{"id":28452,"date":"2019-02-12T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28452"},"modified":"2019-02-12T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:04:13","slug":"meet-dal-dhaliwal-sporting-equals-new-special-advisor-on-physical-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/meet-dal-dhaliwal-sporting-equals-new-special-advisor-on-physical-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dal Dhaliwal &#8211; Sporting Equals\u2019 New Special Advisor On Physical Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Coventry health and well-being\u00a0expert and TV \/radio presenter, Dal Dhaliwal has been appointed as the new Sporting Equals Special Advisor on Physical Activity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dal is a health and well-being\u00a0expert, educator and TV \/radio presenter. She was one of the first Asian women to launch a fitness studio in the UK and has been working in the wellness industry since 1998.\u00a0Her popular coaching plans have helped people globally to get in better shape, to feel good, gain confidence, build their self-esteem and to become the best version of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on her new role, Dal said:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI&#8217;m excited to be a part of the Sporting Equals team. My extensive career spans over 20 years in the Health and Wellness industry. As one of the very first Asian female gym owners and health<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and\u00a0<\/strong><strong>fitness experts in the UK, I understand what cultural barriers Asian women and girls have to encounter.\u00a0I am passionate and committed in motivating and inspiring more people, in particular South Asian women and girls to get involved in physical activity and Sport &#8211; and lead more healthy and active lifestyles.\u00a0Being part of the Sporting Equals team will give me a platform to actively promote equality, inclusion and ethnic diversity in physical activity and sport.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sporting Equals exists to actively promote greater involvement in sport and physical activity by disadvantaged communities &#8211; particularly the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population. They are a national partner of Sport England.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arun Kang, CEO of Sporting Equals said: \u201cReally pleased to have Dal on board\u00a0to advise my team in physical activity nationally.\u00a0\u00a0Many ethnic minority groups have high risk of Diabetes type 2, hypertension and coronary heard diseases. Exercise can help reduce the risk and with Dal\u2019s expertise\u00a0and presentation skills we will persuade more people to get fit. Health is wealth!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Dal\u00a0Dhaliwal\u00a0visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daldhaliwal.com\/\">www.daldhaliwal.com<\/a>. For more details about Sporting Equals visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingequals.org.uk\/\">www.sportingequals.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coventry health and well-being\u00a0expert and TV \/radio presenter, Dal Dhaliwal has been appointed as the new Sporting Equals Special Advisor on Physical Activity. Dal is a health and well-being\u00a0expert, educator and TV \/radio presenter. She was one of the first Asian women to launch a fitness studio in the UK and has been working in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,98,112],"tags":[1934,993,1933,1935,961],"class_list":["post-28452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-press-releases","category-top-stories","tag-arun-kang","tag-coventry","tag-dal-dhaliwal","tag-sport-england","tag-sporting-equals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}