In this Ramadan tip episode, Theresa and Kaighla remind listeners to listen to your mama's nagging advice and drink that water. They reminisce about their own first Ramadans and the ways they made things harder on themselves by breaking their fast with Coke, pop, soda, and other sugar-laden, sometimes carbonated drinks, and how those dietary choices just made things more sluggish.
The New Muslim's Field Guide vocab word of the day is Asr-the afternoon prayer. It is the third of the five daily prayers. Theresa's sound quality is not great. She apologizes for that. Her computer microphone is a joke, but she is still glad to have it, Alhamdulillah.
@1:27 Theresa says "coke" in reference to all sodas or pop. Coke is the word used for these things in her neck of the woods.
@1:34 Theresa says "coca-cola, airheads, and other breads". She meant to say "and other carbs". She is a Carb-oholic.
@2:35 Kaighla mentions her time in Egypt when she was breaking her fast with fruit-flavored, sugar water. As in, not actual fruit juice, but more like Kool-Aid. As a rule, fruit juices are high sugar. Real fruit juices retain some of the vitamins that make fruit good for you, but they are also missing a lot of the stuff that makes whole fruit healthy, like the fiber. So they are not a great choice during Ramadan when you have limited time to eat and limited space in your stomach.
Coke, coffee, tea, and many other beverages contain caffeine. Caffeine is a diuretic. Diuretics promote the increased urination, meaning it expels water from your body quicker than your body naturally would.
Dates, bananas, and other foods high in potassium help you retain water in your body. So they are great to eat any time of the year but especially in Ramadan.
