Health

Eating Fish Regularly raises IQ by Almost 5 points in Children, Study Finds

A study by a research team from the University of Pennsylvania found that eating fish at least once a week can raise children’s IQ by nearly 5 points in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale. The study was conducted last month among...

13 Questions You Really Don’t Want Answers To

If you are as curious i am, then this list is for you. But if you aren't, you probably should stop reading now. Having said that, these are 13 Questions You Really Don’t Want Answers To! 1. Is My Pillow...

Study: Taking Birth Control Pills Increases A Woman’s Chances Of Developing Breast Cancer

A new study out of Denmark, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds that women who take hormonal birth control have an up to 38% increased risk of developing breast cancer. The study looked at 1.8 million women...

​Africa is the Only Continent Where Children Are Both Obese And Stunted

According to the 2017 Global Nutrition report the continent faces serious nutrition-related challenges, stemming from both a deficiency in nutrients and obesity Despite a decrease in the prevalence of stunting globally, about 60 million African children  under the age of five are...

Men Who Perform Oral Sex On Women Are More At Risk Of Throat Cancer – Study

First we heard that an Incurable ‘Super Gonorrhoea’ is On The Rise, and that it is Spread by Oral Sex and now this, it is obvious that something somewhere really wants to put a stop to Oral s*x. Men Who...

Nigeria Has The Third Highest Infant Mortality Rate In The World – WHO

​Nearly ten per cent of new-born deaths in the world last year occurred in Nigeria, a new report by the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has revealed. According to the report, five countries accounted for half of all new-born deaths...

According to this Study, Pollution is One Of The Great Killers Of Our Age

​Pollution is one of the world’s great killers if our age, a new study says, causing more premature deaths than war, terrorism, natural disasters, cigarettes and disease. A 2016 study in the medical journal Lancet said pollution, both outdoor and indoor, killed...

Meet Florida Uzoaru, Founder of Slide Safe: A Self-Test Kit For HIV

In Nigeria, just like every other conservative societies in Africa, open conversations about sex is pretty seen as a taboo. As such, getting tested for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) at clinics or even purchasing condoms for ones own protection...

According To This Study, Tall men Are At Greater risk of Dying From prostate Cancer

Tall men are at greater risk of contracting aggressive prostate cancer and of dying from the disease, the findings of a large study suggest. For this research, British scientists looked at height and body mass index to see how they...

Obesity In Africa: 15 Facts About Obesity You Should Know

According to experts, obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat is accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect in health. Obesity is a major health problem, and currently there is an increasing...
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Tarrafal Concentration Camp: The ‘Camp of Slow Death’ Where Portugal Imprisoned African Freedom Fighters in the 1960s

Tarrafal Concentration Camp, also known as the “Camp of Slow Death,” was one of Portugal’s most infamous colonial prisons....
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