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merci beaucoup
I'm going to go shopping at whole foods tomorrow. diet begins 8/15.

call4shola: avoid eating late, it works for me, anytime after 7PM just forget chops. for me i see the result just after 3 days

I eat late a lot. I will take your advice. thanks!!

aisha2: Increase your tea intake to after each meal. I take at least 6 cups a day.
I diet, and exercise, I take evening walks/ jogs.

I wrote some of the diet choice up there. Take Ugu and carrot juice it will help your flow a lot

Thanks a ton. I have a box of black tea just sitting in my cabinet. I will start drinking it everyday.
what kind of exercise do you do and how do you keep motivated to work out?
I will try carrot juice. what's ugu? that word sounds very familiar but i haven't lived in Nigeria in a decade so i forgot what it is. a kind of vegetable? can I find it in the US?

@aisha2,
that's funny that you mentioned all that because coincidentally my acne has reduced drastically and my period has become regular for the first time in my life. this coincided with weight gain. i'm not on birth control or anything.
the black tea thing also caught my eye. I used to drink at least a cup of black/green tea daily and also crave so much sugary foods. Because of my really bad acne, I cut out sweets, tea and milk from my diet. my acne improved and also my period became regular.. but then I started experiencing a bit of weight gain. I didn't worry at first because I was very slim so I thought a bit of weight won't hurt. Now I just feel like enough is enough because over time I can notice now that I've developed a little tummy pooch.

So what do you do? your diet and physical activity routine?
i'm 25. I guess it's only going to get worse.

I suspect that my metabolism has slowed down. I just feel like this is so unfair because it used to be so effortless.
It's like my body now wants to get fat.

anyone experienced something like this?

that's depressing

Thanks

Tbillz: Obasanjo's pictures then scares me the most!

lol

pankere (cane)
dogs and chickens after they have just given birth,

The main symptom is hot flashes. Keep yourself cool with cold water, fan, airconditioner, open your windows etc

DECOtech: If one suicidal bokoharam member gets ebola, Nigeria is done.

dere is God.

ghostofsparta: [size=10pt] I enjoy hard-rock and most things American,

very funny

^ specialized ones like psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians etc
Are general doctors allowed to diagnose autism in Nigeria?

That's good that more people are aware than I thought.

valicious1: Its called 'table soccer', it doesn't literally mean its played on a table, maybe u are referring to another type of table soccer dear.

I didn't even know there was a name for it. It's been many many many years so maybe my memory is failing me.

MymothersKeeper: Is it caused by the vaccinations ?

The causes are currently unknown but the vaccine connection has been disproved.
there are many theories though. One of the popular ones have to do with Vitamin D levels.

thorpido: What sophistication is required to diagnose a child with Autism in Africa?Must you people spit on Africa at every given opportunity? Yes there are challenges in Africa but making a difference is what counts rather than just criticism.There is an autism society in Nigeria and many are aware though it's the educated.

a licensed practitioner is needed for diagnosis. There is a general lack of resources and add to that, we africans also tend to have a very different world view in dealing with neurological conditions. Most people aren't aware.

HIV protective genes found in Tanzania
https://www.hivresearch.org/news.php?NewsID=197

Genes that evolved to protect against Malaria found to create susceptibility to HIV (has to do with red blood cells and immunity.Very obvious connection considering sickle cell)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716121355.htm

are these also the works of Europeans?

logica: You should find your 1diocy hilarious; because you cannot point to anywhere in my post where I made the claim in bold. Every time you post, you show yourself to be too dim to even engage in a debate.

Of course the theory that Black Plague was not caused by a bacteria but by a virus is new (and even as the theorists presented facts); but of course it is much more logical which is why people like you never heard of it. Logic is foreign to you. Whether you like it or not, Black Plague and other outbreaks common in Europe which ended up creating a mutation that yielded protection to 10% of Europeans while all we have in Africa is indication of VERY RECENT arrival is enough of a pointer.

YOu agreed with the OP about the so called "german connection" which in essence is that the virus was manufactured in german labs.
HIV protection of 10% is actually low. That is still 90% unprotected.
Besides, what exactly is your point? that HIV was also produced in an american lab? recent arrival to Africa as opposed to long established presence in Europe?
keep exposing yourself.

rather than keep blaming westerners for all your problem. why not wear a condom next time you have unprotected sex? too much work for you?

logica: Oh, and for the mutation that protects 10% of the white population:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.htm

that's very interesting and cool. I wonder what the rates are in African populations. Most likely much higher protection.

If you look at the outbreak history, the first one was recorded in the Nile valley in 1500BC. (this is 3,500 years ago!!)
and it spread through the middle east to Europe. Egypt had the only known advanced civilization in Africa hence why only that case was recorded. I bet the origin ultimately lies in the belly of Africa.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.htm

well, the article mentioned athens plague not black death. that is the point.
black death = 700 yrs ago
athens plague = 2500 yrs ago (from Ethiopia)


and the theory that black death came from a virus is a new one very very new because it has long been considered to be a bubonic plague.
even if black death was a virus, it is ABSOLUTELY not ebola. the only connection could be that they shared a filovirus origin from several thousand years ago.Somehow you claim ebola never existed in Africa until 1976 yet you are ready to believe a "theory" that the black death, long established as a bubonic plague, was a filovirus. You even took it farther to claim that it was the same as Ebola.
so much for FACTS


because unlike Africans, Europeans actually kept written records of their outbreaks. I guess cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, polio, and all disease known to mankind also came from Europe.

isn't that really what you are trying to say indirectly? your fervent anti-west ideology leads you come up with silly conspiracy theories like ebola was prepared and mass manufactured in a german lab. I find it hilarious.

logica: Aha...now you are talking...even Black Death (which devastated Europe) has been compared to Ebola and was likely Ebola. But I don't deal in speculation. They should check for antibodies in the European populace as well (though due to the time frame, traces might have disappeared); if they really want to get to the bottom of where Ebola came from. After all the largest population of those with the DNA mutation that provides immunity to Ebola is found in Europe, not Africa.

rotflmao @ black death was likely Ebola.
the bubonic plague wasn't even mentioned anywhere in the article. the black death outbreak occurred in the 1300s so that's only about 800 yrs ago whereas the plague of athens occurred around 450 BC which is about 2,500 years ago. Were you asleep during the european history section of your history class?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens
source of this ancient plague was recorded to be Ethiopia actually.


read the passage carefully. I didn't think it would be too complicated for you to understand. but I thought wrong. not surprised.

Further evidence of a lengthy history of Ebola outbreaks comes from recent calculations based on the mutation rates of Ebola and Marburg viruses (unusually slow for RNA viruses) that show that the two filoviruses diverged from a single common source around 700 to 850 years ago—[/b]around the time when larger and more centralized Bantu speaking societies began to emerge in Central Africa.[2] Given this timeframe for Ebola’s emergence, it is highly improbable that isolated human cases of Ebola have not occurred at least occasionally for several centuries before 1976. [Of course [b]humans could have contracted other older forms of Filoviruses long before this timeline, and there has been speculation that ancient plagues such the one that struck Athens in 430 BCE were actually caused by Ebola-like filoviruses.[3]]

summary:
ebola and marburg diverged from a common source around 700 years ago.
that common source could have been a filovirus that affected humans and there are speculations that a plague from 2500 yrs ago that spread from Ethiopia to Europe was a similar filovirus like the one that eventually split 700s ago to give rise to viruses like ebola.

ghostofsparta: Yes it was engineered so was HIV/AIDS,

smh

Although 1976 marked the first discovery of Ebola by international scientists, the virus likely has a much deeper history lurking in Central Africa. By testing stored blood samples of 790 chimps and gorillas from Cameroon, Republic of Congo, and Gabon, scientists determined that primates had acquired Ebola prior to known human outbreaks in the areas where the samples were originally taken.[1] Subsequent blood samples of people living in Central Africa have shown that as much as 32.4% of the population possesses Ebola antibodies (igGs), which they likely developed from exposure to fruit contaminated by bat saliva containing inactive strands of the virus.[1B] These findings have led the researchers to conclude that the virus has long circulated in the vast forests of Central Africa, infecting human and nonhuman primates.
Further evidence of a lengthy history of Ebola outbreaks comes from recent calculations based on the mutation rates of Ebola and Marburg viruses (unusually slow for RNA viruses) that show that the two filoviruses diverged from a single common source around 700 to 850 years ago—around the time when larger and more centralized Bantu speaking societies began to emerge in Central Africa.[2] Given this timeframe for Ebola’s emergence, it is highly improbable that isolated human cases of Ebola have not occurred at least occasionally for several centuries before 1976. [Of course humans could have contracted other older forms of Filoviruses long before this timeline, and there has been speculation that ancient plagues such the one that struck Athens in 430 BCE were actually caused by Ebola-like filoviruses.[3]]

http://markduerksen.com/2014/08/04/ebolas-history-3-pre-1976/

logica: Oh, and the Marburg virus didn't infect the populace in Uganda from where the monkeys were imported. Hmm. Oh, OK, it infected them but it wasn't recorded. Right. Now, present us with facts of these outbreaks that preceded Marburg, or shut it.

of course it did.
Read the link I posted. it actually has facts there. scientists found both ebola and marburg antibodies in the local population.
the same kind you will find in the blood of survivors. they either contracted it and survived or were asymptomatic. There are other evidences too such as rna mutation timelines that allow the scientists to deduce that it has existed in the human populations.
read the article.

remember that the viruses was simply first isolated at those times. they didn't have a name prior to that. the locals referred to them as "mysterious illnesses"
Even this 2014 ebola outbreak was first referred to back in february as a "mysterious illness" by the local health officials until the first blood samples were sent abroad and tested positive for ebola.

the highlight of your post is in bold. I laughed.
Goodnight
don't get your blood pressure to high. Next time, put on your thinking cap and try to reason logically.

do you think these are coincidences.

3 most well-known hemorrhagic viruses:

Ebola virus: first discovered in belgium in 1976 after a Belgian nun contracted it in congo.
Lassa virus: First discovered in USA in 1969 after after 2 american nurses contracted it in Nigeria
Marburg virus: first discovered in germany in 1967 after several german pharmaceutical scientists were infected from monkeys imported from uganda

the nun and nurses were contracted it while caring for African patients by the way.
do you really think ebola appeared for the first time in 1976? or we simply know of the date 1976 because the europeans recorded it.

logica: Abi were n'se eleyi. Look, just mention the dates of the outbreaks you speculate. See who's talking about pretending to be scientifically sophisticated. Start with mentioning dates now...ode.

you sound very ignorant here. Nobody even knows the exact dates of this 2014 epidemic talkless of 1976 epidemic. All the dates we know are based on reports but no one knows about the patients that weren't reported and I'M SURE there were unreported patients.
but you can use patterns in data to make predictions and estimations. My quote was "i'm sure there were outbreaks before 1976" of course the dates are unknown.
Clearly you have never taken a statistics course in your life. so much for your username. way to turn the definition of logic upside down.

Read this and salivate on it.
http://markduerksen.com/2014/08/04/ebolas-history-3-pre-1976/

logica: ...it seems you are indeed seeing red. If you want to engage in a diss-fest I cannot oblige you this morning. It is too early for 1diots.

well I heard yesterday that if you eat 2 kolanuts a day, your ebola will be cured.

logica: First you continue to speak of salt solution; which I never mentioned. Then you speak of Europe "manufacturing diseases". You are beginning to sound like an 1diot, really. When you address me, and you cannot reference these things you speak of from my posts, you come across as ret@rded.

it's ok. we both know that the "west" is behind the ebola virus. *wink*
why are you now pretending to be so scientifically sophisticated.

Police were guarding an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone on Saturday, the day after thousands marched on the clinic following allegations by a former nurse the deadly virus was invented to conceal "cannibalistic rituals" there, a regional police chief said.

Angry crowds gathered on Friday outside the country's main Ebola hospital in Kenema in the West African country's remote east where dozens are receiving treatment for the virus, and threatened to burn it down and remove the patients.

The WHO said previously that poor health infrastructure and a lack of manpower were hindering efforts to contain the outbreak in Sierra Leone. Another problem is fear and mistrust of health workers among the local population, many of whom have more faith in traditional medicine.

Sierra Leone officials appealed for help on Friday to trace the first known resident in the capital with Ebola whose family forcibly removed her from a Freetown hospital after she tested positive for the deadly disease. [ID:L6N0Q03FK]

Amadu Sisi, senior doctor at King Harman hospital, from which the patient was removed, said on Saturday she had been turned in after seeking refuge in the house of a traditional healer. She died in the ambulance on the way to another hospital, he added later.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/26/us-health-ebola-africa-idUSKBN0FV0NL20140726

Look at logica's relatives.

logica: ...continue with your speculations.

how can it be speculations? your grand mother was there with her agbo and chicken sacrifice that cured her. The date wasn't in the gregorian calendar so it is undecipherable. Oh what supernatural wonders of the great African tribes.

I, like you, really don't understand why europe keep manufacturing diseases in mysterious medical labs to kill us off.

cases have been recorded by local health officials, said Sakoba Keita, the doctor in charge of the prevention of epidemics in Guinea's Health Ministry.
"Symptoms appear as diarrhoea and vomiting, with a very high fever. Some cases showed relatively heavy bleeding," Keita said.
"We thought it was Lassa fever or another form of cholera but this disease seems to strike like lightning. We are looking at all possibilities, including Ebola, because bushmeat is consumed in that region and Guinea is in the Ebola belt," he said. No cases of the highly contagious Ebola fever have ever been recorded in the country.
Keita said most of the victims had been in contact with the deceased or had handled the bodies. He said those infected had been isolated and samples had been sent to Senegal and France for further tests."

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000107329/mystery-hemorrhagic-fever-kills-23-in-guinea

contains map showing the "ebola belt" many countries in west africa are contained in the belt. mostly rainforest regions.
http://www.infectionlandscapes.org/2012/11/ebola-hemorrhagic-fever.html