Nigeria: Ramadan - Watching What We Eat!

During Ramadan, among many Muslims (not excluding this writer and, I hasten to add, many of you readers) the intake of calories, instead of decreasing because of abstinence from eating for about fourteen hours (in the tropics) and twenty hours (in Northern Europe including the UK) actually increases. And this is because many of us want to compensate for the so-called three-square-meals with one wholly-rounded meal at Iftar. (And readers should have seen the 'plates' surrounding their Columnist at Iftar on Thursday Ramadan 1. Kai! Or Chei!)

The pre-Ramadan three regular (or 'square') meals, which are adequately separated by time, now become Iftar, a late dinner and Sahur, one coming rapidly after the other, thus making many of us eat almost throughout the night. It should be noted that, during the month-long fast of Ramadan, the metabolic rate of a fasting person slows down and thus the calories mostly stay put. Therefore, many of us emerge more rotund on Sallah Day than as we entered Ramadan. Tomato faces (like your Columnist, though actually his tomato-face is genetically-organic, not satisfactorily-Ramadanic).

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