IslamoSophia - Food and Health

I wanted to let everyone know that although I met great challenges fasting last year with what became an irregular eating schedule and a neglect in my own food habits rather than those of my children ( I would actually forget to eat sometimes as long as the children were fed although our food was still natural and home cooked.  Needless to say I was fearing the long 17 and a half hour days this year.  To my great surprise, my fasting has gotten back to what it used to be years ago thanks to what I know is our greater intake of grains (lentils, Barley, Bulgur, semolina etc). I can now face the long extremely hot days (today was 53 degrees here in Qom) and still go out and do my things in the heat and yet not even face any weakness in my health.  I realized that it could only be due to our great strength that we have gained from putting grains first. I have found that quite a number of people around me are facing anaemia and immediately turn to meat to solve their probl...

Ever since I was a child, our family have been eating semolina pudding with cinnamon and sugar or honey.  Now that my own family have switched to grains as the center of our diet, I started looking for more ideas to make semolina pudding and I found this very nice recipe from Scandi Home  I liked the freshness of this semolina pudding and the idea of the vanilla so I thought I would share it since we are focusing on grains right now. Don't worry, we will still have the regular semolina post for our series also some great effects that we have been experienceing and discoveries we've made (you all may already know them) but we'll be sharing them soon in a post so have your Semolina pudding and check back. More wheat to you!

I decided that a good place to begin in researching the heart of our diet was from the heart of the Holy Quran - Surah Yasin.  I found the following verse. "And a sign for them is the dead earth, we bring forth from it the grain so that they eat of it." Surah 36:33 So just Like Allah created everything from the earth we too must go back to the most simplest elements in order to build our selves.  I went back to the beginning and started to re-educate myself on grains. These are things we all know but obviously have not properly understood otherwise we would be implementing them in our diets to a greater extent.  Knowledge does not lead to action unless understanding has been achieved. So For now let me list some grains to get us back to the basics in our diet building. Oh and I know beans is not grains but they are seeds that contains proteins and the feel good vitamin B6 just like grains. At this point I was already v...