The low levels of sugar in the blood pushes the body to greedily seek sugar, and therefore we find that many fasting people resort to eating sweets a lot after breaking the fast, with their inability to control the symptoms of the body’s demand for sugar.
Foods that help
Nutritionist Hadeel Bou Saeed said in an interview with Sky News Arabia that the best way to control the symptoms of the body’s demand for sugar during the month of Ramadan starts from breakfast and continues after it, as more fiber must be added to the meal, and also rely on complex carbohydrates. Such as whole wheat, oats, and quinoa, all of which reduce the craving for sugar after breakfast, and eating plenty of protein found in cheese, red meat, fish, poultry, and legumes also helps curb the body’s demand for sugar.
Sugar from natural sources
According to Busaid, the best way to give sugar to the body is from natural sources, such as bananas, apples, blackberries, grapefruits and strawberries, and dried fruits such as apricots, dates, figs, peaches and others can also be used, indicating that the body obtains sugar by replacing fruits. With sweets, it may be difficult in the first few days of fasting, but with the passage of time, the body will adapt to healthy options, and it is also possible to eat a mixture of fennel seeds, sesame seeds, flax and almonds to reduce the craving for sugar after breakfast.
The best sweets for the fasting person
Bousaid adds that if the fasting person wants to get sugar by eating sweets after breakfast, he should not limit his options to fried or fat-filled sweets, as he can resort to sweets such as oatmeal cake, homemade cake, banana dessert with dark chocolate, orahlab, rice with milk, pudding, ice cream and dark chocolate, with Replace fatty ingredients with low-fat ingredients, if these sweets are prepared at home.
Not suppressing the body
For her part, Mira Abd Rabbo, an anti-diet nutritionist, said in an interview with “Sky News Arabia” that the best way to control the symptoms of the body’s demand for sugar is by not suppressing it. If the individual craves sweets a lot, he must eat them, but consciously. In not exaggerating the amount of sweets eaten, and adopting moderation, stressing the need for fasting people not to limit the options for obtaining sugar by the body with sweets only, but also through refreshing fruits, snacks, dried fruits and nuts.
Breakfast ingredients limit your sugar requirement
Abd Rabbo stressed that whoever eats sweets should not feel guilty about that, but should think consciously and how to find a healthy balance in his diet, pointing out that the ingredients of the breakfast meal play a major role in reducing the body’s demand for sugar, as it must contain Starches such as rice, pasta, potatoes, chicken, meat, vegetable elements, and fat elements found in olive oil.
Abed Rabbo stressed that through integrated breakfast meals, the body’s need for sugar can be automatically adjusted after hours of fasting, stressing the need for the fasting person to feel full when eating breakfast, in order to limit the possibility of eating sweets later.
