Look great and feel great! The Qur'an (2:168) says, "You people: eat of what is on earth, lawful and wholesome." In our century a Muslim has to know at least a little bit food technology and the difference between natural foods and refined or junk foods because the big increase in cancer is the result of consuming too much refined foods. You can watch my 17 years of research on cancer in a detailed way on Youtube :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1dx_2T2S90 GETTING OVER CANCER And now it is time to examine the"other refined foods" Tins and pickles:They have lost their nutrition values and make our digestion system tired. Fresh vegetables and fruits-especially seasonal ones- must be prefer. All kinds of alcohol, carbon and caffeine containing drinks( including Tea,Coffee,Colas,etc.),Cigarette: Cigarette smoking is forbidden and should be avoided. Water, mineral water, linden tea-or any other herbal teas and fruits have to be consumed instead of these harmful drinks which effect our digestion system very negatively - especially stomach, pancreas, intestines. Tomato paste,roasted nuts(hazelnuts,peanuts,almonds,etc.),ready made soups,puddings etc.; also make our body tired. Home made tomato pastes, soups (like lentil,tomato,vegetable,etc.)-so as to protect our body from chemical materials- and raw ( not roasted) nuts must be eaten. Briefly spending time in making homemade products or paying a little bit more money for buying them must be preferred to waiting for your doctors in hospitals and spending money and time in this way.It has been observed that when these refined foods are eaten the red blood cells are alarmed as if our body is being attacked by microbes. White sugar: Sugar is created by many chemicals processed changes till it becomes white and granulated.This also makes our digestion system tired and must not be used (cakes,cookies,chocolates,jams,ice creams,puddings,etc.). All kinds of artificial sweeteners are also unfamiliar foods to our nature. Every fruit,cereal,vegetable has ideal and sufficient sugar for the usage of our digestion system.While drinking our herbal tea we may use honey, maple or grapes syrup . Butter, margarine and refined liquid oils: They make our body tired because they are created due to many chemical processes during production like immersing in chemical solvents, degumming, hydrogenating and deodorizing.The best is to use natural-cold press- oils without any chemical elements. We can also get fats&oils from nuts (peanuts,walnuts,hazelnuts) or oil seeds like sunflower seeds by eating little amounts daily. Too much consumption of meat was forbidden in Kutubi site from a hadit narrated by Caliph Omar 'God does not like a family consuming too much meat because it makes a kind of addiction like alcoholic drinks'. And a Hadith related by Yahya that states that the Prophet (SAW) said, "Beware of meat. It has addictiveness like the addictiveness of wine" (Malik). We observe that such big amounts of meat consumption in our day in industrialized countries has a short history. Diabetes Mellitus has a straight connection with animal originated foods and in case of quitting and substituting them with fibered plant proteins or defatted dairy products the most stubborn patients will be cured in 3-5 months and will never be ill again You can watch this in a detailed way on my video about soybeans on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ2NA2ucPss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZL7iDXBrro&mode=related&search= And you can find a lot of info on kefir and fermented products here :http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html On internet you can find a lot of hadits and Quran verses and medical information about healing powers of black seeds (Nigella sativa ), honey,olive oil and other foods advised by our prophet and medically proved. Best Regards