Garcinia Kola, popularly called bitter kola, is now the toast of the day. People who ordinarily would not want anything to do with it due to its bitter taste are now falling over themselves in eating it, no thanks to the belief that it is a ready cure against the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. Though…
When Getting Fat Is not Dangerous
Fat people have always been seen as candidates for high blood pressure, but if this study by Naima Covassin, a research fellow with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, United States, is anything to go by, then gaining a few extra pounds could not be bad after all, especially for those who want to boost…
Exercise Reduces ADHD Symptoms
A study from Michigan State University, MSU, and University of Vermont has shown that engaging children suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, in daily before-school aerobic activities could help in reducing the symptoms associated with the disorder in the classroom and at home. According to the researchers, inattentiveness, moodiness and difficulty in getting along…
What Weight Loss Does to the Brain
New research shows weight loss surgery can reverse the negative effects body fat may have on the brain. Scientists say too much fat weighs down not just the body, but also the brain.Obesity harms most organs in the body, and new research suggests that the brain is no exception. What’s more, the researchers found that getting…
How Baldness May Indicate Prostate Cancer Risk
Men who undergo natural or unexplained hair loss would have to observe the pattern their baldness takes in order to determine the level of their risk of having prostate cancer. A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology recently reveals that men with a specific pattern of baldness at age 45 are at…
Fighting Against Maternal Mortality
The rate of maternal mortality in Ondo State has been increasing, and the efforts of government to put an end to pregnancy and childbirth related complications in the state, have not yielded any result. In 2009, the state government launched Abiye, a safe-motherhood project, to reverse the intolerable loss of pregnant women in the state.…
ABC of Obstetric Fistula
It is the result of prolonged, obstructed labour. It leaves women incontinent, ashamed and often isolated from their communities. It is the occurrence of abnormal hole between the bladder or rectum and the vagina, characterised by the continuous and uncontrollable leakage of urine and/or faeces following childbirth. And it predominantly happens when women do not…
Health Benefits of Tomatoes
It is a fruit. But it is also often misclassified as a form of vegetable. But whatever it is called, tomato which sometimes doesn’t appeal to some people in their meals has a whole lot of health benefits. Recent research outcomes have indicated that tomato, which contains vitamins, helps improve eyesight as well as prevent…
Watch That Handshake!
Ordinarily, it may appear to have been inspired by the fear of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. But it is not. Indeed, long before the recent outbreak of the EVD across West Africa, a group of scientists at the Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom, UK, warned that a handshake transfers more bacteria than other forms…
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