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IZUKWU: subtle,i would rather be bold about what i want and be accepted than be subtle and be denied .

Denied of love, the man jumped into the lagoon

While this may be "no news" according to some posters, it may also mark the beginning of good things for the force.

Our people have a saying that the day a mad man realizes that he is mad, is the day his healing starts.

Once you know and admit your problem, you are on your way to finding a solution.

dayoakinbaba: You people should just stop playing this game and let me win now!

Now is the historical present

IZUKWU: where you know ,my baby.

Baby! baby! baby! I got so much love for you

luvmijeje: Inevitable is death.

Death is the inevitable end of all living things but is there life after death as opined by some?

IZUKWU: Canvas,on it stories can be told that a thousand words may not interpret.

Interpret and live your life the way you deem fit, but note that you will be remembered by what you have done

Does eating standing up give you indigestion?

It seems there’s less and less time to enjoy lunch nowadays. There’s no such thing as the phrase “lunch hour”, even in France, where the traditional three-course meal is being replaced with sandwiches and fast food. If you are in a rush and you grab something quick, there’s a tendency to think that you must at least sit down to eat it, even if that means sitting on the bus while you go to your next appointment. Otherwise surely you’ll get indigestion.

But is this true? When you look at the causes of indigestion or functional dyspepsia, as it’s called in the medical literature, eating standing up doesn’t feature on the list. When likely causes such as stomach ulcers and gastritis have been ruled out, the management of dyspepsia can include changes to lifestyle, but this means eating a healthy diet, giving up smoking and reducing alcohol and coffee consumption. It doesn’t mean sitting down when you eat.

In fact doctors even recommend the opposite, if the pain is caused by acid reflux, when acid from the stomach comes back up into the oesophagus. This is where gravity can help; remaining upright during and after eating can keep the acid down in the stomach where it belongs. For the same reason, patients with reflux are advised to tip the head of their bed up, so that they sleep on a slant.

But there could be another problem with standing up to eat. When we’re standing up we do things faster, hence the brief craze amongst “trendy” companies for installing bar-height tables for standing meetings after a study found that sitting meetings lasted 34% longer. So perhaps the risk of standing to eat is the temptation to gobble your food down - the speed of eating leading to indigestion, rather than the position.

There are very few studies comparing fast and slow eaters, partly because it wouldn’t be easy to randomise people into eating at a particular speed and then to enforce that at every meal. A study from 1994 did include questions about eating speed in a survey of dietary habits. They found the speed at which you believed you ate had no relationship with the frequency of indigestion. Research conducted in 2010 found the same, but these two studies rely on our ability both to judge our eating speed accurately, and to report it honestly.

This problem was overcome in a South Korean study, which timed how long a group of cadets training at the Armed Forces Nursing Academy actually took to finish their meals. With their regimented life where they all woke, ate and exercised at the same time, they were the ideal group of people to study. The one difference in their daily routines was the speed at which they chose to eat. But yet again, if you examine the study in detail, speed of eating seemed to have little effect on indigestion.

So how about the real masters of fast eating, the competitive speed-eaters? An American known as Furious Pete eats quickly for a living and holds four Guinness World Records, the most recent of which involved devouring a twelve inch pizza in 41.31 seconds. Another record holder, this time from Japan, Takeru Kobayashi, can eat fifty-eight Bratwurst sausages in ten minutes. Surely that’s fast enough to give anyone indigestion, but apparently not. Professor Marc Levine, a radiologist at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania x-rayed the stomach of a speed-eating champion after eating 36 hot dogs in ten minutes. The participant was happy to continue after eating 36, but the decision was made to terminate the study for his own safety. He didn’t have indigestion, while the unlucky man who’d volunteered to act as a control, felt sick after seven hot dogs and had to stop. The x-ray showed that the speed-eater had trained his stomach to expand to such an extent that he no longer felt full when he’d eaten.

And this brings us to what could be the problem with eating fast – it’s not indigestion, but the disruption of the usual mechanism that makes you feel full. But even here the evidence is inconsistent. Some studies found that eating fast leaves you feeling hungrier, causing you to eat more. Other studies have shown the opposite.

So next time you don’t have time to sit down for lunch, then don’t feel too bad if you think you are wolfing down your meal too fast. As long as it doesn’t make you feel ill at the time, there doesn’t seem to be any harm in it.


http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130502-is-eating-on-the-run-bad-for-you/1

chukxie: Story of the success of my life should be written so our youths can learn rather than doing yahoo yahoo.

Yahoo recently paid a British teenager over USD30 million to acquire a mobile news app developed by the young man

luvmijeje: Heart shape symbolise love.

Love me jeje, love tender: That is all I crave from my love

dubem3: Simple is boring and unchallenging...we already established we can do that, now lets venture farther

Farther and away into the distant horizon beyond the visibility of my physical eyes but within the perception of my mind

dubem3: Are you guys not bored with this continuous random sentences? Up the difficulty level I say

Say what you will but the instruction is to make a sentence with the last word of the preceding statement

repogirl: Yawn with an open mouth jare, its a free world!

World of our own, that's where we are

luvmijeje: Deceptive truly looks canbe,that is why the saying never judge a book by its cover.

Cover your mouth when you yawn

dubem3: Old mac donald had a farm

Farm as a workplace is the ideal place for all jobless graduates to be

Sapphire86: Living for money is a wrong approach to life!

Life and living: are they one and the same?

luvmijeje: Person and personality are two sides of a coin.

coin phrases and words is what I do for a living

[quote author=Mazi_Omenuko]Fool![/quote]Fool is really what some people are on this forum

***Walks into the house, shouting***

"Mama Nkechi! Where is the picture I took with that albino last year? I queried

"What do you need it for", She answered.

"Chei! You are a typical Naija woman! You dey answer question with question." I retorted.

"Don't you know that if I post it on Nairaland, Seun will think its a foreign celebrity I took picture with and then move my post to front page"

"That means say na front page tinz we go dey" She said.

"Yes o!" I replied. Smiling and laughing at the same time.

Police are urging people from a small town in Belgium to return tens of thousands of euros in cash that were thrown out of a speeding car by thieves attempting to make a getaway.

The incident occurred in the Flemish town of Zedelgem after the thieves stole a safe from a nearby house.

The thieves threw the safe out the car to distract police officers. It broke open and passers-by grabbed 50-, 100- and 200-euro notes that were scattered.

The thieves are still on the run.

One man said he had picked up two rolls of 5,000 euros each only to have a police officer grab it back, reports the BBC's Matthew Price.

Another said it was as if it was "raining money".

The local prosecutor says it was "self service" as passers-by filled their pockets with the scattered cash.

While some have returned the money, a considerable sum is yet to be recovered.

Anyone keeping the cash could face up to two years in jail, officials say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22295366

If na you, you go return the money?

Sapphire86: Forest of mysteries, can't believe I got robbed!!

Robbed and rubbed, I definitely prefer the latter

A lot of emphasis has been on Saka in that advert. No one seems to talk about the ladies that were really grooving to the music unlike Saka whose dance-steps were more of comical than interesting.

So, who are these ladies? Anyone know?

megawax8: sense is seriously required for constructive sentences n dats wat m proposing

Proposing to my wife to marry me was sweet, very sweet

hanelson: love me, u won't regret it.

It has come to the notice of the moderators that the rate of trolling on Nairaland has more than triple

Sapphire86: Same things happen in this country day in, day out; when is this change going to come?

Come unto me... and I will give you rest

repogirl: Thing I'm wondering is why people act strange.

Strange things happen in the world today that, simply, amaze me

daik: Please let me be on your way.

Way out and way in are in most cases opposite but in a few instances, they've been known to mean the same thing

daik: People moderating on this section are not trying, y is my post hidden.?

Hidden treasures of life are not so hidden after-all, as they can be found within us if we can only look with our inner eyes and change the way we think