Archive for the 'Health' Category

The arguments for a regional “Fat Tax” carry much weight

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 7th June 2010.

Growth in international markets is sluggish. The local economy isn’t faring much better. But in every organisation there is one place of enormous expansion – around the waistlines of workers. Read more »

TV Times

By Rehan Khan*. Published in Bahrain this Month (February 2005)

How would you feel if by the time your child was 18 years old, they had witnessed 32,000 murders, 40,000 attempted murders and seen 100,000 acts of violence? (1)  Read more »

Shoot em up!

By Rehan Khan*. Published in Bahrain this Month (January 2005)

What’s your idea of passing the time? Is it reading a good book, going for a walk, doing some gardening? Maybe having a coffee with friends and chilling out? Or is it sitting ‘jacked into’ (1) a video game console pulverizing everything you see with ammunition that would make even Neo and Trinity from The Matrix blush?
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Eating ourselves to death

By Rehan Khan*. Published in Bahrain this Month (December 2004)

Ever wondered what it would be like to die? Now there are many ways a person could go – quietly when sleeping, violently due to some misfortune or accidentally as a result of a mistake. But how about eating your self to death?  Read more »

A cry for help

By Rehan Khan*. Published in Bahrain this Month (August 2004)

The phone rings and is answered. “Hello, how can I help”? Caller “I’m hopeless, useless (starts to cry). No one cares about me! I’m going to kill myself…..”
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