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We all agree that nothing beats the sensation
you get when you down a bottle of cold water or
soda when you are hot. That chilling and
refreshing sensation could akin to seeing a river
in a desert.
As rewarding as cold water can be, in hot
weathers like ours, experts say that it comes
with serious health consequences. They warn
that one may need to hands off drinking cold
water regularly due to its negative impact on the
heart and the digestive system.
Consultant nutritionist, Dr. Tosin Akinsanya, says
even though the body cannot have too much of
water, it complains when it has too much of cold
water. According to the food and healthy living
expert, cold water is at a temperature that
contradicts the overall temperature within the
body system.
Akinsanya says that normal body temperature of
the body is between 34 and 37 oC while that of
cold water is usually between zero and two
degrees Celsius and this sudden change in
temperature levels, which usually happens when
we drink cold water, shocks the body, leading to
chronic diseases in those who drink it over time.
“The body is made up of 70 per cent of warm
water. Water is the most important fluid in the
body because it is the medium blood uses. It is
the medium which circulates nutrients around
the body. If the 30 per cent we drink is against
the normal temperature of the body, we see how
hard it is for the body to make use of it. Cold
water causes distress in the tissues and blood
vessels.
“The body has to warm up the cold water you
drink every time to an acceptable temperature
before it can take it up for digestion, nutrient and
blood circulation. That is why we advise people
not, take drugs with cold water. The drugs will
not digest on time; it means you won’t get the
best of the drugs because the water did not
dissolve on time.”
Family health physician and author of Ten Habits
To Drop Right Now, Dr. Vasant Lad, adds that
drinking cold water after a meal has adverse
effects on the digestive system. Lad also warns
against drinking cold water immediately before a
meal.
For Dr. Lucia John, a major reason why we
should ditch cold water for tepid or warm one is
its effect on the heart. According to the healthy
living expert, the heart labours more to restore
blood circulation when we drink cold water that
is not compatible with the body’s temperature.
She says, “When we drink cold water, juice, or
any cold fluids, we create the basis for chronic
heart diseases. Cold water has a clotting effect
on the blood and other fluids in the body making
it difficult for it to circulate.
“A body that cannot circulate its blood is like an
uninviting swimming pool in which moss and
bacteria grow. The blood may be thick, unable to
flow properly to the extremities of the body, the
hands and feet begin to feel numb and hurt, the
toes begin to hurt, and the toenails lose their
shine and may begin to decay. The heart labours
to pump the blood throughout the body, and the
lungs fight to keep up. The legs may swell and
become dark, when blood cannot efficiently
pump back up to the heart.
“When the blood is free from toxins and flowing
freely and properly, we can then liken the blood
to an inviting swimming pool, clear and clean. It
generates happiness and perfect health, energy
and creativity. This individual contributes
maximum to the health and wellbeing of others
in an innocent, natural way.”
Scientists have also solved the mystery behind
the instantaneous headache brought on by a sip
of an ice-cold drink.
According to the neurologists who analysed the
result of a study, which involved 5,000
participants over a period of five years, cold
water is not friendly to some sections of the
brain.
The researchers found that sipping it causes an
abrupt increase in blood flow to a major artery in
the brain that is then followed by the familiar
headache-like. The experts warn that over time
this effect may shrink some receptors in the
brain.
Knowing all this, we have a responsibility to put
into our bodies, only drinks and foods that will
enhance its proper functioning.
Akinsanya gives a final advice on the need to
take regularly water at a normal temperature.
“The brain is fairly sensitive to temperature
change, that is why it freezes when you drink
cold water at first. This continuous seizure is
not good for it. The brain is one of the relatively
important organs in the body, and it needs to be
working all the time. We should avoid anything
that will make it freeze,” he adds.
To know the right temperature of water to drink,
Akinsanya says, “Put one finger in your mouth
and close it. The temperature of what you feel is
the temperature of water or food that you eat
most times. That is what the body is used to
and that is what you should give it.”

www.punchng.com/health/healthwise/cold-water-can-be-refreshing-but-unhealthy/

slimfit1:
Gibberish

Do you know the meaning of gibberish?

Nigerians always blame the government in power
for the problems of the nation even though many
of these preceded the government in power. Why
do we always do this?
For instance, ask any Nigerian what the problem
is with Nigeria and they will say like, Chinua
Achebe, that it is leadership, forgetting that
Nigeria’s leaders come from amongst us; and if
we are saying that our problem is leadership, we
are invariably supporting the racist Rhodesian
doctrine that a black man would thrive best under
white rule.
So if our problem is not leadership, what then is
it?
I propose that our problem in Nigeria is that we
lack a sense of history and we live only in the
present moment which means that we are always
reacting and hardly ever pro-acting.
If my five year old son comes to me and tells me
that he has lost his toy, I would ask him to think
back to the last time that he saw it and begin the
search from there.
Nigeria has seen phenomenal growth in the last
three years with our Gross Domestic Product,
GDP, growing at a rate of over 6% per annum,
making us one of the world’s 10 fastest growing
economies. Yet, we still have areas of Nigeria
where population growth is higher than the
growth rate of our GDP; and it is only common
sense that where population outpaces production,
there will be crisis. This is a theory that Reverend
Malthus propounded and which has stood the test
of time.
Between 1960 when Nigeria got independence and
1966 when we experienced the first military
intervention in governance, Nigeria experienced
phenomenal growth – a feat that has evaded us
since, except for the growth we have had in the
last three years. Almost all of the national
institutions that were responsible for our growth
pre-1999, were products of that first golden era
before the first coup, such as the four great
universities, (Lagos, Ife, Nsukka and Zaria), Kainji
Dam, Nigeria Airways etc.
Also, in the same time period, we had some of the
best civil servants in the world and our public
service was very functional. There were reports
from that era that some of our politicians were
corrupt, but it is universally acknowledged that
our civil servants of those times were above
board. Our hospitals were renowned worldwide
and it will surprise some to note that the Saudi
Royal family received treatment at the University
College Hospital, Ibadan, in the early 60s.
At that time we did not have oil in the quantum
that we have today, yet, the nation was thriving,
we had little or no foreign debt and we were first
amongst equals in the council of emerging
nations that included Indonesia, Brazil and Egypt.
But all these changed after 1966. So, as I would
say to my five year old, if you are looking for a
thing, go back to the last place where you saw it.
That place is 1966!
Pre-1966, admission into primary and secondary
schools was purely on merit. The same was the
case for universities as well as the federal civil
service. After 1966 when the military intervened
and ended the First Republic all that changed and
has remained the same till today.
A child could no longer bank on academic
prowess as the yardstick for his gaining entry
into primary and secondary schools. Children at
their most tender years, when they were being
emotionally scripted, were told that even though
they passed and passed well, they were not good
enough for government funded schools because of
where they came from.
With the Quota system of entrance into public
schools introduced after 1966 and enshrined by
the military into our body polity extant laws,
children as young as nine got to understand that
in Nigeria, where you come from is more
important than how intelligent and hardworking
you are.
Now, the sad thing about the policy of quota
systems is that geneticists in the very best
universities of the world have established that
some races and tribes are not more intelligent
than others and as such you can find intelligence
in almost equal measure wherever you use it as a
yard stick. In fact, many, including the Harvard
Medical Journal, have reported that culture is
more to blame than intelligence for the reason
why some peoples are backward while others are
progressive.
And our culture has been that children who are
more endowed intellectually are held back and
children who could grow their intellectual capacity
are prevented from doing so because there was
no need to challenge them intellectually. Come as
you are, the system says.
This system would probably have brought
minimal damage if it was limited to secondary
schools, but it is not.
After completing secondary school, post 1966
Nigerian youths faced the same issues in gaining
admission to Nigerian universities. Cut off marks
and catchment areas were discriminately
apportioned using region as a yard stick. So, after
being told at age nine that were you came from
was more important than your intelligence or your
academic hard work, the message is reinforced at
age 16-17 when you are still in your formative
years.
At 16, you enter university and study for four or
five years (ASUU permitting) and then graduate
and go through your National Youth Service (one
of the best policies the military bequeathed to
Nigeria) and then you start to look for a job.
The largest employer of labour is the government,
so naturally you start there. And what do you
find? At age 24, just as when you were nine and
sixteen, you are now faced with a policy that says
where you are from is more important than what
you can bring into the system. You are told that
although you are qualified, the system must take
people who are less qualified than you because of
where you are from and where they are from.
So, between the ages of nine and 24, your psyche
has been reinforced and scripted with the
message that where you are from is more
important than what you bring to the table.
Why wouldn’t a post 1966 civil servant face
temptation to steal when merit is not the order of
the day and you are forced to serve under
someone who did not get his placement by merit
– who enjoys perks and privileges far in excess of
you? How can such a system promote morale and
how can you have efficiency where morale is low?
Prior to 1966, an Nnamdi Azikiwe could win
election in Ibadan and an Umoru Altine could win
election as the first mayor of Enugu, but how can
we replicate that ideal when, in every form you
have filled since the age of 6, your ethnicity, state
of origin and religion has mattered more than
your Nigerianness. But whenever you watch
television in the 1980s you see the MAMSER
directorate showing you clips of your leaders
telling you that where you come from does not
matter and what matters is that “we are all
MAMSER people who want the basic things of
life”.
It is not until you get to your 30s and you watch
as those same leaders that sold you and your
parents that line form themselves into Northern
and Southern Political Leaders Forum that you
realized that you have been had!
And then young people who through no fault of
their own have been conditioned to only live in
the moment are then manipulated by these same
set of leaders to begin to blame the government
of the day for crumbling infrastructure that has
been neglected for years and is only now being
addressed after decades of neglect for the simple
reason that we now have a leader who emerged
not through the establishment but through events
that could only be described as divine. And then
you wonder, do they know their friends from their
enemies? I mentioned Kainji Dam earlier but
young people would be surprised to note that
between 1979 and 1999 no new power plants
were initiated and the one commissioned in 1982
was initiated in 1978! Yet, these same young
people egged on by those who have milked the
system in that time frame point accusing fingers
at the man who is making a difference.
Take something as universal as power. In Nigeria,
history has been made as the power sector has
just been privatized by President Goodluck
Jonathan in fulfillment of the promises he made
to Nigerians when he launched the Roadmap to
Power Sector Reforms on August 26th 2010. But
before then, Nigeria has and is still suffering from
chronic power shortages.
Now, power is one of those industries that rely
strictly on efficient manpower in order to function
properly. But power has been exclusively managed
and operated by the government. Now who would
the government hire to run our power plants,
transmission grids and their commercial offices?
Of course it would be Nigerian citizens.
Now, are those citizens the very best Nigeria has?
No! These are citizens employed as part of the
federal civil service that depends not on merit but
on ethnicity for its hiring. So, what then do
Nigerians expect from such a venture?
You can repeat this for our refineries, airports,
railways, sea ports, and other vital national
institutions.
It is a notorious fact (yes, that phrase again) that
you are only as strong as your weakest link.
Therefore, where you have not taken in the best
right from secondary up to university and up to
the civil service, your system is only as strong as
the least endowed person.
To put this into perspective, if you have a school
entry system that gives someone who scored 2
admission, and stops someone who scored 290
from getting admitted, your system is only as
strong as a 2.
The saddest thing is that if he knew that he
would only get in if he had a 290 and nothing else
would ensure he gets in, he would be forced to
build his capacity to at least a 290. It is called
competition and that is what existed between
1960 and 1966.
That, my people, is the problem with Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership
he offers to Nigeria is not our problem. As a
matter of fact, it is part of our solutions. Why do I
say this? Because this is a man who has seen
that even though we have made phenomenal
progress in the last three years such as we have
never witnessed between 1966 till date, yet we
can do better.
And speaking as a private citizen, it is my hope
that the coming national conference would look
into these issues and go back in time to the place
where we lost it.
Reno Omokri is Special Assistant (New Media) to
the President.

www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/146038-real-problem-nigeria-reno-omokri.html

Do Nigerians really get depressed?
With our economic situation?

Donfamous: 1.pap/ ogi this food doesn't need any intro, the best time to take it is in the morning, cos its very light, well don't take it when u know that where you are going is jam packed or on a long journey, that's a warning
2. garri this one is water and cassava flakes, na hunger dey make pesin drink this one at night, if u try it, u'll wake up worse than someone who dint eat the previous night,.
3[b]amala[/b] I never noticed this food can cause such, until I ate in one night, like someone who is not ever gonna eat again, mhen I had to wake up to 5 consecutive times to urinate, and b4 I woke up, my belly was already flat, since then I just take it as a normal light food.
Others are wheat , tuwo etc.

Any contrary opinion, suggestions, argument, etc are welcome

Its a lie

Religion will be the cause of WW3

it is confirmed

I just got my offer letter.
Thanks be to God

the message is coming.......

for naija you neva drop the wallet them don steal am.

what a sad news a lot of people will drink petrol and hug transformer if this good news make front page.

How about Dr. ijewere and Dr. uyimadu? God will not bless them. AMEN!

Is there any hope of receiving offer letters today?

Outrageous and cruel

You are looking for trouble my hand no dey

The writer of the article is bias and unprofessional, infact the writer could be one of those that was begging wizkid money.

Na so Jay Z or C Ronaldo dey throw money for public?

2 weeks

eyenCalabar: TYPES OF POO POO
1) Ghost poo:
The kind of poo when you feel there’s poo coming out, but no poo in the toilet.

2) Clean poo: You kak it out, see the poo in the
toilet but nothing on the tissue.

3) Wet poo: After wiping plenty times you still feel unwiped.

4) Second wave poo:
You’re done kaking, pull up your pants, then realise you need to kak some more.

5) Pop a vein on the forehead poo:
You strain so much to get it out, you feel like you are
having a stroke.

6) Gassy poo: So noisy everyone within earshot is giggling.

7) Drinkers poo:
It leaves the most noticable skid marks at the bottom of the toilet.

The I wish I could kak poo:
You wanna kak but all you do is sit on
the toilet and fart a few times and nothing
came.

9) Wet cheek poo:
It drops so fast it splashes on your butt cheeks.

10) The dangling poo:
The one that refuses to leave the ass, you have to shake it off.

11) Oh shit poo:
The type you are in the middle of dropping big
one and you forgot to lock the toilet and
someone you have been forming for entered
without knocking and the poo disappeared.

12) Surprise poo:
This gives no signal, you’re about to fart but
BAAMMM! its poo!! Wait until this happen to you
in a public place you’ll know the importance of
early morning poo.

This analysis is far better than the op's own.

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CHIASUU
OGHENEASUU

"85 percent of Nigerians" how many Nigerians have you chat with? Where did you get such statistics? May be is within your village.

Signed

A Nigerian scientist, Dr. Basil Fadipe has been awarded the European Society for Quality Research, ESQR, Quality Achievements Awards at its Annual Convention at the luxurious Copthorne Tara Hotel Kensington, London, United Kingdom.

The Award, in recognition of The Justin Fadipe Medical Center’s enhancement and strides in quality research, is in honour of the doctor’s father, and celebrated for its “excellence, innovation, visionary thinking and the spread of knowledge.” In a citation, the Centre was “recognised for extraordinary achievement in quality management.”

Fadipe, proprietor of the Center said the Award is an acknowledgement and recognition of hard work by the 12- year-old Center’s quest for excellent customer service as a key factor.

Fadipe was also honoured by the Nigerian High Commissioner to United Kingdom, Dr. Tafida, at the British High Commission, London. “We are happy that you have done us proud but you must seek to return home in the near future to help our country no matter the challenges,” Tafida noted. The Switzerland-based ESQR promotes quality awareness, recognise good business practices, technological innovation, quality achievements in organisations worldwide, and for publicising these organisations’ successful performance strategies.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/nigerian-scientist-bags-european-award-for-quality-research/

can somebody comfirm the claims of the op?

A police corporal, identified simply as Friday, has been accused of knocking down a teacher, Mrs. Taskirat Anjolaiya, and her baby, Ammarah.

It was learnt that as a result of the incident, the mother and daughter sustained pelvic fracture, brain injury and a broken jaw among others.

According to eyewitness, the policeman, who is attached to FESTAC Police Division, was driving against traffic on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway when he knocked down the victims.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the graduate of Mathematics Education was alighting from a commercial bus with her child and had not noticed the police patrol van coming from the wrong direction.

The victim’s husband, Sulaiman, said the policeman claimed he was running an errand for the Divisional Police Officer, Ibrahim Zango.

The policeman was said to have told them that he was instructed by the DPO to drop off a woman at the airport in Ikeja and he drove against traffic to avoid traffic congestion on the appropriate route so that she would not miss her flight.

He said, “The accident occurred on June 23, 2013. My wife was on her way to a religious progamme when a police driver drove recklessly on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway. He was driving against traffic and shouting at drivers on the right side of the road to clear out.

“He eventually knocked down my wife and baby while they were alighting from a bus.

“The policeman’s first concern at the scene of the accident was to immediately get a cab to convey the woman in his vehicle to her destination.”

PUNCH Metro learnt that the policeman rushed the victims to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, and deposited N70,000 for their treatment.

At LUTH however, doctors at the emergency ward discovered that the mother of three had sustained a pelvic fracture, facial bruises, and brain injury while the baby, Ammarah, also suffered deep facial cuts and a broken jaw.

Sulaiman lamented that since the incident, over N500, 000 had been spent on treatment.

He said the policeman had abandoned the victims at the hospital since depositing the N70, 000.

He expressed disappointment over how the DPO handled the matter when they went to report the matter at the station.

“A few days after the accident, when I could no longer bear the pressure alone, I went to see the DPO and I told him what happened. Zango lambasted me before offering us additional N10, 000,” he said.

Sulaiman lamented that this was too little given the fact that he was unemployed and had spent all his savings.

He expressed disappointment that the police, who had been charged with the duty of protecting lives, were the ones inflicting hardship on the family.

Our correspondent, who visited the victim at Ward E3 on Thursday, observed that she was recuperating.

However, some nurses, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, said the head trauma she sustained was still affecting her.

One of them said, “She gets up from her bed and roams the hospital. Most of the time we have to strap her back to the bed to prevent her from going astray and I cannot say when she will be discharged,” she said.

Sulaiman said his wife was a teacher and he feared if she would recover completely.

Sulaiman said, “I have been unemployed for several months. My wife is a teacher at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School and she was the one supporting us until these injuries due to the behaviour of this police corporal who has now abandoned us.

“The accident could have been avoided if the police man obeyed simple traffic regulation. Now, the action of the policeman has resulted in serious brain injury to my wife.”

The spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the incident.

She said disciplinary action was being taken against the DPO, while the police driver had been detained.

“It is really a pathetic case and no one is happy about it. You were the one that just informed us of the incident. We have started taking disciplinary action against the DPO and the corporal. We will hold a meeting on the issue on Friday,” she said.

Braide however said she could not say if financial support would be given to the family until after the meeting.

http://www.punchng.com/news/policeman-drives-against-traffic-knocks-down-woman-baby/

Minna — The baby girl said to be born with a rosary around her neck in Bida, Niger State, on Saturday would not have been born at all as the mother had made several attempts to abort the pregnancy.

Speaking to Daily Trust in her residence on Monday which had turned into a Mecca of sorts, as people trooped to the house to catch a glimpse of the baby, the 28-year-old mother Khadijat Isa said she had tried to abort the pregnancy because she had been having a frosty relationship with her husband for some time, such that they were even no longer living together.

She said she did not take the herbs that would abort the pregnancy because of wickedness but due to her poor financial condition, explaining that as a fashion designer, she was not making enough to cater for her three children as she already has two from the same husband.

"I took medicine and injection in the first month of the pregnancy because I didn't want the pregnancy but the pregnancy refused to be terminated," she said.

She added that after several attempts to get rid of the pregnancy did not succeed, she resigned to fate and prepared to deliver it.

Khadijat said throughout the period of the pregnancy, she did not even once visited hospital for ante-natal care.

She said even when labour finally began, she did not make attempt to go to hospital, instead some elderly women from her compound took her to the house of the retired nurse to deliver.

She said: "I did not go for any ante-natal even when labour started. I was only taken to the nurse's house by the people from my compound after noticing that I was going though pains.

"I don't have money with me; there was no way that I could go to hospital. You know whenever you go to any hospital, it is the issue of money which I don't have," she added.

Khadijat also said that the birth of the baby last Saturday was quite different her experience in the delivery of her two other children each of which saw her losing blood from the very beginning to the end of the labour. "The case of the baby I delivered three days ago is quite different as it was free of blood," she said.
She said another miracle associated with her recent delivery is not only that it was bloodless but that the entire process did not last up to 30 minutes which contrasted to what she went through in her previous deliveries where she had to go through a period of pain that lasted for hours.

Khadijat said for the eight years she was married to her husband they had been living peacefully until recently, before the pregnancy. She said also surprisingly, since the delivery her husband comes regularly to see the new baby and even attend to some of their needs. "The birth of the miracle girl will be source of reconciliation between us," she enthused. Aha! You can see him, he just came in. He has been coming regularly to see us. That is why I said the baby will be a source of reconciliation."

On how the baby was delivered, said she could not explained much because she was only told by the nurse that handled the delivery that the baby came out with a rosary, adding that on hearing that the baby was delivered with the prayer beads, she was overwhelmed with happiness, telling herself that the child must have come with full blessing directly from the Almighty.

"You can how people are trooping into this house, so it has been since yesterday when the child was delivered. You can see we went to bed as late 1am last now because people were just coming and out," she said.

The father of the new born baby, Bissalla Zubairu said there was no problem between him and his wife, saying they just had a little misunderstanding which they were about settling when she delivered.

Zubairu said he was shocked when he was told that his wife had given birth to a baby girl with a rosary on her neck, adding that up to the time he was talking with this reporter, he had not recovered from the shock.

He said after the delivery they only took the baby to the Estu Nupe's palace where the baby received royal blessing by his Royal Highness Yahaya Abubakar.

Shasha Abubakar, the retired nurse that handled the delivery of the miracle baby and told Daily Trust that: "Seven women came into my house around midnight one among them was pregnant, and was complaining of abdominal an waist pain. He added that on examining her, he discovered that it was a sign of labour. "In less than 30 minutes the labour began in earnest, and it was when we were about to deliver the baby that a rosary first came out and dropped on the floor.

"I took the chasbaha, left the foetus behind and showed the people that she came with this. They then started kalmatul Shahada, 'Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar'.

"The baby came out clean and no blood. I asked her people to bring clothes for the child and before they would do that the Chasbaha which was black at first, turned to white".

Abubakar said the delivery of the child was normal without any hinderance and that it was one of the faster deliveries he has conducted in his 36 years of service.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201307170868.html?viewall=1

Op, is it that you dont the future leaders to analyse past and current trends or you are among those school of thought that believe in "recycling the old leaders"? Or do you think age is measure of intelligence?

Op, I will not say you are a "discombonbulated dumb,a$s" even if i know you truely are. Everything to you is miracle, open your sense and brain to see that the woman may have cheated.