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At 22 Bruce Swan found out he had diabetes and, instead of dealing with the diagnosis, set it aside. He was in law school at the time and focused on his studies. Today, he wishes he had been more concerned about his health. Last year while walking ou...

Raygina Fox was ready for the trip of a lifetime – a seven-day hike up Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. A week before her departure she learnt the $1,950 she paid to an American booking agent for the trip was part of a $38,000 lump sum that he mysteriou...

At 35 years old Roslyn Cure weighed 300lbs. Her weight put so much stress on her joints that doctors predicted she would need knee and hip replacements before she hit 40. “I remember it took me 20 minutes to climb a flight of 13 stairs to my door an...

In her 20s, Carrie DeSilva thought that if she could just lose weight she would be happy. She tried everything from the Keto diet to fasting, to meal replacement shakes, belly wraps and waist trainers. “I found a raw foods diet in the back of a book ...

The Royal Gazette columnist Nina London celebrates five years as a uterine cancer survivor next month. To mark the occasion, the Siberian-born Bermuda resident will do what she does almost every day of the year, swim. “Starting at noon, on Oc...

Mikia McGowan’s weight spiralled out of control after graduating from college. Children in the Brownie troop she led wanted to touch her baby bump, when she wasn’t even pregnant. “I was working as an administrative clerk,” she said. “Colleagues we...

On the surface, working from home sounds like a great idea. Ideally, you could catch a nap between work cycles, and have dinner cooking while you finish up those reports. But since the pandemic began in March 2020, the reality has proven a little dif...

Treasure Tannock loved Bootsie’s popular song, Bermudians Love to Drink. It wasn’t until she got older that she gave any real thought to the deeper implications of its lyrics. “As a young kid you are dancing to it but as you grow up, you realise how ...

Milton Darrell found out he had multiple sclerosis and went to Google to learn more. Then 31, everything that he read terrified him: a degenerative autoimmune disease, MS attacks the nerves in the brain and spinal cord and, in some people, causes mo...

At 34, Reva Minors wishes she had paid greater attention to the pull she felt as a teenager. Television programmes about childbirth, particularly water births, fascinated her – she always felt a little strange about her interest. “I didn’t even have ...