CHANGE YOUR EATING HABITs
Change your your eating habit:
“The three major killers in modern society – Coronary Heart Disease‚ Cancer and Strokes – can all be linked to what people eat and drink.†Dr B. Hetzel‚ Chief of the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition and Foundation‚ Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine‚ Monash University.
According to National Academy of Science‚ 60% of all cancers in women‚ and 40% in men are due to dietary and nutritional factors.
No Meat:
God gave man no permission to eat animal food until after the flood. Everything had been destroyed upon which man could subsist. The Allah permitted Noah to eat of the clean animals which he had taken with him into the ark. But animal food was not the healthiest article of food. Notably‚ with the introduction of meat into the diet‚ the recorded life-span of man drastically decreased after the flood. The average length of life before the flood was 912 years‚ whilst after‚ only 350 years. Successive generations after the flood degenerated more rapidly.
Do Not Mix Fruit & Vegetables
It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. Fruit and vegetables taken at one meal produce acidity of the stomach; then impurity of the blood results and the mind is not clear because the digestion is imperfect. If the digestion is feeble‚ the use of both together will often cause distress and inability to put forth mental effort. It is better to have the fruit at one meal‚ and the vegetables at another.
Do Not Have Fruits After Meals:
Fruit is especially recommended as a health-giving agency‚ but it should not be eaten after a full meal of other foods. Fruit digests quickly‚ and when eaten after a full meal it causes fermentation in the stomach.
Drinking Between Meals:
Stop drinking about thirty minutes before a meal and wait about one hour after a meal. Food should not be washed down. The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with the meals‚ the more difficult it is for the food to digest for the liquid must first be absorbed. The less we drink with our meals the better. The dryness of our food furnishes the necessary stimulus to the secretion of saliva and of
gastric and intestinal juices. An abundance of liquid in the digestive tract interferes with the action of the secreting glands. It dilutes the secretions and thereby weakens their digestive qualities. To improve digestion by thickening the lining of the stomach‚ it is recommended to drink 1-2 glasses of tepid water half an hour before each meal.
Not Too Hot; Not Too Cold:
Food should not be eaten very hot or very cold. If food is cold‚ the vital force of the stomach is drawn upon in order to warm it before digestion can take place. Cold paralyzes the stomach. The vitality must be drawn from the system to warm the food until it becomes of the same temperature as the stomach before the work of digestion can be carried on. The colder the water‚ the greater the injury caused to the stomach. Ice-water or ice-lemonade‚ taken with meals‚ will arrest digestion until the system has imparted sufficient warmth to the stomach to enable it to take up its work again.
Heat debilitates the stomach and creates acidity. Hot drinks are not required‚ except as a medicine. The stomach is greatly injured by a large quantity of hot food and hot drink. Thus the throat and digestive organs‚ and through them the other organs of the body‚ are enfeebled. Heat relaxes and paralyzes. Hot food and drinks weaken the digestive tract muscles. The practice of eating food as hot as it can be swallowed‚ and especially of taking hot drinks with or after meals is an active cause of constipation.
Eat with a Grateful Heart:
Neurophysiologists have found that people who eat with a grateful heart experience more efficient and complete digestion than those who are distracted when they eat. Being thankful for the food increases gastro-intestinal mobility‚ digestive enzyme and acid production. Eating with a grateful heart does not only entail saying grace before the meal and then eating while watching TV‚ reading a magazine‚ or having an intense discussion with a companion. It means being grateful for our food one mouthful at a time.
Zakaria Mohamad 
