Fasting is a cure for cancer!
There is an opinion that a person should eat three times a day to maintain the balance of vitamins in the body, be healthy and think sensibly.
Food and pharmaceutical manufacturers encourage frequent food consumption in order to make huge profits. And, of course, these corporations do not benefit from people fasting, abstaining from food and drink, or leading a healthy lifestyle.
Therefore, through advertising, they promote the desirability eating and drinking not only to satisfy hunger and thirst but for entertainment and simply to while away the time. Excessive food consumption leads to obesity, diabetes and many other diseases.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) emphasised that the habit of eating less prevents various ailments and that the son of Adam only needs a small amount of food to satisfy his hunger. It is narrated in a hadith: “The worst vessel a person can fill is his stomach. It is enough to eat as much as is necessary to maintain strength. If this is too little, then: a third [of the stomach] is for food, a third is for drink, and a third is for breathing.”
How does fasting affect the brain?
Professor Mark Mattson, head of the Department of Neurobiology at the National Institute on Aging and the Laboratory of Neurobiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has written in many of his articles that fasting twice a week can reduce the risk of developing common diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Changing one’s diet affects brain function. Neuroscientists have noticed that excessive food consumption and overeating inhibit brain function. Fasting causes neurochemical changes in the brain, reduces irritability and increases stress resistance. Fasting is therefore a challenge for the brain.
A fasting person forces the brain to increase protein production and accelerate the growth of neurons and neural connections. Thanks to fasting, learning ability increases and memory improves. Fasting helps generate new nerve cells and hippocampal stem cells.
Professor Mattson also found that those who fast frequently have even more nerve cells to repair DNA. Fasting protects the immune system by forcing stem cells to renew themselves.
In 2007, the American journal Clinical Nutrition published a number of studies suggesting that fasting may be an effective remedy against cancer and cardiovascular diseases, as well as diabetes. This position is absolutely unprofitable for pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers.
Their motives are extremely clear: to incline people to overeat in order to subsequently treat them for problems associated with a gluttonous lifestyle. Scientists will gradually discover more and more new facts confirming the benefits of fasting and abstaining from food and drink twice a week. Millions of Muslims fast every Monday and Thursday, following the Sunna of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and receive enormous benefits that they may not even realise.
