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Miscellaneous Awake! Ramadaan 1446 (2025), p.60

Is there an Islamic prescription for losing weight?

Question

Is there an Islamic prescription for losing weight?

Answer

Yes, there is. The Islamic prescription for shedding obesity is:

 Don't eat three times a day. Eat only twice.

 Try to fast every Monday and Thursday. If too difficult, fast only one day in the beginning.

 Don't fill the stomach with food. Leave one third empty.

 Abstain from all commercially-killed chickens.

 Never eat fast foods, i.e. junk called 'food'.

 Abstain from sweets and chocolates

 Reduce consumption of tea and coffee. Have green tea.

 Reduce drastically white flour, pastries, cakes and the like.

 Between eating and sleeping there should be a 3 or 4 hour interval

 As far as possible abstain from processed foods.

 Do light physical exercises at home.

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