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How do you raise a healthy family even when you are not from one? Do you know that sustaining a marriage and raising children are challenging things to do but can be easier with proper planning, determination and prior written vision? Raising a healthy family entails a lot, it should therefore be planned, forecasted and mapped. An important and first thing to do so a family can stand firmly is to have a vision to direct you and be determined to get it right. It is about laying a foundation to fall back on, a template of how you want your family to be, bearing in mind that having a healthy family is not just about a member of the family not falling ill. It is way more than that. You can read about other aspects of health in the post complete health . Concept of health embraces the social and mental aspects too, so a healthy family is complete in all these aspects. I t is important to have a vision, a picture of what you will like your family to look like. Before you develop a vision to ...

You are educated, right! beautiful. Do you know that only right education, right information can be a strong pillar of a healthy family? We have introduced the 5 pillars of a healthy family in the first post, and I have discussed having a vision and proper planning as the first pillar. The next on the list is education and information.  Education is the best legacy they say, it is the process of achieving, values, skills , beliefs and moral habits.  When we are talking about education as a pillar of a healthy family, we will be short of credibility if we only look into formal or classroom education.  Informal education and information is an integral part of this pillar such as including cultures and social values. What does your culture, belief system and values teach you about being healthy? How do you perceive illness and health from the point of view of your cultural and religious background?  Unto the classroom or Internet students, what information do you know ...

How can our world be more healthy? How can we overcome outbreaks  of diseases? Where do we start from to ensure an individual is healthy and lives life to the fullest? It may seem to be difficult and a capital project, yes, but there's a place we can start from, The family.  What is family in its entirety?  The family is the smallest unit of the society, everyone belongs to one either by birth or adoption, either 'legally' or 'illegally'. Someone must have an origin, a generation, a root, a family. This special group comprises of those related by blood or marriage. It could be the nuclear type (just father, mother and children) or the extended type which may include every other person. Medically, a family can be related to a household, the group that eats from the same kitchen or pot. I hope I have brought up the memory of your primary school definition of a family.  What is a healthy family?  A 'just a family' is differen...

In 200level medical school, I had this room mate who was a good cook but her food seems saltless to my taste bud. Tolulope, now Dr Akinnimi Tolulope will cook nice food yet with as little salt and oil as possible. It was strange to me even though then I had a little knowledge of why I should reduce salt intake but I couldn't really comprehend the greatness of its importance.  Looking back now, with so much medical knowledge I have gained over 8 years ago, I must say that my room mate was wiser then. You see, one thing about habit changing is that it could look strange to you and others at first but when you keep at it, it becomes your character. Reduction of salt in diet can become a part of you. Wait, salt is very important, yes, very very impotant. Salt is used for preserving food and to prevent food spoilage, we also use it more importantly to add taste to our food. Salt (table salt) contains sodium and chlorine. It is this sodium content that we need to watch, since we cannot s...

Do you know that there were over 8,000 cases of hepatitis A reported in the United State of America from the period of 2016-2019? Hepatitis A outbreak in the US by state.   That's was not a mere statistics but a significant one.  Welcome once again to another read on hepatitis.  This post will be based on one of the viral causes of hepatitis we discussed in part 1: Hepatitis A. Kindly read part 1 if you haven't What is hepatitis A? It is a kind of hepatitis caused by hepatitis A virus. How can someone get hepatitis A? Note that hepatitis A is very contagious, it has higher rate of transmission from person to person. 1. Commonly through contact with feces of an infected person... This means is referred to as feco-oral when your hand comes in contact with feces of an infected person and you ingest it. This is the similarity between this virus and hepatitis E virus. Feco-oral, of course can go in many directions. a. Buying food at restaurant when personal hygiene of those co...

 In late 2013 my husband was given the terrible news that he had cirrhosis (hardening) of the liver. He was not a drinker neither does he practice self medication. unfortunately he did not respond to the treatments available and after suffering but still wanting to live and managing to ‘cope’ he eventually died on 5th August 2014 from a terrible liver disease. I shall never forget this terrible disease and how little is known about it, how little is done about it and everything that went with it.  That was a tale told by Veronica, a woman whose husband died from liver failure.   Introduction to Hepatitis. An important organ. Ongoing hepatitis Your liver is as important as your brain, kidneys and heart. It is just at the upper right part of your tummy. Hepatitis is when the liver get inflamed...like liver swells, becomes reddish painful and warm. This is usually due to many causes but it is a lead way to liver failure. It could be acute ( very urgent, needing immediate att...

Glory to God in the highest for the opportunity He granted me write and the grace He gave you to read from part one to this final part. When I started this series, I got some few feedbacks that it seems I am writing from my religious exposure and ideas, well, God never change, His principles remain the same whether men are willing or not. This is actually not about religion but the truth, trust me. As long as you believe in God's existence, you should read...I am going to reveal more mysteries today about sex. Before I go further, I will like to tell you that this write up is an appeal to your subconscious mind to have a rethink about decisions as regard sex and sexual activities. This piece will also explain why extra-marital sex should also be reconsidered. We are about to go spiritual. In my first post, I defined the word spiritual as things pertaining to the spirit of man. Things we may not understand with our ordinary understanding. Things of the spirit are mysteries, but God ...