Our body has a growth hormone known
as IGF-1, which helps the process of growing up when we were little. However,
as an adult hormonal causes of aging, while if growth over the limit can lead
to cancer, diabetes and other diseases. Fasting lowers levels of IGF-1, which
is believed by some scientists to slow the growth of new cells and encourage
your body to repair cells that have been there. Fasting can also speed up the
fat burning process, so you can lose weight.
There is a fasting that is
currently popular. Diet 5:2, ie, fasting two days a week at different times.
When the fasting man can consume 600 calories and females only 500 calories.
Those who do choose to eat diet foods at once, or gradually eat for a day. This
methods were introduced by the BBC Horizon program, "Eat, Fast and Live
Longer," when a reporter tried a number of different techniques fasting.
And if you know, the diet is already introduced by the Prophet Muhammad about
1434 years ago.
He recommended for his followes to
having fast twice a week (Monday and Thursday). He said "All human deeds
on Mondays and Thursdays will be checked by an angel, so I was pleased when I
checked my actions charity is fasting." (Narrated by Tirmidhi). Fasting is
done routinely can provide many benefits to the physical and mental / bathiniah.
It is also recognized by some Western experts from non-Muslims, such as the
Allan Cott MD (USA), Dr. Yuri Nikolayev (Russia) and Alvenia M. Fulton
(American). Allan Cott MD has even recorded some of the wisdom of fasting into
a book entitled “Why Fast?”
These are some of the benefits of
fasting every Monday and Thursday for physical health. First, it provides an
opportunity to rest the digestive tract. Because on the day when we are not
fasting tool digestion in the body works very hard. By fasting every Monday and
Thursday, it means restricting calories in our body to produce enzymes and
antioxidants that can clean substances that are toxic and carcinogenic, and
removing it from the body.
Second, it can prevent diseases
caused by excessive nutrient diet, which is not necessarily good for one's
health. Excess nutrients or overnutrisi cause obesity which can cause
degenerative diseases such as high cholesterol and triglycerides, coronary
heart disease, diabetes (diabetes mellitus), and others.
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