Thursday, June 4, 2009

National Briefs: Doctors Declare Retired King's Body Weight 'Perfect'

According to The Cambodia Daily Newspaper, Volume 42, Issue 57-On Thursday, June 4, 2009.
Retired King Norodom Sihanouk on Wednesday said he had lost one centimeter in height in the past four decades but has now attained the perfect body weight. The retired King announced in December that he had been diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma for the third time in 15 years. "In 'height,' I measure at the present moment 1 meter 61. It is my advanced age (87 years) that causes me to lose one centimeter," he wrote in an undated message entitled "The Problem of the Weight of my Body" and posted to this website on Wednesday. "Considering at once my age, my cancer, the dietetic rules for my health, my eminent [People's Republic] of China Doctors ask me not to attain, as a bodyweight, 70 kilograms. [...] N Sihanouk being ill with a third cancer (B-cell lymphoma), my most esteemed [Chinese] Doctors inform me that my 'current' weight of 68 kg is 'perfect' (it does not go so far as 'to graze' the 70 kgs and it is far from dropping to 65 kg).

Republished by CI, Cambodia.

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