Tips to Stay Healthy While Fasting

Tips to Stay Healthy While Fasting

While fasting, the metabolic rate of an individual starts to decline but other body mechanism will work.

Generally, fasting during Ramadan can improve a person's health, but there is also the possibility of it getting worse!

Determinants that contribute to individual health concerns itself not as fast, but due to the type of food taken from time to time breaking dawn.

The problem that often occurs when some of them can be solved fast if know how. Here are some steps you can adopt during the month of Ramadan.

1. Heartburn. When someone is thinking about food, the brain will send signals in the stomach to produce acid that can cause heartburn. Thus, heartburn is one problem that often occurs during the month of Ramadan. So, make sure you choose foods that are slow to digest when dawn.

2. Dehydration. Lack of water in the body will lower your metabolism and cause dehydration. During Ramadan, the problem of dehydration is more common because you have to endure hunger and thirst for more than 10 hours. Because of that, it is important to enjoy adequate water during meal and breaking.

3. Headache. While fasting, frequent headaches occur due to several factors such as hunger, lack of sleep or caffeine and tobacco. Therefore, to reduce the intake of caffeine and tobacco slowly and get enough sleep to reduce headaches when fasting.

4. Constipation. Among the factors a person is experiencing constipation is excessive fast food consumption and water intake and not enough fiber in the diet. To avoid this problem, reduce the consumption of fast food. Instead, add the total intake of fruits and vegetables.

5. Low sugar levels. If feel dizzy, tired, fatigue, chills, experiencing poor concentration or is unable to perform physical activity while fasting, the possibility of the symptoms that you experience low blood sugar levels. So, the intake of sugary foods and drinks during meal and iftar time should be controlled to help prevent blood sugar drop drastically. For that, eat fresh fruit and drink juice without sugar as an energy source when breaking the fast.

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