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One of the important components of the whole food plant-based (WFPB) nutrition that METI is promoting for the control and reversal of non-communicable diseases (NCD) like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer are legumes. This includes beans, peas or lentils – which are small peas.

Talofa Samoa and welcome back to your weekly Physiotherapy column! Today’s column comes to you from PHYX Physio & Pilates in Australia and covers Achilles’ tendon ruptures. If your Achilles tendon ruptures, you may hear a ‘pop’ sound and feel an immediate sharp pain in the back of your heel and lower leg which is likely to affect your ability to walk. As physios, we often hear that it feels like you’ve been kicked in the back of your ankle at the time of the rupture.

In general, let me say, that there is no good customer service in Samoa. Despite of the fact that several intents has been made by the Chamber of Commerce and others to educate the business community and the government agencies; the customer service is way below what we expect in other advanced countries; of which we are one, but apparently Just in name. Most of the positions in Samoa are made to interact with the public (customer) without a trace of training.