Ramadan starts this week

With Ramadan starting this week, Clinical Commissioning Groups across Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland are urging practicing Muslims to make sure they keep healthy while fasting.

 

Because Ramadan falls in the UK’s mid-summer this year, when daylight hours are at their longest, their fast will be greater than for Muslims in more equatorial countries.

 

Many practicing Muslims will be observing this 30-day fast from dawn till dusk. Ramadan, as well as well as encompassing fasting, is a month of prayer and self-reflection and an opportunity to address physical, psychological and moral health.

The NHS has produced a guide to a healthy Ramadan: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Healthyramadan/Pages/healthyfasting.aspx