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    ‘LCHF HELPED ME LAND MY DREAM JOB!’

    Nov 26, 2018 3 minutes
    BY SINELIZWI NCALUKA

    ‘My friends and family knew me as the guy who was “built big”,’ says 34-year-old Kirk McAllister. ‘I’ve been big from quite a young age.’ After resigning as a chef with MSC Cruises in March this year, Kirk was offered a better job – aboard the Queen Mary II, based in the UK. But to secure the position, Kirk needed to pass a medical examination.

    ‘When I went for my medical, the nurse asked me to step on the scale,’ he recalls. ‘Once she calculated my

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