ets at which Muslims break the fast, and the feasting celebrations of Eid al-Fitr can also be difficult situations.
"It's conflicting because I love dinner settings and lunch settings, I like that communal energy," Bahar says.
"I just know I will take part in it, but then the next few days I just won't eat to balance everything that I'd ingested."
Christine Morgan, the chief executive of the Butterfly Foundation, a national charity raising awareness around eating disorders, says people suffering or recovering from disorders often find feasts a challenge.
"Part of the support and recovery service is being able to help somebody navigate through that," she says.
"To understand that food is something celebrated and how to navigate through times when there is a plethora of food is part of the strategy of learning to live with a disorder."
Current data indicates that 4 per cent of Australians are experiencing eating disorders at any given time, but less than 25 per cent are receiving treatment.
Bahar admits she fits into this trend, having only sought professional counselling in the last few months.
"It's just a bit of a struggle to unload everything, having not done it before, especially to someone who's so far from my ethnicity and religion," she says.
"But that also in some way makes me feel like she's giving a more objective perspective."
While eating disorders may have been traditionally associated with a specific demographic, Ms Morgan explains the conditions — which can manifest as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder or an atypical disorder — can affect anyone.
"People tend to think of eating disorders as predominantly affecting adolescent girls, but eating disorders know no boundaries in terms of age, sex, socio-economic groups," Ms Morgan says.
"There seems to be some personality traits which are more common. Traits such perfectionism, high achievers and attention to detail will often accompany someone who has an eating disorder."
Bahar says that although her eating disorder went largely undetected, "being thin" became part of her identity.
"It was something that people would always compliment," she says. "I come from a very big family and it was always just assumed that I was always that thin."
For many Muslims, Ramadan is an opportunity to express self-control, and this year for Bahar that means self-care and a regular eating routine.
"Fasting, in itself, is not the only way to participate in Ramadan," she says.
"Sadly, some of us were not created in the perfect image, but that does not mean we don't try to partake in our understandings of Islam. I believe Allah, who we speak of as all compassionate, makes concessions for this.
"There are codes in the Koran that say if you are ill, if you are travelling, if you're pregnant, if you're menstruating — there are so many factors for you not to need to fast.
"I need to come to terms with that: an eating disorder is an eating disorder, and they'll fit me in the category of someone that's exempt of fasting."
Despite the difficulties and risks involved in fasting, Bahar hopes to one day participate in all aspects of Ramadan.
"I think that would not only be a testament to my relationship with my religion, but also it would for myself to prove to me that I'm doing OK and that I'm out of the battle."
Contributor: Alexander F. H. Goetz, University of Colorado at Boulder
Estimated usable aquifer lifetime of the High Plains Aquifer on the Nebraska/Colorado border overlayed on a Landsat image. Aquifer lifetimes estimates are key to change modeling. The circular shape of irrigated pivot plots can be seen on the Landsat image.
More than 10 percent of the United States’ High Plains region is made up of sand dunes and sand sheets that are currently stabilized by the natural grasses growing on them and by irrigated farming. If future climate change leads to increased temperatures and less rainfall in this arid region, as some climate models predict, these sandy landscapes could be “reactivated” and begin blowing as they did in the “dust bowl” years of the 1930s.
Information about the dunes in this 800,000 square-kilometer region – encompassing parts of Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico – has been available for decades. However, a systematic study of the relationship between humans and the land and land-use change on a large geographic scale is only now possible utilizing satellite observations.
Alexander Goetz, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado is leading a research team to create an effective way to assess how the High Plains will be affected by future climate change. Using Landsat 5 data from 1984 to the present, Goetz’ team has completed a detailed study of land cover change in northeastern Colorado and is creating a 15-year database of land cover and human-induced land cover changes in the region.
One of the more striking observations is the dramatic shift from dry-land farming and flood irrigation to center-pivot irrigation since 1985. Some of the pivots are located in the dune areas and these spots would become dune reactivation sites if the irrigation were discontinued, according to Goetz.
Combining land-cover data with meteorological and future climate data in a regional climate model, Goetz plans to produce a model-based method for estimating future dune reactivation and identifying the areas with the highest potential for reactivation. The team will also investigate the potential effect of abandoning farmed and irrigated lands on dune reactivation.
Landsat 7 data provides the researchers with many more images than were previously available, since the team can acquire images from every pass of the satellite over the region. With multiple images during a growing season, they can more precisely distinguish crop types and change. Goetz expects that by extending the Landsat data set beyond 2000, he will be able to catch a significant drought year, which will help to validate models for the effect of low rainfall in the High Plains.Statistics and meaning of name Madjid
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A diversion will be in place to ease congestion.
The A48 southern distributor road in Newport is the dedicated diversion route for all eastbound or westbound traffic.
The tunnels have been receiving maintenance for several months, closing on weeknights and weekends, from the end of August.
This is the last weekend of repairs that are planned for the tunnel for the next year, although the tunnel will be closed on some nights from Saturday to Sunday in 2018.
These weekend closures are known to cause huge tailbacks, with some commuters even claiming it took them three hours to reach Cardiff from Bristol Airport.
The Eastbound carriageway will be closed from 8pm October 7 to 6am October 9.Yesterday on our 09h30 and we had this Brydes whale at Keurbooms Village.
This whale swam alongside the boat for 10 minutes before moving off.
En-route to Robberg, we encountered 9 Indo-Pacific Humpback dolphins playing in the surf at Robberg 1.
Boat Based Whale Watching is one of the must do Garden Route Activities!
Other Activities and Adventures offered by Ocean Blue Adventure includes Sea Kayaking and Township Tours. For more information Contact Ocean Blue or Make an On-Line Booking.Hi, what's your family's favorite roughhousing game? How did it get started? What are the benefits of playing it?
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I don't have a roughhousing game that I do with my daughter... I've always felt uncomfortable and out of my territory. I would love to know how to get started though to where I was