The term “Porn addiction” is not an official medical diagnosis but experiencing an uncontrollable desire or compulsion to view porn can be problematic for some people as other behavioral or drug addictions. In fact, research suggests that intense pornography shares the same mechanisms with substance or drug addiction. So how do you know if you…
DetailsThis article is for parents or caregivers who must or have decided to use infant formula to feed their baby. If you have not decided how you will feed your baby, it’s important to discuss this with your midwife, doctor or nurse first. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breast feeding for at least…
DetailsIt’s past 8pm, you’ve had a healthy dinner and you know you should stop eating, but you’re craving for something sweet or you just want that chewy feeling. Maybe you’ve just come home from work, changed into your night-wear. It’s been a long day and you’re after a reward. In both instances, you may eat…
DetailsMost parents would rather avoid the discussion. As a Nigerian youth myself, I believe that I speak for the majority when I say that I barely had any form of sex education from my parents. Thinking of it now, it would have been awkward for us both. Religion and school did most of this teaching…
DetailsDo you have a skin care routine? Yeah, this probably sounds like something women who belong to the bourgeoisie would do. It sounds like it should cost a lot and it isn’t for everyone. Well, a skin care routine is for anyone who desires to keep healthy skin and that’s just about everybody. We might…
DetailsSites of scar tissue shouldn’t be hard to find on any random person. We all have our little paper cuts and injuries inflicted by some sharp object. Some wounds heal completely without any trace of the injury. Others leave a tell-tale scar on the site affected. Some ‘over-heal’ with excessive scarring. This is the basis…
DetailsGrowing up, our parents and society might have whispered into our ears one way or the other that all one needed to get pregnant was penetration. Some young girls were even told that no boy should literally touch them at all. It was all just to keep in line with the now dwindling societal value…
DetailsThe first thing that probably comes to mind when one feels a breast lump is the dreaded breast cancer. Much more often than not, one is wrong. In fact, non cancerous breast lumps account for about 80% of breast lumps. The other 20% are the cancerous ones. What are the non cancerous lumps? They’re also…
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