Research Article | OPEN ACCESS
Muslim Youths' Perception on Sunnah Diet: A Survey on IIUM Students
Mohd. Shuhaimi Bin Haji Ishak, Nurul Fadzlin Binti Che Shari, Siti Nazirah Binti Yahya and Siti Nabilah Binti Mohamed Talmizi
International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, Malaysia
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2013 10:1805-1812
Received: November 29, 2012 | Accepted: February 01, 2013 | Published: July 20, 2013
Abstract
Although many people realize that their food intake affects their health, they often choose food for a variety of reasons. In Islam, there are many commands that direct the believers to the necessity of keeping the physical body healthy so that the soul and spirit also remain healthy. This study which was conducted at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), aims to examine Muslim youths’ attitude to Sunnah diet. The survey collected valuable data on several Sunnah diet related conditions such as sources of food, start-up age, frequency and practicality of practice, availability of the diet, reasons for non-practice, societies’ observance and their difficulties to keep to the diet. The resulting wealth of information is very useful to establish university policy on nutrition education, food assistance programmes as well as examine the relationship between Sunnah diet and health.
Keywords:
Awareness and health, diet, muslim youths, Sunnah,
Competing interests
The authors have no competing interests.
Open Access Policy
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Copyright
The authors have no competing interests.
|
|
![](http://www.maxwellsci.com/images/RJASET-maxw.jpg) |
ISSN (Online): 2040-7467
ISSN (Print): 2040-7459 |
![Submit Manuscript](../images/sub.jpg) |
Information |
|
|
|
Sales & Services |
|
|
|