INTERVIEW
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Sadia Salman Experienced dietician with a demonstrated history of working in the health and fitness industry, dietician Sadia Salman is an expert on diet and nutrition. She is a health professional from LUMS, The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and talks to us about good eating habits.
How did you get started creating your passion into a business—what’s your story? Some passions are hidden until the need arises for them to show themselves. I am a bureaucrat by profession and an entrepreneur by inclination. I served as an additional commissioner with Inland Revenue Service Pakistan for 12 years. After losing my new-born daughter to (suspected) gestational diabetes I found myself to be at 102 kgs. My pre baby weight was 60 kgs and I already had a son aged six. Incidentally, as God would have it, he granted us with another son the very next year Alhamdullilah. He is the best planner for sure! But this meant that my weight would remain above 100 kgs with two full term pregnancies in two years, accompanied by diabetes. That’s when my life took a turn and I decided this couldn’t go on any more. I had always been a pro fitness person, the captain of my sports teams, and a swimmer. I was unable to recognise myself. To put on 40 kgs in two years is not a joke. My body was paying the price for it. I took leave from my work for two
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