eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam

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Hello, dear poeple In Islam, we are adviced strongly to fast as much as we can, in every occassion, whenever we do something wrong, we are forgiven if we fast accordingly : 1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever2. Optionally we fast every Monday and Thursday 3. Optionally we fast the full moon 3-day period every month 4. Optionally we fast 10 days before haj month, to share pilgriamges their events even remotely 5. If someone ate or mated with wife during RAMADAN daytime, he MUST fast for two whole monthes to be forgiven 6- If someone killed another unintentionally, and victims family forgave him, he must fast two monthes to be foirgiven by Allah, as well 7- In general, fasting is the simplest and the most social way to correct mistakes

against self, family, neighbours, community, nation and even heavens. Bless you all ormusalchemy wrote: Study: eating less may delay human aging Jan. 15, 2006Courtesy American College of Cardiologyand Life Technology News http://www.lifetechnology.org/blog/ A new study is the first to associate a low-calorie diet with delayed signs of aging in humans, its authors say. The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet resemble those of younger people when examined by sophisticated ultrasound

function tests, the study found. They also tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and excessive fibrous tissue, it concluded. The study appears in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. “Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life,†said Luigi Fontana of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy. “This is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.†Many studies have shown that animals can live longer when they eat fewer calories, but human study has been difficult. The caloric restriction model requires a strict diet regimen,

both to keep the total number of calories low and to insure that participants consume the right balance of nutrients. Rather than try to randomize volunteers to different diets and then hope that they will stick to them for years, the researchers compared 25 people who already had been following caloric restriction for an average of six years, consuming about 1,400 to 2,000 calories per day, with 25 similar control subjects who were eating typical Western diets, about 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day. Hearts tend to stiffen and pump less effectively as people get older, but ultrasound examinations showed that the hearts of the people on caloric restriction appeared more elastic than those of the control subjects; that is, the hearts relaxed between beats in a way that is similar to the hearts of younger people. In addition, several heart disease risk factors and inflammatory markers were

lower in the caloric restriction group than in the Western diet group. Fontana, who designed and led the study, emphasized that caloric restriction does not mean simply eating less. “Calorie restriction is associated with longevity only when is coupled with optimal nutrition. On the other hand, calorie restriction coupled with malnutrition accelerates aging and causes severe diseases. Therefore, eating half a hamburger, half a bag of French fries and half a can of soft drink is not healthy caloric restriction and is harmful,†he said. “The caloric-restriction subjects ate a healthful balanced diet with at least 100 percent of the recommended daily intake of each nutrient, providing approximately 1,671 plus or minus 294 kilocalories per day. The average diet was 23 percent protein, 49 percent complex carbohydrates, and 28 percent fat, including 6 percent saturated fat. Daily salt

intake was lower in the caloric-restriction group compared to the Western diet group.†Fontana said the diets of people on caloric restriction resemble the traditional Mediterranean diet, which is based on a wide variety of vegetables, olive oil, beans, whole grains, fish and fruit. The diet avoids refined and processed foods, soft drinks, desserts, free sugars, white bread and white pasta. While many people could adopt some of these diet practices, Fontana cautioned that anyone attempting to follow a strict caloric-restriction diet should have expert guidance, because of the risk of malnourishment if the diet does not include the right amounts of key nutrients. The authors noted that the study design had some limitations. The “study design does not allow us to assign causation,†he said, because to do so, researchers would have to first assign

volunteers randomly to one diet or the other, and later see its effects. The lower levels of some inflammatory proteins may indicate that caloric restriction helps to reduce damage from chronic inflammation in the body, he added. “It is well known that overweight and obese people have a low-grade chronic inflammatory state. This is due to the fact that hypertrophic [overgrown] fat cells chronically produce inflammatory molecules that are released in the blood stream. This means that body tissues in overweight and obese subjects are chronically exposed to inflammatory stimuli. It is our hypothesis that this chronic inflammation causes chronic tissue damage and… accelerated tissue and organ hardening,†Fontana said. Muhammad Ahmad Al-Masry 64, Muhammad Korayem Street,Gomrok, Alexandria, EgyptTel: 0020-03-4800555Fax: 0020-03-3082667Web: massrii massrii

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Dear Muhammad,

 

Consider that our purpose of being here on earth is not to serve ourselves but to serve God. Thus the question is how do we serve God. Perhaps you might contemplate that which I am about to share with you as it was taught to me many many tears ago by the esteemed teacher of Rumi, Shamus-i-Tabriz. God created us to explore unconsciousness and eventually bring forth beingness within our own world.

 

To do this, we must expand and deepen our capacity to give and receive Divine Love. Now one might ask how do you do this. For one thing, we are the very center of our universe and as such are responsible for all that we do. Man looks to God or a Savior to remove this responsibility from him but cannot in truth do so. A man does reap what he sows as Jesus so wisely stated.

 

So, an individual violates the Law of God and interferes with the life of another. How does he learn the lesson the very violation of Divine Law which caused him to make such a self serving choice. Ah, the answer is time and experience. Here we have the instructional principle of what the Buddhists call the Awagawan or the Wheel of Life. Karma and Reincarnation serve each Soul as the instructional media by which It gains maturity to eventually serve as a Coworker with God.

 

Now you ask what does this have to do with our purpose in life. Here before you as simple as a needle in a haystack is the answer. You and I must recreate our experiences until the ignorance or darkness within us is no longer existent. It is then that we serve God by awakening to Divine Love within ourselves and surrendering all that we have learned, the very threads of consciousness, the wisdom we have acquired, to God.

 

So you see, you may fast all you like but until you have demonstrated to God that given the same circumstances you will make a different choice, one of Love and not power, you will spend lifetimes recreating your classroom. It is for you to choose to consider what I have just written. There is no judgment here as I respect your journey. You chose to open yourself by presenting your understanding and in so doing created a space for God to present you with another.

 

Much Love in Spirit,

 

Stephen

 

 

On Behalf Of Muhammad MasryTuesday, January 17, 2006 4:27 AM Subject: Re: eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam

 

Hello, dear poeple

 

In Islam, we are adviced strongly to fast as much as we can, in every occassion, whenever we do something wrong, we are forgiven if we fast accordingly :

 

1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever2. Optionally we fast every Monday and Thursday

3. Optionally we fast the full moon 3-day period every month

4. Optionally we fast 10 days before haj month, to share pilgriamges their events even remotely

5. If someone ate or mated with wife during RAMADAN daytime, he MUST fast for two whole monthes to be forgiven

6- If someone killed another unintentionally, and victims family forgave him, he must fast two monthes to be foirgiven by Allah, as well

7- In general, fasting is the simplest and the most social way to correct mistakes against self, family, neighbours, community, nation and even heavens.

 

Bless you all

 

ormusalchemy wrote:

 

 

Study: eating less may delay human aging

 

Jan. 15, 2006Courtesy American College of Cardiologyand Life Technology News http://www.lifetechnology.org/blog/

 

A new study is the first to associate a low-calorie diet with delayed signs of aging in humans, its authors say.

 

The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet resemble those of younger people when examined by sophisticated ultrasound function tests, the study found. They also tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and excessive fibrous tissue, it concluded.

 

The study appears in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

 

“Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life,†said Luigi Fontana of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy.

 

“This is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.â€Â

 

Many studies have shown that animals can live longer when they eat fewer calories, but human study has been difficult. The caloric restriction model requires a strict diet regimen, both to keep the total number of calories low and to insure that participants consume the right balance of nutrients.

 

Rather than try to randomize volunteers to different diets and then hope that they will stick to them for years, the researchers compared 25 people who already had been following caloric restriction for an average of six years, consuming about 1,400 to 2,000 calories per day, with 25 similar control subjects who were eating typical Western diets, about 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day.

 

Hearts tend to stiffen and pump less effectively as people get older, but ultrasound examinations showed that the hearts of the people on caloric restriction appeared more elastic than those of the control subjects; that is, the hearts relaxed between beats in a way that is similar to the hearts of younger people.

 

In addition, several heart disease risk factors and inflammatory markers were lower in the caloric restriction group than in the Western diet group.

 

Fontana, who designed and led the study, emphasized that caloric restriction does not mean simply eating less.

 

“Calorie restriction is associated with longevity only when is coupled with optimal nutrition. On the other hand, calorie restriction coupled with malnutrition accelerates aging and causes severe diseases. Therefore, eating half a hamburger, half a bag of French fries and half a can of soft drink is not healthy caloric restriction and is harmful,†he said.

 

“The caloric-restriction subjects ate a healthful balanced diet with at least 100 percent of the recommended daily intake of each nutrient, providing approximately 1,671 plus or minus 294 kilocalories per day. The average diet was 23 percent protein, 49 percent complex carbohydrates, and 28 percent fat, including 6 percent saturated fat. Daily salt intake was lower in the caloric-restriction group compared to the Western diet group.â€Â

 

Fontana said the diets of people on caloric restriction resemble the traditional Mediterranean diet, which is based on a wide variety of vegetables, olive oil, beans, whole grains, fish and fruit. The diet avoids refined and processed foods, soft drinks, desserts, free sugars, white bread and white pasta.

 

While many people could adopt some of these diet practices, Fontana cautioned that anyone attempting to follow a strict caloric-restriction diet should have expert guidance, because of the risk of malnourishment if the diet does not include the right amounts of key nutrients.

 

The authors noted that the study design had some limitations.

 

The “study design does not allow us to assign causation,†he said, because to do so, researchers would have to first assign volunteers randomly to one diet or the other, and later see its effects.

 

The lower levels of some inflammatory proteins may indicate that caloric restriction helps to reduce damage from chronic inflammation in the body, he added.

 

“It is well known that overweight and obese people have a low-grade chronic inflammatory state. This is due to the fact that hypertrophic [overgrown] fat cells chronically produce inflammatory molecules that are released in the blood stream.

 

This means that body tissues in overweight and obese subjects are chronically exposed to inflammatory stimuli. It is our hypothesis that this chronic inflammation causes chronic tissue damage and… accelerated tissue and organ hardening,†Fontana said.

 

 

Muhammad Ahmad Al-Masry 64, Muhammad Korayem Street,Gomrok, Alexandria, EgyptTel: 0020-03-4800555Fax: 0020-03-3082667Web: massriimassrii

 

 

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1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month,

from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after

Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever>

 

I have been meaning to ask this of someone.

As far as I know, Ramadan is based on a Lunar

calendar, so it shifts from year to year.

 

Now, what happens if Ramadan falls in June/July,

and the person observing it happens to live in

Inuvik on the Arctic Ocean?

I am not being facetious, sincerely curious.

 

This curiosity is based on an episode in one of

my all time favorite novels, "Solomon Gursky was

here" by Moredcai Richler.

 

In the book, a band of Inuit who have been

coverted to Judaism is starving to death in

a land of plentiful hunting, because they are

supposed to fast till the sun either rises or

sets, which it didn't.

 

Just curious

 

Ien in the Kootenays*************************"Never mind what the book says.God gave you a brain."~A.T. Still, founder of Osteopathyhttp://freegreenliving.com

**************************

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Stephen Brown wrote:

 

<Consider that our purpose of being here on earth

is not to serve ourselves but to serve God. >

 

How about the idea that we are here to ENJOY

this wonderful Creation?

That we are here to take in the artwork through

our amazing miraculous bodies?

OK, we got a bit carried away with this free will thing,

so now there is a karmic mess to tidy up.

 

But lets not forget to smell the roses, dandelions,

or chaparral, whichever is nearby.

As Alice Walker so beautifully pointed out, God gets

upset if you miss the colour purple in a field.

 

Ien in the Kootenays, who wishes to be remembered

as someone who encouraged the appreciation of

Dandelions.

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Thank you for sharing this information. I knew there were fasts, but didn't realize how many there were. Currently I'm fasting once a week. Are there any exceptions or exemptions from fasts (i.e. medical or age).

Jennifer H. from Maryland

 

-

Muhammad Masry

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:26 AM

Re: eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam

 

Hello, dear poeple

 

In Islam, we are adviced strongly to fast as much as we can, in every occassion, whenever we do something wrong, we are forgiven if we fast accordingly :

 

1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever2. Optionally we fast every Monday and Thursday

3. Optionally we fast the full moon 3-day period every month

4. Optionally we fast 10 days before haj month, to share pilgriamges their events even remotely

5. If someone ate or mated with wife during RAMADAN daytime, he MUST fast for two whole monthes to be forgiven

6- If someone killed another unintentionally, and victims family forgave him, he must fast two monthes to be foirgiven by Allah, as well

7- In general, fasting is the simplest and the most social way to correct mistakes against self, family, neighbours, community, nation and even heavens.

 

Bless you all

 

ormusalchemy wrote:

 

 

Study: eating less may delay human aging

 

Jan. 15, 2006Courtesy American College of Cardiologyand Life Technology News http://www.lifetechnology.org/blog/

 

A new study is the first to associate a low-calorie diet with delayed signs of aging in humans, its authors say.

 

The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet resemble those of younger people when examined by sophisticated ultrasound function tests, the study found. They also tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and excessive fibrous tissue, it concluded.

 

The study appears in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

 

“Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life,†said Luigi Fontana of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy.

 

“This is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.â€

 

Many studies have shown that animals can live longer when they eat fewer calories, but human study has been difficult. The caloric restriction model requires a strict diet regimen, both to keep the total number of calories low and to insure that participants consume the right balance of nutrients.

 

Rather than try to randomize volunteers to different diets and then hope that they will stick to them for years, the researchers compared 25 people who already had been following caloric restriction for an average of six years, consuming about 1,400 to 2,000 calories per day, with 25 similar control subjects who were eating typical Western diets, about 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day.

 

Hearts tend to stiffen and pump less effectively as people get older, but ultrasound examinations showed that the hearts of the people on caloric restriction appeared more elastic than those of the control subjects; that is, the hearts relaxed between beats in a way that is similar to the hearts of younger people.

 

In addition, several heart disease risk factors and inflammatory markers were lower in the caloric restriction group than in the Western diet group.

 

Fontana, who designed and led the study, emphasized that caloric restriction does not mean simply eating less.

 

“Calorie restriction is associated with longevity only when is coupled with optimal nutrition. On the other hand, calorie restriction coupled with malnutrition accelerates aging and causes severe diseases. Therefore, eating half a hamburger, half a bag of French fries and half a can of soft drink is not healthy caloric restriction and is harmful,†he said.

 

“The caloric-restriction subjects ate a healthful balanced diet with at least 100 percent of the recommended daily intake of each nutrient, providing approximately 1,671 plus or minus 294 kilocalories per day. The average diet was 23 percent protein, 49 percent complex carbohydrates, and 28 percent fat, including 6 percent saturated fat. Daily salt intake was lower in the caloric-restriction group compared to the Western diet group.â€

 

Fontana said the diets of people on caloric restriction resemble the traditional Mediterranean diet, which is based on a wide variety of vegetables, olive oil, beans, whole grains, fish and fruit. The diet avoids refined and processed foods, soft drinks, desserts, free sugars, white bread and white pasta.

 

While many people could adopt some of these diet practices, Fontana cautioned that anyone attempting to follow a strict caloric-restriction diet should have expert guidance, because of the risk of malnourishment if the diet does not include the right amounts of key nutrients.

 

The authors noted that the study design had some limitations.

 

The “study design does not allow us to assign causation,†he said, because to do so, researchers would have to first assign volunteers randomly to one diet or the other, and later see its effects.

 

The lower levels of some inflammatory proteins may indicate that caloric restriction helps to reduce damage from chronic inflammation in the body, he added.

 

“It is well known that overweight and obese people have a low-grade chronic inflammatory state. This is due to the fact that hypertrophic [overgrown] fat cells chronically produce inflammatory molecules that are released in the blood stream.

 

This means that body tissues in overweight and obese subjects are chronically exposed to inflammatory stimuli. It is our hypothesis that this chronic inflammation causes chronic tissue damage and… accelerated tissue and organ hardening,†Fontana said.

 

 

Muhammad Ahmad Al-Masry 64, Muhammad Korayem Street,Gomrok, Alexandria, EgyptTel: 0020-03-4800555Fax: 0020-03-3082667Web: massriimassrii

 

 

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Dearest Stephen I've never thaught I'd find such beautiful words coming from nice persons so far away from my own land and culture Thank you so much for being such considerate and informative Bless you all"Stephen A. Brown Ph.D" <DrSABrown wrote:  Dear Muhammad, Consider that our purpose of being here on earth is not to serve ourselves but to serve God. Thus the

question is how do we serve God. Perhaps you might contemplate that which I am about to share with you as it was taught to me many many tears ago by the esteemed teacher of Rumi, Shamus-i-Tabriz. God created us to explore unconsciousness and eventually bring forth beingness within our own world. To do this, we must expand and deepen our capacity to give and receive Divine Love. Now one might ask how do you do this. For one thing, we are the very center of our universe and as such are responsible for all that we do. Man looks to God or a Savior to remove this responsibility from him but cannot in truth do so. A man does reap what he sows as Jesus so wisely stated. So, an individual violates the Law of God and interferes with the life of another. How does he learn the lesson the very violation of Divine Law which caused him to make such a self serving choice. Ah, the answer is time and experience. Here we have the instructional principle of what the Buddhists call the Awagawan or the Wheel of Life. Karma and Reincarnation serve each Soul as the instructional media by which It gains maturity to eventually serve as a Coworker with God. Now you ask what does this have to do with our purpose in life. Here before you as simple as a needle in a haystack is the answer. You and

I must recreate our experiences until the ignorance or darkness within us is no longer existent. It is then that we serve God by awakening to Divine Love within ourselves and surrendering all that we have learned, the very threads of consciousness, the wisdom we have acquired, to God. So you see, you may fast all you like but until you have demonstrated to God that given the same circumstances you will make a different choice, one of Love and not power, you will spend lifetimes recreating your classroom. It is for you to choose to consider what I have just written. There is no judgment here as I respect your journey. You chose to open yourself by presenting your understanding and in so doing created a space for God to present you with

another. Much Love in Spirit, Stephen On Behalf Of Muhammad MasryTuesday, January 17, 2006 4:27 AM Subject: Re: eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in

Islam Hello, dear poeple In Islam, we are adviced strongly to fast as much as we can, in every occassion, whenever we do something wrong, we are forgiven if we fast accordingly : 1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever2. Optionally we fast every Monday and Thursday 3. Optionally we fast the full moon 3-day period every month 4. Optionally we fast 10 days before haj month, to share pilgriamges their events even remotely 5. If someone ate or mated with wife during RAMADAN daytime, he MUST fast for two whole monthes to be forgiven 6- If someone killed another unintentionally, and victims family forgave him, he must fast two monthes to be foirgiven by Allah, as well 7- In general, fasting is the simplest and

the most social way to correct mistakes against self, family, neighbours, community, nation and even heavens. Bless you all ormusalchemy wrote: Study: eating less may delay human aging Jan. 15, 2006Courtesy American College of Cardiologyand Life Technology News http://www.lifetechnology.org/blog/ A new study is the first to associate a low-calorie diet with delayed signs of aging in humans, its authors say. The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet resemble those of younger people when

examined by sophisticated ultrasound function tests, the study found. They also tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and excessive fibrous tissue, it concluded. The study appears in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. “Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life,†said Luigi Fontana of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy. “This is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.†Many studies have shown that animals can live longer when they eat fewer calories, but human study has been difficult. The caloric

restriction model requires a strict diet regimen, both to keep the total number of calories low and to insure that participants consume the right balance of nutrients. Rather than try to randomize volunteers to different diets and then hope that they will stick to them for years, the researchers compared 25 people who already had been following caloric restriction for an average of six years, consuming about 1,400 to 2,000 calories per day, with 25 similar control subjects who were eating typical Western diets, about 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day. Hearts tend to stiffen and pump less effectively as people get older, but ultrasound examinations showed that the hearts of the people on caloric restriction appeared more elastic than those of the control subjects; that is, the hearts relaxed between beats in a way that is similar to the hearts of younger people. In addition, several heart

disease risk factors and inflammatory markers were lower in the caloric restriction group than in the Western diet group. Fontana, who designed and led the study, emphasized that caloric restriction does not mean simply eating less. “Calorie restriction is associated with longevity only when is coupled with optimal nutrition. On the other hand, calorie restriction coupled with malnutrition accelerates aging and causes severe diseases. Therefore, eating half a hamburger, half a bag of French fries and half a can of soft drink is not healthy caloric restriction and is harmful,†he said. “The caloric-restriction subjects ate a healthful balanced diet with at least 100 percent of the recommended daily intake of each nutrient, providing approximately 1,671 plus or minus 294 kilocalories per day. The average diet was 23 percent protein, 49 percent complex carbohydrates, and 28

percent fat, including 6 percent saturated fat. Daily salt intake was lower in the caloric-restriction group compared to the Western diet group.†Fontana said the diets of people on caloric restriction resemble the traditional Mediterranean diet, which is based on a wide variety of vegetables, olive oil, beans, whole grains, fish and fruit. The diet avoids refined and processed foods, soft drinks, desserts, free sugars, white bread and white pasta. While many people could adopt some of these diet practices, Fontana cautioned that anyone attempting to follow a strict caloric-restriction diet should have expert guidance, because of the risk of malnourishment if the diet does not include the right amounts of key nutrients. The authors noted that the study design had some limitations. The “study design does not allow us to assign causation,†he

said, because to do so, researchers would have to first assign volunteers randomly to one diet or the other, and later see its effects. The lower levels of some inflammatory proteins may indicate that caloric restriction helps to reduce damage from chronic inflammation in the body, he added. “It is well known that overweight and obese people have a low-grade chronic inflammatory state. This is due to the fact that hypertrophic [overgrown] fat cells chronically produce inflammatory molecules that are released in the blood stream. This means that body tissues in overweight and obese subjects are chronically exposed to inflammatory stimuli. It is our hypothesis that this chronic inflammation causes chronic tissue damage and… accelerated tissue and organ hardening,†Fontana said. Muhammad

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Salam, dear Jennifer Thx for asking and being interested Fasting Ramadan is for healthy and resident people, not a must for : 1. Kids under teen age 2. Women during monthly period, pregnancy or breastfeed 3. Travellers 4. Seriously ill people 5. Elders 6. Soldiers on frontiers 7. People with hard jobs, like steel workers All those can fast later on if cicumstances change, otherwise they could pay for one meal for every day they didn't fast in, for poors or hungry others, like neighbours or poor relatives or poor people anywhereJennifer Humphries <snjhumphries wrote: Thank you for sharing this information. I knew there were fasts, but didn't realize how many there were. Currently I'm fasting once a week. Are there any exceptions or exemptions from fasts (i.e. medical or age). Jennifer H. from Maryland - Muhammad Masry Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:26 AM Re: eating less

may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam Hello, dear poeple In Islam, we are adviced strongly to fast as much as we can, in every occassion, whenever we do something wrong, we are forgiven if we fast accordingly : 1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever2. Optionally we fast every Monday and Thursday 3. Optionally we fast the full moon 3-day period every month 4. Optionally we fast 10 days before haj month, to share pilgriamges their events even remotely 5. If someone ate or mated with wife during RAMADAN daytime, he MUST fast for two whole monthes to be forgiven 6- If someone killed another unintentionally, and victims family forgave him, he must fast two monthes to be foirgiven by Allah, as well 7-

In general, fasting is the simplest and the most social way to correct mistakes against self, family, neighbours, community, nation and even heavens. Bless you all ormusalchemy wrote: Study: eating less may delay human aging Jan. 15, 2006Courtesy American College of Cardiologyand Life Technology News http://www.lifetechnology.org/blog/ A new study is the first to associate a low-calorie diet with delayed signs of aging in humans, its authors say. The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet

resemble those of younger people when examined by sophisticated ultrasound function tests, the study found. They also tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and excessive fibrous tissue, it concluded. The study appears in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. “Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life,†said Luigi Fontana of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy. “This is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.†Many studies have shown that animals can live longer when they eat fewer calories, but human study has been

difficult. The caloric restriction model requires a strict diet regimen, both to keep the total number of calories low and to insure that participants consume the right balance of nutrients. Rather than try to randomize volunteers to different diets and then hope that they will stick to them for years, the researchers compared 25 people who already had been following caloric restriction for an average of six years, consuming about 1,400 to 2,000 calories per day, with 25 similar control subjects who were eating typical Western diets, about 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day. Hearts tend to stiffen and pump less effectively as people get older, but ultrasound examinations showed that the hearts of the people on caloric restriction appeared more elastic than those of the control subjects; that is, the hearts relaxed between beats in a way that is similar to the hearts of younger people. In

addition, several heart disease risk factors and inflammatory markers were lower in the caloric restriction group than in the Western diet group. Fontana, who designed and led the study, emphasized that caloric restriction does not mean simply eating less. “Calorie restriction is associated with longevity only when is coupled with optimal nutrition. On the other hand, calorie restriction coupled with malnutrition accelerates aging and causes severe diseases. Therefore, eating half a hamburger, half a bag of French fries and half a can of soft drink is not healthy caloric restriction and is harmful,†he said. “The caloric-restriction subjects ate a healthful balanced diet with at least 100 percent of the recommended daily intake of each nutrient, providing approximately 1,671 plus or minus 294 kilocalories per day. The average diet was 23 percent protein, 49 percent complex

carbohydrates, and 28 percent fat, including 6 percent saturated fat. Daily salt intake was lower in the caloric-restriction group compared to the Western diet group.†Fontana said the diets of people on caloric restriction resemble the traditional Mediterranean diet, which is based on a wide variety of vegetables, olive oil, beans, whole grains, fish and fruit. The diet avoids refined and processed foods, soft drinks, desserts, free sugars, white bread and white pasta. While many people could adopt some of these diet practices, Fontana cautioned that anyone attempting to follow a strict caloric-restriction diet should have expert guidance, because of the risk of malnourishment if the diet does not include the right amounts of key nutrients. The authors noted that the study design had some limitations. The “study design does not allow us to assign

causation,†he said, because to do so, researchers would have to first assign volunteers randomly to one diet or the other, and later see its effects. The lower levels of some inflammatory proteins may indicate that caloric restriction helps to reduce damage from chronic inflammation in the body, he added. “It is well known that overweight and obese people have a low-grade chronic inflammatory state. This is due to the fact that hypertrophic [overgrown] fat cells chronically produce inflammatory molecules that are released in the blood stream. This means that body tissues in overweight and obese subjects are chronically exposed to inflammatory stimuli. It is our hypothesis that this chronic inflammation causes chronic tissue damage and… accelerated tissue and organ hardening,†Fontana said. Muhammad Ahmad Al-Masry 64, Muhammad Korayem Street,Gomrok, Alexandria, EgyptTel: 0020-03-4800555Fax: 0020-03-3082667Web: massriimassrii PhotosGot holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. Muhammad Ahmad Al-Masry 64, Muhammad Korayem Street,Gomrok, Alexandria, EgyptTel: 0020-03-4800555Fax: 0020-03-3082667Web: massrii massrii

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Salam, Dear Ieneke Thx so much for aking and being nicely interested Since islam is meant for the whole human race and not for a particular region or race, it is trying to handle problems, worldwide. In areas where normal day / night hours are so much irrigular, people can follow the nearest Islamic country time zone, and have their first meal after - say - 15 hours of fasting, even if it's noon as their local time, and other duties follow same merciful rules Bless you allIeneke van Houten <ienvan wrote: 1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6

days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever> I have been meaning to ask this of someone. As far as I know, Ramadan is based on a Lunar calendar, so it shifts from year to year. Now, what happens if Ramadan falls in June/July, and the person observing it happens to live in Inuvik on the Arctic Ocean? I am not being facetious, sincerely curious. This curiosity is based on an episode in one of my all time favorite novels, "Solomon Gursky was here" by Moredcai Richler. In the book, a band of Inuit who have been coverted to Judaism is starving to death in a land of plentiful hunting, because they are supposed to fast till the sun either rises or sets, which it didn't. Just curious Ien in the Kootenays*************************"Never mind what the book says.God

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<In areas where normal day / night hours are

so much irrigular, people can follow the nearest Islamic

country time zone, and have their first meal after - say -

15 hours of fasting>

 

Aha! Thanks for clearing that up.

 

ien

 

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dear Sir,

Could you please indicate in which part of Qur'an or hadith which states that those who live in areas where "normal day/night hours are so much irregular, people can follow the nearest Islamic country time zone"?

What is meant by "irregular"? The day/night change in the polar area (as well as in other part of the world) is regular. It happens like that all the time. There are times when daylight is very long and there are times when daytime is very short, but it is regular. It happens in the same months in every year.

And what do you mean by Islamic country? How near is the nearest?

Thank you

Salam

KM

 

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01/20/06 08:16:26

 

Re: eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam

 

Salam, Dear Ieneke

 

Thx so much for aking and being nicely interested

 

Since islam is meant for the whole human race and not for a particular region or race, it is trying to handle problems, worldwide.

 

In areas where normal day / night hours are so much irrigular, people can follow the nearest Islamic country time zone, and have their first meal after - say - 15 hours of fasting, even if it's noon as their local time, and other duties follow same merciful rules

 

Bless you allIeneke van Houten <ienvan wrote:

 

 

1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month,

from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after

Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever>

 

I have been meaning to ask this of someone.

As far as I know, Ramadan is based on a Lunar

calendar, so it shifts from year to year.

 

Now, what happens if Ramadan falls in June/July,

and the person observing it happens to live in

Inuvik on the Arctic Ocean?

I am not being facetious, sincerely curious.

 

This curiosity is based on an episode in one of

my all time favorite novels, "Solomon Gursky was

here" by Moredcai Richler.

 

In the book, a band of Inuit who have been

coverted to Judaism is starving to death in

a land of plentiful hunting, because they are

supposed to fast till the sun either rises or

sets, which it didn't.

 

Just curious

 

Ien in the Kootenays*************************"Never mind what the book says.God gave you a brain."~A.T. Still, founder of Osteopathyhttp://freegreenliving.com

**************************

 

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Salam and thank you!

 

-

Muhammad Masry

Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:12 AM

Re: eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam

 

Salam, dear Jennifer

 

Thx for asking and being interested

 

Fasting Ramadan is for healthy and resident people, not a must for :

 

1. Kids under teen age

2. Women during monthly period, pregnancy or breastfeed

3. Travellers

4. Seriously ill people

5. Elders

6. Soldiers on frontiers

7. People with hard jobs, like steel workers

 

All those can fast later on if cicumstances change, otherwise they could pay for one meal for every day they didn't fast in, for poors or hungry others, like neighbours or poor relatives or poor people anywhereJennifer Humphries <snjhumphries wrote:

 

Thank you for sharing this information. I knew there were fasts, but didn't realize how many there were. Currently I'm fasting once a week. Are there any exceptions or exemptions from fasts (i.e. medical or age).

Jennifer H. from Maryland

 

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Muhammad Masry

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:26 AM

Re: eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam

 

Hello, dear poeple

 

In Islam, we are adviced strongly to fast as much as we can, in every occassion, whenever we do something wrong, we are forgiven if we fast accordingly :

 

1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever2. Optionally we fast every Monday and Thursday

3. Optionally we fast the full moon 3-day period every month

4. Optionally we fast 10 days before haj month, to share pilgriamges their events even remotely

5. If someone ate or mated with wife during RAMADAN daytime, he MUST fast for two whole monthes to be forgiven

6- If someone killed another unintentionally, and victims family forgave him, he must fast two monthes to be foirgiven by Allah, as well

7- In general, fasting is the simplest and the most social way to correct mistakes against self, family, neighbours, community, nation and even heavens.

 

Bless you all

 

ormusalchemy wrote:

 

 

Study: eating less may delay human aging

 

Jan. 15, 2006Courtesy American College of Cardiologyand Life Technology News http://www.lifetechnology.org/blog/

 

A new study is the first to associate a low-calorie diet with delayed signs of aging in humans, its authors say.

 

The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet resemble those of younger people when examined by sophisticated ultrasound function tests, the study found. They also tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and excessive fibrous tissue, it concluded.

 

The study appears in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

 

“Eating less, if it is a high-quality diet, will improve your health, delay aging, and increase your chance of living a long, healthy and happy life,†said Luigi Fontana of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy.

 

“This is the first report ever to show that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition may delay primary aging in human beings.â€

 

Many studies have shown that animals can live longer when they eat fewer calories, but human study has been difficult. The caloric restriction model requires a strict diet regimen, both to keep the total number of calories low and to insure that participants consume the right balance of nutrients.

 

Rather than try to randomize volunteers to different diets and then hope that they will stick to them for years, the researchers compared 25 people who already had been following caloric restriction for an average of six years, consuming about 1,400 to 2,000 calories per day, with 25 similar control subjects who were eating typical Western diets, about 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day.

 

Hearts tend to stiffen and pump less effectively as people get older, but ultrasound examinations showed that the hearts of the people on caloric restriction appeared more elastic than those of the control subjects; that is, the hearts relaxed between beats in a way that is similar to the hearts of younger people.

 

In addition, several heart disease risk factors and inflammatory markers were lower in the caloric restriction group than in the Western diet group.

 

Fontana, who designed and led the study, emphasized that caloric restriction does not mean simply eating less.

 

“Calorie restriction is associated with longevity only when is coupled with optimal nutrition. On the other hand, calorie restriction coupled with malnutrition accelerates aging and causes severe diseases. Therefore, eating half a hamburger, half a bag of French fries and half a can of soft drink is not healthy caloric restriction and is harmful,†he said.

 

“The caloric-restriction subjects ate a healthful balanced diet with at least 100 percent of the recommended daily intake of each nutrient, providing approximately 1,671 plus or minus 294 kilocalories per day. The average diet was 23 percent protein, 49 percent complex carbohydrates, and 28 percent fat, including 6 percent saturated fat. Daily salt intake was lower in the caloric-restriction group compared to the Western diet group.â€

 

Fontana said the diets of people on caloric restriction resemble the traditional Mediterranean diet, which is based on a wide variety of vegetables, olive oil, beans, whole grains, fish and fruit. The diet avoids refined and processed foods, soft drinks, desserts, free sugars, white bread and white pasta.

 

While many people could adopt some of these diet practices, Fontana cautioned that anyone attempting to follow a strict caloric-restriction diet should have expert guidance, because of the risk of malnourishment if the diet does not include the right amounts of key nutrients.

 

The authors noted that the study design had some limitations.

 

The “study design does not allow us to assign causation,†he said, because to do so, researchers would have to first assign volunteers randomly to one diet or the other, and later see its effects.

 

The lower levels of some inflammatory proteins may indicate that caloric restriction helps to reduce damage from chronic inflammation in the body, he added.

 

“It is well known that overweight and obese people have a low-grade chronic inflammatory state. This is due to the fact that hypertrophic [overgrown] fat cells chronically produce inflammatory molecules that are released in the blood stream.

 

This means that body tissues in overweight and obese subjects are chronically exposed to inflammatory stimuli. It is our hypothesis that this chronic inflammation causes chronic tissue damage and… accelerated tissue and organ hardening,†Fontana said.

 

 

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Salam, dear sir Regular time means the majority of countries around equator, but I agree that it's regular everywhere, maybe beter to name it as majority of time zones Also i suggested that solution based on Fatwa "scientific research" from Azhar Islamic Univerity - Egypt. Please be kind to ask them online Islamic country means where majority of people follow islamic rules, so they can provide solutions based on islamic points of view Bless you Kartono Mohamad <kmjp47 wrote: dear Sir, Could

you please indicate in which part of Qur'an or hadith which states that those who live in areas where "normal day/night hours are so much irregular, people can follow the nearest Islamic country time zone"? What is meant by "irregular"? The day/night change in the polar area (as well as in other part of the world) is regular. It happens like that all the time. There are times when daylight is very long and there are times when daytime is very short, but it is regular. It happens in the same months in every year. And what do you mean by Islamic country? How near is the nearest? Thank you Salam KM ---- 01/20/06 08:16:26 Re: eating less may delay human aging..that's why we fast a lot, in Islam Salam, Dear Ieneke Thx so much for aking and being nicely interested Since islam is meant for the whole human race and not for a particular region or race, it is trying to handle problems, worldwide. In areas where normal day / night hours are so much irrigular, people can follow the nearest Islamic country time zone, and have their first meal after - say - 15 hours of fasting, even if it's noon as their local time, and other duties follow same merciful rules Bless you allIeneke van Houten <ienvan wrote: 1. Once a year, we MUST fast a whole RAMADAN month, from dawn to sunset every day, and optionally 6 days after Ramadan, totally no food or drinks whatsoever> I have been meaning to ask this of someone. As far as I know, Ramadan is based on a Lunar calendar, so it shifts from year to year. Now, what happens if Ramadan falls in June/July, and the

person observing it happens to live in Inuvik on the Arctic Ocean? I am not being facetious, sincerely curious. This curiosity is based on an episode in one of my all time favorite novels, "Solomon Gursky was here" by Moredcai Richler. In the book, a band of Inuit who have been coverted to Judaism is starving to death in a land of plentiful hunting, because they are supposed to fast till the sun either rises or sets, which it didn't. Just curious Ien in the Kootenays*************************"Never mind what the book says.God gave you a brain."~A.T. Still, founder of Osteopathyhttp://freegreenliving.com ************************** Muhammad Ahmad Al-Masry 64, Muhammad Korayem Street,Gomrok, Alexandria, EgyptTel: 0020-03-4800555Fax: 0020-03-3082667Web: massriimassrii Photos – Showcase holiday pictures in hardcoverPhoto Books. You design it and we’ll bind it! Muhammad Ahmad Al-Masry 64, Muhammad Korayem Street,Gomrok, Alexandria, EgyptTel: 0020-03-4800555Fax: 0020-03-3082667Web: massrii massrii

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