things like fitness and nutrition take a backseat in your 20s and 30s but that came into focus for me immediately as i became a mother says actress soha ali khan on how motherhood has affected her approach to fitness and maintaining a healthy lifestyle speaking at a virtual panel discussion on family health on friday the actress opened up on her approach to fitness and how daughter inaaya naumi kemmu influences her food choicesthe virtual panel discussion on challenges in ensuring optimal family health amidst fast changing lifestyles in the post pandemic world saw soha being joined by industry experts ritika samaddar regional head dietetics max healthcare delhi and nutrition and wellness consultant sheela krishnaswamy as well as emily fleischmann vp global market development almond board of californiasoha recounted how her mother veteran actress sharmila tagore had inculcated a focus on fitness and nutrition in her and her siblings health has come to the fore now once again of course for me i was aware of its importance as a young child because of my mother she laid emphasis upon it and made all her three children understand that but then i lost focus when i started working things tend to drift said soha the actress explained how she resumed healthy eating after the birth of her daughter inaaya she said my daughter is at an age when she is practically eating off my plate so i cannot eat anything that i wouldnt want her to eat i cant tell her to not eat something and then hypocritically eat it myself hence i have had to become more aware about healthy food againsoha said that growing up her mom sharmila tagore made sure she and her siblings understood the significance of nutrition and a healthy lifestylethe panelists emphasised upon the significance of nutrition in helping people recover from covid ritika samaddar said good nutrition is essential for building immunity in a society affected by covid it is important we focus a lot on it if we are to recover nutrition and wellness consultant sheela krishnaswamy talked about how the pandemic had forced people to go back to homecooked meals indian homecooked meals are very well balanced and healthy they had taken a backseat in our lifestyles but during the pandemic with no other options people have been going back to eating homecooked traditional meals that has helped people maintain their health she saidsoha also talked about the significance of physical exercise it is really a question of doing something regularly and making it a part of lifestyle she said while talking about the need to work out regularly its very easy to stay unfit but taking out 30 minutes in a day is all it takes for a couple of months last year when i was shooting in rajasthan i didnt work out and i saw the effect it had on me and my body after that it was just about getting exercise back in my routinealso