Muslims Urged To Eat Warm Foods During Ramadan- Fatou Darboe

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By Sheriff Saidykhan


Fatou A. Darboe, Programme Coordinator, Nutrition unit at the Directorate of Health Promotion and Education has urged Muslims to eat more warm foods during the period of fasting. She made these remarks on Wednesday at her office in Kotu.


“When breaking the fast, it is ideal to eat something warm so that the intestine will be activated. 


And the body will be ready to consume the diets. So we are encouraging individuals to eat warm foods and local tea. 


They are nutritious and very good for our health. We need to stay healthy by eating nutritious diets. Because In Ramadan people will be fasting for so many hours.


 And also dates. So these food options are very good for our health when breaking the fast" she urged.


She encouraged people to eat local combination of foods, taken into account the healthy ones. 


“We can also eat other combination of foods that we have at our disposal, taken into consideration the health ones. 


When we talk about healthy ones, we are talking about foods that we cook for ourselves. We have our locally available foods that we are trying to promote.

 

It will be important for people to recognise them, during the Ramadan," she said.


Eating carbohydrate foods she said, are good for energy giving during Ramadan. 


“We can use carbohydrates which is good for growth and development. This includes rice, bread, sweet potatoes and millets. All these are classes of carbohydrates,” she added.


She further urged people to limit the consumption of raw meat during Ramadan. 


“We encourage people to limit the consumption of raw meat, especially meat that is being immediately slaughtered. 


 Unless it is been frozen. At least to minimise the contents of blood,” said Fatou A. Darboe


She added: “fruits and vegetables, we have garden eggs, carrots, onions and tomatoes.  We should not forget water. We should be frequently drinking water from iftar to suhur time. 

We encourage people to use fish, oysters chicken they are all good for our health” she concluded.

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