 Welcome back to morning baraka and this is a nutrition portion of portions We are going to make a date smoothie this morning. Brother Bilal is going to make it. Looking forward to this date smoothie. So shall we What are the ingredients firstly? What are you going to put into the smoothie? So we've got a quart of well, I'm so habitual with the ingredients but check the Facebook page for the details So let me tell the viewers that this is for weight gain actually rather than weight management loss So weight gain So there must be things in there that are obviously going to help somebody who perhaps needs to put on a few pounds Is that does that affect a lot of people we always talking listening hearing on you know Sort of the news and current affairs how obesity is you know taking place What's the sort of proportion of people that actually need to gain weight no I've did that people that need to gain weight are definitely in the minority But there are some who need to gain weight They some that need more specialist intervention because they have like eating disorder specifically You know like anorexia and bulimia things like that put in those to the side there are some people this is high metabolism and They for example don't take care of themselves in a sense of they may neglect that aspect to them You know people that work hard Demanding lifestyles, but they don't take care of their nutrition Perhaps not feeling well Yeah, yeah as well. Yeah, there are people with different medical conditions that may require them to have a and those A couple people we always would say to them seek medical intervention speak to a specialist and nutrition is right a Dietitian that can prescribe you, you know they can do a full assessment and a prescribe you detailed tailored You know meal plans and things that nature. This is not what we're doing here. We just are you putting in this? Oh, this is a vanilla Vanilla vanilla vanilla yogurt sometimes we use plain yogurt, but for this one Yeah, in particular, we have the vanilla yogurt very nice if you like vanilla a date date Smoothie oops, here we go Right, so you've added milk and there are milk ordinary milk Half as in cow milk. Yeah, no more cow milk and as I said I've said we you know people with Intolerance, yeah Today really you can use almond or there's always various alternatives. Yeah, okay, so we have one banana, right? Which we show add bananas are really cool fruits. I find them to be like slow release of you know the nutrition and so it's not really a Effect you especially if they're not brown and speckled but they have more sugar in them And then that can affect your your blood sugar levels if you eat that type of banana And particularly early in the morning to be careful with those if you're if you're trying to monitor your blood sugar for whatever reason then You know speckled brown bananas make really good cakes. They're super sweet Oh, they are super sweet like the sweetness. Not that we're talking about cakes. No. No, no But they are very because they're rather than throwing them away. Obviously. We're not recommended waste food in this. No Different loaves they make different loaves don't they of um, excuse me Some type of right. So you're adding your bananas we do we do we do And now we just need the chopped dates and a cup of water And they look like the medjool dates, right big massive Hey, but that's live TV man, you know So you're gonna chop those. Yeah D dates are again something that's very recommended We'll leave that there We chop them up cut them up So fun. It's interesting seeing somebody chop dates up Although this is what the blenders for so and my chopping will be minimal because that's the whole point of having that the blender So, okay, but it's fun. It's fun. So generally if somebody was trying to gain weight Eating few dates a day is that a good sort of natural way to gain weight And you step up a little bit on your carbohydrates as well. That's one way as well You know like some people say you just reverse like when you're you know You cut down on your carbs because you're trying to lose weight. So it's a little extra You know where you might use olive oil. You could say all right I'll have a little butter things that you cut out to lose weight. You just add a little you have to go mad Yeah Okay, well it's excessive isn't it not to go? Yeah, yeah one way or the other Okay, then I know I think if people adjust if their food intake Little by little they they'll see the changes as opposed to like doing anything drastic Exercise is always there. Good way to gain weight. Um, yeah Cardio vascular tends to be something that people do to either, you know get their heart rate moving and You know keep fit keep the heart fit, but resistance training, you know exercising with weights or your body weight press ups or different types of Training physical activity training can help you to bulk up You know nothing like the deadlift as they call it In weight training to all-over body exercise to you know get you Get you in good shape and so there's Holy Prophet peace be upon him said that when you Plenty of small meals to keep keep the weight up as well. Okay, so he the Holy Prophet has said that it's always important to try to have Make was all keep was all when you're eating and to face the kid look so we're kind of that way, aren't we? Yes Courtesy of yeah, and again, it's actually sharing food is very very recommended to eat with others It brings baraka to the food Yeah self and and I think Islam focus a lot about sharing doesn't it sharing is caring You would share with people if you care about them or if you didn't and you shared it would it would it would in them It would increase your capacity to share, right? I think even I'm the hospitality. I was reading I had these last night about Just add a bit of extra water. Oh, it's just adding water, okay? So a group of people came to visit the Holy Prophet. He was busy in his supplication and prayers And so his companions the Prophet's companions Sat the the guests down and after a while the guests said well We we didn't realize that he would be preoccupied will say a salon and we're leaving and then so when the Holy Prophet peace be upon him went To see the guests His companions and then he said they narrated that you're some guests come and he was quite upset that they hadn't offered food to them And so that's when you just think you know the emphasis on you know being hospitable Serving your guests and you know, so you're going to serve the smoothie to me Charlotte and when you think about Muslim Communities and societies foods plays a big role eating together I think it's a new phenomena of the kind of microwave my meal on my own in front You know most of center to come together and share right We're in a hedge or Ziyara or whatever kind of activity or just at home somebody knocks the door We're about to eat. It's a shame to tell again. Oh, we're actually having dinner. It's a bad time It's more like an ideal time. Hey, you know when I was when I was a child many bachelors Would knock around in the time with them, you know the friends and associates of the family would it seemed to I didn't understand as a Kid these guys were just pop around just around we'd have a table, right? And so they were always welcome Right, here goes wish me luck Your dates are hopefully gonna Yeah, the dates and in the sun of the elevator, you know, even if you're you don't have you know sufficient funds to cook a big spread But you're gonna offer somebody to Break fast, you know, even if it's a date or some water, you know, the dates always mentioned lots of different contexts, right? Yeah, yeah, I think nursing mothers as well. It's quite helpful, right? I wouldn't normally do it as much but because of dates, you don't need they have a certain type of consistency when I make sure They give it a little extra You have you have the bananas as well I can't wait Do you do you make you know when you make your own do you what do you tend to go for once like I tend to keep it simple. I use a lot of Porridge porridge and banana and stuff like that because I tend to use this move for a pre-workout meal Makes me sound like a gym for that. I don't train that often But it is a it is my downtime. Yeah So do you not have them when you say you have a routine you come home and Somebody doesn't have time to eat a meal before they go for the gym. This is an ideal substitute Yes, and then you come home after gym and have a meal or yes or sometimes to make Sometimes I train at home or what I'll do is because you said time is a lesson so you can what I tend to do is Smoothie porridge banana so and so forth make this high protein High carbohydrate meal, but I know I'm gonna exercise I'll take it and then maybe go shopping or go out and do something else in between because you can't train straight away So give yourself a couple hours. Yeah, and then come back boom Okay, so in terms of when you want to gain weight Is that is it good for people to regularly eat Yeah regular small meals your brown rice your sweet potato I still say although you want to have an extra carbs triangle for that what they call the healthy carbs the brown rice the quinoa the Sweet potatoes these type of carbohydrates Maybe even some some of your starches like your yams and things like that as opposed to polished white rice or bread And these have a sugar to put the weight on the wrong areas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they don't they don't Not fluttering. Yeah type of areas. Yeah, so here goes See for the Pelosi Your magic hands are made Looks quite looks good We go So Dates movie coming up one dates movie coming up. Thank you so much All right, I'm gonna just go for this Miss me Really good That's quite sweet. That's quite sweet. I like it That's one I would I would probably make probably healthy for people who have a sweet tooth But you're trying to get away from the chocolates the candies of the sweet sweets. It's still So not your Oreo milkshake and just no no we've had a request for that. We might have to explore that In the next episode. No, that's really that's really tasty. And I think you can there's not a taste That's actually too over empowering in this It's it's an even mix, isn't it? It's an even mix you can taste a little banana You can taste a little bit of the dates the vanilla yoga. It's all it's all there Oh, they're balanced the yoga and the banana. Yeah, and you can't tell the date actually And these are really cool like really good foods not too much Processed added sugars, but like these are natural sugar the dates have their own natural sugar Yeah, and even milk has lactose, you know, it has its own natural sugar as well So no need to then a lump in a spoon of brown sugar or any too much additives But we did bend the rule a little bit or was a bit flexible with the vanilla yoga Why well you've said previously that yoghurt's not too bad So what would it be in the vanilla version that you're saying it's not so no just a Taste, you know just to give it a different taste to the plain yoga for so for more for the consistency So what else would you recommend somebody who wants to gain weight? What kind of other foods? I'm also made a smoothie here, but what would be the sort of ideal kind of food to eat? That's yeah So food food wise I would look at things like brown rice a little bit extra brown rice A little bit extra sweet potato some of the starch is You don't need to cut off the trim you know like sometimes they advise you to trim the meat because of the fat and the fats You know like cook the meat if you're cooking some beef or whatever Go for it, go for it, yeah, if you have a chicken So you won't put the weight on it where it might be unsightly or anything that would Even say for example one time they say remove the skin off the chicken Yeah, if you're trying to put on weight chicken, you know the natural animal fats are quite healthy And is it better for people to so we're also encouraged in proportion that is But healthy fats in proportion are good for your is fried chicken good less than ideal So you'd have to still cook it in a healthy way. Yes, which would be sort of grilled or grilled oven roasted Yeah, oven baked. That's fine. That's fine and anything that you'd recommend that's not a nice recipe quickly Stew chicken stew chicken is one of my favorites Some secret ingredients I couldn't I couldn't disclose but I said we need to let our viewers know they might want to make stew chicken But if they ever if the viewers ever Have a chance to go to a Caribbean restaurant and it's a halal Caribbean restaurant. It's brown stew chicken Do we have a halal in London? There's one inside. There's two in South London. I know of Okay, well, that's really good. And what else from the Caribbean cuisine? You've got jerk chicken. You've got pepper steak. Oh, wow. I can saw fish I'm getting my stuff bananas, which you have you don't have them like a sweet green bananas is boiled and you know Okay, it's a quite healthy Jamaican Some some ask me that you know your ox tail and but being some of the foods are healthy And you know some are a little bit, you know a little bit, you know, and then it's good to have the varieties. 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