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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:03
How to Handle Indigestion
You would have experienced it at one time or the other. For many people, indigestion is not just about belching uncontrollably, the stomach growling like a hungry bear or about groaning silently in the toilet. It is a medical condition that can lead to kidney damage, cancer, ulcer and cardiovascular diseases. Better Medicine, an online medical library, says indigestion is often mistaken for heartburn. “Most commonly, people suffer indigestion from overeating, drinking alcohol while eating, or eating greasy, fried or spicy foods.” There are several indications that indigestion should not be treated like the common flu. Indigestion is not only a byproduct of overeating. Smoking, eating at irregular hours, anxiety, fear and lack of exercise can predispose people to the…
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 12:58
Between Alcohol and Foetal Development
Usually, pregnancy has a way of taming certain habits in women. Except that in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti region in Ghana, some women still relish alcohol in pregnancy, putting their unborn babies at risk of physical and developmental defects later in life. That is what a research published in the March 2012 edition of the African Journal of Reproductive Health had to say. To arrive at this position, some 397 pregnant women were interviewed by researchers on their alcohol habits. About 81 women, representing 20 per cent, admitted their love for the bottle. In the report, it was stated that, “no amount of alcohol use during pregnancy has been proven safe. It also has effects on…
Thursday, 25 April 2013 12:53
Tackling the Impotency Challenge
Although it affects a large number of men, erectile dysfunction is one subject that is hardly ever discussed openly by the patients and even doctors Come out you non-performing husbands; We seek explanation. For treating your wives like your sisters; We seek explanation. For dangling flaccid phallus all through the nights; We seek explanation. For eating our food without satisfying our needs; We seek explanation. – Ogun Festival Song Although Julius Esho, a consultant urologist, is no poet, he recently translated the above song from Yoruba to explain the topic, Erectile Dysfunction: Current Therapies, to a room full of medical doctors in Lagos. As the lecture unravelled on the wings of wise cracks and research, the room erupted…
Monday, 15 April 2013 19:52
Confronting the Lassa Fever Challenge
A combination of poor funding and lack of commitment from the Nigerian government has been identified as factors militating against efforts aimed at eradicating Lassa fever which experts say now claims more lives in the country than even HIV/AIDS, meningitis, malaria and typhoid The statistics are staggering and frightening and the dangers of a hitherto “strange and mysterious” disease have become more real than imaginary. Lassa fever, a perennial health problem in the West African sub-region associated with the dry season, has proved to be more deadly than the dreaded HIV/AIDS. Between January 1969 when the disease first broke out in Lassa village, Borno State and January 2013, over 100,000 lives have been lost in Nigeria. Dennis Agbonlahor,…
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:49
The Many Benefits of Beetroot Juice
A daily glass of beetroot juice can help lower blood pressure. With its sweet, earthy taste and ruby-red interior, beetroot is a favourite of foodies, but there’s far more to it than that. The majority of beetroot’s benefits stem from the unusually high levels of nitrates it contains – gramme for gramme it possesses about 20 times more than most other vegetables. Nitrates have suffered a bad reputation because of their use as a food additive. Animal experiments had linked their commercial use to cancer and in the 1960s, the World Health Organisation set upper limits on their use. However, recent studies have shown that nitrates in beetroot help to lower blood pressure. A 2010 study carried…
In spite of warnings on adverse side effects, sex stimulants appear to be increasingly popular among Nigerian men, young and old It was the first and the last time Lekan Ajayi, a supplier of household items, would use a sex stimulant. And the reason for this complete volte-face is not far-fetched. He had a near fatal experience using an aphrodisiac. Ajayi was walking along one of the busy streets of Lagos in search of a job when he came across some of the vendors hawking their wares surreptitiously. His curiosity got the better part of him as he approached one and after a brief chat, bought one of the many sex stimulants on offer. Later in…
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