{"id":771,"date":"2014-06-27T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=771"},"modified":"2014-06-27T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:33:55","slug":"uk-muslims-risk-health-during-ramadan-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"UK Muslims risk health during Ramadan fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_772\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/017730279_30300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-772\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/017730279_30300-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"To fast or not to fast: diabetes observes no religion\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/017730279_30300-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/017730279_30300.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To fast or not to fast: diabetes observes no religion<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s coming up to the month of Ramadan in the Islamic calendar &#8211; when Muslims around the world are supposed to fast during daylight hours. That can be hard enough, but if you have diabetes it\u2019s important to eat regularly in order to stay healthy. Now a new study in the UK shows some Muslim diabetes sufferers put their own health at risk during Ramadan, because they either ignore their doctor\u2019s advice not to fast, or they don\u2019t go to see their doctor at all. Here&#8217;s my piece for <a href=\"http:\/\/dw.de\">Deutsche Welle Radio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2286411-the-trouble-with-diabetes-and-ramadan\/embed\/v2?eid=AQAAABBIrVNL4yIA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; box-shadow:0 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); min-width:349px; max-width:700px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2286411-the-trouble-with-diabetes-and-ramadan\">listen to \u2018The trouble with diabetes and Ramadan\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s coming up to the month of Ramadan in the Islamic calendar &#8211; when Muslims around the world are supposed to fast during daylight hours. That can be hard enough, but if you have diabetes it\u2019s important to eat regularly in order to stay healthy. Now a new study in the UK shows some Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}