomatoes with a little red pepper). I recommend you to eat it without bread.
3-) Tarhana soup (it should not be thick, it should have plenty of water) with plenty of slightly salty green olives and carrots.
4-) Mix purple carrots, turnip salad, avocado and 3-5 soaked walnuts or a handful of almonds.
5-) Coconut is a great sahur meal on its own, definitely try it.
6-) Rice pilaf prepared with plenty of tomatoes, red peppers, green peppers and butter surprisingly keeps you full and does not make you thirsty.
7-)Those who want to eat meat or liver for sahur should definitely eat it with plenty of salad.
8-)Prepare tables with seasonal fruits and consume them with nuts soaked in some water.
You will think that your reward is a little low because you will not experience hunger and thirst during Ramadan. Remember that our religion is a religion of convenience, you do not fast to torture your body, we fast to remember the owner of the blessing.
The statement that the fasting person's sleep is also worship is for the sick and the elderly. May you be encouraged to fast, and spend your Ramadan vigorously and fitly.
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