Add some mushrooms to your soup
The health benefits of mushrooms include relief from high cholesterol levels, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes. It also helps in weight loss, and increases the strength of your immune...
View ArticleYour weight determines your fertility level
Oladapo Ashiru, Professor of Anatomy/Consultant Reproductive Endocrinologist, dapo.ashiru@medicalartcenter.com 0700 MARTCENTER, 234-8023195521 The science of getting pregnant and having healthy babies...
View ArticleTerrible pieces of advice for pregnant women
When you’re pregnant, your body is in one very literal sense no longer completely your own. But in another, more uncomfortable sense, it’s become a public entity—because complete strangers think it’s...
View ArticleTips- Sitting all day? Try planking
Too much sitting kills. Literally. It shaves years off of your life. Your daily hour-long workout doesn’t counter its effects either. The only solution is to get your body moving more often. So what...
View ArticleYour work and mental well-being
Adeoye Oyewole, Consultant Psychiatrist, adeoyewole2000@yahoo.com It is disturbing to know that the bulk of our non-governmental initiatives that address our health concerns such as HIV-AIDS,...
View ArticleTime to replace sugar with honey
Bukola Adebayo Many of us are guilty of this: we overdo sugar from time to time. This is apart from the fact that it is one of the most difficult foods to give up in life. Many of us have been hooked...
View ArticleNMA to support health care delivery in A’Ibom
Etim Ekpimah, Uyo The Nigerian Medical Association, Akwa Ibom State chapter, has promised to support the sector in the state, especially at the primary and secondary health care levels. The state NMA...
View ArticleOyo govt addressing LAUTECH doctors’ complaints –Commissioner
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Oyo State Government has promised to address the complaints of doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, who have been on half...
View ArticleNew mosquito-borne disease detected in Haiti
University of Florida researchers have identified a patient in Haiti with a serious mosquito-borne illness that has never before been reported in the Caribbean nation. Known as “Mayaro virus,” it is...
View ArticleAvoid roadside food to reduce risk of cholera
Bukola Adebayo Cholera has claimed six lives in Lagos following a fresh outbreak of the disease, while 39 other persons who contracted the food and water-borne infection are under observation. The...
View ArticleFoods with high amounts of sugar
Dried fruit With all the water taken out, dried fruit has way more sugar by volume than fresh fruits. A small box of raisins — 1.5 ounces — has more than 25 grammes of sugar. Instead, you could eat a...
View ArticleThings you should know about cracking your knuckles
If you’re a knuckle-cracker, you know how it goes: Sometimes you just don’t feel right until you pull, bend, or push your fingers until they pop and you’re flooded with satisfaction. On the other hand,...
View ArticleFood poisoning is dangerous, avoid it
Rotimi Adesanya The Lagos State Government, last week disclosed that 45 cases of cholera had been recorded in one community in the state, with six deaths. Giving an update on the outbreak, at a press...
View ArticleInability to sleep at night can be managed (1)
Oladapo Ashiru, Professor of Anatomy/Consultant Reproductive Endocrinologist. dapo.ashiru@medicalartcenter.com 0700 MARTCENTER 234-8023195521 If you are one of these women aged 40 and over who find it...
View ArticleWhat pepper can do for you
RED peppers are the belle of the ball at any buffet table. Crisp and incredibly sweet, these ladies in red are an easy sell to anyone who is not fond of vegetables. The only limiting factor is that...
View ArticleThings you must do to prevent heart disease
Kofo Ogunyankin, Consultant Cardiologist info@firstcardiologyconsultants.com The World Heart Federation designates every September 29 as the World Heart Day to raise awareness worldwide about heart...
View ArticlePharmacists beg FG over drug importation cost
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan Members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Oyo State branch, have warned that unless the Federal Government lowers the exchange rate for the importation of drugs into the...
View ArticleLife expectancy in Nigeria increases by 11 years — Report
Bukola Adebayo A Lancet study has revealed that the average life expectancy rate of Nigerians has increased by 11 years. The report, which has other significant health findings, was published as part...
View ArticlePossible cure excites persons living with HIV
Bukola Adebayo The news of a possible cure for the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus has caused excitement, especially among persons living with the virus in Nigeria. Reports claimed that a group of...
View ArticleMental Health Day: Intervention for psychiatric emergencies
The World Mental Health Day, celebrated on October 10 every year, is an event that seeks to raise awareness of mental health issues across the globe and to mobilise efforts in support of mental health....
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