Category: Natural Health

Natural Health

How Guava Fruits and Leaves Improve Female Fertility

Benadine Nonye
How Guava Fruits and Leaves Improve Female Fertility

Guava fruits and guava leaves improve female fertility: Having babies has been the problems of many homes, situation that might tear down young homes. Children do act as mediator between the father and the mother and sometimes become the link to their stay together. Some couples might face difficulty in getting babies especially the inability of the woman to be pregnant. Suggested medication to trigger hormones in the woman’s womb help to some extent. There’s one substance present in Guava called ‘ folate ‘ by scientists. They found out that…

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Health Benefits of Pounded Yam

Benadine Nonye
Health Benefits of Pounded Yam

Pounded yam (Dioscorea spp.) are a good source of vitamin C – 27% of the daily value for fighting infections such as colds and flu and quick wound healing, anti-aging, strong bones, and healthy immune function. It also provides good amounts of fiber, potassium, manganese, and metabolic B vitamins. Brief History on the Benefits of Pounded Yam Centuries ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine made this great statement saying “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine, your food”. So you see, food especially real natural food has…

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11 Healing Powers of Siam Weed (Awolowo Leaves) Updated

Benadine Nonye
Siam Weed with Healing Powers

Siam Weed (Chromolaena odorata) popularly known as Awolowo Leaves also called Independence leaf is a flowering shrub with amazing healing powers and health benefits which are mostly unknown to mankind due to lack of information about this amazing plant and they belong to the sunflower family.  It was discovered in Nigeria shortly after our Independence from the colonial rule in 1960. Some persons said maybe it was one of God’s way to soothe and heal our pains as a Nation, but I believe it was a beautiful coincidence. The fact…

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29 Healing Powers of Bitterleaf (Vernonia Amygdalina)

Benadine Nonye
Bitterleaf

Bitterleaf (Vernonia amygdalina) with African common names include grawa (Amharic), ewuro (Yoruba), etidot (Efik), onugbu (Igbo), ityuna (Tiv), oriwo (Edo), Awɔnwono (Akan), chusar-doki (Hausa), mululuza (Luganda), labwori (Acholi), olusia (Luo), ndoleh (Cameroon) and olubirizi (Lusoga) is one of the widely use cooking vegetable in Africa and it can grow in any part of the world. Very few people are aware that this vegetable is highly medicinal and can be used to cure diseases as well as help to keep our body in good health condition. The important thing this leaf…

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Skip Late Night Snacks

Benadine Nonye
snacks

Weight gain and obesity has been described as an epidemic and a complex problem around the world. Previous research has linked poor diet (using snacks as a case study) to weight gain and high body fat, and eating later in the day has also been described as a risk factor for weight gain; however, the impact of an individual’s body clock, independent of the time of day of food consumption, has not been explored. In a recent study published online in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) on September…

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Higher coffee consumption associated with lower risk of early death

Benadine Nonye
coffee

Drinking four cups of coffee each day can be part of a healthy diet in healthy people, new research suggests. Higher coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of death, according to research presented today at ESC Congress. The observational study in nearly 20,000 participants suggests that coffee can be part of a healthy diet in healthy people. “Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages around the world,” said Dr Adela Navarro, a cardiologist at Hospital de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. “Previous studies have suggested that drinking it…

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