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All aboard… VSS Unity marks the begining of space travel tourism

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Latest! Message from aboard VSS Unity
Live streamed take off
The view from VSS Unity

Like a scene from a movie, we introduce you to Virgin Galactic’s crew.

Unity 22 Crew in their Yohji Yamamoto designer suits

From left to right:

Dave Mackay, Chief Pilot, Virgin Galactic

Collin Bennett, Lead Operations Engineer at Virgin Galactic. Bennett will evaluate cabin equipment, procedures, and experience during both the boost phase and in the weightless environment.

Beth Moses, Chief Astronaut Instructor at Virgin Galactic. Moses will serve as cabin lead and test director on Unity 22, overseeing the safe and efficient execution of the test flight objectives.

Sir Richard Branson, Astronaut 001, founder of Virgin Galactic. Branson will evaluate the private astronaut experience and will undergo the same training, preparation and flight as Virgin Galactic’s future astronauts. The Company will use his observations from his flight training and spaceflight experience to enhance the journey for all future astronaut customers.

Sirisha Bandla, Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations at Virgin Galactic. Bandla will be evaluating the human-tended research experience, using an experiment from the University of Florida that requires several handheld fixation tubes that will be activated at various points in the flight profile.

Pilot, Michael Masucci

Virgin Galactic’s VMS Eve, the carrier ship

And the two co-pilots of carrier ship ‘Mothership’ VMS Eve (named after Branson’s mother):

Pilot, C.J. Sturckow

Pilot, Kelly Latimer, the first woman to join Virgin Galactic pilot corps, she is NASA Armstrong Center’s first female research test pilot, a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Air Force, and has logged more than 6,000 flight hours and 1,000 test flight hours during her work with NASA, the Air Force, and Boeing.

Background

On 1st July 2021, Virgin Galactic announced that the flight window for the next rocket-powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity opens July 11, pending weather and technical checks.

The “Unity 22” mission will be the twenty-second flight test for VSS Unity and the Company’s fourth crewed spaceflight. It will also be the first to carry a full crew of two pilots and four mission specialists in the cabin, including the Company’s founder, Sir Richard Branson, who will be testing the private astronaut experience.

Building on the success of the Company’s most recent spaceflight in May, Unity 22 will focus on cabin and customer experience objectives, including:

  • Evaluating the commercial customer cabin with a full crew, including the cabin environment, seat comfort, the weightless experience, and the views of Earth that the spaceship delivers — all to ensure every moment of the astronaut’s journey maximizes the wonder and awe created by space travel
  • Demonstrating the conditions for conducting human-tended research experiments
  • Confirming the training program at Spaceport America supports the spaceflight experience

For the first time, Virgin Galactic will share a global livestream of the spaceflight. Audiences around the world were able to log in virtually to view the take off of the Unity 22 test flight and witness the experience Virgin Galactic is creating for future astronauts.

Following this flight, the team will complete inspections of the vehicles and an extensive data review, which will inform the next steps in the test flight program. Two additional test flights are planned before the Company expects to commence commercial service in 2022.

“Our next flight—the 22nd flight test for VSS Unity and our first fully crewed flight test—is a testament to the dedication and technical brilliance of our entire team, and I’d like to extend a special thank you to our pilots and mission specialists, each of whom will be performing important work. Tapping into Sir Richard’s expertise and long history of creating amazing customer experiences will be invaluable as we work to open the wonder of space travel and create awe-inspiring journeys for our customers.”

Michael Colglazier, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Galactic,

“I truly believe that space belongs to all of us. After more than 16 years of research, engineering, and testing, Virgin Galactic stands at the vanguard of a new commercial space industry, which is set to open space to humankind and change the world for good. It’s one thing to have a dream of making space more accessible to all; it’s another for an incredible team to collectively turn that dream into reality. As part of a remarkable crew of mission specialists, I’m honoured to help validate the journey our future astronauts will undertake and ensure we deliver the unique customer experience people expect from Virgin.”

Sir Richard Branson

Team AFT will be following this closely. Is this truly the beginning of space travel tourism? What will Sir Richard be announcing when he returns from this test flight? Will this moment spark a generation of children with dreams to venture into space made real? Humanity has many things to think about… We wish the VSS Unity crew a safe and out of this world flight!

Announcement update: In partnership with Omaze and Space for Humanity, Virgin Galactic will be offering prospective astronauts a chance to make their dreams come true. AFT understands there’s two spots being given away as a ‘lottery’. Visit VirginGalactic.com to find out more.

Source of images and press release: AFTNN/PRNewsGIG/Virgin Galactic

All images and video content remain the copyright of Virgin Galactic. This post has been edited on 12th July 2021, 11:00am for clarity.

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Introspection III by Kenneth WH Lee (Malaysia-Australia)

AFT speaks to Malaysian-Australian artist Kenneth W.H. Lee about his third solo art show, “Introspection III”.

AFT: Tell us about your environment while growing up.

Kenneth WH Lee: I come from a family of six with “por-por” my mother’s mom. I’m the eldest of three and have two other siblings. We grew up in a small sleepy town of Banting in Selangor (I was born in the famous Klang town, known for its culinary delights). My parents were both secondary teachers; Mom taught English and Art and Dad taught PE and Art, so the artistic lineage was unavoidable and pre-determined. Mom tells me she noticed my bold strokes at age two with an Artliner pen. I had a happy, care-free childhood playing in the dirt (catching fish in drains and climbing guava trees) after school till dusk and I remember being yelled at to get home for dinner!

AFT: What do you think influenced your artistic eye?

Kenneth WH Lee: My parents clearly gave me that early exposure in appreciating the finer points in art and understanding the basics of drawing and painting – with that early knowledge I loved experimenting in my own way, breaking the rules along the way as much as I dared, whilst paying homage to the greats. I soaked up (art) like a sponge going through drawing and sketching teaching books and journals, learning as much I could myself. My parents took to me art galleries, and we would walk through museums of art. I first experienced the body of work by professionals like the late (Malaysian artist), Ibrahim Hussein. His art show is stuck in my mind – I was probably 10 then. The great French artists in the Impressionist (and Fauvism) movement really caught my imagination and left an everlasting mark. We migrated to Sydney when I was 18, and I studied art in high school, learning European art literature and was really drawn to the late Brett Whiteley’s work.

AFT: Which piece of work have you recently submitted for a competition or auction and why?

Kenneth WH Lee: I submitted artworks for both for the Archibald (a prestigious Australian portrait art prize administered by the Art Gallery of NSW) and a landscape piece for the Wynne prize (one of Australia’s longest-running art prizes for landscape painting or figure sculpture).

For the Archibald, I submitted a portrait in oils of an amazing gentleman and aboriginal leader, Uncle Charles “Chicka” Madden of Alexandria, NSW and a large abstract piece for the Wynne prize titled “Sydney Spring – Gratitude Series II” measuring 1200 x 1200 x 35 mm in oils/acrylics/charcoal/pastels/ on canvas. They unfortunately didn’t make the finals. It’s the second consecutive year of submissions in both the above Prizes after 25 years of shying away from any art competition.

For one, I gave up painting for those number of years to focus on my finance/asset/funds management career in Australia and South East Asia and I didn’t find the need to receive external validation for my art. Now, staying relevant and visible by putting out content is part of being a professional artist. 

I recently donated a portrait piece of St. Charbel, the patron saint of Lebanon for a fundraising event held in conjunction with Steps of Hope and Madison Marcus law firm. I’m pleased that raised A$26,000 in a blacktie function to help with relief work for the victims of the Lebanon port blast in August 2020.

AFT: Did you paint during COVID19? What did you do to pass time?

Kenneth WH Lee: Yes, I painted during Covid-19 lockdowns. I completed art works for the Archibald and Wynne Prizes submissions in 2020. I continued to work at frenzied pace to build a new body of work as I planned towards my third solo exhibition titled “Introspection III” – an aptly named show in current times of needing to be more reflective taking stock of where we are as a human race and more importantly individually in our own personal journeys and awakening – our passions, dreams and who we stand for, next to our loved ones. During this time I was also actively creating works for charity fundraising for the likes of the CMRI Children’s Medical Research Institute for research into cures for all sorts of serious illnesses children suffer early in their lives. I also supported the Jeans4Genes cause by painting a portrait of singer Guy Sebastian utilising his donated signed jeans as part of the collage-portraiture. That item went on an online auction. A painting of St Charbel, patron Saint of Lebanon, was also donated toward fundraising for the good people recovering from the unfortunate disaster and with the onset of winter then. I’m about to start on portraits of the three Abdallah children and their cousin to be gifted to the family to help ease the pain and to remember their young lives taken away at such young age in that freak Oatlands accident by a drunken driver with his passenger both intoxicated while the kids were walking for ice creams around corner from their home. I don’t get to spend time with my kids during their school holidays but at least I get to do something for someone else.

AFT: What is the one thing you strive to do with your art? Have you been successful?

Kenneth WH Lee: I love combining impressionist style with abstract designs – whether it be a large landscape or a portrait. I love both forms of art on its own but combining them is challenging and satisfying – and I think I have been successful with the outcomes. I love to constantly challenge myself to paint something new, something I hadn’t done before. I’m excited that my art designs are now being sold and licensed as lifestyle products in Australia. Also American and New Zealand online wall art companies are selling and promoting my images/copies reprinted on canvas and shipped around the world.

AFT: Is there any work that you have not finished or can’t complete? What happens then?

Kenneth WH Lee: I have had pieces of work that had taken years (up to five years) to complete as the initial stages did not show potential and I lost interest in it and moved on to other newer pieces. Whilst the earlier pieces sat unloved, I hadn’t forgotten about it – still constantly pondering its future and design input. Or a complete design change and direction to revamp the entire piece. Sometimes midway I find no inspiration to sit or stand in front of a piece and continue painting. I would walk past it without a thought lacking the need to touch it. Then an idea would pop in my head (or sometimes a memory from a relationship whether in a happy mood or post-breakup in complete despair) and I will dive into that piece non-stop for hours to complete it. It’s all about the flow and feel at that point in time – sometimes it comes to me and sometimes its empty. So I have to be patient and tune in to what I am really creating. At times when I paint, its akin to having a conversation with a person or persons. The deeper the feeling and intensity of the conversation in my head the more interesting the piece becomes. I somehow can translate raw emotion at a particular time and pour it onto the canvas – its like a life diary of emotions coloured by paint.

AFT: Is health and fitness important to you as an artist? Tell us about your daily routine…

Kenneth WH Lee: Yes, health and fitness is key to me as an artist. Though I love to work late at nights when it is really quiet and paint for hours till the wee hours of dawn sometimes….I know to catch up on my sleep and rest which is key to wellbeing. I am a diehard foodie too and love to cook my favourite foods – usually traditional Malaysian hawker dishes and spicy dishes. I then balance this with great bowls of greens making wonderful salads, blended fruit juices and hydrate well. I do some iron work in the backyard with some weights and a punching bag and then go for a walk around the neighbourhood. Though I’ve given up badminton for over 20 years, I’ve recently joined a badminton club to get my heart rate going and burn off some calories. Its been fun getting back to the game that I used to love and was great at, having been a state representative for the Federal Territory as a school boy in Malaysia and later as an All-Australian Universities rep.

 

AFT: What’s your ultimate favourite thing to do?

Kenneth WH Lee: It would be hard to go past having an Italian coffee in hand and having the morning free to start on a large empty wooden panel or canvas, in beginning a new piece of abstract or an impressionist landscape work. It could also be the excitement and anticipation of continuing on a large piece, progressing with developing textures, depth and tonal values – it’s always a mindful challenge in solving the piece’s balance in design and colour and its imbalance… the statement that one is trying to convey. Usually I work very fast when an idea is born, my hands move the brushes and palette knives at a frantic pace across the white spaces then I’d spend more hours pondering and analysing the piece midway, tweaking it as I go – I find at different natural lighting the look and feel changes and my mood flows with it and I paint accordingly. I get inspired again when that look and feel hits me, and I will be hitting the canvas hard and fast frantically until I am exhausted.

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Video footage/edit by: Campbell Wilson, photographer and founder of yoga4.tv

“Immerse in Art”: Art Talk by Kenneth WH Lee

This event was held online on 10th July 2021 from 1:00-3:00pm (SYD/AEST/+10GMT).

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“Introspection III” solo art exhibition is on display at Sydney Haymarket’s Bendigo Community Bank’s branch at Darling Square 11 Little Pier St Shop NE12 until 30 August 2021.

Team AFT thanks the artist Kenneth WH Lee, his management at ArtSHINE and exhibition venue sponsor Bendigo Community Bank for this interview.

 

Who is Kenneth WH Lee?

Malaysian-born Kenneth has exhibited twice in his Sydney Solo Shows “Interiority Of My Introspection I & II” in late 2019. On the commercial front, he works on private client commissions, consults on client fine art needs pre- and post-renovation, paints for charity art auctions and family portraits like the St Charbel portrait painted for Lebanon’s Blast victims/families and Guy Sebastian portrait utilising his custom signed jeans in fundraising for the CMRI Children’s Medical Research Institute – Westmead Children’s Hospital / Jeans4Genes. KWHLEE art designs are also available via its e-commerce shop for consumer retail and B2B wholesale.

Kenneth W H Lee is a represented artist managed by ArtSHINE.

Follow his Instagram account to view current artworks: @kennethwhlee.

More: https://linktr.ee/kennethwhlee.

AFT Features, AFTNews, AFTNews, Events, Features Australia/NZ

Celebrating NAIDOC Week 4-11 July 2021 in Australia

AsiaFitnessToday.com acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.

Team AFT (Australia Fitness Today) has compiled this article from published news releases, articles from websites and also music videos from across Australia in celebration of NAIDOC Week and to pay tribute to close to 30 years of Reconciliation Australia.

It’s NAIDOC Week in Australia and what does that mean?

NAIDOC Week 2021 is celebrated from 4-11 July 2021 around Australia. This year, NAIDOC Week will be celebrated differently to ensure those most vulnerable in the community such as Elders and those with pre-existing health conditions are protected from COVID-19.

History NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 1920′s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Before the 1920s, Aboriginal rights groups boycotted Australia Day (26 January) in protest against the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians. By the 1920s, they were increasingly aware that the broader Australian public were largely ignorant of the boycotts. If the movement were to make progress, it would need to be active. Read more about the history of NAIDOC in the official website.

Celebrating NAIDOC Week There are many ways to honour the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples during NAIDOC Week. The NAIDOC committee has come up with these 20 ideas to help celebrate NAIDOC Week 2021 in a COVIDSafe way.

This year’s National NAIDOC Poster, ‘Care for Country’ was designed by 21-year old Gubbi Gubbi artist Maggie-Jean Douglas from South East Queensland. Her entry was chosen from 260 entries in a nationwide competition. The artwork includes communities, people, animals and bush medicines spread over different landscapes of red dirt, green grass, bush land and coastal areas to tell the story of the many ways Country can and has healed us throughout our lives and journeys. Find out more about the story behind the 2021 National NAIDOC Poster and download your copy of the poster today.

  1. Virtually attend one of the many of the online events available in the NAIDOC Week Official Calendar
  2. Download and display this year’s NAIDOC Week poster or look through the previous poster gallery.
  3. Call someone in your community to have a chat about this year’s theme ‘Heal Country!’ and what it means to you
  4. Watch special NAIDOC Week programming on SBS/NITV and ABC
  5. Learn more about the Country on which you live and work using the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia
  6. Find a book to read, written and published by Indigenous authors and illustrators through Magabala Books or suggest one for your next book club
  7. Check out some music and podcasts from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creators on Indigitube.
  8. Take a look at how you can support Indigenous businesses through the Supply Nation Indigenous Business Direct.
  9. Learn more about how deliver an Acknowledgement of Country
  10. Find out more about the history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags and how you can fly them.
  11. Get creative in the kitchen using Australian bushfood and native ingredients such as kangaroo, macadamia or lemon myrtle.
  12. Use this year’s theme to connect to Country by going for a walk (if restrictions permit), exercising outside, visiting a local park or gardening.
  13. Research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history or start some family history research.
  14. Host an online quiz and test the knowledge of your friends and family on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures or histories.
  15. Be inspired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and crafts or get creative at home.
  16. Try colouring in the NAIDOC Week poster.
  17. Consider nominating someone for a National NAIDOC Award. While submissions for the National NAIDOC Awards are currently closed, you can begin preparing nominations for the 2022 awards for when they open later this year.
  18. Visit the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander exhibitions of museums and galleries in-person or online.
  19. Plan your Australian travel bucket list including Indigenous sites of significance or interest. 
  20. Join the conversation online using the NAIDOC Week hashtags #NAIDOC2021, #NAIDOCWeek and #HealCountry

For the latest advice on COVID-19 in Australia, visit www.australia.gov.au.

What is Reconciliation Australia 2021?

Reconciliation Australia celebrates close to three decades of Australia’s formal reconciliation process. It was observed from 27 May to 3 June and Australians are invited to acknowledge the traditional owners of the Country on which we live, work, learn.

WHY IS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY IMPORTANT?

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This practice raises awareness of the histories and cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

Acknowledging Country shows you accept and understand that no matter where you are across this nation, you are on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands, and you acknowledge ongoing connection to Country.

WHO CAN GIVE AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY?
Everyone. It can be given by both non-Indigenous people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

WHAT DO I SAY?
This suggested wording will help you capture your Acknowledgement of Country.

“This National Reconciliation Week, I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Land on which I stand.  I acknowledge the (people) of the (nation) and pay my respects to Elders past and present.”

Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people may wish to also acknowledge their own families and Nations.

HOW CAN I DO IT VIRTUALLY?

Here are some ideas for how to Acknowledge the Land you are on and join in via social media.

At home

  • Record your Acknowledgement of Country via a video.
  • Take a photo of you or members of your household holding up a sign.
  • Make chalk art or signs on your driveway and upload photos or video.

At work

  • Record a video message at your workplace.
  • Ask and encourage your colleagues to take part to create a collage or compilation.
  • If working remotely, host a zoom meeting with colleagues and ask everyone to hold a sign Acknowledging the Land they are working on.

At school

  • Create paintings, drawings or signs with your students and upload photos or video.
  • Create video messages and encourage teachers and administration staff to get involved.

Remember to use the hashtag #MoreThanAWord #NRW2021

WHEN CAN I DO IT?

We will come together on social media at 9am (AEST) Thursday 27 May to make an Acknowledgement of Country.

It doesn’t need to be live, you can pre-record, pre-write or pre-create your acknowledgement however you like and post it at 9am.

If you are at an in-person event,  encourage everyone to Acknowledge Country at this time.

HOW DO I FIND OUT THE TRADITIONAL OWNERS OF THE LAND I AM ON?

Know whose Country you are on – resources like the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia are a useful starting point, but go further.

TAKE ACTION

The Reconciliation Week committee has compiled 20 recommended ways to take action: not just know about it, but to take action. Read more here: https://nrw.reconciliation.org.au/actions-for-reconciliation/

HOW SOME OTHERS ARE TAKING A STAND

OXFAM AUSTRALIA is a non-profit organisation that believes all lives are equal and no-one should live in poverty. Oxfam started as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in England in 1942, a group of campaigners asking for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade to starving women and children in enemy-occupied Greece during the Second World War. Oxfam Australia setup in 1953 was a merger between two leading Australian international development agencies — Community Aid Abroad and the Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign.

According to Oxfam Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are still not recognised in the Australian Constitution as Australia’s First Peoples. This needs to change. Ngarra Murray, Oxfam’s First Peoples’ Program National Manager and member of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, says: “The establishment of the Yoo-rrook (Truth) Justice Commission by the Victorian Government is an opportunity for both the Aboriginal community and the broader Victorian community to begin to listen to each other and create a new relationship going forward.

“Our people will no longer have to carry the pain of our stories alone – our history and our truths become everyone’s history and truths. With this understanding, real change is urgent and inevitable. The burden is lessened and the healing can begin.

Ngarra Murray – Oxfam Australia

ZIGGY RAMO BURRMURUK FATNOWNA is an Indigenous Australian singer, songwriter and activist born in Bellingen NSW to an Aboriginal and Solomon Islander father and a mother of Scottist heritage. ZIGGY RAMO as he’s known, is a Hip-Hop artist and has become a catalyst in the music industry calling for, and inspiring change. Growing up in Perth, WA since the age of six, he started dabbling in music as a teenager and was inspired by the hip-hop genre from the US. After graduating from school, he embarked on a Pre-Medicine degree, determined to advocate for Indigenous health, before switching back to music, aiming to represent Indigenous Australian perspectives in rap.

ZIGGY RAMO: Black Thoughts ft. STAN GRANT (2016)

From ‘Black Thoughts Ep’ on Spotify: http://bit.ly/2b4kLJD
Director/Editor/ Co Producer: Jacqueline Pelczar
Cinematographer: Brandon Lee Weston
Producer: Elaine Smith
Follow Ziggy: https://www.facebook.com/ziggymusicaus https://soundcloud.com/ziggymusicaus https://www.instagram.com/ziggyfatnowna/
Black Thoughts Ep produced by JCAL & Palace JCAL: https://www.facebook.com/JCaLproductions
Palace: https://www.facebook.com/palacebeats

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the film below contains voices and videos of deceased persons.

‘Making Little Things’ outlines the development of Ziggy Ramo’s “Little Things” featuring Paul Kelly. From the land-rights movement that inspired Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody’s 1993 original “From Little Things Big Things Grow” to top of the Sydney Opera House sails, the 10 minute film offers insight into the multi-generational collaborations that created this new work.

DOP: Tyron Seeto
Drone DOP: Bill Blair, Mat Chang
Editor: Miska Mandic Archival
News footage Courtesy of ABC Library Sales
Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody footage From Little Things Big Things Grow, 1993 directed by Trevor Graham.
Footage courtesy of Ned Lander and the National Film and Sound Archive
Sydney Opera House is an Australian icon and one of the busiest performing arts centres in the world. On this channel you will find performances, behind the scenes content and stories from beneath the sails. With over 40 shows a week at the Sydney Opera House there’s something for everyone. We’re not-for-profit and raise over 90% of costs from non-government sources. Learn more at https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/give

AsiaFitnessToday.com takes the affirmative action by sharing this article as our way to share appreciation of the history, culture and achievements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to spread awareness about NAIDOC and Reconciliation Australia objectives. We invite you to share this article far and wide. Thank you.

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Volunteers: ‘most important job in sport’

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Sport Australia and Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) call out to volunteers this National Volunteer Week

  • Sporting legends call for more volunteers in sport
  • Volunteers are needed now more than ever to help rebuild sporting communities

Sport Australia Acting CEO Rob Dalton (pictured) is encouraging Australians to consider the many benefits volunteering in sport brings this National Volunteer Week. 

“The job that changed my life didn’t come with a salary, but it has helped me earn everything I have,” 

Rob Dalton – Sport Australia Acting CEO

Mr Dalton was 17 and upon arriving for his first day of training at Victoria’s largest hockey club, Camberwell, was told he’d be coaching a junior team. He chose the Under 10s describing it as his sliding doors moment and the day he discovered one of the most important jobs in Australian sport – volunteering. 

“Volunteering has given me stronger family connections, professional networks, lifelong friends and skills I didn’t know I wanted or needed. Sport is incredibly lucky to have the largest volunteer base of any industry in Australia with 3.1 million volunteers donating their time to sport and physical activity each year.”

Mr Dalton said volunteers are needed now more than ever to help rebuild sporting communities following COVID-19.

“Without volunteers, sport would look very different, they are crucial to the enjoyment and participation of sport at all levels. Whether you’re coaching a team, marking the lines, an official or administrator at a sporting club or organisation or running the canteen, thank you for your dedication and commitment to Australian sport.”

In the past 12 months, Sport Australia has developed a suite of resources to support volunteers in sport including the Return to Sport Toolkit, Participation Design Toolkit, Game Plan and Coaching and Officiating podcast series and has joined forces with Volunteering Australia.

Volunteering Australia CEO Mark Pearce said the partnership recognises the importance and ongoing contribution of volunteers to Australian sport.

“One of the most exciting parts of our partnership is investigating ways Australians of all ages and backgrounds can get involved in sport and sporting clubs.”

“They make possible those things which make communities and community activities great, and we certainly see this in the context of sport. It would be very hard to imagine how the vast majority of Australian sport could take place without the dedication of volunteers.”

AIS CEO Peter Conde added: “Australian volunteers make sport tick at every level. As Australians we love to celebrate sporting success, but behind every athlete and every sporting event is a huge assembly of volunteers. So, on behalf of the AIS and Australian high performance sport, we celebrate our millions of volunteers and thank you for the contribution you make to Australian sport every day.”

National Volunteer Week from May 17-23 celebrates the significant contribution of Australia’s almost six million volunteers who dedicate their time to help others. 

The theme for National Volunteer Week is Recognise. Reconnect. Reimagine with sporting legends including Olympic swimming champion Libby Trickett and NRL immortal Mal Meninga joining the call for more volunteers in sport.

“I’m so grateful for all of the volunteers around the country who are able to get involved in sport, whatever sport it might be. I encourage everyone to get involved and be a volunteer if you can,” Trickett says.

Meninga added: “We all know how important sport volunteers are for our community so please get involved.”

Volunteer today at sportaus.gov.au/find-a-club

Read Mr Dalton’s volunteering story here.

AFTNews, AFTNews, Features Japan, Soccer

Nike Japan – You Can’t Stop The Future

Although this advertisement was released in December 2020, team AFT found this an interesting piece to cover.

This two-minute film was selected by Vimeo’s Staff Picks, and highlights “real-life experiences” of three female athletes from different backgrounds in Japan — one is Japanese, one is Korean, and one is of mixed race with an African father and Japanese mother. The film touches on bullying, race sentiments and shows how each girl “overcomes their daily struggles and conflicts to move their future through sports.”

This advertisement raised a few eyebrows in that it became a highly controversial talking point. Have a look at what was reported throughout the international media channels:

“It has about 25 million views on social media and almost 80,000 shares.”

“The video, viewed 14.1 million times on Nike Japan’s Twitter feed by noon Wednesday, had racked up 63,000 likes but also a cascade of critical comments from many who vowed never to buy Nike products again.”

While the film’s message clearly riled members of Japan’s online right – many of whom commented using pseudonyms – more measured critics said it misrepresented modern Japanese society.

This advert is so timely as it happened just at the height of the #StopAsianHate wave. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

Features Japan

Japanese art island Chichu

If I could go anywhere: Japanese art island Chichu, a meditation and an education

Time/Timeless/No Time (2004) by Walter De Maria. Todd Lappin/Flickr, CC BY-NC
Julian Meyrick, Griffith University

In this series we pay tribute to the art we wish could visit — and hope to see once travel restrictions are lifted.

The Chichu Art Museum is located on the tiny island of Naoshima, off the southern coast of Japan, in the Kagawa district, reachable only by ferry.

A cross between Buddhist simplicity and Modernist brutalism, from an aerial view Chichu looks like a series of weirdly-shaped concrete pits cut into a gently sloping, grassy hill.

The architect, Tadao Ando, is known for his masterful control of natural light, and to walk through Chichu is to embark on a journey of discovery in which that most ignored element — daylight — is both a mode of transformation and an object of wonder in its own right.

Even before social distancing, Chichu limited the number of tickets sold. Once inside, there are restrictions on how many people can be inside certain rooms and sometimes, how long you can spend there. No photographs are permitted, and quietness is encouraged.

Almost as good as being there … almost. A virtual tour of Chichu.

Read more: Great time to try: travel writing from the home

An epic canvas

There are three artists on display at Chichu, the best-known being Claude Monet and his epic canvas, Water Lilies. The acquisition of this “grand decoration” painted, incredibly, when Monet was in his 70s and suffering from cataracts, was the prime catalyst for establishing the museum.

I had seen paintings from this series years before, in Britain’s morgue-like National Gallery. But in the warm, rounded rooms of Chichu, daylight spilling in from high, oblong windows, the paintings are a miraculous blending of form, colour and reverence for nature. They come alive in ways no viewing technology, however sophisticated, can enhance or emulate.

Claude Monet’s Water Lily Pond at Chichu Art Museum. Wikimedia Commons/Chichu Art Museum

Ando’s building organically relates to the artworks in every way — the colour of the walls, the tiles on the floor, the dark corridors that link rooms where each visual experience is unique not because it is “world class” but because the relationship being cultivated with visitors is a personal one. The Chichu Handbook reads:

To provide a better understanding of Monet’s large decorative work from a contemporary perspective, we selected artists Walter De Maria and James Turrell. Both have been referred to as ‘land artists’ for the work they created in vast desert regions and desolate natural settings … Whether outside, inside a room, or in the surrounding environment, all the works are specifically intended for these spaces … The spatial boundary between the real world and contemporary art is indistinct.

Galleries are gatherings of art organised according to the principles of the people who set them up. More than theatres or concert halls, where rapid changes in repertoire create a spirit of flux, they rarely lose a connection with their founders’ underlying philosophy.

All art is reflective of the moment in which it occurs. But galleries are compass points from which, as a society, we take our bearings. MOMA, GOMA, the Guggenheim, Bilbao, the Powerhouse, the Pompidou Centre, the Hermitage. The meaning of these collections is larger than their real estate.

Visitors at Chichu are almost as carefully placed as the art itself. Chinnian/Flickr, CC BY

Read more: Hikikomori artists – how Japan’s extreme recluses find creativity and self-discovery in isolation

Art amid nature

What has given rise to Chichu’s powerful vision of art? The answer is, of course, a powerful vision of life; of what our lives could be. Ando writes:

Chichu … opened as a museum in pursuit of ‘a site to rethink the relationship between nature and people’ in July 2004. The establishment of the museum was a personal way of answering and realising a question that I withheld myself for many years — ‘what does it mean to live well?’

As suggested by its name, chichu (underground), this museum is built below a slightly elevated hill that was once developed as a saltpan facing the Seto Inland Sea. Without destroying the beautiful natural scenery of the Island and seeking to create a site for dialogues of the mind, the museum is an expression of my belief that ‘art must exist amid nature’.

The view from Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan. Kaori/Unsplash, CC BY

A visit to Chichu is not a prescriptive experience. There is no overriding message, as there is with MONA or the Tate Modern, for which visitors must brace. Instead, there is light, space, and quiet.

There is scope to let the senses unfold, and an expansion of self that permits the mind to occupy a zone of potentially greater understanding. There is nothing clever about Chichu, and a tertiary degree in art history is not required to appreciate what it offers. To walk through the building is education enough.

Minus commentary and cameras, asked to buy a modestly priced ticket ahead of time, to wait, to be silent, the resulting “dialogue of the mind” is structured but open-ended. This is perhaps what artists mean when they talk about “freedom within the form”.

Truth, value and alternative ways of life are related concepts, reliant on each other. There is a truth to visiting the Chichu collection that is expressed also in its wooden furniture made from shioji, a variety of Japanese ash, its strange triangular courtyards, and its breathtaking view of the Seto Inland Sea.

Read more: Why philosophy is an ideal travel companion for adventurous minds

“To get the most enjoyment out of the works, the viewer should take a moment between each gallery to reflect on the lingering sensation before moving on to the next group of works”, says the handbook.

Zen Buddhist awareness of the transience of existence marries with a large scale public building in the Western democratic tradition to produce a purposeful, spiritual encounter not filled with dogmatic content.

If there was a preciousness to the Chichu Art Museum I didn’t feel it. It was a relaxed, well-appointed and functional place, rather like the Japanese Shinkansen train that brought me to the ferry terminal. Leaving, I felt lighter, as if something I did not need had been discretely removed.

Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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AFT Interviews: Dentist Dr. YokeLi Ling on crooked teeth, sleep disorders and systemic health

Oral myofunctional therapy and dental sleep medicine for both children and adults.

Team AFT met with Dr. YokeLi Ling, a dentist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 20 March 2021. What ensued is a chat between The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast co-hosts Jasmine Low & Nikki Yeo with the good doctor about how she’s been able to assist her patients breathe better and live better. Her passion and dedication as a Sleep and Airway Centric Dentist shows in her work in providing a holistic patient management approach. 

In this interview, Team AFT speaks to Dr. Ling about:

  • Minimal, non-invasive interventions in dentistry
  • Prevention and rehabilitation of poor facial and jaw growth development that results in dental misalignment, sleep disordered breathing, and compromised systemic health.
  • Oral myofunctional therapy, incorporating it into the treatment of orofacial myofunctional disorders, and dental sleep medicine for both children and adults. 

In this interview, Dr. Ling speaks at length about her field of specialty. She shares, “I would like to introduce a broader concept of the dentist as an oral physician, a gatekeeper to the wellness of systemic health through the mouth.”

AFT: You practice minimal, non-invasive dentistry to achieve sustainable outcomes for your patients. We’re curious what that means, what is non-invasive and why this kind of specialty? 

Dr. Yoke Li elaborates on Malocclusion, Sleep & Airway and compromised health.

AFT: What causes a child or adult to have crooked teeth? 

Some people have an upper or lower jaw that is too far in or out? What has resulted in that? Is it in our genes that some of us are born with a smaller jaw hence the overcrowding of teeth?

Having a small jaw with crooked teeth are signs that a person’s sleep may be compromised.

“Once sleep is compromised, health is also compromised” – Dr. Ling.

When we sleep the body is restored and our immune system is generated to protect the body. When sleep is interrupted, the lack of oxygen during obstructive sleep apnea would lead to a diminished quality of life, mood swings, irritability, hypertension, even metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

AFT: Why is our jaw too small to accommodate all our teeth? Surely it should be perfectly balanced, unless it’s changed over time?

The standard practice now is for most people to remove their wisdom teeth. Dr. Ling shares her thoughts thoughts on this. 

AFT: Do our food choices contribute to misaligned teeth, jaw and the structure of our face?

We don’t seem to be chewing enough in this era with foods. Archeologists have shown that the hunters and gatherers had a full set of teeth, continuous stimulation of the jaw bone.

AFT: How about people who grind their teeth at night? Can that be cured?

Ever heard about singing as a cure? Dr. Ling elaborates on some situations where spouses have reported positive improvement after their partners undergo treatment in merely exercising upper body, tongue and facial exercises as well as a diet change.

Put your tongue on the top of your mouth palette and breathe. Try it.

Don’t under estimate the power of the tongue and the power of breathing through your nose, chew your food, eat foods that require you to chew and that’s when your body starts to becoming more effective overall.

Q: At Asia Fitness Today, we advocate movement as therapy. What is the one thing that you have been able to use your Fitness for Good?

Married to her childhood sweetheart and blessed with 3 children, Dr. Ling loves hiking, traveling and playing tennis. She shares that fitness activities is how she gets herself out and up and encourages her family and friends to join her. Through sport, it’s not just about being fit physically, but also about being mentally and emotionally fit because good hormones are released.

Dr. Ling’s credentials include:

  • Doctor of Dental Surgery from University Science of Malaysia (Honours, 2006)
  • Recipient of the USM Chancellor’s Gold Award, USM’s University Gold Award and Conference of Malay Rulers’ Royal Education Excellence Award
  • Postgraduate training and certifications on Orthotropics from London School of Facial Orthotropics
  • Mini Residency on Guiding Craniofacial Growth and Development in Children
  • Mini Residency on Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
  • Craniofacial Epigenetics
  • Oral Myology from Coulson Institute of Orofacial Myology
  • Myobrace from MRC Australia
  • Implant Training Program University of Southern California

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Healthy China 2030

The 2021 China Obesity Prevention and Control Conference (10-12 April, 2021) held in Xi’an, Shaanxi China launched the China Obesity Prevention and Control Initiative jointly proposed by the newly set up Obesity Prevention and Control Section of the Chinese Nutrition Society and the Xi’an Jiaotong University Global Health Institute. The initiative called for 10 actions to be undertaken by the whole society including government, health care facilities, schools, work places, media, industry, research institutes, families and individuals.

Hosted by the Western China Science and Technology Innovation Harbour (iHarbour), the conference was co-organised by the Chinese Nutrition Society, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Nutrition and Health, the Global Health Institute and the School of Public Health of Xi’an Jiaotong University, and the Health Sub-Alliance of the University Alliance of the Silk Road.

The 10 proposed actions are:

  1. Mobilise the whole society
  2. Promote multi-departmental and cross-sectoral actions
  3. Correct the obesogenic environment
  4. Advocate healthy lifestyles
  5. Focus on prevention of childhood obesity
  6. Standardise the diagnosis and treatment of obesity
  7. Strengthen professional in-field training
  8. Improve policy establishing and evaluation system
  9. Conduct interdisciplinary research, and
  10. Strengthen international exchanges and cooperation.

These proposed actions to manage obesity and related chronic diseases form a part of the Healthy China 2030 Initiative and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Obesity Prevention and Control Section of the Chinese Nutrition Society will play an active role in bridging the government, academia and industry, to serving the well-being of Chinese people, and contributing to global health by sharing Chinese experience and wisdom in obesity prevention and control.

The conference was attended by 400 delegates including experts and scholars in public health, nutrition and clinical medicine, also leaders and experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), National Health Commission, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Chinese Nutrition Society, universities and hospitals. The WHO Chief Representative Officer in China Dr. Gauden Galea, the officials from National Health Commission Mr. Jianxin Tian, the president of the Chinese Nutrition Society Prof. Yuexin Yang and some 40 scholars and experts from government, academia and industry shared their ideas and views in lectures, debates and panel discussions.

Source: cnsoc.org

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Indonesian Calorie Table

A calorie is a unit used to measure the value of energy obtained by the body when consuming food or drink. To ensure that your nutritional needs are well fulfilled, you should look at the calorie levels in the food or drinks you consume. Lately, more food products come with its list of food calories in their labels.

Calorie content in food can be determined by the nutritional content such as fat, carbohydrates and protein contained in the food itself. Fat produces the most calories, which is 9 calories / gram. Meanwhile, carbohydrates and protein contain 4 calories per gram. Foods that contain lots of fat are foods that are high in calories. On the other hand, those that have low calories are fruits and vegetables because they contain lots of fibre and are high in water content.

Calories in Daily Foods

Regular daily food consumption caloric table:

CALORIC TABLE & UNIT

Main Foods Group A

Description of Food Item

Weight (gr)

Cal

Unit

Steamed Corn

250

90.2

1

Steamed Potato

200

166

2

Glutinous Rice

120

217

2,75

Rice Cake steamed in leaf

160

32

0,5

Rice cake in banana leaf

200

38

0,5

White Rice

100

175

2,25

White Rice – Kentucky

225

349

4,25

High Fibre White Bread

60

149

1,75

Steamed Cassava

100

146

1,75

Steamed Taro

100

98

1,25

Steamed Sweet Potatoes

100

125

1,5

Main Foods Group B

Rice Porridge

200

44

0,5

Crackers

50

229

2,75

Macaroni

25

91

1,25

Instant Noodles

50

168

2

Steamed Chicken Rice
(no chicken)

100

88

1

Steamed Coconut Rice

200

506

6,25

White Bread

50

128

1,5

Makanan Pokok Golongan C

Fried Bihun Vermicelli

150

296

3,75

Chicken Rice Porridge

200

165

2

Rice Flour & Coconut
Milk Porridge Dessert

100

178

2,25

Fried Potatoes

150

211

2,75

Mee Goreng Fried Noodles

200

321

4

Nasi Goreng Fried Rice

100

267

3,25

Soun Goreng Fried Glass Noodles

100

263

3,25

Spaghetti

300

642

8

Fermented Cassava

150

260

3,25

Popular Dishes Group A

Description of Food Item

Weight (gr)

Calorie

Unit

Arsik Spicy Indonesian Fish Dish

95

94.05

1

Ayam Bakar Bumbu Kuning
Charcoal Grilled Chicken

100

129.4

1.5

Ayam Panggang
Grilled Chicken

100

164.3

3.25

Daging Panggang
Grilled Beef

70

150

1.75

Ikan Mas Pepes
Patin Fish in Banana Leaf

200

143.5

1.75

Sambal Goreng Tempe
Fried Sambal Tempeh (Fermented soybean)

50

116

1.5

Poached Salted Egg

75

138

1.75

Poached Hen’s Egg

60

97

1.25

Steamed Prawns

100

91

1.25

Popular Dishes Group B

Ati Ayam Goreng
Fried Chicken Liver

50

98

1.25

Ayam Pop
Fried Chicken

200

265

3.25

Bakso Daging Sapi
Beef Meatballs

100

260

3.25

Empal Daging
Sundanese sweet spicy beef

100

147

1.75

Ikan Bandeng Goreng
Fried Fish

160

180.7

2.25

Ikan Baronang Goreng
Fried Baronang Fish

120

107.5

1.25

Ikan Bawal Goreng
Fried Pomfret Fish

120

113.3

1.5

Ikan Ekor Goreng
Fried Fish

100

107.8

1.25

Ikan Kembung Goreng
Fried Mackerel Fish

80

87.65

1

Ikan Lele Goreng
Fried Catfish

60

57,5

0,75

Ikan Patin Goreng
Fried Patin Fish

200

252,7

3

Ikan Selar Goreng
Fried Trevally Fish

40

63,75

0,75

Ikan Tenggiri Goreng
Fried Mackerel Fish

60

85,3

1

Ikan Teri Goreng
Fried Anchovies

50

66

0,75

Ikan Tuna Goreng
Fried Tuna Fish

60

110

1,25

Boiled Cockles

100

59

0,75

Macaroni Schootel

50

177

2,25

Tahu Bacem
Javanese Marinated Tofu

100

147

1,75

Telur Mata Sapi
Fried Egg Bull’s Eye

60

40

1,75

Tempe Bacem
Braised Tempeh Fermented Soybean

50

157

2

Tempe Goreng
Fried Tempeh Fermented Soybean

50

118

1,5

Tenggiri Bumbu Kuning
Mackerel Fish in Spices

90

94,4

1

Udang Goreng Besar
Fried Prawns

80

68,25

3,25

Popular Dishes Group C

Meat Floss

50

158

2

Fried Chicken in Soy

75

358,8

4,5

Grilled Chicken

80

385,6

4,75

Chiken Wing

50

63,6

0,75

Beef Balado

50

147

1,75

Dendeng Balado

40

338

4,25

Chicken Curry

100

165,3

2

Squid Curry

100

183

2,25

Fish Head Curry

320

218,8

2,75

Fish Spleen Curry

60

294

3,5

Tendon Curry

80

251

3

Balado-styled Mackerel Fish

125

236,7

3

Anchovies

50

213

2,75

Fish in Batter

80

119

1,5

Battered Panir Fish

75

220

2,75

Tempeh Chips

25

68

0,75

Meat Ball

50

168

2

Kentucky Fried Chicken Thigh

150

194,5

2,5

Corn Fritters

50

108

1,25

Potato Fritters

50

123

1,5

Egg Foo Yong

50

114

1,5

Beef Rendang

75

285,5

3,5

Chicken Satay

100

466

6

Kentucky Fried Chicken Wings

150

116

1,5

Chicken Stir Fried Nutmeg Spice

50

177,8

2,25

Fried Liver & Potatoes

100

127

1,5

Sambal Goreng Tempeh Anchovies

150

276

3,5

Sambal Goreng Liver

100

200

2,5

Sambal Goreng Prawns & Potato

100

123

1,5

Beef soup

260

227

2,75

Fried Tofu

100

111

1,5

Tofu

150

124

1,5

Sundanese-styled deep fried tofu

100

113

1,5

Fried omelette

75

188

2,25

Vegetables Group A

Description of Dishes

Weight (gr)

Calories

Unit

Yellow Pickles

75

53

0,5

Spinach Soup

50

18

0,25

Cah Labu Siam
Fried Choko

100

41,6

0,5

Sayur Asam
Salted Vegetables

100

88

1

Sop Ayam Kombinasi
Combination chicken soup

100

95

1,25

Sop Bayam
Spinach soup

50

78

1

Sop Kimlo

100

104

1,25

Sop Mutiara Jagung
Pearl Corn Soup

100

113

1,5

Asop Oyong Misoa

100

106

1,25

Sop Telur Puyuh
Quail’s egg soup

100

116

1,5

Vegetables Group B

Sayur Lodeh
Vegetable soup with coconut milk

100

61

0,75

Cah Jagung Putren
Stir fried baby corn

100

59

0,75

Cah Jkacang Panjang
Stir fried snake beans

100

72

1

Sop Oyong Telur Puyuh
Quail’s egg soup

100

134

1,75

Setup Kentang Buncis
French beans and potato fry

100

95

1

Tumis Buncis

100

52

1,5

Tumis Daun Singkong

120

151

1,75

Tumis Kc. Panjang + Jagung

125

118

1,75

Vegetables Group C

Buntil
Grated coconut mixed with anchovies wrapped in taro or cassava leaves

100

106

1,25

Gudeg
Jackfruit stewed with coconut milk and palm sugar.

150

132

1,75

Drinks Group A

    

Drink Description

Weight (gr)

Calories

Unit

Te’h (Cangkir)
A cup of Tea

1

0,4

2,8

Kopi (Cangkir)
A cup of Coffee

1

18

0,25

Juice Tomat (Gelas)
Tomato Juice (Glass)

100

20

0,25

Juice Melon (Gelas)
Watermelon Juice (Glass)

150

35

0,5

Drinks Group B

Es Kelapa Muda (Gelas)
Young coconut drink with ice (glass)

100

42

0,5

Es Cendol
Iced Cendol

100

168

2

Susu Skim
Skimmed milk

15

54

0,75

Coca Cola Diet (Kaleng)
Diet Coke (Can)

1

1

0

Prepared Meals Group A

Name of Dish

Weight (gr)

Calories

Unit

Asinan
Pickled vegetable

250

208

2,5

Toge Goreng
Fried bean sprouts

250

243

3

Prepared Meals Group B

Gado – Gado
Indonesian salad with peanut sauce dressing

150

295

3,75

Ketoprak
Indonesian rice dish with peanut sauce

250

153

2

Pempek
Palembang’s fish and tapioca dish

200

384

4,75

Rawon
Surabaya’s beef soup with a special keluak ingredient

160

331

4

Soto Ayam
Chicken Soto

100

101

1,25

Soto Padang

100

127

1,5

Tongseng
Mutton and vegetable curry

120

331

4

Prepared Meals Group C

Hamburger

125

257

3,25

Kerupuk Palembang
Crackers

50

168

2

Kerupuk Udang
Prawn crackers

20

72

1

Mie Bakso
Bakso noodles

200

302

3,75

Nasi Tim Ayam
Steamed chicken rice

420

588

7,25

Pizza

125

163

2

Sate Kambing
Goat satay

180

729

9

Sayur Krecek

175

249

3

Siomay

100

361

3,75

Soto Betawi

150

135

1,75

Soto Makasar

150

525

6,5

Soto Sulung

150

86

1

Buah -Buahan Golongan A

    

Nama Masakan

Berat(gr)

Kalori

Unit

    
Apel

160

92

1

Apel Merah

140

82

1

Belimbing

160

80

0,75

Duku

200

81

1

Jambu Air

60

35,4

0,5

Jambu Biji

320

157

2

Jeruk Medan

140

46

0,5

Jeruk Pontianak

150

67

0,75

Jeruk Sunkist

200

40

0,5

Mangga Manalagi

100

72

1

Nanas

200

104

1,25

Pepaya

100

46

0,5

Pir

200

80

1

Pisang Rebus

125

136,5

1,75

Salak

150

63,6

0,75

Semangka

150

48

0,5

    

Buah – Buahan Golongan B

    
Alpukat

100

85

1

Anggur

125

60

0,75

Lengkeng

100

79

1

Melon

120

46

0,5

Mangga Harum Manis

300

90

1

Pir Hijau

200

105

1,25

Pisang Ambon

100

74,2

1

Pisang Barangan

200

236

3

Pisang Mas

125

120

1,5

Pisang Raja

150

126

1,5

Sirsak

125

55

0,25

    

Buah – Buahan Golongan C

    
Durian Montong

100

134

1,5

Rambutan

100

69

0,75

sawo

100

92

1,75

Makanan Ringan Golongan A

    

Nama Masakan

Berat(gr)

Kalori

Unit

    
Arem – Arem

75

225

2,75

Bubur Kacang Ijo

100

102

1,25

Ketupat Ketan

120

216

2,75

Lemper

70

247

3

Lepet

120

210

2,5

Lepet Ketan

170

346

4,25

    

Makanan Ringan Golongan B

    
Bolu Gulung

110

300

3,75

Cakwee

50

143

1,75

Getuk Lindri

60

127

1,75

Hot Dog

100

285

3,5

Kerak Telur

120

599

7,5

Kue Nagasari

70

149

1,75

Kue Pancong

80

231

3

Mini Croissant

80

406

5

Sandwich

100

164

2

Serabi Pandan

60

137

1,75

Semar Mendem

100

247

3

Uli + Tape Ketan

160

559

7

    

Makanan Ringan Golongan C

    
Bakpia

25

68

1

Bakwan

100

270

3,25

Bika Ambon

50

99

1,25

Black Forrest

200

585

7,5

Cara Bikang

70

128

1,5

Cheese Cake

10

281

3,5

Dunkin Donat Keju

170

283

3,5

Emping Melinjo Asin

25

173

2,25

Kastengels (10 bh)

100

426

5,75

Keju Lembaran (1bh)

20

65

3,25

Kerupuk Mie

25

119

1,5

Klepon

60

68

0,75

Kroket Kentang

75

146

1,25

Kue Ape

60

151

2

Kue Cubit

60

183

2,25

Kue Cucur

90

152

2

Kue Ku

50

237

3

Kue Lumpur

80

232

3

Kue Pukis

40

181

2,25

Lapis Legit

50

307

3,75

Lemet/Timus

120

603

7,5

Lopis Ketan

125

350

4,25

Lumpia

60

76

1

Martabak Keju

100

265

.3.25

Martabak Mesir

100

200

2,5

Martabak Telur

95

196

2,5

Muffin Coklat

80

361

4,5

Muffin Keju

80

400

5

Nastar (7bh)

150

538

6,75

Onde – Onde

65

317

4

Pastel

75

302

3,75

Potato Chip

170

298

3,75

Putu Mayang

120

98

1,25

Rempeyek Kacang

50

250

3

Risol

100

247

3

Roti Coklat

100

240

3

Sosis Solo

50

191

2,25

Sus Vla

85

129

1,5

Talam Hijau

70

292

3,5

Tabel kalori makanan di atas dapat Anda gunakan sebagai patokan sudah cukupkah kandungan kalori yang anda konsumsi selama ini?

Kebutuhan Kalori Makanan

Sekedar informasi tembahan, kebutuhan kalori untuk setiap orang dapat berbeda, tergantung dari usia, jenis kelamin & aktifitas yang dilakukan. Misalnya untuk orang dewasa yang berprofesi sebagai atlit tentu memiliki kebutuhan kalori yang berbeda dengan anak usia 3 tahun.

Ketika membeli makanan kemasan, pastikan untuk melihat kandungan nutrisi dari makanan tersebut (biasanya terdapat pada bagian belakang kemasan), sehingga dapat melihat jumlah kalori per sajian/kemasan.

Berikut adalah tabel kebutuhan kalori untuk berbagai kelompok umur. Tabel ini dapat membantu mengetahui kebutuhan kalori berdasarkan usia, jenis kelamin & aktifitas yang dilakukan.

Tabel Kebutuhan Kalori

*Adanya rentang kalori menunjukkan kebutuhan kalori yang berbeda berdasarkan usia dari tiap kelompok. Remaja & anak-anak membutuhkan kalori yang lebih banyak seiring dengan bertambahnya usia. Akan tetapi pada orang dewasa, akan membutuhkan kalori yang lebih sedikit seiring dengan bertambahnya usia.

Keterangan aktifitas yang dilakukan:

  • Aktifitas menetap: Suatu gaya hidup dimana aktifitas yang dilakukan hanya berhubungan dengan kegiatan sehari-hari.
  • Cukup aktif: Suatu gaya hidup yang termasuk didalamnya melakukan aktifitas fisik yang setara dengan berjalan kaki sebanyak 2,5-5 km sehari.
  • Aktif: Suatu gaya hidup yang termasuk didalamnya melakukan aktifitas fisik yang setara dengan berjalan kaki > 5 km sehari

Berikut adalah contoh pembagian makanan untuk sehari pada orang dewasa, menurut kecukupan energi:

Tabel menu 2000 kalori

Tabel menu 2500 kalori

Keterangan porsi:

  • Nasi: 1 porsi = ¾ gelas = 100 gram = 175 kkal
  • Sayur: 1 porsi = 1 gelas = 100 gram = 25 kkal
  • Buah: 1 porsi = 1-2 buah = 50-190 gram = 50 kkal
  • Tempe: 1 porsi = 2 potong sedang = 50 gram = 75 kkal
  • Daging: 1 porsi = 1 potong sedang = 35 gram = 75 kkal
  • Minyak: 1 porsi = 1 sendok teh = 5 gram = 50 kkal
  • Gula: 1 porsi = 1 sendok makan = 13 gram = 50 kkal

Bila masih ragu mengenai pola makan yang sedang dilakukan, dapat berkonsultasi dengan dokter atau pun ahli gizi untuk mendapatkan pola makan yang sehat & sesuai…

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AFT Interviews: Dr. James Muecke AM Australian of the Year 2020 wants to put diabetes in remission

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Listen to the full interview on The Kurang Manis Podcast, Season 1, Episode 7

Type 2 Diabetes could be put into remission, says opthalmologist Dr. James Muecke AM. Almost as soon as he was named Australian of the Year 2020, Dr. Muecke started advocating for the implementation of a tax on sugary drinks in an effort to save more eyes. Dr. Muecke speaks to AsiaFitnessToday.com about his proposed change to Australia’s dietary guidelines, he expresses why there’s a need for government to impose a sugar tax and talks about his work in raising awareness about diabetes – a lifestyle disease that could lead to the loss of sight.

Dr. James Muecke with his team in Vietnam. Photo credit: Sight For All foundation

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”.

Has sugar blinded our reasoning?

A few months ago, we featured a story about a patient of Dr. Muecke’s who woke up one morning Blinded by Sugar. Neil Hansel is sadly a victim of the debilitating disease which has not only taken his eyesight, but also his limbs.

In his address at the National Press Club in Canberra last year, Dr. James Muecke gave an immensely moving account about having had to remove a patient’s eye. He wanted to be an eye surgeon to give the gift of sight and not to take it away from someone, especially when someone has been needlessly blinded by an avoidable, man-made Type 2 Diabetes he said.

Sugar toxicity can be solved

Humans were for the first time in history “overfed and undernourished” with sugar and refined carbohydrates, he affirmed. We met with Dr. Muecke in person at a studio in Sydney this March 2021, one square year after the Australian border closures and he summed up our conversation to this, “When the mother is pregnant with the baby and if she’s consuming a diet high in sugar, that sugar crosses the placental barrier to the foetus but insulin doesn’t cross, so you’re already metabolically priming the child for health problems in the future. So gestational diabetes is a big big problem so people should be aware of that, that it be picked up early in pregnancy and wind right back on your consumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates,”.

Dr. Muecke spoke to us at length about a strategy he came up with, which he calls the 5As of sugar toxicity.

  • Addiction
  • Alleviation
  • Accessibility
  • Addition
  • Advertising

It’s so hard to kick the habit. If you’ve ever tried to detox from sugar, it’s quite an unpleasant process. And even if you’re able to succesfully do it, everywhere you go, all the foods you eat, you’re just bombarded with sugar, so it makes it very difficult. So having a tax on sugary drinks, we know that it’s been shown to reduce purchase and consumption in 17 countries with Mexico being one of them.

Let’s say in Australia, we put a 20% levy on sugary drinks, that would raise about A$600million which could then be used to fund health awareness initiatives and about 77% of Australians agree with this in principle,” added Muecke, giving light into his call for a sugar tax.

Back home in Adelaide, Dr. Muecke continues his advocacy work in awareness building and has called for a crackdown on sugar in drinks and processed foods, also a change in Australia’s dietary guidelines.

He spoke about how diabetes, one of leading causes of blindness among Australian adults could be sent into remission. Diabetes is a metabolic disease, caused by the over-consumption of sugar, refined carbohydrates and ultra-processed foods which are cheap and accessible. He mentioned the dangers of seed oils, and that we should be aware of the types of oils we’re consuming daily.

Australia’s dietary guidelines was last updated in 2013 and in a Facebook post, Muecke suggests a certain biasness that 80% of the recommended foods were plant-based. He came up with this proposed diamond (see diagram below), shifting sugar and heavily processed & grain fed meats to the opposite tips of the healthy eating diamond.

A 7News report quoted Dr. Muecke saying, there were three successful ways to place type-two diabetes in remission – low calorie diets, low carbohydrate diets or bariatric surgery. Of these, he said the low-carbohydrate diet was the easiest solution.

AsiaFitnessToday.com also attended a webinar in November 2020, organised by the Australian Society of Opthalmologists. In that webinar, Dr. Muecke shared an imagery about glucose metabolism likening it to a packed train at peak hour. When too much glucose is ingested, insulin level rises and tries to push glucose into the blood stream, but it’s rejected. It’s then stored as glycogen instead in the liver, giving rise to fatty liver. Fructose – when taken up by the liver, almost a third of it is converted to fat so fructose is far more toxic than glucose! 

Dynamic duo

Dr. James Muecke was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012, then in 2015 he was EY’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year for Australia, and in 2019 received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Adelaide. It was the year of the Covid-19 pandemic, that Dr. Muecke was named Australian of the Year for 2020 and appropriately so, considering he is not going to be silent anymore and will be carrying the torch to highlight the fact that non-communicable lifestyle diseases like diabetes can be put into remission, and one of the ways to achieve that is to intervene with awareness first, followed by a change in lifestyle and importantly, diet. Partnering Dr. Muecke in advocacy and stewardship of the non-profit work is spouse Mena Muecke OAM, who also plays a vital role in the marketing and publicity of Sight For All and is a co-founder of the Vision 1000 social investment initiative. She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2018. The Mueckes run private consultancy, www.Medthink.com.au.

Follow Dr. Muecke on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or LinkedIn. 

The podcast also features:

Dr. YokeLi Ling

In this 7th episode of Season 1 of The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast, we also speak with Dr YokeLi Ling, based in Kuala Lumpur who is passionately advocating Sleep and Airway Centric Dentistry and Oral Myofunctional Therapy. Dr. Ling shares more details in the 8th episode of the podcast (click here) with co-hosts Nikki Yeo and Jasmine Low. 

Mia Palencia

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. The song reflects the advocacy work that’s being undertaken by Dr. James Muecke AM – Australia’s SUPERMAN. 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.

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Now streaming – Dr. James Muecke AM, Australian of the Year 2020 wants to put diabetes in remission. Listen to the podcast on AsiaFitnessToday.com or wherever you get your podcast: “The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast”
Now streaming – Dr. James Muecke AM, Australian of the Year 2020 wants to put diabetes in remission. Listen to the podcast on AsiaFitnessToday.com or wherever you get your podcast: “The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast”
Now streaming – Dr. James Muecke AM, Australian of the Year 2020 wants to put diabetes in remission. Listen to the podcast on AsiaFitnessToday.com or wherever you get your podcast: “The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast”

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