Saturday, August 6, 2011
Science of Fasting
The month of Ramadan: the month of Atonement, the month of Divine mercy and blessings for mankind is coming pretty soon. Depending on the lunar calendar this month is starting on Monday (1st of August 2011) in most parts of the world. This is the month when the Final Testament - The Quran was revealed to mankind from Lord. In this month the 1.79 billion and more faithful Muslims across the globe will be fasting in the name of Lord, for the sake of Lord to attain rightousness, to attain closeness to God.Fasting has its spiritual and religious merits and dimensions. At the same time this practice of fasting which recommended in all faiths and religious tradition also have great scientific and medical benefits that are revealed as advanced medical science is researching on it.
The best action to take when first becoming ill is to stop eating and rest, which goes contrary to the prevailing advice to take a drug, eat to keep up your strength, and keep on going. When you fast, you are not starving your body of nutrition, because it obtains all the nutrition it needs from its own tissues. But in doing so, the not inconsiderable amount of energy that would have been spent in digestion is now spent in repair of tissues and elimination of toxins.
Long fasts of up to three months followed by healthy living practices can (but not always) reverse chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, colitis, migraines, mental illness, even cancer. (See also Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease.)
The best action to take when first becoming ill is to stop eating and rest, which goes contrary to the prevailing advice to take a drug, eat to keep up your strength, and keep on going. When you fast, you are not starving your body of nutrition, because it obtains all the nutrition it needs from its own tissues. But in doing so, the not inconsiderable amount of energy that would have been spent in digestion is now spent in repair of tissues and elimination of toxins.Long fasts of up to three months followed by healthy living practices can (but not always) reverse chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, colitis, migraines, mental illness, even cancer. (See also Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease.)
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Need an urgent research. but who will do it, any sponsors or grant?
science challenges in new habit and modern life
. sensitivity and creativity can promote research about daily life. This is another high impact research and significant to human modern living style. Refer to environmental health journal IF 2.8.
passing exam and learning science: another issues in educating science to young generation
Curriculum need to be designed such way so that the students will understand and practice science in their life not just passing the exam without understanding practicing in the life when they are in school and after.
Teachers are the important elements to translate he curriculum to students and make sure that the students understand and change culture of exam oriented.
Teachers need to be retrained according to time and current interest of teaching and demand in science education.
University should plays an important roles or teaching colleges can be actively used for retraining the teachers. We have experts in teaching of sciences not just teaching techniques but mastering the subject matters.
To avoid stereotype culture and respect diversity in knowledge and approaches of thinking, creativity and style perhaps we can offer Bachelor of Science with education in few universities to support the existing one stream approach. Perhaps in expanding of basic agriculture approached in schools, perhaps we can have a Bachelor of Agriculture Programme in university such as Universiti Putra Malaysia where the strength and history in agriculture were there.
Teachers are the important elements to translate he curriculum to students and make sure that the students understand and change culture of exam oriented.
Teachers need to be retrained according to time and current interest of teaching and demand in science education.
University should plays an important roles or teaching colleges can be actively used for retraining the teachers. We have experts in teaching of sciences not just teaching techniques but mastering the subject matters.
To avoid stereotype culture and respect diversity in knowledge and approaches of thinking, creativity and style perhaps we can offer Bachelor of Science with education in few universities to support the existing one stream approach. Perhaps in expanding of basic agriculture approached in schools, perhaps we can have a Bachelor of Agriculture Programme in university such as Universiti Putra Malaysia where the strength and history in agriculture were there.
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