The Status of Women in Nigeria/Africa

The status of women in Nigeria should be urgently and critically looked into. This should form a key focus of the national conference and I hope there are those appointed to represent the interests of the Nigerian woman in the conference. (Mama Peace, shey u no forget your constituency ni!)

This also goes for other African countries. Its really high time we started treating our women with utmost respect and fear of the law. There should be laws made specifically to protect the women - our wives, girlfriends, and sisters. Imagine Oscar Pistols (Pistorious I mean or even notorious)???? A beautiful model with a whole beautiful life ahead of her, had her life cut short and her crime??? She was bold enough to love Oscar even in his legless body. She gave her full body to a legless body...that's bravery!!! What did she get in return??? How do you begin to compare the manner in which a cool, calm, and collected beautiful lady enters a room to the cruel and mannerless manner in which a robber bolts into a room.... Think about both scenarios, do they compare??? Well, I have sisters and I know how they do enter the house. Anyways that's a gist for another day.

The degree of abuse some women go through in marriage in the hands of some imbecilic fools, boys who call themselves men is very seriously unbearable. We can't keep quiet no more about it.

A senior cousin of mine, handsome, educated, gainfully employed and very well-to-do once told me when I queried why he was still single that "
marriage is a minimum of 45 to 50 years contract and you don't sign such contracts in a hurry" If you must sign it, you must do it with a woman you are absolutely willing to die for.

So after seeing this nollywood movie today (can't believe I just did shed tears on a mere movie, nollywood flick for that matter..things happen sha!) I now totally understand my cousin.

I am not married yet but when I finally do, I will stand by her in EVERY situation. I will never expose her to any family or external pressure whatsoever..(Real brothers don't do that! And I'm a real bro!)

And to the sisters looking for love and ultimately marriage, go for a MAN, a real bro and not some boy with a man's stature. They are two different things. A real man will never lay a finger on you or expose you to family or external pressure but boys will. Also make sure the brother is a CHILD of God. And hey, I don't mean born again religious fanatics.No. But a simple bro with the fear of God. And! knowledge of the word of God because this knowledge helps. Yes it does. It comes handy when a brother needs to make some serious decisions.
Go for a man that loves you more than you love him and he must have the capacity or potential to provide for you. Now this is a biblical command guys. A man must provide for his family. Go for the valorous and not some pusi-llantinous vacous anachronistic dour! Gbam!!!

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Malaysia Airlines Missing Flight 370: A Shocking Bermuda Triangle Connection Revealed..

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is the kind of mystery that’s not supposed to be possible anymore. The Information Age is also the age of surveillance, of interconnectedness, of cloud computing, of GPS satellites, of intelligence agencies that can monitor terrorists from space or call in a drone strike from a control console on the other side of the world.

But the satellite coverage of the planet isn’t as complete as some people might assume.
“Despite the impression that people get when they use Bing and Google Earth and Google Maps, those high-resolution images are still few and far between.

As officials from several countries, and dozens of planes and boats, scour the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal for the mysteriously missing China-bound Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people aboard, some people are wondering if there might be some connection to the Bermuda Triangle.
It was inevitable that the disappearance would evoke comparisons to the infamous supposed patch of water into which ships and planes are said to vanish without a trace. Several days ago, a Malaysian politician tweeted, “New Bermuda Triangle detected in Vietnam waters, well-equipped sophisticated devices are of no use!” This outraged many people, who deemed his comments insensitive, and he later apologized.
The phrase “Bermuda Triangle” was coined in 1964, but it only became known worldwide a decade later, when Charles Berlitz, whose family created the popular series of language-instruction courses, wrote a book about it. Berlitz believed the legendary lost island subcontinent continent of Atlantis was real and somehow responsible for mysterious disappearances off the coast of Florida.

Over the years, many theories have been offered to explain the mystery. Some writers have expanded upon Berlitz’s ideas about Atlantis, suggesting the mythical city may lie at the bottom of the sea and be using its reputed “crystal energies” to sink ships and planes. Other more fanciful suggestions include time portals and extraterrestrials — including rumors of underwater alien bases. Still others believe the explanation lies in some sort of extremely rare and natural geological or hydrological phenomena.
Others suggest that the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared over a patch of ocean that is on the exact opposite part of the globe from the Bermuda Triangle –  isn’t that a bizarre coincidence?

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Tips on How to Identify and Eat What Your Body Needs and Not What Your Mind Wants

What you eat determines who you are, how you feel, and of course, how you look. Here’s how to avoid eating out of habit, emotional distress or plain boredom and ensure that food satiates you on all levels.

Eat when hungry, not because you should be hungry:
Your diet chart doesn’t have to resemble a military time table, where you must at all costs have lunch at noon and a tea/coffee break plus snack later in the afternoon. Sometimes, you may just not feel like it. Listen to your body, not your mind.

Keep the emotions out:
You don’t want your meals to be influenced by your mood swings. Food is not the solution to boredom, tiredness, irritation, depression or anger. Calm down before you attack that meal, else you’ll stuff your face with unnecessary calories and won’t even feel better post the binge.

Don’t eat with hogs:
You’re influenced, subconsciously or otherwise, by the people you eat with. Families and couples often end up with similar eating patterns. For instance, If one person habitually eats dessert post every meal, the others will automatically follow suit. It isn’t a sin to indulge from time to time, but it isn’t the best idea to be so easily swayed.

Trick your sweet tooth:
There are other ways to indulge your sweet apart from sugary, buttery, gooey and sinfully sticky store-bought deserts. The first golden rule: make your own desserts. That way, you’ll physically see the amount of sugar/fat that goes in, and decide accordingly if you want to replace some ingredients with healthier ones or skip dessert altogether and enjoy the natural sweetness of fruit/dried fruit instead.
Change your cutlery:
The bigger your plates, bowls, mugs and spoons, the bigger your servings will be. However, this doesn’t call for a dramatic switch to hobbit cutlery. Keep the change reasonable, and you’ll find yourself feeling full way before you did with those larger-than-life plates. We’re more visual that we think we are.

Up the aesthetic value:
Talking about the visual element, there’s no denying the importance of the aesthetic factor. Food well-presented — with a balance of colours, textures and flavour — is the stuff gastronomic orgasms are made of. Are you going to treat yourself to one today?

Turn off the TV:
Please, please tell me you aren’t a couch potato. Eating with the idiot box on can either lead to mindless eating or conversely, loss of appetite. In both cases, you don’t pay attention to what’s on your plate. It’s obvious that you aren’t going to feel satiated at the end of the meal.

No shopping on an empty stomach:
Eating the wrong things has its roots in buying the wrong things. We know that food laden with preservatives, fats, salt and sugar aren’t good for us but we’re more likely to pick them up when we head to the supermarket on empty stomach. Shop after you’ve eaten instead

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The Vitamins That Cause Cancer [A Must Read]

When the SELECT trial started in 2001, there were high hopes it would prove that taking vitamin E or selenium could help prevent prostate cancer. The newest results from the trial show just the opposite—that taking selenium or vitamin E can actually increase the odds of developing prostate cancer.
Bottom line: men shouldn’t take selenium or vitamin E as a way to prevent prostate cancer, or anything else for that matter.
“I counsel all of my patients to absolutely avoid any dietary supplements that contain selenium or vitamin E—including multivitamins,” says prostate cancer expert Dr. Marc Garnick, a clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, an oncologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and editor in chief of Harvard’s Annual Report on Prostate Diseases.

The case against selenium and vitamin E

Studies done in the 1980s and 1990s suggested that vitamin E and selenium each somehow provided protection against prostate cancer. The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) was started in 2001 to see if that was true. The 36,000 healthy, middle-aged volunteers were divided into four groups. Each man took two pills a day: 400 international units (IU) of vitamin E plus 200 micrograms of selenium; vitamin E plus a placebo; selenium plus a placebo; or two placebos. Neither the men nor their doctors knew who was taking what.
Although SELECT was supposed to last until 2011, it was stopped three years early because neither vitamin E nor selenium were showing any benefit—and there were hazy warning signs they might be doing some harm.
A new report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute clarifies the picture. A team of researchers from across the U.S. looked specifically at almost 5,000 of the SELECT volunteers who sent in toenail clippings when they joined the trial. Toenail clippings are a great way to measure how much selenium is in a man’s (or woman’s) body. The new study showed that:

• Taking vitamin E alone boosted the risk of developing high-grade prostate cancer, but only in men who started the study with low selenium levels.
• Taking selenium, either alone or in combination with vitamin E, increased the risk of high-grade prostate cancer in men who started the study with high selenium levels, but not in those with low selenium levels.
• Among men who didn’t take either vitamin E or selenium, those who started the study with high selenium levels were no more likely to have developed prostate cancer than men who started it with low selenium levels. (This means the culprit is added selenium from supplements, not selenium from food.)

“The new data are very troubling, and emphasize that supplements can cause real and tangible harm,” says Dr. Garnick. “Any claims of benefits from dietary supplements must be ignored unless large, controlled, and well-conducted investigations confirm such benefits—which I believe will be a very rare occurrence.

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Treating severe snoring can help control blood pressure

I come from a family of champion snorers. Mother, father, brothers—we all broadcast nightly like buzz saws. But by 2006, my snorking and snarking took an unhealthy turn. Instead of merely driving everyone nearby to distraction, I began to stop breathing for short periods. Dozens of times per night, my upper airway fell slack like a worn-out garden hose, which pinched off the flow of air and jarred me awake. Blood oxygen plummeted and adrenaline surged into my bloodstream, making blood pressure swing up and down.

After a sleep study in which I slumbered overnight at a special clinic while wired up to various gadgets, my doctor offered an explanation for my increasing fatigue and mental fog: obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Not surprisingly, I read with great interest a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which reported that treating OSA can help people with very hard to control blood pressure. Many people with this so-called treatment resistant hypertension take several medications but their pressures remain stubbornly high. Many people with treatment-resistant hypertension also have OSA.

Healthier BP with CPAP

Could treating their OSA help? To find out, researchers in Spain provided the standard treatment for OSA to nearly 200 men and women for 12 weeks. The treatment was continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which uses a facemask and bedside air pump to inflate the upper airways enough to prevent the collapse of soft tissue in the upper throat that obstructs airflow.

After 12 weeks of CPAP, average 24-hour blood pressures in the study participants were a few ticks lower. They also had more healthy nighttime blood pressure patterns.

The improvements, though modest, are still important. Nighttime interruptions in breathing, or “apneas,” starve the brain of oxygen and stress out the cardiovascular system. Inadequately treated OSA comes with a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes. Another hazard is next-day drowsiness that predisposes people to accidents.

What it means for those with OSA

To get the bottom line on the study for OSA sufferers, I talked to Dr. Atul Malhotra, an expert on sleep apnea and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical. He’s also the chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

“The wrong message is to say CPAP is weak,” Dr. Malhotra says. “Blood pressure medications offer a bigger bang for the buck to reduce daytime blood pressure, but it’s important to say that when you treat sleep apnea there are a lot of other benefits that are not necessarily related to daytime blood pressure.”

I’ll say! I was absolutely miserable pre-CPAP. But now I sleep like a lamb (well, probably more like an helium-inflated Macy’s Day Parade lamb). Every night I strap on the headgear of what I affectionately call my “astronaut machine.” A small high-tech bedside air pump monitors my breathing and adjusts the flow of filtered, humidified air to my nose. A microchip in the machine tracks my breathing patterns and adjusts the flow throughout the night to compensate for shifts in body position.

Overcoming CPAP roadblocks

But not all of my brother and sister CPAPers are as lucky. Some can’t get used to the mask and tend to tear it off in their sleep or simply don’t wear it at all. But most people can adapt to CPAP.

“Strapping a mask to your head is not ideal, but in some people adherence is extremely good,” Dr. Malhotra says. “They wear it all night every night and couldn’t get to sleep without it. Then they get transformative benefits from it.”

How do you get to that point? A critical factor is mask comfort. “The key is just to find one you like,” Dr. Malhotra says. “It’s like going to Baskin Robbins. There are 31 flavors, and you just have to try different flavors before you find one you like.”

Fortunately, the Baskin Robbins of CPAP is well stocked these days with a variety of mask options. It includes nasal masks, full face masks, and twin tubes that deliver air to each nostril.

Mask fitting can be a trial-and-error process, and you may have to try different ones until you find the right match. “If you try pistachio at Basin Robbins the first time and don’t like it you may never come back,” Dr. Malhotra says, “but some people try pistachio the first time and like it.”

Me, I like vanilla—the smaller, lighter nose-only nasal mask. My brain learned quickly to keep my mouth closed and breath through the nose. Later I found better-designed headgear and an accordion-like mask that maintained its seal better despite my occasional tossing and turning.

Dr. Malhotra urges those going on CPAP not to quit if the first taste isn’t pleasing. “Even if the first experience with CPAP doesn’t go well,” Dr. Malhotra says, “it’s very important to keep trying.” Untreated or inadequately treated sleep apnea can have devastating effects on health and quality of life, but there is usually a solution. 

Source: Harvard Health Publications

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Can a baby that is a product of rape be aborted? Pastor Oyakhilome answers the question

 Whenever Pastor Chris says something new, its usually an opportunity for a new level of knowledge and insight..... whats your take on this one.. 

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Bizarre Egg With Longtail Made in China Enters Market - (A must Read!)

I am sure you have seen a lot of eggs in your life time but one with a tail is surely not something you come across on a daily basis.

This bizarre egg with a 3cm long tail was discovered at a house in Lingen, China.
The egg which is said to be a little larger than your everyday egg has a twisted tail which makes one a bot reluctant to eat.
It was found in the home of a villager, Mr Lu, who keeps several hens. Lu said he has never seen such a strange hen before refusing to divulge what hos plans are for the strange specimen.

Read the Daily Mail report below:

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Bizarre: This oddly-shaped egg (left) – featuring a 3cm-long tail – was discovered at a house in Lingen, northern China. Laid by a hen, it is slightly larger than the average egg (right) – and also has a small, twisted tail

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Strange: The unusual accessory might make the egg less appealing to eat, but also makes it easier to crack

Laid by a hen, it is slightly larger than the average egg – and also has a small, twisted tail.
But while its odd accessory might make it less appealing to eat, it also has one advantage – it makes the egg far easier to crack.
The misshapen food was found by a villager known as Mr Lu at his home in Liyuan village in Shanxi province, which situated along the banks of the Fen River.
Mr Lu, who keeps several hens at his house, said he had never seen such a strange egg before – but did not say whether he would be sampling the oddity.

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Discovery: The misshapen food was found by a villager known as Mr Lu at his home in Liyuan, Shanxi province

While is not uncommon for birds to produce oddly-shaped eggs, experts cannot agree what causes other animals, such as hens, to lay eggs with tails.
However, some suspect the fowl could produce such a bizarre creation as a result of stress.
It is not the first time a Chinese hen has popped out such an unusual egg.

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Contrast: Mr Lu said he had never seen such a strange egg before – but did not say whether he would eat it

In May 2012, a hen in Hukou seemingly forgot the rules of nature by laying an egg with a fatty inch-long tail.
The egg itself was a little smaller than normal, but its oddity meant it measured a lofty 8.5cm in length.
And, according to China News, a ‘spoon-shaped’ egg was laid by a hen in Huaibei City in China’s Anhui province in January 2005.

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Chris Brown has been diagnosed as bi-polar, suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and self-medicating inappropriately. This was revealed during his last court appearance...

He appeared in court yesterday for a probation hearing and a letter from his rehab facility gave the singer high marks for improvement but suggested he remain in treatment.

The letter, obtained by E! News, reads in part,
"Mr. Brown will also require close supervision by his treating physician in order to ensure his bipolar mental health condition remains stable. It is not uncommon for patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar II to use substances to self-medicate their biomedical mood swings and trauma triggers.""Mr. Brown became aggressive and acted out physically due to his untreated mental health disorder, severe sleep deprivation, inappropriate self-medicating and untreated PTSD." Chris was ordered to remain in treatment for two more months. His next hearing is set for April 23

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