.....Because I spent my first few years in university mostly playing poker and gin (hey, it was either that or attend lectures, so what would you have done?), I acquired a bit of a reputation as a gambler. In fact, shortly after she met me, my future mother-in-law tried to convince my now wife to end our budding relationship because she claimed that “that gambler” would ruin her daughter’s life (advice my wife now swears that she should have taken more to heart; God, I love that woman’s sense of humour, only I’m not really sure she’s kidding when she says that).
....When I left school, though, I stopped gambling, but hey, sometimes old habits resurrect themselves when |
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you least expect them to, so when I sat down to write this article the first thought I had is that I’m willing to bet that very few of you have heard of the metabolic syndrome. Am I right, by the way? I knew it, I knew it, and boy, does that make me regret that I didn’t put a few bob down with my local bookie.
.....Anyway, whether you’ve heard of it or not, you need to learn a lot more about the metabolic syndrome because there’s a very good chance that many of you are suffering from it - according to a recent study, rates of the metabolic syndrome are “skyrocketing” among North |
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