Listen to your body and only do as much as you can, advises Assoc Prof Dr Nahar to cancer survivors. Photos: The Star/Izzrafiq Alias
When it comes to fitness and Zumba, one name that constantly pops up in conversations among cancer survivors is Assoc Prof Dr Mohd Nahar Azmi Mohamed.
The ladies love his classes, men long to move like him, and patients wait months to consult him.
Every Saturday morning, the affable head of Universiti Malaya Medical Centre’s (UMMC) Sports Medicine Department can be found shouting instructions, swivelling his hips and moving to intoxicating rhythms as he teaches Zumba and aerobic classes to cancer survivors at the hospital’s premises.
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Traditionally, you pulled candy from a hook in the kitchen wall Rosa Nafrere, left, and Dazmine Jenkins are using a cymbal stand that s been adapted to allow them to handle the hot candy.
When Lynne Casamayor was growing up in Key West, there were lots of ladies in the island s Black neighborhood who would make homemade candy. You could go knock on their door and say, can I get some peppermint candy or glass candy? she said.
But the tradition did not continue. By the time that I moved back to Key West in 2015, there was nobody making that candy, she said.