First question: Have you heard about Ramadan?
Answer: It’s the Muslim holy month.
Second question: What does Ramadan have to do with diabetes?
Answer: For starters, there’s a habit associated with Ramadan that can drop your blood glucose levels by 14.6%.
The most characteristic feature of Ramadan is the mandatory fasting over a period of the entire month. A team of researchers studied the blood sugar levels of patients before and after Ramadan month to see if the fasting associated with the festival helped in improving diabetes.
The researchers identified that there was a significant change in the level of blood sugar. Those patients who had high blood sugar before the festival, showed much improved readings after the fasting period.
The average fasting blood glucose level was 147.2 before Ramadan and 125.6 when measured afterwards. Also, on an average, the postprandial (or measurement after eating) blood glucose level was 184.25 and 162.41 before and after Ramadan respectively.
The research concluded that diabetic patients who wish to continue to fast during Ramadan can do so, without worrying about its effect on their blood glucose levels. In fact, as the research showed, it actually helped them improve their condition.
This is also good news for those looking for ways to reduce their blood glucose levels through natural and simple ways. While it is not necessary to fast for prolonged periods, you can try substituting one regular meal with a very low calorie meal such as vegetable soup, salad without dressing or even a cup of green tea.
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the truth is these muslims just reverse the daytime to night time,early morning they eat too much until the sunshines,on daytime they sleep until sunsets where they eat and feasted and play around up until ten pm when they sleep again,then wake up early to eat again until sunshines,so I think they eat too much and nothing change in their diet.
I’m not a muslim so I can’t say anything about the religion nor how things are put in practice. But I’ve heard about several studies regarding partly fasting that resulted in amazing results for type 2 diabetics. That includes the 6/1 and 5/2 system where people mostly fast one or two days a week.
We Muslims don’t eat till sunrise during our fasting month of Ramadaan as suggested by Cristino. In fact we are not supposed to gorge before starting our fast or after breaking it after sunset. Some of us also fast once or twice a week during other months. I can tell you from pesonal experience that you feel great and welll. Cristino should try it and feel the positive effects of fasting.
Why bring in this element into the article? It is not only Muslims that fast, so why call it Holy? It appears that you are condoning this religions practices…I do not regard anything this religion does as Holy, killing people like animals and obeying their Quaran where it teaches to kill the infidel, such as the Jew and the Christian…so I shall be unsubscribing from this forum now….