Health
As an Italian urologist and self-professed lover of shoes, Maria Cerruto, a medical practitioner working in partnership with Illimani Service Incorporated, Florida, US, may have set out to prove that high heels were not as bad for women’s health as some suggest. This is in spite of the fact that high heel shoes have been linked to a number of health challenges ranging from corns to schizophrenia. The health challenges associated with high heel shoes notwithstanding, Cerruto said her research showed it was time to stand up for the high heels. She said her study of 66 women under 50 found that those who held their foot at a 15 degree angle to the ground, the equivalence of a…
Are you planning to mark your 40th birthday before cutting out red meat from your diet? Then this might interest you. Recent research findings have shown that the chances of hitting that age is slimmer for people who indulge in processed and unprocessed meat. To reduce the risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, they say, diets rich in beef, hotdogs, sausage, steaks and bacon have to take the back seat. The advice might sound like bad news, but the Harvard University-based scientists are pointing to a new study which analysed the diets of more than 120,000 men and women in the department of nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, United States, US. The research was on for…
Wednesday, 30 May 2012 18:25
Rescuing Children from Malnutrition
State of the World’s Mothers report shows that children in developing countries are still ravaged by the scourge of malnutrition with attendant colossal financial losses Her baby securely strapped in her back, she mounted her bicycle and headed for the forest to fetch firewood. Aside from breastfeeding, she complements feeding her three-month old baby with local liquid herb called ‘agbo’. Known simply as Mama Jerome in her neighbourhood, the 28-year-old mother of two, barely literate is ignorant of the magic iron folate, Vitamin A, zinc and proper hygiene can work on her baby. “I was fed with breast and agbo. There is no harm in using it to support the breast I give my baby,” she said. Mama…
For about five months, Motunlayo Sofowote, founder/president, Glowing Channels Foundation, battled with a life-threatening tumour that shrunk after a ‘farewell’ concert Within five months, she has had a remarkable experience. It started unexpectedly. Towards the end of November 2011, Motunlayo Sofowote, founder/president, Glowing Channels Foundation, 66, was diagnosed with cervical cancer, a deadly ailment that is said to be responsible for the death of one woman in every hour in Nigeria. For a woman who has been very active over the past few decades, as a writer, an artist, motivational speaker, a philanthropist and a volunteer in a number of activities that have to do with upliftment of humanity, it was a signal to slow down. In her own…
Many mothers-to-be relish the idea of nine months of eating and giving in to cravings of pickles and ice cream. But, a new study indicates that women who gain excessive weight during pregnancy are more likely to have heavier babies, and these children may grow up with long-term adverse health consequences. To arrive at this research finding, Zachary Ferraro, a PhD candidate at the children hospital of eastern Ontario research Institute at the University of Ottawa, Canada, analysed the weight gain of more than 500,000 mothers in the United States who gave birth to more than 1.1 million infants over a period of 14 years. He also reported that excessive weight gain during pregnancy increases not only the infant’s…
Blindness, a condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors, has always been one of the major health challenges confronting the world. According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, statistics, about 285 million are visually impaired, 246 million have low vision while 39 million are said to be blind. About 1.4 million children are said to be blind. In Nigeria, over 1.2 million are said to be blind while three million are visually impaired. About 42 out of every 1,000 adult aged between 40 and above are blind. However, there appears to be hope for the blind. This is because an international team of scientists in Monash University, Australia, is developing a direct-to-brain bionic eyes that…
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