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Fasting

April 5, 2009

Fasting is an act of willingly abstaining from some or all food or drink (or both) for a certain period of time. Some religious fasting may also include abstinence from sexual activity.

Fasting means cleansing. To those who practice it, and to those who propagate it to all mankind as the cure to all ills and as the salvation from all sins.

Cleansing of the body. Cleansing of the soul. As a nutritionist, I can only comment on the former.

TYPES OF FASTS

Fasting can be total or partial. It may begin from abstinence from one particular food to total exclusion of all food and even water.

Different fasts may follow one or more of the following restrictions:

·         Abstaining from meat or all non-vegetarian foods

·        Exclusion of cereals such as rice and chapatti, or any other staple foods

·         Reducing total food intake to only one full meal per day

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Categories: Nutrition & Diet

Fitness as a Career

February 9, 2009

THE BOOM
Everyday, media in some form or the other bombards us with information on fitness.

•    Every TV channel has a segment on fitness. (Every Breakfast show starts out with fitness)
•    Every radio station has at least 10 minutes devoted to fitness tips
•    Every newspaper has a regular column on fitness, and every magazine publication has a regular article on fitness.
•    Every fashionable up market designer house nowadays has to have an area demarcated for a home gym,
•    Up market societies, Apartment blocks, Condominiums have to have a clubhouse with a pool & a gym.
•    All the old clubs like Bombay gym; Willingdon, WIAA, Boat Club, Poona Club, etc… have health clubs.
•    There is not a single 5 star hotel in the world without a state of the art health club; in fact a 5 star rating cannot be given to a hotel without a Health club.
•    All big Corporates always have a health club in their office premises for their employees.
•    Every big Lifestyle Expo has to have stalls for fitness equipments, Nutritional supplements etc…
•    A model, an actor now has to be lean & muscular, just a nice face doesn’t cut it anymore.

K11 AcademyWhen an industry gets as all pervasive as this…the scope is bound to be good. As there is no dearth for placements.

Wherever you go you can’t escape fitness. If you don’t workout & are out of shape, no matter how successful you are in your chosen field, SOCIETY WILL MAKE YOU FEEL GUILTY FOR YOUR LAPSES IN FITNESS.

Who is to benefit from this scenario???

The answer: FITNESS PROFESSIONALS.
Fitness is not a fad…it is here to stay… Everything starts out as a fad, but good ideas stick around. What’s good for you will always persevere. We always give the example of Denim Jeans; they may have started out as a fad but they show no signs of disappearing despite fashions coming & going, cause they are such a great idea. Leading a fitness lifestyle is going to get more & more important to people as technology makes us more & more sedentary.
The one thing that the fitness industry didn’t have for the longest time was professionalism.

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