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High in Sugar

One possible danger of drinking coconut water everyday is its high sugar content. According to the Vita Coco website, one of the well-known coconut waters on the market, an 8.5 oz serving contains 11 g of sugar, and there are two servings per container. Though this is natural sugar from the coconut, it still has an impact on blood sugar levels and insulin production. If you suffer from diabetes or low blood sugar levels, drinking coconut water everyday could have a negative impact on your health.

Diuretic Effect

Another possible danger of drinking coconut water everyday is the fact that it has a diuretic effect on the digestive system. Consistently drinking young coconut water may lead to constantly needing to visit the bathroom. While coconut water in smaller amounts is known to hydrate, since it is a diuretic, there is a small possibility that drinking it too much could cause dehydration.

May Lead to Weight Gain

Weight gain may be another side effect of drinking coconut water everyday. Coconut water basically contains water, simple carbohydrates and electrolytes. While this is certainly a step-up from other electrolyte drinks such as Gatorade, which has added coloring and other chemicals, many who consume these drinks don't necessarily need them because they are not athletes. Therefore, they aren't burning off the carbohydrates or calories that an athlete would. Drinking pure water would be a better choice.

Make Cause an Allergy

Similar to any food, over-consuming coconut water over the long term may lead to developing an allergy.You can develop an allergy to any food that you eat too often. This possibility increases if you currently have issues with digestion, as foods sitting too long in the body eventually trigger an immune response. In the future, the body sees this food as an "enemy" and reacts immediately to its ingestion. Rotating foods throughout the week is a way to keep this from happening.

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CFCfan: Yeah, Enugu can be the Wall Street and Silicon Valley of the SE.

Obiagelli: Blame shifting, if our refineries were working we wouldn't be subsidizing

Obiagelli: Stats like this make me weeps inside yet some of us are more interested in tribal fights. I guess our leaders are winning afterall

A bodybuilding fanatic from Merseyside who is banned from squeezing men’s muscles or asking them to do squats has targeted more young males, a jury was told.

Akinwale Arobieke, 52, who the court heard is known as “Purple Aki”, approached well-built men in Manchester city centre, Trafford and Bolton and touched their arms or shoulders, prosecutors allege.

Mr Arobieke denies any wrongdoing and says he is being “set up” by “vindictive” people who know about his history of offending.

He was jailed for five years in 2003 for 15 charges of harassment and on his release he was given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).

It bans him from certain specific activities, including feeling a person’s muscles or getting them to carry out “squats” in public.

He has since been jailed three times for flouting the SOPO, and is now facing a further string of breaches at Manchester Crown Court – offences he denies.

Opening the case for the crown, prosecutor Michael Brady told the court: “The complainants in this case are all young men whose physical appearance and build hold a fascination for this defendant.

The Osama bin Laden of Northern Nigeria, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, has apparently been deposed by members of his own terrorist group, Boko Haram, as prelude to peace negotiations with the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The ouster is believed to have happened as the group -- whose full name is Jama'atu Ahlul Sunnah Lih Da'awa Wal Jihad -- entered into a back-channel dialogue with the government in the search for an elusive peace to a conflict that has seen multiple suicide bombings, attacks on government buildings and churches, and has claimed thousands of lives since 2011.

Reports from the group that has been tasked to liaise with emissaries from the government indicate that the man who was leading the talks, Abu Zamira Mohammed, has been appointed the new leader by the organization's Shura Council. This has raised hopes for the moderation of a group that has close ties to al Qaeda and has fought alongside al Qaeda in the Maghreb.

calebo101: I'm confused as to how some people reason. Please someone educate me properly, are there no corpse cleaners in Nigeria? Are there no dish washers or street cleaners there? Do people not work in bars and supermarkets in Nigeria? How come some persons keep saying those in UK do menial jobs as if the menial jobs are not done in Naija as well. It beats me honestly. And last time I checked the quality of life in both countries nor be mate. Not even almost equal for us to compare. And for Afam please stop all these your childish rant, who nor go nor know. Stop hating please, it's not helping Nigeria. We would get there and that's our prayer.

brunnet: By DAUD OLATUNJI

ABEOKUTA —

The state government which
confirmed the outbreak,
however, claimed that only one
person died as a result of poor
hygiene on the part of the
residents.

But, Vanguard findings revealed
that, the incident was linked to
a septic tank which spilled its
content into major water sources
in the area, thereby
contaminating them.

Fear has however, gripped
residents of Abeokuta who are
reportedly apprehensive about
drinking water from water pipes
in their areas.

An unconfirmed report has it
that the number of deaths from
the outbreak may be more than
what was reported.
The state government in a press
statement issued yesterday,
admitted that only one person
had died.

The state Ministry of Health,
while tracing the source of the
disease to poor level of hygiene
added that it had moved to stem
the outbreak in two communities
in the state
The State Commissioner for
Health Dr. Olaokun Soyinka who
confirmed the incident also
named Abeokuta North and
Abeokuta South council areas as
being sources of the outbreak
”with poor sanitation,
particularly faecal waste
.

wirinet: What we need to do before we can contemplate devaluation is to reduce our dependence on imported consumer goods, especially food and clothes and encourage local production and consumption. Then we would not be so dependent on the dollar.