Research assistant, Chanelle Joseph (left), takes Donnette Thomas' waist measurements during an initial body composition and waist measurement session at the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University Hospital of the West Indies on March 22. Ms. Thomas is one of three participants in The Gleaner's four-month healthy lifestyle miniseries entitled, 'Fight the Bulge'. - Photos By Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
Dear Readers,
THE 'FIGHT the Bulge' begins today. Two of Your Health's regular readers Donnette Thomas and Sandra Smith takes on the challenge to shed a few pounds.
Your Health's nutritionist, Rosalee Brown and exercise expert, Kenneth Gardner will guide them over the next four months and both Donnette and Sandra will check-in with you, our readers, when they allow us to publish their diaries.
Before they could get started, we needed to know what we were working with, and so we are grateful to the experts at the University of the West Indies' Tropical Metabolism Research Unit (TMRU), who kicked off the series by taking the participants' official body measurements, (their anthropometrics). They also received the benefit of a pep talk from Dr. Suzanne Soares Wynter, clinical nutritionist and her team at TMRU.
You can cheer them on, even follow their diet sheets and exercise plans, write your own diaries and let us hear how you are doing in the battle of the bulge.
Best wishes.
Eulalee Thompson, Email: eulalle.thompson@gleanerjm.com.
