Frieda Paton The risk factors for serious disease and death from COVID-19 should be a further wake-up call to adopt a healthy lifestyle. The main co-morbidities for those at high risk – diabetes, hypertension, obesity and heart disease – are all conditions that could have largely been prevented by a healthy diet and regular exercise. […]
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Hazyview residents helping each other
News Desk It is heartening to see people caring for each other during this very difficult period. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only […]
Flight … or fight?
Have you ever felt like wanting to hurt the person responsible for your anger, hurt and bitterness? As children of God, we are placed in a position to influence those around us. The power of our words can be used to build up or tear down. Ecclesiastes 3:7 King James Version (KJV). A time to rend, and […]
Dexamethasone as treatment in COVID-19
News Desk Follow Up Statement on Dexamethasone by the Minister of Health: “On 16 June, I conveyed our excitement, as a Department, around the breakthrough research of the RECOVERY trial from Oxford University in Britain. In this trial, they studied the therapeutic effects of dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory medicine well known in the clinical setting to […]
Vlytige VLU Vrouens- Elize en haar VLU dames: Mense wat omgee
Michele du Plessis Elize Potgieter, Voorsitster van die Sabie VLU tak, Visarende, en die VLU lede se hande bly besig en hulle harte oop. Vanaf die COVID-19 inperking begin het en dit duidelik geword het dat daar mense is wat hulp benodig, het Elize en haar span vlytige vrouens plan gemaak om andere te kan […]