Women,Fitness and Freedom
It is interesting that there is such a gap, in the UK at least, between regular exercise participation for men and women. Girls tend to stop being active in their teenage years with then continues into adulthood. In fact, according to...
No Smoke without Fire
It’s time to defog the facts about shisha.
With the ever rising popularity of shisha amongst the Asian youth, it seems one can’t turn a corner without running into a new Hookah haunt. With swanky shisha bars and lounges...
Longest Fasts Of Ramadan
Many Muslims will not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset, which this year, will last up to 19 hours in the UK.
Fasting begins before sunrise with a meal known as Suhoor, and ends at sunset with a meal...
Brummies Bhangra Baazar
A Christmas themed bhangra event to raise funds for DKMS UK and raise awareness of blood stem cell donation is taking place in Birmingham. The event, which is being organized by a group of volunteers (led by local man...
Ideal Recipe Plan For Ramadan
21:30 (pre-workout meal):
High protein, high carb, medium fat
Total 0% yoghurt, diced dates, blueberries, teaspoon of peanut butter and manuka honey.
Instant oats, whey and spirulina shake.
Ensure you drink at least 1 litre of water with 0.5-1.5g of sea salt with...
Easy ways to improve your diet
How's your weight? Are you miffed with your muffin-top, beleaguered by your batwings and gutted with your, er, gut? Most people could go a long way to improving their diet and we Asians are no different. Indeed you could...
Benefits of quitting smoking
Around 100,000 people die from smoking every year in the United Kingdom and is one of the nation’s biggest causes of death. Did you know each cigarette has approximately 4,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic? Ammonia, tar, carbon...
Get active outdoors this autumn with Rosie Naseer
All of my adult life I’ve been an avid hill walker and lover of the countryside of the British Isles. Sadly, big shopping centres seem to attract more visitors than our green and pleasant land. I want to change...
Why Being ‘Grown up’ is Harder to define for today’s young adults
You remember when you were a child and were always being asked what you wanted to do when you had ‘grown-up’? Perhaps you remember thinking yourself that it was okay to feel pretty childish/insecure/carefree because you weren’t properly grown-up...
Urban fitness: what’s stopping you?
If you work for a largish organisation, you may have joined in a 10,000 steps challenge recently. How did it go? Please let me know. If you are anything like me, you were probably super keen at the start...
