“Ramadan Is Tough for Muslims with Eating Disorders”

Jess Brooks
Intersectional and Crossectional
1 min readSep 2, 2014

“For some eating disorder sufferers, Ramadan is the one month they can get away with starving themselves because not only is not-eating enabled, it is rewarded. Fasting is at the core of Islam and one of the five pillars of Islam, which means it’s obligatory for all able-bodied believers to participate during the holy month.”

https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/ramadan-is-tough-for-muslims-with-eating-disorders

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Jess Brooks
Intersectional and Crossectional

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