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SageX1444:
we have it planted in our "frontage" as design flower but we don't harvest them.

Oh how I envy you.. Most times I buy lots and lots of them(alwayss panic-buying) just so I don't run out of them lol.. Apart from cooking with them, I chew them(I can imagine you scrunching up your face lol that smell it gives off haha ikr) esp when my throat gets itchy, sore, coarse voice & I'm literally gonna lose my voice in like few hours, the horror! Sorethroat arghhh I hate it sooo much but with my garlic very handy, the battle is won lmao

SageX1444:
I haven't tasted garlic for over 10 years now. Weird isn't it. But where I'm from, we have this pre-registered notion that Garlic is meant for the Indians.

10yrs, whoops that's a decade.. Hmm I think it was around same time I got to know a lil bit more about garlic, now I'm stuck lol.. Yeah, Indians love garlic alot.

SageX1444:
lol. Okay. But that's me preparing laxative ooo.

Hahahaha no not at all okay here's the trick, cook them til the tangy taste is off.. Ehen soo you picked just tomatoes out of all the others, if I say garlic now, I know sey you go run four-forty LMAO

SageX1444:
Tomatoes is my favourite vegetable for cooking. I hope you are not advocating that it should be consumed raw?

Lmaoo well, it's best eaten raw but then it's still okay if you prefer it cooked.. Just don't let them get overcooked is all

Vanderandrew:
Money, not only bosses. If the salary you are going to get on another job is higher, people would quit.

Another is flexibility, maybe the job allows more time for family, leasure, personal development also

Spot on.

Karleb:
Most natural foods, especially plant based, contain antioxidants.

Try going for unprocessed food and drinks. You definitely can't do completely without them but you can greatly reduce your dependence them.

Limit/reduce your use of seasoning, even salt. A doctor once said, if you can taste salt in your food then it's too much.

A good alternative to Maggi is locust beans. You can dry it and grind it to powder form. Some people claim it tastes better than Maggi.


Away from antioxidants and free radicals.

Fish is nutritional than meat. White meat (Snail, Chicken, Turkey...) is more nutritional than red meat (cow meat, goat meat...)

Yes, reduce salt intake.. Some people even sprinkle some while eating, if you do this please stop it..

Locust beans is also a very good source of vitamin A, very delicious too.. Crayfish is really underrated, y'all unwrapping 3, 4, 5 cubes of Maggi or any bouillon seasonings, try ground crayfish I promise you'll love it..

Yes yes, red meat is bad for the heart.. We should also pay attention to the cooking oil we use, trans fat is bad for our heart as well.

SageX1444:
Like?, I'll like to know the name of these kind of food.

Okay, there are a whole lot of them basically comprising of fruits and vegetables.. Top on my list is tomatoes, bad e bad even if na 4 for 200naira.. Following up close is fresh organic peppers.. Next is garlic, I do not joke with this at all.. Then, spinach for my sauces/soups.. Carrots & grapes for snack lol.. I love my onions as well, na why e pain me dah time wey e dey scarce.. Apples, once in a while.. I love avocados so much, doubles as my spread for bread sooo yeah there are a lot more of them, you could look them up on Google.. Hope this helps.

3, from my lips to God's ears

If you say you're not the sweaty type and then your AC is always on whenever you're home or at work.. I'm thinking this skin condition(which looks so much like eczema ofcourse) has something to do with your minimal sweating.. And then you said your dad had these as well but it all cleared after treatment about half a decade ago, did you try to find out what the diagnosis was & what he did to make it clear? No? Why, you should have..

You should go see a doctor as soon as you can, a dermatologist preferably.. Assumptions won't help much, actually I think you should've sought medical advice before now, maybe ran a few tests even before resorting to selfmedication.. MMBM yhh sure but take charge of your health while at it.. And about the rheumatism(not romatism), see a doctor for that as well.

Aww you both look so cute together.. Congratulations to you both and happy married life in advance.

michael77777:
na fried chicken laps be this?

No be only chicken

ikorodureporta:
Chai.. na fish be that'?? See as e cover barrow. Na N50k sef..

Lalasticlala you no come see.

LienwaltAbel:
Nigeria matter Na die. See as prices dey climb NEPA ladder.

No be lie.. Asin eh e jus dey climb dey go, on a daily basis.. How pesin go tek survive, na wa oo.

LienwaltAbel:
Ahhhh your papa was a real stubborn man, mine was quite stubborn too. He bought all these useless Chinese drugs from the likes of Siemens and GNLD, if aboki pass with herbal drug and speaker just like that you'll see him negotiating price of the poison, as much as we hated it there was nothing we could do, if we hid it, it would become a messy ordeal, after his death my mom burnt them all at our backyard, I can imagine how angry she was. Life too hard self to live on a good diet.

Chaiii, stubborn men they were, we can't love them less may their souls continue to rest in the bosom of the Lord, Amen.. Sapa don reach everywhere o.. Na baba God hand we dey laidis.

Please let's be calming down ooo.. Unnecessary name-calling won't get us anywhere.. Please, be civil.

LienwaltAbel:
The third paragraph was what killed my dad . Most especially paracetamol which a lot of people don't know destroys the liver, try and avoid malaria as much as you can and if you get it, don't allow it to turn to yellow fever before you do something about it, I advise doing tests too. If you become wealthy tomorrow rather than waste your earnings on frivolities, go for regular medical tests most especially for cancer, that thing is one of the worst illnesses on earth, you won't know when it starts.

Ohh dear I'm so sorry about your dad.. My dad is late too and yhh the same third paragraph.. He constantly went for checkups at the hospital not regularly though but I never quite understood why he would buy bottles after bottles of herbal mixtures he knew nothing about other than "Mr. A assured me that this will work, Mrs. B said she has used it before, C bought 5bottles for her great great grand father's step-ancestor lol".. We disposed of the bottles but always came back to find more of them, he secretly took shots early in morning & then late at night.. Wahala wey dis thing cause ehn, my papa get stronggg coconut head o, you won't believe that he even went as far as finding a new place to hide 'em bottles just so we won't put them in the bin.. We thought he had stopped sef, it was until his death that we found the new place & some bottles..

Not just paracetamol sef but people keep abusing these drugs, smh their vital organs are in great danger.. Yes yes yes if you feel sick, please do not wait til it's too late, find your way to the nearest hospital, the earlier the better.. Ofcourse it's good to run general body tests once in a while, quite expensive though.. Cancer eh, hardly any symptoms, just very deadly, now as life hard reach I try at the very least to get me going with some foods containing antioxidants.

As the person above me suggested, have your blood pressure checked as soon as you can, preferably at a medical facility.

LienwaltAbel:
It mostly has to do with what we eat, I was thinking exactly about this same thing this morning and thus concluded that the technology we praise would be the same weapon used to reduce life expectancy worldwide and reduce the population.

I can't even really blame drugs because most of the rock stars who od'ed on drugs lots of times are still alive, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ozzy Osbourne for example.

We should really be careful most especially of what we eat, I have made a pact with myself to — when I happen upon a great fortune — stop using all these Maggi and useless spices flying around, the spice that gives me the chills is that Benny chicken spice. I have also resolved to cut down greatly on junk food and all that nonsense.

Some good points here.. In this context, I think we need to be more careful about what goes into our body & out too, we should really..

Everybody wants to at the very least live life normally, yunno enjoy life without underlying illnesses yhh but most times it's how we go about it that matters.. Countless times, I hear people saying "laslas something must kill a man" to justify their actions.. Not going to dispute anything, all I'm trying to say is this:

If you do not feel well please seek medical attention as soon as you can, I cannot overemphasize this, please try not to make assumptions & resort to selfmedication.. Quite a good number of y'all indulge in buying herbal mixtures, some don't even bother to do their due diligence before drowning themselves in it because it's just natural herbs afterall.. "Dem cook am put na orr pesin tell us for bus sey e dey work well well orrr e get pesin wey dem say if I jus buy one bottle for im hand, e go cure all the yamayama sickness".. Please and please if you do not know how they came about the end product, look the other way cos everybody must sha sell market.. Even better you can make yours from the scratch if you want, do your research about home remedies, various herbs and how to use them..

With our crippling economy here and practically everything going wrong, honestly I know it has not been easy at all & we're barely trying to survive.. It is true that death is inevitable but let us not just take the backseat when it's something that has to do with improving the quality of our individual lives.. Let's try to do away with those things or habits that greatly endangers our health as well as reduces our lifespan, seek help however you can.. Shalom!

OMG! I thought he was recuperating He was a vibe, great energyy.. May your soul find eternal rest, Sound Sultan.. Sincere condolences to your loved ones, may God comfort them in this time of grief.

Lmaoooo y'all are sending me So dating is a no no and marriage is okayy.. Hmm I see

ignis:
Take that #100,000 to Domino Pizza and give yourself a good treat, then go to boutique with the balance and pick some clothes and be happy.

Lmaoooo and then you'll help pay his bills as well as cater for his family right

Amazing feat.. Chi, congratulations to you & your dad.

Wahala be laik wetin again.. He whom the gods wishes to destroy, they first make mad.. You called your friends to go beat up someone, una beat am finish e no do you, baba leave im bike run, you still follow am bumper-to-bumper.. He picked up a knife to scare you off, you didn't give up, you saw death but you wanted to sha make a big statement and well you have now.. If you could go to that extent just to teach someone a lesson then that means something must give at the end, unfortunately it had to be you.. Your friends seeking for revenge now should've stopped you at some point and just maybe this wouldn't have happened in the first place..

R.I.P Mr. Osinowo.. My people, please learn to live and let live.

Dating a coworker hmmm.. Well If she says she's fixed, I think you should leave her be.. Going by her choice of words, I do not advise you to press further.. It could get really awkward between you two now but it'll be alright.

Nah, Greg will definitely creep me out.. It should've been someone she knew; an acquaintance or something, a coworker.

Farewell, Prophet T.B Joshua.

Can't remember how old I was then but I was rushing out and then the sharp edge of our broken door handle tore right into my flesh.. I was in sifia pains, I couldn't go out again cos my forearm was hurting so bad.. Many years later, the scar is still there.

You fear he might leave you if you don't earn up to his financial expectations? Lol really.. Talking stage, hmm I'm guessing you both are still trying to get to know each other.. I don't get why you're this scared, your emotions are all over the place already dear.. It's really very simple cos at the end of the day he'll stay if he wants to and will leave if it pleases him, even if it takes weeks, monthss orr yearsss.

Legendguy:
Shoes that have trekked d whole Lagos

Haha lol yes, they are all mad(making a difference)

For me, cornrows anytime any day.. Important occasions, my wig comes out to play yayy otherwise I go out with my cornrows orrr other simple protective hairstyles which costs me say 5h - 1k.

Asiseeit:
Well, it's not necessarily about the hair. It's about the cost of them rendering the service to you. They'll buy fuel, pay rent(which is now high) pay PHCN (increased rate) and still make enough to care for themselves and family. When cost of living increases, it touches everything

Well said.

Afriqan:
The pursuit of perfection leads to unparalleled improvement, so it won't lead to stagnation if approached with the right mindset.

Albeit, trying to achieve a 100% performance in all cases is foolish. The society itself is preprogrammed with flaws.

Yes, I love your analogy.. With emphasis on the "right mindset" & then your last paragraph..

I actually do not think that perfection impedes improvement at all, it shouldn't but then some people go about it the wrong way.. Sometimes things don't go as planned and yes no one wants that to "ever" happen but it does anyway.. Some people stay mad, angry and frustrated at themselves(maybe cos they feel horrified about the outcome) until they don't even know when they start to transfer aggressions on other people; ruining good partnerships, awesome friendships & cordial relationships, slowly they turn out to be really toxic and lose great support system & connections..

I feel we should rather learn from our mistakes, go back to the drawing board & restrategize instead of wasting so much time dwelling on our shortcomings.. Perfectionist or not, nobody is above setbacks, anything can happen anytime; things could get out of control, some we absolutely have no control over and that's okay.. Also let's be humble, nobody knows it all, we're all just trying to figure life out & things yh.