Nutrition
16 Sep 2017
The food expert also intimated the newsmen that the fortification programme includes cassava and maize at the primary stage, while sweet potatoes is being planned to come on-stream later in the project that...
1 Jul 2017
Food has become an important aspect of human social behavior too. There are typical preferences in food with respect to tradition, religion, culture, nationality and even locality; hence the adage: ‘One man’s food can be another man’s poison.’
24 Feb 2017
A gynaecologist, Dr Adebayo Sekumade, on Friday urged the Federal and State Governments to create awareness on appropriate nutrition for women to reduce the high rate of anaemia in pregnancy.
5 Feb 2017
Nutrition is about various food substances and their supplements and it is about giving the body the quality of the energy it needs to function effectively. The success in achieving this is what is known as good health.
19 Jan 2017
To begin this discussion on nutrition and heart disease, a brief the record of the physiology of the heart will throw more light into this subject. The heart starts beating at about the eighth week of pregnancy and continues....
12 Jan 2017
Making food your medicine and your medicine food is too cheap for the commercially minded pharmacists that everything must be done to sell their products.
11 Jan 2017
Reducing salt intake worldwide by only ten percent could save millions of lives, a study reported Wednesday.
16 Oct 2016
With the dimension the issue of health is taking today. Men everywhere are waking up to the truth of prevention is better than cure. We human beings are generally used ...
29 Sep 2016
If you did only one thing to help yourself stay healthy during pregnancy, good nutrition would be it! It is the single most important factor in having a healthy baby and a healthy mom.
19 Sep 2016
A healthy diet is linked to better reading skills in the first three school years, shows a recent study from Finland.
8 Jul 2016
More reasons are emerging why in recent times cancer, heart disease, kidney disease and respiratory diseases have become so common even as stakeholders propose a bachelor’s degree in herbal medicine in Nigerian universities.
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