• Serious About Losing Weight? Try This. By  Maje Ayida

    When you’re serious about losing weight, making the right food choices is probably about as important as it gets. Here’s a general guide.   Bad Foods Gluten Gluten, the protein in wheat, has not been...

  • Serious About Losing Weight? Try This.- By Guest blogger – Maje Ayida

    No amount of exercise will undo a bad diet. If you think about it from a calorie perspective you may workout 3, 4 or even 5 times per week but you eat 21 meals a...

  • World Kidney day 2016

       Children, just like adults, are at risk for kidney disease and so the theme for World Kidney Day on March 10, 2016 was Kidney Disease & Children. Act Early to Prevent It!    Kidney problems...

  • Preventing Kidney disease in children

      Did you know that children have kidney disease just as adults do?  The kidneys are the body’s filtering system, helping to remove excess water and waste from the blood, then converting the waste into...

  • You and Your Urine Guest blogger: Dr Biodun Ogungbo

    Do you know that your urine can say a lot about your health? Urine is the waste product that is made by the kidneys after they filter and clean your blood. Your kidneys are two...

  • Zika Virus – Lessons for Africa

    Zika, a mosquito-borne virus spreading in Latin America and the Caribbean continues to pose a serious international public health risk. Confirmation of sexual transmission has added to the challenge of containing the virus. An era...

  • Eat to live, don’t live to eat.

    You’ve probably heard and read so much about healthy eating that you’re sick and tired of it all. It just seems like too much work and no fun! The fact none of us can get...

  • Is it possible to reverse diabetes?

    You’ve probably read claims from people saying they reversed their diabetes within 4 weeks and perhaps even seen advertisements for “natural” products that “cure” diabetes. Is it really possible to cure diabetes or reverse it?...

  • FIT AND FAB AT 50: How to stay healthy when you are older

    Staying healthy is important and for older adults, the easiest way to do that is by eating healthy and staying active. Physical activity is essential, and highly beneficial to the human body. It’s a miracle...

  • Heart Attack and Stroke – When sudden death isn’t really that sudden Part 2

    Africans, regardless of nationality have a thriving culture of myths, misconceptions and misinformation about illness and disease. Let’s examine two misconceptions about heart disease or cardiovascular disease.   Misconception #1:  I’m too young to worry...