Fasting Healthy Menus

Most people have a tendency to overeat in the month of fasting, especially in the month of Ramdhan dish usually made full and special. In fact, just a delicious dish without complying with a healthy eating style and the principles of balanced nutrition can make a fast get messy.

In addition to easy to become drowsy and limp body, break and meal menus unhealthy cholesterol levels can also make the jump. To keep the body fit and stamina during their fasting, see the tips menu and meal break of dr.Phaidon L. Toruan, Nutritionist following sports:When the meal:

• Prioritizing water, vitamins, and electrolytes. That is, drinking water and fruit, or fruit juices without sugar. Coconut water is also allowed. The way to drink coconut water first, and because of the nature of electrolytes in coconut water, then we will still proceed with a new feel thirsty to drink water. When we lose sleep the body weight 1-2 kg, and it is water. So get started fast with a restoration fluid is a good step.- Select the main menu which consists of complex carbohydrates like brown rice, sweet potatoes, spaghetti, green beans or porridge with palm sugar. This type of carbohydrate is more "durable" in making the blood sugar stable, so the mood to be relatively better.
• Do not forget the fiber, whether from vegetables or fruit. In addition to cleaning the colon, fiber is the "natural broom" that helps clean the remaining flesh in between the intestine.
• Choose healthy fats or oils that are not fried, such as olive, coconut oil or flaxseed oil. For example in the form of hot sauce. Fat makes food in the stomach movement becomes slow, making it more resistant hungry. However, if diasup fried oil, both of prepared foods purchased the night before, or fry immediately, then we enter into free radicals in our bodies. As a result the benefits of fasting is physiologically reduced.

When Breaking:

• Drink a natural sweetness without sugar. Coconut water, fruit juice, melon or watermelon and other fruits. Avoid refined sugar because it will cause the yo-yo effect on the scales later in the Feast, and the impact of poor health
• Complex carbohydrates would be better plus the food is not fried. White rice, and fried foods will make a sleepy time tarawih. Fried blood oxygen binding to 20%
• After breaking the fast, consume more water. Try to start fasting until sleep for at least 1 liter of water entry.