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A few years ago, when German President of the International Diabetes Federation, Dr. Peter Schwarz addressed a medical conference in Karachi, he said that many people themselves were involved. According to him, if a person eats zero calories for two weeks (in other words, fasters completely), runs at 10,000 steps daily and drinks four liters of water a day, they can turn diabetes. The moment he said, most of the audience dismissed him as a madness.
At the end of the conference, I turned to a friend of mine – an endocrinologist – and asked if this person was advocating seriously for two weeks without any meals. “Can anyone survive this long time without eating?” I asked. My friend laughed, “She’s crazy. Don’t take her seriously.”
But then he added something that stayed with me: “This ‘crazy’ boy does it every year. He does not eat for two weeks, drinks only water, and walks more than 10,000 steps daily. His body begins to change internal fat – especially in his liver fat.
I do not know that something like this is possible for the average person, but medical experts say that a person can survive for five to seven weeks without any meals – provided they continue to get water. Still, why will anyone be pushed towards such an extreme?
The Qur’an says, “Fasting is recommended to you because it was suggested for people before you,” What could be a deep wisdom behind this imposed hunger?
After that there are thrilling monks and Hindu Saniassees – who go for days, even weeks, without food or water. Emacious and skeleton, we see them in the form of a fasting Buddhist. What is the philosophy below such discipline?
What do you think about the deep words of Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him): “There are some ghats enough for Adam’s son to keep his back straight,” and “the worst vessel that a person can fill is his stomach.” What is the eternal wisdom of these sayings?
Today, when I received the results of my fasting blood sugar and HBA1C, I discovered that I too had entered the circle before diabetes. At the end of this evening, I attended a gathering that ended with dinner. Although I felt a slight hunger, I chose to quit food. When the host insisted, I finally said that I was fasting. Surprisingly, they looked more anxious to feed me than they could eat themselves. I still don’t understand why.
Health reporting has passed – new research, new crises come up every day – but a truth resonates: As we move beyond nature, we deepen in illness and disorder.
Health reporting has passed – new research, new crises come up every day – but a truth resonates: As we move beyond nature, we deepen in illness and disorder.
In Pakistan, we both observe the extremes: on the one hand, a lot of reduction, and on the other, excessively excessively. Centuries of hunger have been tarnished by inheritance. About 70 to 80 percent of our population is struggling with obesity. Others, including many women and children. Severe nutrition.
Famous medical researcher Professor Javed Akram once told me, “Our fall started with our madness with bread. What do we call the world lunch, we call bread. What do we call the world dinner, we call bread. This madness with bread has ruined us.”
Today, diabetes – many people who are still wrongly associated with sugar or sweets – is the most famous chronic disease in Pakistan.
This is the same for hypertension. Millions live with hypertension. Numerous kidneys have failed. The death of a heart attack increases. Stroke disability is present everywhere. And the main reason? Bread, poor nutritional choice, motorcycle and car culture that avoid walking, and an unbearable desire for a dangerous addiction to factory -made food.
A few days ago, I talked to a doctor who said, “Before I can advise a patient to eat less and healthy – because their condition is a direct result of eating more – the patient inevitably asks: ‘Doctor, what and how much can I eat?”
It’s just night. I just spent at least a dozen waiters from a restaurant – maybe a total of two to three dozen staff. I did a quick mental calculation and felt that the owner would have to spend hundreds of thousands of rupees a month on his salaries. If he is spending the same, imagine what he should make. And if he is earning so much, how many people should eat there? How much food is being eaten daily?
When I look at the increase in non -communication diseases, I cannot help, but I recognize the Divine Wise behind fasting. Baba on the sides of civilizations has always accepted silence and patience – in speech and food – as the highest form of wisdom.
The author is an investigative reporter, who currently covers health, science, environment and water problems for News International.
