IslamoSophia - Food and Health

It's been less than two weeks of building the health of our family from the grains up.  It seems that every where I look I see evidences why grains are the most essential part of our diet. I want to share something with you all that has been a concern for me for about a year now.  That is hair health.  In our family, we've always had very thick, shiny and very fast growing hair, in the past year, that began to change for me and I knew that I had to look inside the body for the answer rather than look for topical treatments that, while they do help to complement a healthy diet and lifestyle and add the finishing touches to good health, are not the foundation of any health improvements.  So I began researching and asking questions. I went to health food stores here in Iran with my unsophisticated farsi, I asked friends, I looked online but my problem remained.  Then a few months ago a friend of the family gave us a big container of wheat paste that they make...

I was going to post about the date today, but found there was so much information from Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him and his family) on how to combine the date with other foods in order to maintain the balance of the body and then with the differences between the dry, and fresh and unripe dates, I decided to post on what I found on the olive since it is significantly less complicated of a fruit and therefore there was less consideration  that was required in eating them.  I also felt that you would all be happy with some of this information and so here it is for today. I found this information in a book on the "Natural healing with the medicine of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family). The author is Mohammad Al-Akill. There are relatively few (I've only found two) books compiled on the traditions on the prophet or the Imams on the subject of natural healing that have been translated or written in English, the rest have to be searched for within the books...