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HOW TO RECOGNIZE HEALTHY FOOD WHEN GROCERY SHOPING

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We are often confused about what to buy due to the countless products on grocery store shelves that claim endless health benefits. Keep four tips in mind to avoid being fooled by false hyper advertising when food shopping: 1. The fewer ingredients, the better (as long as they’re real) A good rule of thumb is to look for foods with no more than five ingredients. A long list of ingredients should tip you off that a food is highly processed. Processed foods may also list sugar and starch by different names — there are more than 60 different names for sugar alone! For instance, one serving of a popular brand of colored corn puffs cereal has 7 teaspoons of sugar listed four different ways. (Not to mention red and blue dye, and other chemicals.) Also, when you don’t recognize the name of an ingredient, or when it’s in Latin, chances are it’s not real food. You wouldn’t find maltodextrin, polysorbate 80, or butylated hydroxyoluene in your cupboard. You wouldn’t cook with them
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How to Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes

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Research increasingly shows that meat can dramatically raise your chances of diabetes.Eating too much sugar and fat increases your risk of getting type 2 diabetes as we already know. Your body needs protein. But if you have diabetes or a risk of diabetes it’s wise to cut back on your meat intake to improve your health. Research on meat and diabetes. A recent study from the Journal of the American Medical Association examined the deaths of nearly 700,000 people in 2012 from heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. They found that nearly 50 percent of the deaths were related to poor nutritional choices. For people who already had diabetes, their risk of death increased if they consumed more processed meats. Another study released this year from researchers in Finland analyzed the diets of more than 2,300 middle-aged men, ages 42 to 60. At the outset, none of the participants had type 2 diabetes. In the follow-up, after 19 years 432 participants did. Researchers found th
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GSK's new drug to treat malaria has been given the green light by authorities in the United States.-BBC

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This type of malaria is a particular challenge to get rid of as it can remain dormant in the liver for years before reawakening many times. Scientists have described tafenoquine as a "phenomenal achievement." Regulators around the world will now look at the drug to see if they can recommend it for their populations. ADVERTISEMENT Relapsing illness Recurring malaria is the most common type of malaria outside Sub-Saharan Africa. Children can be particularly at risk, getting several bouts of malaria from a single bite, missing lots of school and getting weaker each time they get the disease. And infected people can act as unwitting reservoirs of the disease because when the parasite reawakens in their bodies a mosquito can carry that parasite on to someone else. This can make it hard to eliminate around the world. Now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has given the seal of approval to tafenoquine, a drug that can flush the parasite
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Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria 91st annual Conference (IBADAN 2018)

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PSN Conference is around the corner and it is an election year. Endeavor to register and in time using the link below👇 http://www.psn2018conference.com Click on *delegate's form*, when the link opens input your data. Note: *Get your passport and capitation receipt scanned and ready before you proceed.*
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Breast milk as a cancer-killer

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Professor Catharina Svanborg has been paving the road to capitalizing on breast milk’s cancer-fighting abilities out of her lab at Lund University in Sweden. Specifically, the professor has been working on a way to bind a breast milk protein known as alpha-lactalbumin to oleic acid, a fatty acid found in olive oil, nuts and seeds. The cancer-killing combination she’s dubbed HAMLET (an acronym for human alpha-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells) has shown great success in laboratory applications, shrinking brain, bladder and colon tumors with ease. Tests involving animal and human cancer cell lines have shown that HAMLET is effective against at least 40 types of cancer. “Looking down the microscope at the dying tumor cells, we were quite excited, especially when the experiment was repeated and showed the same effect twice. We had used non-cancerous cells for a long time in similar experiments and they had not died,” Svanborg told The Telegraph, speaking about the amazing way b
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NUC (Nigeria) Develops Academic Postgraduate Programmes in Medicine

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According to the NUC website: In its bid to meet the academic postgraduate requirements of Nigerian University System, the National Universities Commission (NUC), has developed academic postgraduate programmes in medicine. The programme is designed to award Masters, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctor of Medicine (MD). The Executive Secretary, NUC, Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, mni, MFR, FNAL highlighted the general need to overhaul the medical curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He said this at a meeting with some Deans of Post Graduate schools and Provosts of Colleges of Medicine of Nigerian Universities last Wednesday in the Commission. In his address, the Executive Secretary stressed the need to enhance and refresh the medical profession, hence the decision by the Commission to assemble experts in the medical profession to develop the curriculum which include graduates of Medicine and Dentistry who were lecturers currently on their fell
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Do you know about Osteoporosis and it's Risk Factors?

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Osteoporosis is a disorder of the skeleton in which bone strength is abnormally weak and brittle. This leads to an increase in the risk of breaking bones (bone fracture). According to College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, there are more than 1.5 million cases per year (Nigeria). Treatment can help, but this condition can't be cured. It requires a medical diagnosis, with Lab tests or imaging always This condition can last for years or be lifelong/chronic Factors that will increase the risk of developing osteoporosis are: Female gender, Caucasian or Asian race, thin and small body frames, and a family history of osteoporosis. (Having a mother with an osteoporotic hip fracture doubles your risk of hip fracture.) Cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol and caffeine consumption, lack of exercise, and a diet low in calcium. Poor nutrition and poor general health. Malabsorption (nutrients are not properly absorbed from the gastrointestinal system) from conditions such
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