The New Nation - Internet Edition

A healthy person is an asset. Fasting has some advantages from health consideration. Medical science has also acknowledged many benefits of fasting. Firstly, it is an effective treatment for psychological disorders by strengthening one's conviction and mental health.

Physically fasting has proved to be very much positive to contribute to curing diseases. Inflammation of colon, indigestion, liver diseases, chronic stomach ache and obesity, high blood pressure, asthma, diphtheria, including many other diseases are controlled or cured through the process of month-long fasting.

In the book Scientific Indications in the Quran published by the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh, the researchers have commented: "Allah clearly declares that fasting in Ramzan is good for mankind." t "There is slow, harmless and mild loss of weight in 80% of fasting subjects. The loss of body-weight may be useful as a therapeutic method to treat the patients for obesity (over weight)." They also said that fasting has positive effect on abnormal gastric acidity and peptic ulcer. They further added : "Incidence of peptic ulcer is much less in Muslim majority countries"t. "This may be due to regular Ramzan fasting and absence of alcohol in their diets."

-Abdul Muqit Chowdhury