The skin of the feet can be particularly dry sometimes especially at the sole. In fact, this is a common foot problem as one ages. Dry skin at the feet may get easily irritated, crack, bleed or itch. Infections may easily set in further compounding an already existent problem. In this piece, we should get…
The pandemic COVID-19 is a global epidemic. We know that thousands of people have died, millions lost their jobs and millions are out of school. Parents, teachers and guardians are extremely worried about the effect that this might have on children of all ages now and down the way. Some bright spots can be hard…
Eggs are loaded with a variety of beneficial nutrients.However, the nutritional value of an egg can vary greatly, depending on whether you eat the whole egg or just the egg whites. This article will tell you which is healthier between egg white and yolk, the benefits of eating either of the two and health benefits…
In the past week, we became familiar with another new phrase in the pandemic vocabulary. It’s none other than ‘community transmission’ which has been said to account for the jump in number of cases discovered daily. The Lagos state commissioner of health was quoted saying “The number of cases without a travel history has increased…
I believe we’d all unanimously agree that waking up with an headache isn’t a pleasant experience. Sleep is that which we do because we’re exhausted and we expect that on waking, we feel reinvigorated. A headache doesn’t quite fit that description. However, research tells us that 1 in 13 persons usually wake up with an…
Now, this is quite a paradoxical statement, don’t you think? Many things have happened in the last few months but none of it can be comfortably tagged as ‘healing’ definitely not with a microscopic organism holding the entire human race to ransom. Well, it’s true we’re going through a lot currently. It’s also true that…
In Chicago, African-Americans account for 72% of deaths. For a city with a population made of only 30% African-Americans, something definitely isn’t right. It doesn’t just stop with Chicago. Many American communities with a considerable population of African-Americans clearly show similar racial disparities when covid-19 data is collected. A number of reasonable causes have been…
The coronavirus pandemic is responsible for some of the most drastic unemployment levels the world has ever known. In the last week alone, 6.6 million people applied for jobless benefits, according to the Labor Department in the United States of America (USA). In Nigeria, we all know a lot of people are unemployed prior to…
For many Nigerians, yoga is simply a series of neck stretching, back breaking exercises involving body poses that we often get to see in Hollywood movies. We’re accustomed to the exercising in a gym filled with various instruments. Well, yoga does offer a lot too. In fact, it goes beyond the physical effects. There’s a…
Necessity is the mother of innovations, as they often say. This is no doubt true with regards to response against the ravaging viral pandemic. In a bid to halt the spread of this virus, a number of countries have employed novel developments in the world of technology and this has proven to be an added…