pescatarian09
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The moon was spotted in many places brother (Saudi, UAE, Nigeria, San Diego). Even so, both global and local moonsighting are both valid differences - see this thread:There was no trace of the crescent, yet they announced it to start today. Pictures show no crescent yesterday. Also no official picture shows it and no live television spotted it.
No not UAE nor Saudi Arabia. Neither in many Arab countries. Oman is the only one that did not follow Saudi's announcement and followed the fact that they can't see it.The moon was spotted in many places brother (Saudi, UAE, Nigeria, San Diego). Even so, both global and local moonsighting are both valid - see this thread:
For me the fasting period is from 5 :36 am to 7 :54 pm. As the day gets longer this will increased by a few minutes till Ramadan ends. I'm one of the lucky ones as there are parts of this world where the day's length forces people to fast for 19, 20 hours a day. My time is roughly 14 hours.Eating an early break fast skipping lunch then eating dinner is not a fast
Ramadan is all about conforming to Webster's literal definition of fasting and not about a religious incentive to abstain from food in any meaningful way for supposed spiritual benefits.Ok, so you disagree with the literal definition of the word.
Take it up with Webster i guess.
Source: Balkees Abed Bakhotmah. The puzzle of self-reported weight gain in a month of fasting (Ramadan) among a cohort of Saudi families in Jeddah, Western Saudi Arabia. Nutrition Journal 2011, 10:84.Results: A total of 173 Saudi families were interviewed. One out of 5 indicated that their expenditure increases during Ramadan. Approximately two thirds of the respondents (59.5%) reported weight gain after Ramadan. When asked about their perspective explanations for that: 40% attributed that to types of foods being rich in fat and carbohydrates particularly date in (Sunset meal) 97.7% and rice in (Dawn meal) 80.9%. One third (31.2%) indicated that it was due to relative lack of physical exercise in Ramadan and 14.5% referred that to increase in food consumption. Two thirds (65.2%) of those with increased expenditure reported weight gain.
Conclusion: Surprisingly weight gain and not weight loss was reported after Ramadan by Saudis which indicates timely needed life-style and dietary modification programs for a population which reports one of the highest prevalence rates of diabetes.
As i said for some people its for 20 hours. While some people like me, typically eat 5 times a day. Do you typically wait for 8 pm to eat dinner? Cause many here in the states have dinner at 4, 5pm. Persoanlly I've never had problems with food. Its easy for me to go the day without it.God isn't worthy enough to give up more than one meal a day?
What kind of legislated fasting do Christians practice?God isn't worthy enough to give up more than one meal a day?
Can you explain why Muslims in Jeddah, KSA in 2011 are representative of the Muslim population globally and historically?Source: Balkees Abed Bakhotmah. The puzzle of self-reported weight gain in a month of fasting (Ramadan) among a cohort of Saudi families in Jeddah, Western Saudi Arabia. Nutrition Journal 2011, 10:84.
I could be wrong but i don't think turdmuppet is a Christian. Least the name isn't very... idk, Jesus like? Those who associate themselves with waste are usually godless. Like i said, could be wrong.What kind of legislated fasting do Christians practice?
I was expecting one of you attempt to disavow other Muslims as not "representative of the Muslim population globally" despite always harping on about how Islam is unified and not fragmented like those Christian denominations. However, I will entertain your feigned ignorance and say this study is just one localized example of the global phenomenon of gorging oneself during Ramadan in Islamic countries. Here's another article that deals with the issue more generally, although it cites specific examples.Can you explain why Muslims in Jeddah, KSA in 2011 are representative of the Muslim population globally and historically?
Here's an article about how Ramadan goes down in Qatar.But iftar — the meal that breaks the fast at sunset — can often become an extravagant affair where an excess of food is prepared and consumed, and food wastage levels can escalate due to a variety of factors ranging from a commercialisation of the holy month to the generosity of hosts who overcook for events.
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Parongpong Waste Management, a recycling centre based in West Java, Indonesia, told the ABC that in Jakarta alone — the capital city of the largest Muslim country in the world — there was an additional 200 tonnes of waste during Ramadan last year.
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Dr Bekim Hasani, who is also Imam of the Albanian Mosque in Carlton, believes culture is the main reason for over-consumption as the community focuses on serving elaborate meals to family and friends as they break the day's fast.
Dr Bekim urged Muslim communities around the world to refine their aims for Ramadan by worshipping God and doing more charities for the less fortunate rather than treating it as "a month of feasting".
If Jeddah, Jakarta, Hamad, and others are not "representative of the Muslim population globally", I wonder which city or country you would point to as practicing Ramadan as it should be practiced, and provide statistics indicating the opposite trend is true rather than just trying to obfuscate the evidence presented and throwing your Sunni coreligionists under the bus to make a point.During Ramadan most of the population sleep during the day, with the iftar beginning at sundown: large feasts at which many end up eating so much they need to be taken to hospital casualty wards, with a record high almost 8,000 cases of indigestion recorded at the Hamad Medical Hospital emergency room solely in the first week of Ramadan 2011.