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Elijah Lagat (front) after beating Gezahenge Abera of Ethiopia to win the men’s Boston Marathon on April 17, 2000. [AFP]

You wake up one morning with discomfort and you visit a doctor. But the medic bluntly sends a tough warning – “you have a heart condition which is resulting from your overweight.”

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