Only 5% of fever cases in Lagos are malaria – Commissioner
Patients often present convinced they have malaria, while healthcare providers have historically treated fever as malaria
Cakes Go Healthy
For many of us it is so difficult to follow a vegetarian lifestyle or simply eat healthier because the change seems to come with less fun in eating.
Veg diet boosts your immune system (2)
The bottom line: To boost your immune system, try a low-fat vegetarian diet accompanied by regular physical activity. Vegetables, fruits, beans, and grains contain nutrients and phytochemicals to strengthen the immune system. Fiber, which is readily available in plant foods, helps your body flush out toxins.The omega 3 fatty acids, found in flax oil, act as immune boosters by increasing the activity of phagocytes, the white blood cells that eat up bacteria. Use flax oil as your base for vinaigrettes, drizzle it on top of vegetables, stir it into oatmeal, or whir it in your smoothies.Foods to boost your immune system:
Veg diet boosts your immune system
The better our immune system works, the better for us. Our body is designed to fight off diseases and infections caused by viruses and bacteria. Our immune system does not even surrender to cancer – and also not Ebola as written at this column space last week.
Veg diet versus Ebola and other zoonotic diseases
Wondering what ‘zoonotic disease’ means? If you think of zoo then you are pretty close. Yes: animals! More precisely, diseases we human can catch from animals. Zoonotic diseases are common and can be caused by viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasites and other agents, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Rukewe Ugwumba – Beauty,Brains and Brawn
Dr. Rukevwe Ugwumba is the Special Adviser, Health Monitoring to the Delta State Governor. Until she joined the Government of Delta State in August 2011, Dr. Ugwumba was an associate professor in Family Medicine, University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She graduated from the University of Benin in 1992, where she obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) with honours.
Can eating yams really give you twins?
If you are a woman of a certain age, better think twice before you down those plates of yam, or you may get pregnant with twins. Did you know that a small town in Oyo State called Igbo-Ora has the highest number of twin births in the whole world?
Hypertensive patients warned against beer consumption
An Osogbo-based medical practitioner, Dr Kazeem Adebare, has warned that hypertensive patients who consumed beer risk liver damage and heart disease.
