Bal Sandhu, a registered community dietician, specialising in diabetes and working for the NHS in Berkshire, offers some practical advice about Diabetes…

Charity Diabetes UK has begun urging people to check their weight in a campaign to raise awareness of how being overweight can damage health – especially when it involves diabetes, which the organisation describes as Britain’s biggest health risk. According to the National Obesity Forum (NOF), research shows that nearly half of adults have an inaccurate picture of their own weight – meaning, typically, that they underestimate it.

Skin is an excellent record keeper. Every moment of exposure to daylight adds up like money in the bank.  The problem is the payoff known as sun damage (also known as photodamage). As the top cause of premature signs of skin aging, sun damage shows on skin in the form of wrinkles and hyperpigmentation, and [...]

A veneer is a new front layer for a tooth, custom made from porcelain. Veneers can be used to close [...]

Donations of blood by many thousands of Sikhs may have earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the donors and the holy town of Anandpur Sahib in the Punjab.
Anandpur Sahib is revered as the place where the tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, founded the Khalsa (the body of pure believers) on [...]

English Translation
Interviewer:
Hello, Baba Fauja Singh Ji…Today you ran in the Edinburgh marathon, how was it?
Fauja Singh:
It was very good. It was very busy with a lot of people. Many boys who had previously ran a 26 mile marathon ran very well and also some people who only ran a bit also done very [...]

Chicken Tikka Masala, described in 2001 by British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook as the most popular dish in the UK, may now be giving curry lovers food for thought.
A survey of the dish as served by 66 Yorkshire takeaway outlets found that 27 per cent contained illegally high levels of artificial colour.
The findings were published [...]

Many young Sikhs are using the internet to woo potential partners from the same religious background, says an article on the BBC’s religious web pages.
Matchmaking online may not win favour with every parent but young people are discerning that it works along similar lines to introductions set up by families to achieve arranged marriages.
A female [...]

She’s dressed up the likes of Vikram Chatwal, Malkit Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu. Meet designer Sahiba J Singh who excels in Sikh fashion particularly for the turbaned groom!
Spunky yet subtle, traditional but with contemporary leanings…it’s hard to chose words that best describe Sahiba J Singh’s work. The young designer and stylist who [...]

FASHION designer Rohit Bal has announced plans of creating exquisite gold and diamond pieces for city based jeweller Kirtilals.
“I have been retained by Kirtilals for a year for designing as well as branding of the jewellery collection,” Bal said Monday evening. Bal will launch two jewellery series designed by him during the year.
He will also [...]