Health and Fitness Guide

If the eating habit of the upper and middle class Nigerians is not changed, there may be an epidemic of unprecedented death syndrome in the country, which will arise from cerebral and coronal artery disease in middle aged people. Sounding this alarm has become necessary in view of recent increase in the number of people who “die suddenly” or die “without any apparent cause”.

Because of the lack of understanding of the symptoms, and because the victims are often perceived to be hale and hearty, this problem that has been ravaging the country is yet to receive any major attention in the medical circles.

Eating vegetables regularly can have many health benefits. They are one of the most natural foods and contain different vitamins, minerals and thousands of other plant chemicals known to provide health benefits. Along with all the many disease reducing benefits, eating vegetables can also help control weight. Being low in calories enables us to eat lots of vegetables without consuming excess energy; the high fibre content also helps fill the stomach faster, limiting the total amount of food consumed. Vegetables are also low in sodium, so they help reduce water gains. Sodium is present in virtually all processed foods; it causes the body to hold water within the interstitial areas of the body. It has been estimated that many average people may be holding up to 5 pounds of additional water caused from a high intake of sodium.

* The presence of many vitamins and other chemicals in it, supply the body with nutrients necessary to boost energy production within the muscle cells.

* Many vegetables, such as Broccoli, Green pepper and Spinach, are also good sources of antioxidants. This is the substance that slows down oxidation, which is a natural process that leads to cell and tissue damage.

* Don’t limit yourself to familiar favorites only. Try some unusable vegetables such as Jicama, Kohlrabi, Okra, or Water-cress. You may discover new favorites that will add both interest and health benefits to your diet.

In the quest to satisfy his partner sexually, a man that takes sex pills like Viagra may actually be digging his own grave unconsciously. This is because, though these sex pills are marketed as healthy products, they contain some level of unregulated versions of the very products they are supposed to replace. When a man who takes nitrates i.e. drugs that lowers the blood pressure and regulates hearth disease, mixes this with the local Viagra, it slows down blood flow drastically, and this can lead to hearth attack or stroke. The unfortunate thing is that the sale of these natural sex enhancers is on the rise, just as the casualties are equally on the rise also. Those that are more exposed to this danger are the older men that need some help to deal with erectile dysfunction. These folks will be happy that they are out of danger by staying away from Viagra, cialis or levitra, not knowing that these ones the embrace is more dangerous than the Viagra they were trying to avoid. As a matter of fact, some of these alternatives contain more than twice the recommended prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.

Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that depends on other trees for survival. They grow on palm trees, avocado, guava trees, kola-nut trees; etc. Research has shown that extract from these trees can be effectively used for the treatment of diabetes. The dried leaves have been used successfully to treat different ailments, like, infections, inflammations and even fever. It is also useful in the treatment of headaches, dizziness, energy loss, irritability, etc.

Mistletoe is of different kinds. We have the African type, the European, and the American mistletoes. The American mistletoe is equally called the “false mistletoe”, because, it is not as useful in the treatment of diabetes and other ailments as the African and the European mistletoes.

There are certain things that one needs to know or understand about the body system, which if it is followed religiously, has the ability to improve the health of an individual. Sadly enough, these are neglected by many people thereby jeopardizing their fitness state.         Some of the hints that can help one to maintain a good and healthy life are to have enough rest and sleep. It is very important that you create time out of your daily schedule, when you can be passive, without any form of stimulation, but rather, you relax, doing nothing.

  It is not everyday that you get up from your bed refreshed. There are days or times you get up and notice that you are lazy, you don’t feel any enthusiasm or bubbling at all. When this is the situation, just a five minute walk-out could be all that you need to warm up your energy and put your body in the right frame for the day.

The following tips below, which may last just five minutes, can help you maintain a fit and healthy living.

A Muslim has a lot of importance attached to what he or she eats or drinks. He wants to know the source from where it came from, whether it is from a pure source or not. He eats, not for the pleasure of eating, but simply because he must eat to maintain a healthy body so that he can worship Allah, his maker. This, he believes is (i.e. the worship of Allah) what qualifies him for the life after, where he hopes to have eternal happiness. Therefore, if he is not hungry, he does not eat, if he is not thirsty, he does not drink. As written by Allah’s messenger (SAW) “We are a people who do not eat until we are hungry, and if eat, we do not eat to our fill.” This goes to say, that Muslims must adhere to the manners of eating and drinking that the shariah has issued.

The natural way in which a mother feeds her new born baby, instead of on artificial formulas like cow’s milk is called lactation or breastfeeding.  There are many advantages that breastfeeding has over artificial formulas. E.g., the mother’s milk is easier to digest, it prevents constipation, protects the baby from many infectious diseases. The benefits also include:

1)      Promotion of healthy oral development.

2)      Bonding and skin to skin contact between mother and child. Etc.

For the mother, the benefits include:

The largest organ of the body is the skin. It is made-up of three layers, namely:
1) The epidermis
2) The dermis
3) The subcutaneous layer.

The skin acts as a shield between the body and millions of foreign substances which exist in the environment where we live. It also functions as a means of excreting toxin and other substances from the body, just like the kidneys and the bowels do. Because of this, the skin undergoes several changes in the development of bumps and blisters as well as changing in color, cracking, dryness, flaking, itching, redness, scaling, thickening and many other problems. A lot of things are responsible for these skin reactions, and some of them are: allergies to molds, food, chemicals, cosmetics, insect bite, reactions to plants such as poison ivy, diaper rash, reactions to the sun and wind, reactions to drugs or alcohol, reactions to detergents, etc.