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| Overweight Malaysian Youth Offered Job As Aerobic Trainer |
| 2005-05-28 |
| Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Friday offered an overweight youth a job as aerobic trainer at its Sports Science and Recreation Faculty if he manages to reduce his weight by at least 80kg [176 lbs] in six months. UiTM Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Internationalisation) Prof Datuk Ir Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar made the offer to Mohd Said Ibrahim, 19, after the youth went for a medical examination and visited the university's training facilities, here. He said the offer raised the spirit of Mohd Said, who weighs 250kg [550 lbs], to go through the "slimming" regime at the university. He said the faculty would not use drugs to reduce Mohd Said's weight and would seek the cooperation of UiTM's other faculties such as the medical and pharmacy faculties to make the programme a success... Mohd Said drew media attention recently after he could not take part in the National Service (NS) training programme because of his excessive weight. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak threw him a challenge to reduce his weight to 100kg [220 lb] to qualify him to participate in the National Service training programme in the next six months. |
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