Dates

Being a Muslim, it is an obligation to fast the month of Ramadan. During this holy month, a person cannot eat or drink from sunrise till sunset. It is a ritual to break a person’s fast by eating dates. Prophet Mohammad always used to break his fast by eating dates. Ever since then, it has been a very important tradition in Islam to have dates before breaking your fast. It is said that dates speeds up the metabolism making it healthiest to eat when a person first breaks their fast. In addition, dates are sweet. For those who do not know what a date is, it is a fruit. This fruit usually come from the desert. Some people say from Africa, other say from Asia. It is not just because of health that a person eats them, but they also are very delicious. I usually eat one, spit the seed out from the inside, and drink a glass of water. This being said, if dates taste good and very healthy to eat, should it not be served more at a breakfast table? Rather than eating waffles, pancakes, bacon, sausages, and boring cereal everyday, people should change the way they eat to better the health. When an individual eats pancakes, the only reason they eat them is so they can eat the syrup that is poured on them. If something is naturally sweet and speeds up the metabolism when a stomach is empty, and tastes good, it should be served more then often. Unlike pancakes, dates do not need syrup to make them sweet. They are naturally sweet. Considering how society has become obese and how people are now getting used to eating or living in the fast-food type of mentality, restaurants should start offering dates on their menu to give an awareness of how much health and what an individual eats is important. We would start seeing less obese people if people started caring about their health. Breakfast, as I have been told, has always been the most important meal of the day. If a person can start off the most important meal of the day, speeding up their metabolism by eating a simple date, it is most likely that this person will burn calories quicker than if they were to have bacon.