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Okay, so here is the current situation. This is reporter Ahmed Ali Akbar. He's a James

Faire toward winning food writer who reports on American Muslims. Listeners might recognize

his voice from previous episodes of Proof. Oh, and his online moniker is Rad Brown Dads.

I have always fasted all 30 days of Ramadan and never like somebody who makes excuses to avoid

it or something, but it's something that has increasingly become more and more kind of negative

for me in the sense that any good habits I have built up over the year get destroyed by Ramadan.

I stop walking as much. I'm eating heavier foods that are wrecks havoc on my acid reflux riddled

body. I stop going to the gym and then it's like after that for like three, four months, I'm back to zero.

Now, I grew up Catholic and I know even how one day of fasting on Ash Wednesday or good Friday

can throw off your routine. But for Ahmed, there's something else that's made Ramadan even more

challenging for him these days. He and his wife welcomed a baby last year. Ahmed is now truly a

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