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keeping the body away from harm. In a modern context this equates to eating wholesome nutritious foods, ensuring balance of quality and quantity, keeping away from things that are toxic and harmful to the body (and in modern society there are many), and striving to detoxify the body from the consequences of bad diet and lifestyle and exposure to ha... rmful elements. The content on HealthyMuslim.Com will be largely based around these principles, and will include details of new research as well as established solid principles of nutrition . It is our firm belief that modern (Western) medicine , whilst certainly having positive aspects in a number of areas, does little to treat or cure , by and large, the true underlying causes of diseases and chronic illnesses. It is mostly centered around the treatment of symptoms, that is, to manage disease symptoms. This leads to the continued use and reliance upon prescription drugs with the true underlying causes of the disease never really being addressed. This model of disease treatment is structured in order to facilitate the exploitation of disease conditions and states for profitable pharmacological agents. Allen Rose, the worldwide vice-president of GlaxoSmithKline, admitted in 2003 in public, that 90% of all drugs, whether produced by his company or not, do not work in the majority of people. That's straight from the horses mouth . That does not mean that some drugs do not have any value, it just simply means that the idea that was pushed for most of the twentieth century (and still is) that absence of disease is synonymous with use of pharmacological agents is not correct. In fact, such a belief is an aberration in the many thousands of years of the history of medicine , whose foundation has always been in diet , nutrition and lifestyle. The greatest of modifiable influences upon disease are diet , nutrition and lifestyle (which are from the asbaab [ways and means], and this is after consideration of the role of al-qadaa wal-qadar within which are the asbaab). Despite ...Read More