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Body Mass Index and Rubbish Weight Loss Programmes

As I write this column I am wrestling with a bout of flu or Covid-19. One health expert has told me that Covid-19 is not completely gone and it rolls in on the wheels of flu. So sometimes when you think it is flu it could well be Covid-19. So if I stop mid-column just know that Covid-19 has got me or I have got Covid-19.

I am currently dealing with issues more serious than distinguishing between flu and Covid-19. The most significant thing that happened to me was to attend a Wellness event last Saturday. Usually men, including yours truly, avoid such events because at these events they will tell you things like

• You are dangerously close to being diabetic • If you don’t quit smoking very soon you will start coughing large amounts of trachea.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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