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09/21/2023

S2E1 Theresa Loo, Pharmacist, Health Coach & Podcaster, PharmacistEdit

Join co-hosts Jasmine Low and Nikki Yeo in this brand new Second Season of the "Help! I'm prediabetic! Kurang Manis (Sugar,Less) Podcast. The duo meet Theresa Loo, Pharmacist, Health Coach & Podcaster at PharmacistEdit. Born in Malaysia, she graduated as a pharmacist in New Zealand and gained experience in the UK before moving to Australia. Theresa Loo is the eldest of 3 girls, and has enjoyed a diverse career in pharmacy in the community, hospital and education fields. Her passion lies in preventative medicine having had contact with so many patients with complications from chronic disease - it was heart-wrenching for her to see them go through the journey. So she thought she could make more of an impact in early intervention to prevent the complications of chronic disease. She focuses on type 2 diabetes. Could it because both her grandfathers suffered from the complications of type 2 diabetes? She will join us shortly to share why she’s all in to prevent and keep diabetes in remission! On a side note, husband and her have 3 chickens; Snap, Crackle and Pop, and enjoy being part of the self-sufficient community in Brisbane. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy, Health & Wellness Coach, Certified Trainer & Assessor, Accredited Consultant Pharmacist, Postgraduate Certificate in Medicines Information & Management. Theresa helps people find the best interventions to naturally resolve chronic conditions, overcome limiting beliefs and connect their health back to their ultimate purpose in life. Theresa specialises in reviewing medicines, checking for side-effects interactions as a DMMR or HMR pharmacist in the Brisbane region. As a pharmacist and health coach, Therese facilitates your why, helps you dig deeper into what’s holding you back and supports you to create sustainable change so you can reach your health goals. She has a special interest in reversing and preventing chronic disease through diet, lifestyle and nutrition. Her own health journey has opened her eyes to the strengths and weakness of mainstream as well as alternative therapies. Her philosophy is to treat the root cause of the condition, utilising all therapies. Her health coaching sessions are available via Zoom or TeleHealth. Certifications and Accreditations: Health Coaching Australia & NZ (HCANZA) accredited Health & Wellness Coach Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacists (AACP) Bachelor of Pharmacy Postgraduate Certificate in Medicines Information & Management
08/17/2024

Matt Levy OAM Paralympic Gold Medal Swimmer (Australia)

“No matter how hard the road seems, there is always light at the end of the tunnel" – Matt Levy In 1987, Matt Levy was born prematurely at 25 weeks. He has cerebral palsy, is legally blind, and has had 40-50 operations on his heart, lungs, ears, and even brain. Matt is also a swimmer. You might have seen him win gold for Australia. He has competed at five consecutive Paralympic Games, winning 3 gold 1 silver, and 5 bronze medals. He’s also swam at 5 World Swimming Championships - winning 20 international medals and holding 4 World Records. Matt has a degree in Business (Management), an Australian Institute of Company Directors qualification and MBA (Leadership), as well as an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to sport. Buy a book or connect with Matt via his website at: www.mattlevy.com.au. This is a live recording from the inaugural AFT International Port Macquarie Sports Fitness Fest - Keynote, Sports Inclusion held in Panthers Port Macquarie on 4 November 2023. Sports Fitness Festival was presented by Official City Host: ⁠ @portmacquarietourism ⁠ ⁠ @pmhcouncil ⁠ Matt also spoke at Sports Inclusion Networking Night on 28 August 2024 on the eve of the opening ceremony of Paris Paralympics 2024 in Sydney, Australia. The evening was co-presented by ArtSHINE and Go International Group Dotcom Pty Ltd at the Community Bank Darling Square in Sydney's Haymarket. View the exhibition here: https://www.sportsfitnessfestival.com/exhibition. #iloveportmacquarie#sportsfitnessfestival#sportsequity #diversitybyinclusion#afitnesstoday#paralympian #cerebralpalsy #internationaldayofpersonswithdisabilities #swimming #goldmedalwinner -- CREDITS A GIG: GoInternationalGroup.com Production Produced by EQN Activation Studios Executive Producer - Nikki Yeo Writer, Director & Producer - Jasmine H. Low Camera / Audio - Rolando Oporto, Primo Creations Editor - Susheel Younas, MAS Productions Graphics - Tamara Yovita / Podcast Cover Graphics - Jasmine Low STAY TUNED, HIT SUBSCRIBE TO THE A FITNESS TODAY NEWS NETWORK Don't miss a beat! First start by subscribing to AFT: https://www.afitnesstoday.com/subscribe Connect with us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asiafitnesstoday.official FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/move8 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asiafitnesstoday Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/move8movement For ad-free content, subscribe to our newsletter: Substack: https://www.afitnesstoday.substack.com Listen to the Move8 podcast on: Website: https://move8.asiafitnesstoday.com/podcasts/ Anchor: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/move8 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/channel/aft-podcasts-apac-heroes/id6442749688 -- Mission 2030 -- A Fitness Today is on a mission to halve non-communicable diseases in the Asia Pacific region by 2030. It begins with a whisper, a drop in the ocean and slowly, change can happen. It begins with us. Knowledge is not only power. Knowledge is health. Read more: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/?p=8838 -- What's Move8.org? -- /////// Social enterprise Move8.org advocates sports and health equity and has created an 8-step method to health & wellness. /////// Asia Fitness Today acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands we live on. We pay our respects to all Elders, past and present, of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.
02/28/2022

Dr. Chuah Guat Eng on her PhD Thesis, From Conflict to Insight: A Zen-Based Approach to Reading Fiction

In this third episode, Dr. Chuah Guat Eng details her PhD Thesis: A Zen Approach to Reading Fiction is a reading procedure originally proposed as her Masters thesis proposal submitted to the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). She cites an example of how many literary critics have approached the works by Joseph Conrad. In multi-ethnic Malaysia, Guat wanted to explore the use of a Buddhist inspired, Zen-based method to approach works by fiction authors, without imposing one's own culture or values on the text. She poses the question on how one is able to gain deeper insights into an author's text when the approach is Zen-based. -- Dr. Chuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian novelist and professional writer who read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and she has a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). Guat Eng has two novels - Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university. *** About the Listen by Heart Podcast You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Two of Listen by Heart: Voices of the Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you. Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them. Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com). An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production. Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com. Website by WebPROjx.com. Official website: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com. #ListenbyHeart Would you have a tale to share or know somebody who does? Do you identify as a woman with heritage from the nations encircling the contentious South China Seas? We’d love to hear from you… SEND VOICE MESSAGE — Send in a voice message requires you to set up an account with Anchor.FM, a company affiliated with Spotify.
03/30/2021

S1E7 Dr. James Muecke AM, Australian of the Year 2020 wants to put Type 2 Diabetes in remission

Eye surgeon and Australian of the Year 2020 Dr. James Muecke AM speaks to us about his proposed change to Australia’s dietary guidelines, why he's championing for a sugar tax and his work in raising awareness about Type 2 Diabetes - a lifestyle disease that could lead to the loss of sight. Dr. Muecke is from Adelaide. He began his career in Kenya, then returned to South Australia to become an eye surgeon and blindness prevention pioneer, starting both Vision Myanmar at the South Australian Institute of Ophthalmology in 2000, and Sight For All, an organisation which uses Australian and New Zealand eye specialists to train overseas doctors, a social impact organisation "aiming to create a world where everyone can see". — We also meet Dr YokeLi Ling, a dentist based in Kuala Lumpur who is passionately advocating Sleep and Airway Centric Dentistry and Oral Myofunctional Therapy. Dr. Ling will share more in the following episode of the podcast with co-hosts Nikki Yeo and Jasmine Low. — Our tradition continues where we introduce music from this region and we've chosen a song titled SUPERMAN by Tassie-based Mia Palencia who launched her career in Malaysia at the age of 14 as the other half of Sabahan jazz duo Double Take. Mia composed, produced and performed the opening night theme song for the Southeast Asian Games 2017, and continues her PhD research in Songwriting at the Conservatorium of Music, University of Tasmania and released her 7th album with her Australian jazz quartet, In Good Company. Visit www.miapalencia.com. — We welcome messages from our listeners, and invite you to send us a voice message if you have comments or feedback for our guests. Thank you. — More about The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast: www.asiafitnesstoday.com/kurang-manis • Read full article about Dr. James Muecke here: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/dr-james-muecke/?amp=1
08/05/2021

Malaysian Folktales: Su and her natural love for swimming | Written & narrated by Dr. Ann Lee

Written and narrated by Dr. Ann Lee, this story was published amongst 16 others in Malaysian Folk Tales: Retold & Remixed, edited by Daphne Lee, published by ZI Publications (2011). Su and her natural love for swimming is based on the folktale about a girl who was kidnapped by an orangutan. The irony is that her abductor reveals its bubbly and very loving character. About the Listen by Heart Podcast You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Two of Listen by Heart: Voices of the Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Ann Lee. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you'd like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you. Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them. Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com). An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production. Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com. Website by WebPROjx.com. #ListenbyHeart | https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com Would you have a tale to share or know somebody who does? Do you identify as a woman with heritage from the nations encircling the contentious South China Sea? Wherever you are in the world, we'd love to hear from you... SEND VOICE MESSAGE --- Send in a voice message requires you to set up an account with Anchor.FM, a company affiliated with Spotify.
02/22/2024

Amanda Nell Eu | Film Director & Screenwriter of Tiger Stripes - Cannes Critics’ Choice Winner

Originally released on Feb 2, 2024: AFT Podcasts present the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Presenter Jasmine Low speaks with Amanda Nell Eu, a Malaysian film director and scriptwriter known for her recent body horror film Tiger Stripes - set in a Malaysian jungle in which a girl experiences a strange metamorphosis as she comes of age. The film won the Critics' Week Grand Prize (Semaine de la Critique Cannes) when it was shown at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in France in May 2023, and it was then selected as the Malaysian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Amanda runs Ghost Grrl Pictures with a cofounder. Amanda is known for an earlier film about two teenagers and a female vampire who solely attacks men, an urban legend tale in Malaysia and Indonesia - titled, “Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu” or in English, “It's Easier to Raise Cattle" was featured at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2018. Connect and follow Amanda Nell Eu via Facebook, Instagram or IMDB. Read more on the official website of the Listen by Heart podcast in https://ListenbyHeart.Webprojx.com. Watch Tiger Stripes: * Australia and New Zealand theatrical release this Feb 3 - Mar 1, 2024 presented by Screenxcope. Visit https://www.gointernationalgroup.com/au/ to learn more. * Southeast Asia on Netflix this Feb 15, 2024. ---------------------------- CREDITS --------------------------------- You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, an AFT Podcasts production. Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them. Our Mission: Listen by Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits: An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com). An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production. Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com. Website by WebPROjx.com. #ListenbyHeart | https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com Would you have a tale to share or know somebody who does? Do you identify as a woman with heritage from the nations encircling the contentious South China Sea? Wherever you are in the world, we'd love to hear from you. Enjoy & subscribe to the Listen by Heart Podcast on your favourite platform: Apple podcasts https://bit.ly/listenbyheartpodcast, Spotify spoti.fi/3yfxWNZ, Google podcasts bit.ly/3la7C46, Player FM https://bit.ly/listenbyheartplayerfm, YouTube.com/@AFT-tv etc.
02/18/2021

S1E2 Dr. Desmond Menon: Genes & Our Predisposition to Diseases of our Parents

MOVEMENT • NUTRITION • SCIENCE Dr. Desmond Menon shares some of his findings from medical and lab studies on genes and how nutritional and fitness interventions were effective in making changes to a body's "plasticity" and performance. He was also the subject of his own experiment; from a long-distance runner of 69kg, to a body builder with 15% fat at 110kg. A Medical Laboratory Scientist with experience in academia and clinical pathology laboratories, Dr. Desmond Menon is Director/Founder of R3Gen, a medical research lab-based start-up. He is also Chief Scientific Officer of MyGenica, a health and wellness genetic testing company based in Singapore. In this Episode No. 2 of "The Kurang Manis Podcast" by AsiaFitnessToday.com, Dr. Desmond Menon speaks with co-hosts Jasmine Low & Nikki Yeo. Also included in this episode, is Dr. Desmond's Q&A with Nicol David, World No. 1 Squash Champion & The World Games Greatest Athlete of All Time. Read the full interview with Dr. Desmond Menon here: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/?p=9138. For Spotify listeners - we are pleased to feature a song written by Singapore’s great Jazz muso Jeremy Monteiro, dedicated to his aunt Lorna. Titled Lorna’s Kitchen, we know for a fact that her Debal curry is divine. This episode is dedicated to Lorna - an amazing person whose fiery curry speaks volumes for her passion for life. We love you, Lorna! Learn more about The Kurang Manis Podcast: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/?p=9039. Now streaming across all podcast platforms - Anchor.fm • Spotify • Apple podcasts • Google podcasts etc. Search for "The Kurang Manis Podcast". ⚫️🔴⚪️ Executive Produced by AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcasts Edited/Produced by Jasmine Low & Nikki Yeo Recorded at Sydney Podcast Studios All Rights Reserved, Go International Group Dotcom Sdn. Bhd. TC: https://bit.ly/3b9FHuM EMAIL: info@asiafitnesstoday.com • Originally published on 16/2/21, revised for clarity. • Like this show? Support us with a donation: https://bit.ly/3ksZR74
09/01/2021

A Merdeka Story: from little things big things grow 🖤💛💙❤️

Welcome to a special edition of Listen by Heart, narrated by Jasmine H. Low. 🖤 On August 9th 2021, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples themed ‘Leaving No One Behind’ left me thinking of our future, and of the concept of freedom. 💛 It's August 30th, Malaysia's Merdeka Day. A quick dip into historical events would show the timeline from when the British East India Company made a deal in 1786 with the Sultanate of Kedah, a state bordering Malaya and Thailand, to form the first of what would be the Straits Settlement, comprising of Malacca and Singapore later on. And that is history, as told by text books. Blindsided in school textbooks are stories about the indigenous peoples, like the Orang Aslis and Orang Asals, leaving generations of children growing up without much knowledge or understanding for the cultures of the first people. Where were they in history? What happened? Didn’t they also fight for peace during WWII? They make up 13.8% of Malaysia’s 32 million population so it’s a good question to raise and a strong reason to lobby for indigenous peoples and their stories to be told in schools, at the workplace and local community programs. 💙 Voice from the heartland. Coming from migrant stock, I’m sensitive to this topic and have been all in for First Nations appreciation since my arrival to Australia as a teenager when it celebrated its bicentenary. Australia is my heartland. It’s a second home and it always has a place in my heart. Imagine arriving at a celebration of 200 years since the first British settler set foot in Australia. I quickly learned at that impressionable young age, that one man’s meat is indeed another’s poison and that there were two events in the one same city; Sorry Day in La Perouse south of Sydney and Australia Day in the harbour front of Gadigal Land. How can one celebrate when another is somber? This juxtaposition of thought camps remains the crux of January 26th for me personally. ❤️ A dedication to all Malaysians, especially Malaysia's indigenous communities. As a Malaysian-born, I've been conscious of its long dumbed-down history of land rights among the aboriginal native orang asli and orang asal. I've seen friends tell through personal experiences, through documentaries they'd shoot, horrendous tales of blockades in the centre of the Earth as termed by the Temiars in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, blocking tree loggers from pulling roots out from their earth, their land, which was licensed out to commercial loggers. These brave individuals would set up blockades ala man versus tractor. The song by Paul Kelly, remade by Ziggy Ramo and Electric Fields keeps the fire burning for the other people fighting land rights and there needs to be fires burning long through the nights for this fight to be fought. On the eve of this 64th Independence Merdeka Day in Malaysia, I've had this song translated into Bahasa Malaysia, and written this short piece to show respect to a culture if not protected, will be forever lost. It's really baby steps forward but giant strides backwards if we allow our last remaining forests, ancestral land for the first peoples of Malaysia, what's left of it, to be plummaged with no recourse. There is no turning back if we let it happen. We must not let it happen. Protect it at all costs just like how the tree huggers, Chipko activists in the 1970s in India did. Read the full article here: https://www.jasminelow.com/merdeka-from-little-things-big-things-grow/ Learn more about Listen by Heart Podcast: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com. Thank you. Written and produced by Jasmine H. Low Bahasa Malaysia translation by Syuhada Adam.
03/01/2025

He Huang Comedy

He Huang is a Chinese comedian from ChongQing based out of Australia. Her YouTube profile promises that as a stand-up comedian, she'll be serving up sarcasm, dark humor, and existential crises—disguised as jokes. She rose to fame following a debut on the Australian Got Talent TV show. Jasmine H. Low speaks to He Huang on this edition of AFT Podcasts: Listen by Heart Podcasts. Learn more about the podcast here: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com.
01/11/2022

[Korean Version] 덜 단 The Kurang Manis (Sugar,Less) Podcast by AsiaFitnessToday.com

Hello 2022! We welcome the new year with a special Korean podcast version of highlights from Season 1 of The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast, voiced by four students of one of South Korea's oldest private universities, Chosun University in Gwangju. The students were mentored by podcast co-hosts Nikki Yeo and Jasmine Low over a month, where they spent hours researching the topics, discussed as a group, translated articles from English to Korean (www.asiafitnesstoday.com/sugarless) and lent their voices to this recording. We hope this outreach will play a significant role in halving NCDs in the APAC region - as per Asia Fitness Today's MISSION 2030. -- Dr. Desmond Menon on Genes & Our Predisposition to Diseases of our Parents - Voiced by HaEun No, Administration & Social Welfare / Counselling Psychology Dr. Pran Yoganathan, Gastroenterologist Challenges Western Diet Norms with Steak and Eggs - Voiced by EunChong Shin, Chemistry Dr. James Muecke AM, Australian of the Year 2020 wants to put diabetes in remission - Voiced by EunSeo Yun, Chemistry Dr. YokeLi Ling on Sleep and Airway Centric Dentistry Voiced by Oh SoHyun, Nursing Science -- We hope you've enjoyed these bite-sized pieces of information on lifestyle diseases. Read the full interviews in English or Korean language here: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/?p=9233 ⚫️🔴⚪️ Produced by AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcasts. Producer and Editor Jasmine Low & Nikki Yeo. Korean Version recorded by the individual students using their mobile devices. English Podcast recorded at Sydney Podcast Studios. All Rights Reserved, Go International Group Dotcom Sdn. Bhd. TC: https://bit.ly/3b9FHuM EMAIL: info@asiafitnesstoday.com Originally published in English between February - May 2021.

AFitnessToday.com presents AFT Podcasts on Asia Pacific's Everyday Heroes. The channel features interviews with athletes, medical doctors, allied health, fitness & wellness professionals, entrepreneurs, book authors, culinary experts and many more modern heroes from the Asia Pacific region. Co-hosts Nikki Yeo and Jasmine Low chat over a "cuppa" tea. In Malaysia, it’s the Teh Tarik, made frothy by swift hand movements of a tea-pulling expert but 8tsp of condensed milk in one cup?! Kurang manis, boss! Less sugar please... Website: https://afitnesstoday.com/aft-podcasts/ Read full interviews on the website: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/category/aft-podcast/ Subscribe: https://www.asiafitnesstoday.com/subscribe

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