so Muslims in health and you know health
problems are in increasing people are
being diagnosed with more and more
illnesses every year and it's
interesting that people are getting sick
from eating and Allah subhana tala
created food so that we can get
nutrients out of it so it can improve
our health so it can give us energy so
how can it be that something that Allah
subhana wa ta'ala put on Earth to
improve our health is actually damaging
our health and the plans of Allah subha
T never backfire so that means then that
the problem must be from the way we're
consuming food and the amounts of food
that we're consuming so what we're
consuming and how much we're consuming
consuming in in the Quran verse number
31 Allah subh in the middle of the verse
says and eat and drink and do not go in
excess verily Allah does not love those
who excess who overdo
it he comments about this verse and he
says all of a person's health good
health are in these few divine words
this great IM he's saying all of your
good health is in just these few Divine
words eat and drink and do not excess do
not go overboard so that means then
perhaps the first problem is how much
we're eating Allah subh T did not design
our bodies to consume all the kinds of
food and the amounts of food that we're
consuming right now for example
biologically you only need to eat meat
once a week your body body does not need
meat more than once a week but we eat
meat every single day of the week and
sometimes more than once a day and we're
offended if there's no meat at the table
so what happens we were not designed to
consume so much meat and the result of
this over consumption we get all kinds
of illnesses gout for example you get
gout when you overdo when you eat too
much meat or too much seafood or you
consume drinks that have been sweetened
with fructose all these are things that
could lead to people having gout so we
were not designed to consume that much
and Sall wasallam mentioned this in a
Hadith this Hadith we all know it and
it's a very famous Hadith but we mention
the Hadith as if it's it's mentioning
the maximum and this is the Hadith where
you eat eat and you leave you fill
onethird of your stomach with food
onethird with drink and then oneir you
leave it for air we mentioned the Hadith
like this is the the minimum or like the
maximum really and minimum yeah so we
mention it as if this is the minimum you
should do but we never quote the Hadith
from the beginning the Hadith begins
when wasallam
said the human being son of Adam male
female has not filled any vessel there's
no container that you can fill worse
than your stomach meaning the worst
thing you can feel is your
stomach
sufficient for the son of Adam are a few
bites to sustain him just a few bites to
keep you
going if there's no other way and you
have to
then so then a third for your food then
a third for your drink and then a third
for the air so the Hadith is ma
mentioning this as the maximum that you
can do the maxim maximum you can do we
mention it as if it's the minimum yeah
just start with that no that's the end
if you have to there's no other way is
that how much we consume now is that how
we eat how many of us today eat just a
few bites to keep us going basically you
eat to remain alive you eat to live but
what happens we live to eat all we talk
about is Cuisine and watch cooking shows
and watch eating shows and eating
competitions just about eating eating
eating and this is not how much we we
were intended to consume it's too much
and so as a result of that all kinds of
illnesses arise we're supposed to
consume just a little bit to contain us
but we eat so much and if there is just
a little bit of air left in our stomach
we become uncomfortable and we search
everywh everywhere for a grape a banana
something to fill that little Gap
with so we get ill because we overdo the
amounts of food that we eat you know now
there is an increase in people that are
being diagnosed with type two diabetes
and it tells you that one out of every
three children will be diagnosed with
type two diabetes how do you get type
two diabetes type one we all know it
type one where basically your immune
system destroys the beta cells these are
the cells in your pancreas that create
insulin produce insulin type one
diabetes your body destroys these cells
in type two these cells are overworked
and fatigued and that's why they die off
beta cells that create insulin so
basically when you consume any amount of
food glucose goes into your bloodstream
that's the energy from this food in the
form of glucose it goes into your
bloodstream once glucose is in your
bloodstream now it needs to leave the
bloodstream and go into your muscles
into the muscle tissue but you can't do
that without insulin so the minute
there's glucose in your bloodstream the
the the the pancreas basically starts to
produce insulin insulin allows glucose
to pass from your bloodstream into the
muscles so it's stored there for energy
so then these beta cells that produce
the insulin in the pancreas they start
to die off because they're overworked
and they're fatigued what causes them to
be overworked and fatigued how many
times and how often is glucose just
running through our veins constantly
almost all the time so how much sugar
are we consuming Allah did he design our
pancreas to consume and to handle so
much sugar when you drink just a small
can of Coke how much sugar is in that 39
G okay first of all in America at least
we don't use grams so why is the sugar
mentioned in grams because people don't
understand grams so they don't know how
much is in there 39 gram in this small
can of Coke that is about 7 and 1 12
teaspoons of sugar and if I put that
much in a glass of water if I just put
two three teaspoons of sugar in a glass
of water would you drink it it's too
much if I put seven and a half would you
drink it you know when you go and get
the big gulp it's full of Pepsi or what
have you and you consume it throughout
the day that has like the equivalent of
100 packets of sugar imagine you tear up
100 packets of sugar and you fill that
big gulp would you cons would you do
that would you consume that but we drink
sometimes we replace water with Coke and
things like that and you might be
thinking juice is probably better and
when you read the label you see 27 gam
of sugar in in Juice So you think it's
less than Coke it's not it's just that
they the serving size is smaller but if
you make it the same size as what's in a
can of Coke you have exactly 39 gr
exactly the same amount of sugar too
much sugar our bodies were not designed
for that so perhaps then that's the
first half of the problem we're eating
far too much we're eating far beyond
what we need and this is causing damage
to our body that's why Allah designed it
to not cause us harm it's supposed to do
good for us but it's doing bad because
we're overdoing the amounts Allah did
not design our bodies to handle that
much
of food that's the first part of the
problem then the second possible part of
the problem is what we're eating and the
problems in what we eat either what
we're eating is straight up harmful or
or it's just useless take orange juice
for example so now when they make orange
juice it's homogenized and it's
pasteurized when it's pasteurized
basically it's boiled at very high
temperatures to kill the pathogens in
this orange juice now you know when you
squeeze an orange in your home and you
put that juice in the fridge if you
don't drink it within a few days what
happens to it it ferments it goes bad
immediately but you buy the the carton
of orange juice and it's been sitting in
the supermarket shelf maybe for a whole
week you take it and you open it and you
drink from it for another week and a
half and it still doesn't go bad because
it's been pasteurized it's been boiled
and every pathogen in it has been killed
this is and and it's stripped of the
oxygen that's in it this is a process
known as de aration so it does not
oxidize it doesn't go bad and because it
doesn't go bad sometimes it's stored in
gigantic containers at the juice place
the juice factory for over a year it
sits like that and in this year it loses
all its flavor so then they they hire
another company that will engineer what
is known as flavor packets okay other
chemicals and other things that will
they pour into this juice that's been
sitting for a year to make it taste
fresh like it was just squeezed off of
Florida orange tree yesterday and you
consume that then in the process of
pasteurization the high heat kills the
vitamin that's in the orange juice so
they can tell you vitamin C with vitamin
C and you drink it and there is Vitamin
C in it but it's all dead because it was
killed it's all useless to your body but
they're not lying when they say with
vitamin C because there is Vitamin C in
it it's just dead vitamin C you see or
sometimes it says vitamin C added which
means because they know it's there's no
vitamin C they added vitamin C after
that process so a little better but
still not good so what's the best thing
the best thing you squeeze your own
juice that's the best thing you can do
the truth is there are two golden rules
here right number one if anything any
food if a man put their hand into it
it's bad just that's the general rule
whatever people human beings have
meddled with it's bad in some way or
another or in the long term the other
thing is that nobody cares about about
you nobody not the government not the
Food and Drug Administration not the
medical industry nobody cares about you
the only one who cares about you
is you yourself that's the only one who
cares so you have to watch out for these
things they're not going to warn you so
this is just a simple example with
vitamin C with meat we have all kinds of
problems they put they add sodium
nitrate to meat as a preservative where
do we put sodium nitrate it's a
component that's found in fertilizers
all right it's also used in pyrot
technques like fireworks it's used to
make smoke bombs and it's also used as a
rocket
propellant then it's also used as a pres
as a meat preserver now I don't want to
hear that something that can be used in
smoke bombs will be put in my meat as
well and sodium nitrite nitrite and
nitrate both of them are put in the meat
sodium nitrate it also prevents bad
bacteria from growing and making the
food spoil the meat spoil now sodium
nitrate right it basically reacts with
the the amino or the myoglobin in the
meat the myoglobin this is basically the
iron and an oxygen binding Protein
that's found in muscle tissue basically
it's the ability of the muscle to hold
oxygen which is very important so it
reacts with this and and basically
that's why when you walk into the
supermarket you find if you ever looked
at Pork it's light pink and then beef
it's darker because beef has more
myoglobin all right and tuna for example
also when you cook it it turn turns dark
while other meat the fish is white
because there's more myoglobin in tuna
because it's constantly swimming so it
needs to hold more oxygen so this
basically binds with the nitrites and it
makes it look bright red that's why when
you go to the supermarket the meat looks
very fresh bright red now when you buy
meat from your local butcher and you put
it in your fridge for a few days it gets
brown but this meat for weeks in the
fridge here looks bright red because of
this reaction between the sodium nitrate
and the
uh the the myoglobin in the meat so it
looks fresh but it could be very very
old and supposed to be very very Brown
and then you find discussions about
these nitrates and nitrites causing
cancer but anytime you find something
causing cancer oh it's disputed or we're
not exactly sure because the the food
industry they have their own research
and they cast their own doubts into
these issues so who do you believe then
and then both of them the the sodium
nitrate sodium nitrate are converted
into nitrosamines which are known to
cause cellular
degeneration and to damage DNA uh
molecules or cause DNA damage so this is
a problem there's always something wrong
with the food if human beings have
meddled with it there's something wrong
with
it with with cattle we have problems
with estrogen so they give them this
femal hormone estrogen and so the cows
gain weight and their meat is tender
soft but what is the problem with
estrogen nothing destroys it if you boil
the meat broil the meat fry the meat
cook the meat whatever you do with it it
still remains in the meat if you milk a
cow that's been given estrogen the
estrogen is in the milk if you make
yogurt from that milk it's in the yogurt
if you make cheese from that milk it's
in the cheese it's a female hormone that
we don't want in our bodies we're
getting more and more of it cows now are
milked 300 days out of the Year even
when they're pregnant they're milked and
when they're pregnant certain compon
components or estrogen type components
increased by 33 times in the milk and
they just milk it and then they give it
to us and we consume it there was a
study that was done in 42 countries to
see to find the correlation between
Dairy consumption and testicular cancer
and they found the the strongest
correlation to be in Switzerland and in
Denmark where cheese is one of the
national foods and people consume a lot
of dairy they found the lowest
relationship to be in Algeria where
people don't consume as much dietary
like or or dairy products so you see
then problems all over the place people
engineering food adding things to food
doing crazy things to food Mercury fish
you think of fish you think of mercury
there's always a problem somewhere and
almost none of the processes is natural
anymore Tomatoes they're picked green
they don't pick them when they're ripe
they pick them when they're green and
still hard so they don't go bad and then
they ripen them by putting them in
ethane gas and then that gets them to
turn red so they're not damaged and they
look good to you the consumer so the
answer then if you can buy organic eat
organic decrease the amount of food that
you eat you don't need to eat that much
of anything find out play around and
examine find out exactly how much you
need and if you can grow of course grow
and be very aware read be very conscious
of what you're consuming what you're
putting into your bodies for attentive
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