We don’t blog alot about health issues here, and for Western Muslims, I don’t think anybody who does health studies ever looks at us specifically in a way that it would be a ‘Muslim’ story, but there are huge trends in the larger society and it’s fair to ask how much or whether we are a part of them, and how much a specific ‘Muslim lifestyle’ plays into those trends.
Studies suggest overweight kids are coronary time bombs.
Russell Pate was driving through a neighborhood one late afternoon when he noticed something odd.
He couldn’t hear the sounds of children playing. No jump rope patter. No squeals of a bike’s brake. No crack of a bat — just silence.
The streets were deserted because the neighborhood kids were cocooned in their homes, Pate says. It was a scene he’s seen over and over again.
“Now you can drive through entire neighborhoods where you know there are a lot of young kids there and hardly see any of them out,” says Pate, an American Heart Association spokesman.
….A study released last November at a Heart Association conference found that the neck arteries in obese and overweight children were similar to those of 45-year-olds. The children in the study also had “abnormal cholesterol” and were said to be at high risk for heart disease in the future.
The story cites television, video games, the obsession with testing and fast food as culprits. Here in the West, Muslims are usually well-off and well-fed, but despite (or perhaps because of) fasting, food and modesty restrictions, are Western Muslims fat?
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johnpi 10:34 am on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks to the Talk Islam archives, a Hijabman story that Andrea Useem linked to…
null 10:48 am on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
zomg, HijabMan is engaged!
johnpi 10:56 am on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
lol
I saw that too. Another Muslim blogger lost to domestic family life….
Just kidding. Inshallah, he’ll still have time and energy for writing/blogging.
abunoor 1:30 pm on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Oy, Habibti has been running a series of posts on Health and Fitness which is, I believe geared towards Muslim women.
Brother Siraaj at Muslimbestlife is a health and fitness nut as well. and started something at Muslim Matters called the MM Fit Life Competition.
I’m sure there’s a lot else out there. There are a lot of Muslims who grew up in this country who are big into health and fitness and diet and all that stuff. Of course, there are also many like myself who are not so much into those things (at least talking about them).
johnpi 3:57 pm on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I would offer to chip in for your gym membership, but I suspect you make more money than I do, barrister.
vince 1:13 am on November 25, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The People” have had enough apparently!
An “insider” revealed today that the “World of Medicine” is scamming people – and even worse: with the help of “law-makers!”
It seems that “money” (as usual) has blinded doctors and medical practitioners to the degree that they are now willingly *suppressing* the truth regarding Heart Disease – its control, management, and even its cure!
That’s right: “cure!”
And what should shock you even more:
It seems that it’s against the law to say the word “cure” when describing anything that actually cures you.
Yet it’s very much okay to say that something “treats” or helps “offset” the symptoms of some health condition or disease.
But if you say “cure” (and even including when you in fact have a real and bona fide cure for something and can even prove it!) you can get arrested.
Ever wonder why we have a “healthcare” industry and not a “healthcure” industry?
It’s simply because no one’s out to “cure” anyone because there’s little money in doing so.
Instead, keeping you sick and marginally pain-free is all anyone’s really out to do for you these days – as doing so means you being “forced” to buy all the same drugs over and over again, and again, and … (you get the point!)
Of course, if a cure came along it would mean you buy it one time, and then you’re cured – and that’s that (over and done!)
But a number of doctors, philanthropists, and just plain old “good folks” armed with “real answers” and “real solutions” are stepping up and are NOT afraid of “Uncle Big-Bully Brother!”
One courageous fellow by the name of Melford Bibens, CPT, is doing exactly this, as he’s helped others overcame “naturally” the condition known as “Heart Disease!”
Not only that, but Melford has lectured and personally helped individuals beat the disease to the point that proven sufferers have actually gotten re-diagnoses as “no longer having the disease at all!” (Something that’s pretty much always been ruled out as a possibility altogether! – and now which may even be against the law!)
But it’s not certain how long Melford will be allowed to do this because “Uncle Sambo” has actually started using “Gestapo” tactics whereby people and businesses truly offering “cures” have been raided with masked armed police who even go to the point of forcing customers in the stores to get down on the floor at gunpoint!
So, if you’re wise and want to find out about this while it’s still possible for you to do so, then just visit this link now:
~~~> http://www.UltimateHealthyHeart.com/cashman
But don’t be surprised if one day soon you return to find this site completely removed with a US Flag waving in its place (in the name of “freedom” no less!)
Caramoan8 9:48 am on December 26, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The only way you can manage obesity is throught Proper Diet and lots of exercise. The human body is designed for work so we should always get some form of physical exercise to stay fit.
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