{"id":24352,"date":"2020-04-23T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/docs-say-take-precautions-while-consuming-dates-in-ramadan-wash-dry-them-for-few-days-before-you-eat-dr-naveed\/"},"modified":"2020-04-23T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:51:02","slug":"docs-say-take-precautions-while-consuming-dates-in-ramadan-wash-dry-them-for-few-days-before-you-eat-dr-naveed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24352","title":{"rendered":"Docs say, take precautions while consuming dates in Ramadan, \u201cWash, dry them for few days before you eat\u201d: Dr Naveed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Srinagar<\/strong>: With the Holy Month of Ramadan, devoted to fasting and prayers for Muslims, starting to begin from Saturday, the doctors here have advised the people to take all precautious before consuming the dates.
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\u201cDates are particularly beneficial during Ramadan because they are high in sugar and vitamins such as potassium and magnesium as well as an excellent source of fiber and carbohydrates. But yes we advise people to take all precautions while consuming the dates,\u201d Kashmir’s leading pulmonologist and head of Chest Diseases Hospital, Srinagar, Dr Naveed Nazir Shah told news agency KINS.
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However Naveed advised people to properly wash and then dry the dates before eating them \u201cYou can buy the open dates from local markets, but yes before consuming them, all you need is to ensure that you wash and leave them for at least three days before eating,\u201d he said.
Dates are also known to help with digestion and can prevent an upset stomach when eating large amounts of food after a long period without eating.
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Meanwhile one of the senior doctors, expert in infectious disease here in SKIMS said that there is no published evidence, and we are not aware of unpublished evidence that people have developed COVID-19 illness from touching food or food packaging. \u201cHowever, the virus causing COVID-19 can survive on surfaces and objects for a limited period of time. So it is better to throw the packing of dates as soon as you bring them home, as the wrapper may have the virus on it,\u201d the doctor told KINS insisted not to be named. He also suggested that dates should be washed and left to dry properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The doctor said that the available evidence suggests that the virus can remain for 3 days on hard surfaces and 1 day on soft surfaces.
While the proverb \u201can apple a day keeps the doctor away\u201d is known all over the world, the saying for Muslims go like \u201cseven dates a day keeps the doctor away. There are different types of dates, the best and most precious one is the round-shaped, curled, black \u201cAjwa\u201d which is grown in Medina
From April 24 to May 24, Muslims will be observing Ramadan. This is the first Ramadan where people won\u2019t be able to gather.
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\u201cIn Islam Ramadan is obligatory for Muslims. The Month has a lot of activities of spirituality. It\u2019s all missing this year and then on top of that, if poor people do not have food at home, it\u2019s going to have a huge impact emotionally, physically, and financially to them,\u201d one of the senior citizens here in Srinagar told KINS.
Many are wondering how to safely shop, order, and prepare food to minimize transmission of the novel coronavirus.
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The people here feel that it is a dramatic shift in their normal Ramadan practices and activities. \u201cWe won\u2019t be able to pray Taraweeh in the mosques in fear of further spreading the virus. The mosques will be sad and thus our hearts will also be sad,\u201d Habibullah a resident of Bemina Srinagar said.
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\u201cPerhaps the pandemic will bring us together in new ways we hadn\u2019t considered before.
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Although the religious activities that occur every Ramadan will not exist this year, Mohmmad Ramzan, the Islamic studies scholar, says that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean people can\u2019t attain the same level of spiritual fulfillment they ordinarily would.
For instance, Taraweeh, he said, can be offered at home. \u201cPraying Taraweeh in a group inside a mosque is not obligatory; the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, used to offer it individually.\u201d he said. (KINS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: With the Holy Month of Ramadan, devoted to fasting and prayers for Muslims, starting to begin from Saturday, the doctors here have advised the people to take all precautious before consuming the dates. \u201cDates are particularly beneficial during Ramadan because they are high in sugar and vitamins such as potassium and magnesium as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}