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Tara Kessaram decided enough was enough. The 33-year-old doctor was tired of losing patients to preventable diseases. She left clinical practice to study public health in 2011 and in April, moved to the Solomon Islands to reduce the impact of cigaret...

With all the holiday parties and festive gatherings, December can be a tough month to stick to your exercise and weight-loss goals. But you don’t have to wait until January 1 to get serious about your health. That’s the word from a handful of fitnes...

Type 2 Diabetes once known as “the old people’s disease”, is now affecting people at a much younger age. The 40-60 age groups, our working population, have the fastest rising number of diabetes diagnoses. This means that if blood glucose levels are n...

Vanessa Henderson’s work-life balance was off. She was overweight and, because she was burnt out from long hours on the job, unable to enjoy all the great things that had lured her to the Big Apple. Two years ago she made a conscious decision to swi...

Recently I was asked to speak at my old high school’s career day on the fitness industry. To overcome my fear of teenagers, I accepted. In between snickering teenaged boys and wide-eyed stares when I told them I work out for fun, I was asked somethin...

Genelle John’s first attempts at soap making were disasters. The soap kept getting stuck in the Pyrex bowl. She went through a couple of bowls before she realised she had to use something more flexible like silicon. “That was a few years ago when I ...

Doctors urged Sonya Smith to pull the plug after her son, Tony Grant, was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident; Arissa Wilson didn’t speak in full sentences before she was five. Both benefited from the range of therapeutic programmes in place a...

If you love Four Star’s pizza, you might recognise Hannah Jones. The restaurant’s owners put her face on the menu after she created a range of pies for health-conscious customers. It’s the type of inroad that the 33-year-old registered dietitian cele...

We’ve all heard that Bermuda has the highest rate of lower-limb amputations in the developed world. We have high rates of kidney disease and half of patients on dialysis here in Bermuda have diabetes. Why do we have such poor outcomes? In the United ...

Giovanna Watson refused to let colon cancer get the best of her when doctors told her she had the disease last year. She was 37, and had never heard of anyone her age having the condition. Adamant that she was a fighter, not a victim, she underwent 1...