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You have to watch your weight — obesity is a killer

Abdala Faizal was morbidly obese in February 2015 when he was signed up to undergo bariatric weight loss surgery [Photo:COURTESY]

The best advice Dr Anthony Njenga of the University of Nairobi gives weight watchers is that they should avoid gaining weight.

He tells them so because it is ten times harder to lose weight than to gain.

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