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Subscribe to blog   Subscribe via RSS Featured A few months ago, I met a group of people, six women and five men. They all have the same complaints. They have been dieting for two to five years, exercise vigorously every day, and eat twice a day, at times once a day. Despite all these, their health has not improved, they have not lost weight, in fact, almost all of them said they have put weight. It is frustrating that after so many efforts, they have not achieved their aim of losing weight. I believe there are many people like these men and women who are frustrated because they have done all they could to lose weight, but nothing seems to work. There are all sorts of dieting regimens these days, and it is difficult to know which among them is helpful. People engage in dieting for various reasons. Some engage in dieting to regain health, or manage diabetes, cancer or to lose weight.  The list of diet regimens is very long: Atkins diet, which focuses on...

What is your favorite oil: coconut oil, groundnut oil, sunflower oil, flax-seed oil, olive oil? Regarding their health benefits, none of these oils can compare with Palm oil. Surprised? You are probably astonished because palm oil is everywhere and is cheaper than other oils. Remember that biblical saying: ‘A prophet is always respected except in his own country’. Palm oil is a native of West Africa. It is a prophet of good health, fertility, radiant skin, stamina and high energy levels. The only problem is that it is too common and even too cheap. As a result, we prefer the more expensive, processed, foreign and unhealthy oils. In recent years, oil palm growth has expanded to Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and Indonesia. These two countries currently produce more than 80% of the world's palm oil supply. Perhaps we will appreciate red oil palm better we they begin to import it at very high prices. Nigerians love foreign and expensive things!   In many African homes of old...

The organs of your body have their own respective unique reactions to extreme temperatures. For example, the skin may enjoy hot baths when the weather is very cold but cold baths when the weather is hot and humid. Similarly, your mouth could enjoy iced tea and beverages when the weather is hot and humid but very hot versions of these substances when the weather is very cold. These pleasant sensations that are confined to specific locations of your body, for instance, in your mouth, may not be shared by your stomach. For similar reasons of differences in sensations and subsequent adverse effects, coffee, tea, soft drinks, alcohol, taste enhancers in the foods you eat and various other substances that you truly enjoy do not give similar pleasure to your stomach. It senses them as highly disturbing shocks and poisons that must be sent out of the body as speedily as possible. chidebe26@gmail.com, chidec2001@yahoo.com  +234-8125074686 (Calls) +234-8037108507 (Chat)

Your body will reject whatever it considers as being alien to your health. It does this by the following means: 1. Isolation in water - For those elements that dissolve in water, your body can "jail" any such enemies or "invaders" by surrounding them with enough water. Indeed, the starting point can sometimes be the mouth. Simply watch a person eating highly spiced food. The resulting irritation in his mouth forces him to keep taking more and more sips of water. This is the first alarm or report that an enemy has entered the gates of the digestive system. One variety of reactions to irritants entering the body is for it to retain more water. The face and other parts may then become puffy. This reaction by the body reduces some potential harmful effects, at least for a while. However, if the body remains puffy for too long, this increases the risk of heart conditions and other problems that may lead to early death. 2. Harsh flush via the digestive trac t - When...

The brain is the managing director of everything that happens in you. In relation to water levels, it decides what amount of it should go to each organ or part of the body and the amount that should be used to flush waste material out of you. Of course, you can never be aware of these and several other thousands of complex decisions that your brain is taking all the time. You only eventually feel the effects of typically those that are uncomfortable, such as weakness, dizziness or some other discomforts. Nonetheless, as stated earlier in this blog, when you feel thirsty, this is a mild crisis within your body. You have become so dry or dehydrated that whether you like it or not, your body forces you to take in some water. Water levels within us are so critical that, during several million years of human life on earth, our bodies developed some reactions that save water. For instance, an organ such as the colon (i.e., the large intestine) normally returns to the body water  that i...

As suggested throughout most of this blog, preventive measures form the most effective strategies for getting rid of about 70% of our ever-increasing list of diseases. It is ironic that, despite our current high levels of scientific advancement, maladies are getting worse in variety and volume and need increasingly more potent medical procedures. Under these circumstances, prevention will always be better than cure, especially as most allopathic medicine (the types that most people get in our hospitals) are "cures" that basically hide or suppress symptoms. Indeed, some of the "cures" occasionally create "solutions" that are worse than the target diseases. This blog is all about preventive measures that you can apply to yourself, to your loved ones and, for those who are in the medical and paramedical professions, to your patients. For some strange reason, our faith in cures tends to be stronger when the remedy looks mysterious or comes from the most dist...

Charcoal is what remains, after cooking with firewood. Not all the charcoal that is sold in many local African markets is 100% pure. The uncharred wood element in any charcoal is what usually sends out some smoke during the first few minutes after it has been set alight. Therefore, this type of charcoal must first be fired or used in cooking, so as to make it pure. Put off the fire and wash off the ash. Dry it thoroughly. Then, coarsely grind the charcoal to roughly about 1 cm. Apart from taking too much space, large lumps or pieces of charcoal cannot be compact enough. MEDICINAL USES OF CHARCOAL 1 .  First-aid - Every family should have ample amounts of finely ground charcoal as a permanent item in its first-aid kit for situations of : poisoning (including food poisoning and overdose in taking medicines), diarrhea (e,g., caused by amoebae, cholera or contaminated food), indigestion, flatulence or excess gas in the intestines, nausea, vomiting, venomous bites and stings (by sna...

There is a popular belief with no scientific proof that it is healthy for the water we drink or use for cooking to have some minerals in it. Meanwhile, loose statements of this nature usually never give us answers to questions similar to the following: 1. Of the several dozens of minerals that science has identified, what set or subset of them should we have in the water that we use for drinking and cooking? 2. What is the total amount of each of the selected minerals that we should take daily, assuming that we are ever told or even know the total that is coming into us from each of the following sources? a. Water piped into our homes b. Water that comes naturally in the meat, vegetables, fruits and other foods that we buy from the market. c. Water in products of the packaged water, alcoholic and nonalcoholic industries. We normally take it for granted that the firms in these industries would do the right thing. However, an occasional scandal about some fatal chemical in the mark...

Each chemical or allopathic medication is for a set of average conditions of ill health. But, as we have already noted in this blog, each of us is so unique that there are no two individuals who can ever be the same. Therefore, a prescription for all the patients who have one set of average symptoms can have different results. Indeed, some patients may get worse by taking a prescribed medication. This can happen from allergic or other adverse reactions of their bodies. As we have also noted, the pharmaceutical industry keeps churning out ever more powerful medications. This means that a person can expect direct toxic effects from either these substances or less directly from their side effects. Nonetheless, whether administered through the mouth, by injection directly into any part of the body or through some other channels, no allopathic medication should be taken while the stomach is empty. An empty stomach can typically react violently to the presence of these  substances in t...

When your body loses more water than it needs to keep, it develops a mild crisis that we call thirst. The several causes of this emergency include the following: 1. Not having ample daily intakes of water. 2. The adverse effects of dehydrating items - Regardless of whatever your palate or taste buds may consider fit for you to take, your body is the final judge of what it desires. The body normally considers various pharmaceutical products, highly spiced foods, slow poisons such as tea (Thea senensis), coffee, sugar, synthetic sugars, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (i.e., sodas or soft drinks), dishes biased towards meat products and several other modern foods as irritants or toxic. That is the reason why the amount of urine that results from taking any of these items would usually be higher than the volume consumed of them. Similar reactions happen when you develop diarrhea of any type resulting from whatever irritating material you may have sent into your stomach. Under a...