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5 Easy Steps to Lose Weight Without Exercise

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     Image courtesy: Unsplash   A sedentary lifestyle is one of the major causes of obesity. Being obese or overweight puts you at a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, kidney disease, and even blindness. But apart from physical exercise, there are other simpler steps you can take to lose weight. Here are the 5 easy steps to lose weight without exercise: Slow Down and Munch Your Food Properly When you chew your food properly it makes you eat more slowly. A 2020 article on Healthline stated according to a study that chewing your food up to 32 times leads to eating less portions, decreased consumption and increased fullness. That fullness sends a signal to your brain that you have had enough and therefore can stop eating. However, when you eat faster there isn’t enough time for the brain to process whether you’re full or not. You’re therefore likely to eat more portions. Eat a Lot of Protein-Rich Foods Proteins affect the two majo
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Numbers Don’t Lie But Politicians Do!

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     Image: courtesy   What am about to share with you hear is not only shocking but utterly serious! It is the kind of thing that brought Zimbabwe’s economy to its knees literally! Therefore, let me get right to it. For many months now, we’ve been treated to a lot of pandemonium by the political class about things that don’t really matter. Basically hot air! The sad part though is that we’re buying into that lie! This hullabaloo about 2022 elections, referendum, BBI, and many other noisy cymbals are things we must reject!   Amidst the noise, the economy of our country Kenya is at the brink of collapse due to constant plunder and unsustainable public debt! Your ordinary politician will not dare talk about what’s important and has since withdrawn from his/ her previous vigour to fight for your welfare. His only concern is his family. This is clearly seen in the implication of public officers and their families in the plunder of public resources! But here's what’s i
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Katiba @10: Not All Animals Are Equal

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       Image: courtesy   Human beings are generally wicked, biased and selfish in nature. Left to our own devices and driven by self-interest, society would be a chaotic place. Well, it still is but at least with a modicum of some order! And that’s because there are established laws that regulate human conduct. These laws when put together form what is called a Constitution. Kenya is this week celebrating 10 years since the new constitution 2010 came into effect on 27 th August. But is there much to celebrate?   Has the document made a difference in the lives of Kenyans? I think it depends on whom you ask and the parameters you use to make that judgement. Looking at matters devolution, the constitution has indeed led to devolved resources and services to the counties. However, it has also introduced a lot of unforeseen challenges such as human resource distribution, equitable sharing of funds among the counties and gross mismanagement of devolved resources by count
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Ping Pong: The Death of Accountability

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    Ping Pong or Whiff-Whaff is a game of back and forth played on a hard table divided by a net. It’s also commonly known as Table Tennis. The sport which began in Victorian England was played by the upper-class as an after-dinner in-door game. In Ping Pong, a point is scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Unfortunately for Kenya, the only way we score the political elite is by how many times they have failed to return the ball of political accountability. How much wealth they have amassed through corrupt and underhand dealings. Just across the globe an Irish Minister and a Senator resigned a few days ago over a golf dinner that flouted Covid-19 regulations.  But on our side of the planet, that would be a misnomer. We basically glorify thieves and worship plunderers given we elect them into office. Kenya has been for a long time a ping pong game for the political elite on the hard surface that is a depressed economy!   An economy dep
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5 Easy Steps to Lose Weight Without Exercise

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     Image courtesy: Unsplash   A sedentary lifestyle is one of the major causes of obesity. Being obese or overweight puts you at a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, kidney disease, and even blindness. But apart from physical exercise, there are other simpler steps you can take to lose weight. Here are the 5 easy steps to lose weight without exercise: Slow Down and Munch Your Food Properly When you chew your food properly it makes you eat more slowly. A 2020 article on Healthline stated according to a study that chewing your food up to 32 times leads to eating less portions, decreased consumption and increased fullness. That fullness sends a signal to your brain that you have had enough and therefore can stop eating. However, when you eat faster there isn’t enough time for the brain to process whether you’re full or not. You’re therefore likely to eat more portions. Eat a Lot of Protein-Rich Foods Proteins affect the two majo
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Waiting on The Master: 5 Lessons from the Fig Tree.

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Image courtesy of Pixabay The age-old question of when Jesus is coming has come back to the fore once again due to the anxieties of the global pandemic of COVID-19! I am sure it’s not because Christians are ready to go to Heaven, neither is it because non-believers are waiting to repent. It is merely a case of human curiosity of wanting to have definite information. But that question remains a mystery even in the scriptures. Matthew 24:36 records, “ But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” And maybe it’s because it’s not that important! Therefore, allow me for a second to digress and move away from the question of when and delve into the more important issue of how to wait on the Master. I think that’s a more objective agenda. Why is it important you ask? The story is told of the wise and foolish virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Unfortunately, the groom delayed and their lamps went out
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4 Reasons You Can't Spend the Money in Your Account!

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     Image: courtesy of Pexels What would you do if you had KSh1 million credited into your bank account erroneously? Well, most people would just withdraw that money and spend it! A woman in the UK recently received an erroneous credit of £90,000 (Ksh13 million) into her account instead of £9!  What did she do? She smiled and thanked the heavens for a windfall and then promptly withdrew £57,722 (Ksh8.3 million) transferring the money to different accounts. This case is not peculiar to the UK alone. A Kenyan man was also recently arraigned in court for spending Ksh800,000 to build a house, money that had been erroneously credited into his account.  Erroneous credits are quite a common occurrence in the banking industry all over the world from an operations standpoint! Most of the time it’s due to the pressure involved in the back office, payment deadlines, fatigue due to minimal breaks given to staff, human error, not to mention preferential treatment for priority
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