As we begin 2011, I wish you health, wealth, peace, discipline and other good things you wish yourself. During the festivities and holidays how guilty or innocent were we of eating well? We have an opportunity to correct the nutritional wrongs we committed during the holidays.

 Diet and lifestyle diseases are non-communicable and are chronic meaning once acquired; they can’t be treated but only managed. Some of these diseases include diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure and various hear...

Good morning colleagues,

I pray all is well with you. I am well except that I am very sad this morning.

I was just informed that a friend/patient had died. He had high blood pressure which had damaged his kidneys. His cholesterol levels were also high and he had suffered a minor heart attack when I met him. Can you guess his age? 25 years

When discussing his diet history, he spoke about drinking alcohol with ‘boys boys’ weekly, not exercising and taking a lot of junk food. He initially...