title: Perception of medical university members from nutritional health in the quran.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Desirable health is impossible without good nutrition, and Allah has addressed us on eating foods in 118 verses.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to describe the medical university faculty members' perceptions of nutritional health in the Quran, revealing the important role of faculty members.
  
  
  METHODS
  This qualitative study was conducted with a phenomenological approach. Homogeneous sampling was performed in a final sample size of 16 subjects. The Colaizzi's phenomenological method was applied for data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three main categories were extracted from the data analysis, including the importance of nutrition in the Quran (referring to certain fruits, vegetables and foods, illustrating and venerating the heavenly ones, nutritional recommendations, revealing the healing power of honey and the effects of fruits and vegetables on physical and social health); reasons of different foods being lawful (halal) and unlawful (haram) (religious slaughter, wine, meats, consequences of consuming haram materials, general expression of halal and haram terms); and fasting (fasting and physical health, fasting and mental health).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  What has been mentioned in the Quran is what scientists have achieved over the time, since the Quran is governed by logic. Although we do not know the reasons for many things in the Quran, we consider it as the foundation.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Hepatitis Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Shahin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salarvand
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Yadollah
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pournia
keywords: Faculty Member; Nutritional Sciences; Phenomenology; Quran