Ralphlauren:


I'm also perplexed too.

So many educated illiterates.

So I become an educated illiterate? Wow!!! How quick is it for people to degenerate into insults for no apparent reason?! It is quite sad really!

No body said wheat isn't very healthy. As a matter of fact, it is very very healthy but too much of everything is bad.

I am lactose intolerant, yes... Doesn't mean I don't eat (with great caution) diary products! As a matter of fact, a lot of black people are lactose intolerant. Also do you know that too much diary products builds mucos in our body which in turn feeds cancer cells? But let's not go into that. Like I said...too much of everything is bad, no body says you should stop eating it. Read the advice and eat it in moderation.

Also I believe the wheat we eat has some other grains mixed in it to give it that smooth consistency. The wheat I know like pure bran wheat and wheat in its untouched form is very coarse. So perhaps the additives also add to the health warning.

Read it and make what you will of it!

Ralphlauren:
I repeat. Very rubbish thread.

I hope you know some people react to gluten just the same way some people are lactose intolerant and some people react to nuts.

That's why in sane countries, you will find sections on the super market shelf for gluten free food and food packaging clearly labelled to indicate they contain nuts.

So just because you've reacted to gluten is no reason to condemn wheat. Stop your ill informed scare mongering. Wheat is very healthy and it is used in various food. Bread, pasta, cake, etc.

My Tonniey,

An advice is just that... An advice....Smoking kills is what you'll see on every cigarette packet but I know old people that smoke 30 a day that are still rocking life. Our bodies have different make ups indeed but it doesn't mean we can't issue a warning when we can. So please don't make it sound like I just woke up and decided to write a long ass article about wheat. Heck I love wheat.

There is research on that topic...and the article is correctly referenced. I'm just bringing it to the attention of the good folks on here. You can choose to take the advice and moderate your consumption or you can choose to consume wheat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Each to their own. But don't discourage others from taking the advice into consideration.

Tonniey:
@ OP. Thank you for your exposition. But I want to let you and other people know this....

1. Every food/drinks we consume is a potential poison.

2. Our body reacts differently to the various food we eat. This is because of the variations in the biochemical composition of each individuals. If Mr A eats beans and causes stomach disorder, Mr B will eat it and he will feel fine. It is called genetic polymorphism or hypersensitivity. This because Mr A might lack the enzyme that can act on beans and break it down to its components which will be useful to the body, while Mr B has the enzyme. The protein content of our wheat is far far more than yam or other starch we consume. So I will advice u to get info about the medical record of ur patients first before u start telling people to stop eating wheat. Thank you

Ralphlauren:
Rubbish.

Please elaborate!

MrKontrovErsy:
i no dey eat am self considering d colour
its not presentable to me.

so iv been avoiding somthing harmful without even knowing it

thnk GOD

I really did not mind the colour....but I guess that was your body s way of protecting you...lol

blessedtwins:
Op you are on point.A few years ago I ate wheat grudgingly in a hotel because that was the only swallow available by the next day I had swollen feet.Then I sat and read about it.For me I will never put it in my mouth again.

Oh my goodness...are you kidding me? Why didn't anybody tell me about this ages ago

HDee:
really

I'm shocked myself...that s my favourite swallow and I generally don't feel too bad after eating cos I feel it is a healthy alternative.

delishpot:
Op is corn flour safe?

I guess any swallow with high amounts of gluten is bad. Corn flour very likely to be included!

Cc Seun & Lalasticlacla ... FP as People need to be educated please

Please DON'T use WHEAT FLOUR to make swallow like Amala. Read this post before you decide. "Wheat is now the preferred swallow meal for many Nigerian families particularly in the urban centres. Sadly too, some rural dwellers have hooked onto the fad that wheat is a “healthy” food. Early this year, a middle-aged man from Ekiti State came to my office for solution to his health challenges – diabetes and high blood pressure. Upon enquiry on his diet, he said wheat was his major mealdaily. According to him, virtually all the civil servants working at the state and local governments in Ekiti State also eat wheat as their regular meal. In fact, he said those that are not eating wheat particularly in the state capital could not afford it, but not due to knowledge of its harm to health. What an irony? Otherwise, how do we explain the preference of wheat to pounded yam, which the Ekiti people have been eating for good health and vitality centuries back? The prevalent consumption of wheat across the country has clearly shown that in the absence of knowledge, people can accept poison as therapy. After all, wheat is the first choice food for diabetics on the strength of doctors’ advice. Nationwide, wheat has overshadowed yam flour and other starchy foods that are peculiar to our culinary culture in Nigeria. Unfortunately, this is one dietary change that may prove suicidal for many people given the inseparable linkage of diet to health or ill health. Though wheat, like other grains, is rich in fibre and some other nutrients, it is one food anybody that desires wellness and long life should be kept at arm’s length. Why? There are three inherent dangers in the chemistry of wheat that make it a classic destroyer of health. I call them the downsides of wheat. Wheat contains gluten – a protein that causes inflammation, a systemic process that has harmful effects across all the organ systems in the body including the brain, heart, joints, eyes and digestive tract. As a matter of fact, inflammation does not only precede all degenerative diseases like diabetes, cancer, stroke, glaucoma, arthritis and Parkinson’s disease, but also fuels their insidious progression. A review paper in the New England Journal of Medicine listed 55 diseases that can be caused by eating gluten-containing foods. The diseases include osteoporosis, anemia, cancer, canker sores, fatigue, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. The paper also linked gluten to many psychiatric and neurological diseases including depression, schizophrenia, dementia, nerve damage, epilepsy and autism. The paper concluded that there are 120 or more diseases associated with eating foods that contain gluten. Dr. Joseph A. Murray, MD states that he is surprised how often gluten affects the brain. -


Another study by Dr .J. Robert Cade, MD of the University of Florida showed that people with autism and schizophrenia have high level of peptides in their urine. These peptides, according to Dr. Cade, come from casein (protein in milk and other dairy products) and gliadin and gluten in wheat, barley, oats and rye.

Another study of 30,000 patients analyzed from 1969 – 2008 reported in the journal of the American Medical Association found that people diagnosed with gluten-sensitivity had a higher risk of
death from cancer and heart disease than the normal population. Worse still, the bulk of wheat being consumed in the country is the American hybrid strain, which has much higher gluten content than the European wheat.

The second inherent danger in the chemistry of wheat is its high Glycemic Index GI. Glycemic Index is a scale that ranks carbohydrate rich foods by how much they raise blood sugar level compared to low glycemic foods. Wheat has GI of 71 compared to yam and sweet potato with GI of 49 and 54 respectively.

Invariably, eating food with high GI like wheat regularly promotes weight gain and makes diabetes intractable.
According to Dr. Mark Hyman, MD “wheat is a major contributor to obesity, diabetes, cancer, dementia, depression and many modern ills.” If one may ask, what is the science behind the recommendation of wheat as a meal to fight high blood sugar?

Also, many people do not know that wheat, which is being promoted as a “healthy” food, is one of the most acid-forming foods. What are the health implications of eating acid forming foods?
Wheat and other acid-forming foods lower the body pH and deplete oxygen level in the cells and tissues, which is the primary cause of all diseases. In other words, if wheat causes low pH that triggers diseases, eating wheat and its products is akin to adding fuel to fire for people battling with one health challenge or the other.

What are the physiological effects of low pH on the body organs? Eyes are the first victims of degenerating effects of low pH and its consequences include cataract, glaucoma and other forms of
visual impairment. Also, low body pH makes the heart overwork by robbing the blood of proper oxygenation and causing irregular heart beat and systemic degeneration of the heart muscle and
blood vessels, which can ultimately lead to heart attack and stroke. The brain and nerves also malfunction when the body pH is low (acidic pH).

Furthermore, acidic pH undermines the vital functions of the pancreas –production of insulin for glucose metabolism and digestive enzymes for synthesis of protein. Yet, the dysfunction
of the pancreas triggers diabetes and cancer, with the former setting the stage for the latter. A joint report by the American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association noted that
people with type 2 diabetes have high risk of developing cancers of the liver, pancreas, colon and bladder. Acidic pH causes clogging of the colon with acid wastes resulting in chronic constipation,
which makes healing of any health challenge impossible.

TIPS
Healthy alternatives to wheat
• Yam & yam flour
• Unpolished rice
• Sweet potato.



http://www.orangenewsonline.com/2015/08/your-health-wheat-flour-is-dangerous.html?m=1#sthash.TgcQ3yja.dpuf

Number 10.

Don't dare ask the conductor for your change. Conductors seem nicer when they are begging you to enter their bus (especially if you have lots of choices...they aren't so nice if they are the only bus there going to your destination). After you enter the bus, give them N500, you immediately start hearing "No change oooo". . So they are trying to tell me that since morning of shouting "no changeoooo", they have not managed to gather some sort of change by 2pm in the afternoon

After the familiar "no change" chant, you will only get your change by constantly reminding the conductor of "conductor my change oooo" every 5mins. Reporting the conductor to the driver will not help your cause.

If no change is forth coming for over half the journey, you then know that your change will only come when you alight from the bus and the conductor dumps a note in the hands of another passenger and leave you two to go find your 'change fate'. At that moment, they are no longer bothered and can drag you along with their bus if you decide to hand on to him or the bus until you are reimbursed.

ECOTERRORS:
This is why the WEST will continue to deny them arms and call them diffrent names.

You don't need to take a selfie with a corpse since we can't verify the identity of the corpse.

The NA need to learn about warfare in the 21st century.

Very true. All US soldiers posing with dead insurgents were heavily criticised. They have to learn to treat everything with dignity and that include human corpses.

The world is truly unpleasable. When she was looking 'healthy' and plump, they were saying..."she looks fat, she needs to reduce!

Now she has reduced...they are saying she looks pale and lean and there are concerns for her. Wtf!!!

guy1234:
This is true. Am Usually careful when I pass through the area

Careful how kwa....do you RUN when you get to that area so that the wall won't make contact with you if it happens to fall?

Or do you just hold your hands above your head whilst walking along that stretch

Or do you simply walk on the road

Or do you just cross the express and walk on the other side.

Please we need to know the tactics you imploy in 'being careful' around that area so everyone can learn.

Hahahaha

I am quite surpised at your generalisations, assumptions and mostly off-point comments but its all good. I'll let them slide.

Each to their own and thanks for your candid advice.

Demmocrats:


The part you said the parents knows the guy so that have faith in him, girl are you seriously going into that to believe that bullshit seriously speaking have you not seen in a scenario were male cousin rapes female cousin oh and the two parents have trust/faith what ever you call it.
Gal how can I say it, girls and boys can never be friends unless the guy or the girl or both part have a strong relationship with God which is impossible this days.
Is she a baby relationship 101 you dont go to or hang out with a guy in his place if you are not ready for sex in her case was party which is even worse because they can drug her and gang rape her which the most lame girl in Nigeria knows.

The gbagada thing you said, i know lag wella and 8pm in lag is like morning and even the friend you called i can bet my life its a guy that came and picked you up.
So you think he works for ekene dili chukwu so any time you are stranged he comes snd pick you even local transport service like BRT get paided. My sister dont do anything without a reason or purpose we are not women that do things without a reason and in case his after your puna and when he gets it or gets tired of it he moves on for another lame chicks out there that wants free rides and free party.

So sorry for my last comments but thats the onlyway to make you girls wise up.
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ifeanyi83:
Such a fine young man...twice in the act...but why rape? Sex is one of the easiest thing to get these days, even more difficult than money itself, no offences to the opposite sex though.

None taken!

kushsy:
. My neighbour is carrier and a friend sister too both are so fragile that's the picture I have of them,the guy was arrested earlier in may it was not a hidden fact..i don't blame the girl but these are facts..what the guy did is unacceptable .sure......My opinion and I stick to it.

Ok ooo...

Remember just because they are FACTS made known to us now does not mean those people were aware of those facts before now.

No wahala though. Each to their own opinion! The world is big enough for everybody.

morningsta:
@ Op, I have a problem with the tittle of this your post on the front page. Why "UniLag graduate rapes Sickle cell Virgin? How is UniLag to be blamed for this?

Just to clarify...don't blame the OP....lol

The title you see when you enter the actual thread is the title the OP created it with.

The title on the Front Page is Often the title given to it by the MOD that pushed it to front page...remember they have to make it attractive and juicy for people to even click it. So don't blame the OP, blame the MOD . You can thank me later

Ah ah...you still think the blame is still on her? Wow!

Like I said in a previous post, we do not know all the variables in this case.

A few things though. Her parents know about this man so they would have had some sort of trust in him. Obviously not to the extent of 12am I guess. But have you considered whether the girl has ever been to Lekki, is she familiar with the place?

I tell you, I have only been in Lagos for one year and I believe I know most places now but there are still some places I wouldn't even know where to start hailing a cab from if I get stranded.

Like the other day...I was in gbagada and come 8pm I really needed to get home and I was asking around and was simply told that cabs don't pass there... And it was too late to start walking to a place where cabs pass. I didn't have any details of any cab people around that area.

I simply had to (through helplessness) wait for my friend who was finishing in an hour so that I could be driven home. I didn't stay the extra hour because I wanted to but because I had no choice. Literally no other choice.

So I really disagree with you for laying any blame on her at all. Even if she did all these things on purpose and even agreed to seeexx initially, the moment she said NO and STOP is the moment Mr IMO should have stopped.

No blame on her.

Demmocrats:


I will start from asking you your age which am impressed with you because you didn't use any hate word. Let me explain to you why I said the fault is on her.

If you are married today and have kids will you allow your kids to be coming back as late as 12am.

Statistics shows majority of rapes are done in parties when the victim will be drugged and the parents still allowed there daughter to do that.

A guy that truly love and wants to marry you won't expose you to such danger and allowing you to be outside by 12am he would have dropped the girl home immediately its 9 pm.what if they were attacked by robbers besides that's the time those men of the underworld and they gang rape her.she has the power to tell her bf that its late she wants to go home and if he said no she can get a cab that will take her home and when she gets home she can collect money from her parents to pay the cab guy.

The blame is still on her. Last week I was reading a thread were a 22 year old dumped a 29 year old guy because she found out the guy was drugging her drink and she ended the relationship.

True love is not sex and I will love if the guy get shot because if what he did because REAL MEN don't rape women but the blame is still on her.
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