POSITIVE BENEFIT OF FASTING ON HEALTH - Nr. Abdullahi Musa

In this article, I highlighted the possible benefits of fasting on health, the benefits of fasting on mental well-being, the spiritual benefit of fasting, and the socio-cultural benefits of fasting. 

POSITIVE BENEFITS OF FASTING ON HEALTH

• detoxification process also occurs, any toxins stored in the body's fat are dissolved and removed

as waste.

• Reduce the risk of diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and atherosclerosis

• Reboot the immune system, which is cleaning out old immune cells and regenerating new ones, a

process that protects against cell damage caused by factors such as aging and chemotherapy.

• Weight loss, due to the use of fat for energy can help preserve muscle and reduce cholesterol levels.

• Improves mental wellbeing, a high level of endorphins (feel-good hormones) are produced in the

blood.

BENEFIT OF FASTING ON MENTAL WELLBEING

• Reducing stress, by reducing the activity of the brain. The body uses energy to digest food where

the brain is constantly relaying from the digested food, but during fasting the brain activity is

reduced due to the absence of continuous digestion.

• Sharpening of mind; fasting sharpens an individual's mind and makes a person sensitive and alert to

mental effort. Because many fasters reported that their mind is sharpened and focused. This is

explained by the fact that the cleansing process of fasting actually gets rid of commenting and

intrusive particles of nervous tissue. As a result, a great number of brain cells come into contact with

purified blood and the improved blood flow to the brain helps to clarify our mind.

• Protection against neurodegenerative disease

• Reduces insomnia

• Reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety; fasting has been found to significantly reduce

the symptoms of anxiety for about 80% of patients that are having chronic pain.

•Brain derived neurotrophic factor; is a protein that increases during fasting and interacts with

several neurons in parts of the brain that are associated with memory, learning, and cognition.

• It increases psychological and mental stability

generation of peace in both religions so the persons hostility and crime rate reduces.

SPIRITUAL BENEFIT OF FASTING

• It helps in gaining fairness and love of God making an individual closer to God.

• It helps an individual to have self-control from bad deeds.

• It helps individuals to be more charitable; during fasting, numerous wealthy individuals give out to

the needy in form of charity.

• It helps in refining the manners of individual

• It helps to provide peace in the heart and mind.

SOCIOCULTURAL BENEFITS OF FASTING

• Control of antisocial behaviors; fasting contributes greatly towards controlling antisocial

behaviors within society. During the period of fasting religious-minded person tends to keep

away from antisocial behaviors like smoking and alcoholism.

•Control of extravagance; during the period of fasting, most of the socio-cultural activities that

may lead to financial extravagancy are limited such as parties, naming ceremonies, and wedding

ceremonies.

• Control of emotional feelings; fasting helps to reduce the level of sexual desire thereby

preventing the religious-minded person from involving himself or herself in a sexual relationship, or

any acts of romance within the stipulated time of fasting, (from dawn to sunset).

• Dedication; during fasting, the religious-minded person dedicates themselves to special prayers.

Regular recitation of the Holy Book (Quran) and as well as carrying out certain activities that

may bring them closer to God.

• Promoting self-image; fasting helps to promote the image of religious-minded individuals e.g

abstinence from eating, drinking, and sexual relationship will increase the image of the person

likewise, not abstaining from these acts will lead to tarnishing the image of an individual in the eyes

of populous.

• Providing peace and unity; during fasting religious-minded individuals try to keep away from

various irrespective behavior that may lead to conflict and violence within the society e.g insult

and unreasonable arguments among people are prohibited.

• Limitation of socio-cultural activities; most the sociocultural gatherings such as birthday

celebrations are limited during fasting due to the fact that most the religious-minded person

dedicate themselves to God and seek forgiveness and mercy.

NOTE: During fasting, there is an increased cost of living; because of the high demand for various

commodities and food items during fasting, the prices of items needed by individual tends to

increase thereby causing a high cost of living. Numerous businessmen are using this period to

pressurize people without sympathy by accelerating the prices of daily consumable commodities.

Some businessmen are going the extra mile in buying things for daily needs during this period and

keep months before the commencement of Ramadan just to inflate the price prior to Ramadan or

as Ramadan commenced thereby making the life so hard for the common men; items like sugar,

foodstuffs, fruits, ice block and cold water their prices are often increasing during this period.

Besides all these you'll be praying for God to bless and sustain your business, do you think is

possible after you're taking it in the wrong direction?

The picture attached shows other benefits.

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