While you may be spending a fortune on beauty products to look young, the foods you eat may help provide the glow you desire at a small price.
Eating well does a lot of magic to the body by boosting the immune system and making you look young and fresh through the smoothing of your wrinkles, giving your hair a glossy shine and strengthening flimsy nails.
Diet plays a significant role in how we age and the smart thing to do is to follow a smart approach that incorporates the building blocks of healthy skin and hair which includes, nutrients, minerals and fatty acids as well as antioxidants to protect your body from damaging environmental stresses into your foods. Here are foods that can give you the glow you desire.
Walnuts
Walnuts are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E which are found in the natural oils that keep your hair hydrated and which helps to repair damaged follicles respectively.
Both minerals are the secrets behind having strong, lustrous strands and they can be found in high quantities in walnuts. More so, walnuts provide a rich dose of copper that helps to keep your natural colour rich. Research has shown that a deficiency of copper maybe a factor that makes people prematurely gray.
Avocado
Avocados are rich sources of oleic acid which is an omega-9 fatty acid. This fatty acid helps the skin retain moisture in the outer layer to keep it soft, plump and supple.
Coffee
We all know that coffee can help to jump start your day but you likely don’t know that it also contains bioactive compounds that may help protect your skin from melanoma.
According to a report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the more coffee people drank, the less they had the risk of developing malignant melanoma over a 10-year period than non-coffee drinkers.
Watermelon
This fruit contains lycopene- (an antioxidant compound responsible for the colour of the fruit) which helps protect the skin from ultraviolet damage.
Researchers are of the opinion that watermelon contains up to 40 percent more of this phytochemical than raw tomatoes, which offers much more protection and the advantages of foods than sunscreens.
Eggs
Your fingernails and toe nails are made up of proteins and a deficiency can make them become soft and brittle. To keep your nails thick and strong, you should eat eggs. Eggs are a good source of the B complex vitamin, biotin, which metabolizes amino acids -the building blocks of protein.
Berries
Berries help to boost skin radiance by supplying vitamin C and E. These two vitamins work as antioxidants, helping to brighten the skin, even out its tone and also fight off damage from free-radicals.
Lobsters
Lobsters are rich in zinc, just as shellfish also has anti-inflammatory properties which can help to treat a number of skin issues such as acne. Zinc accelerates the renewal of skin cells, helping the skin to heal from pimples and acne.
This is the reason why a lot of medications used in the treatment of acne contains zinc. As a matter of fact, research has shown that people that have acne have lower levels of zinc than people with clearer skin.
Kale
This leafy vegetable provides a healthy dose of vitamin K which has been known to help promote healthy blood clotting, preventing the blood vessels around the eyes from leaking. It also provides loads of the mineral- iron, which can make your skin glow.
Insufficient levels of iron in your diet can cause your skin to look pale, making it easier to recognise blood vessels under your skin. To get maximum value from your kale, the vegetable is best eaten cooked, not raw. To max out the benefits, eat the veggie cooked, not raw.
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According to Independent Republicans in the House of Representatives have narrowly passed a $4 trillion budget, paving the way for President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul plan.
The budget blueprint will allow Republicans, without any support from Democrats, to pass a measure that could cut taxes by as much as $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years.
The narrow 216-212 vote suggests the difficult battle a tax reform bill will face to make it to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
After nine months in office, Mr Trump has still not secured a major legislative victory.
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Eggs are among the most nutritious foods on the planet.
A whole egg contains a little bit of almost every nutrient we need. A single large boiled egg contains decent amounts of Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Vitamin B6, Calcium and Zinc with 77 calories, 6 grams of protein and 5 grams of healthy fats.
Eggs also contain various other trace nutrients that are important for health.
Here are 10 health benefits of eggs
1. Eggs Are Incredibly Nutritious, Give You a Boost of Energy.
One whole egg contains 6 grams of high-quality protein and only 70 calories.
2. Eggs Contain Choline Which improve liver function.
Each egg contains a healthy dose of choline. Choline, a macronutrient, helps increase your metabolism, transports vitamins and minerals and improves liver function.
3. Eggs increase HDLs (the good cholesterol).
High-density lipoproteins, commonly referred to as the healthy cholesterol, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. You can increase the level of HDLs in your body by regularly consuming eggs.
4. Eggs Contain Lutein and Zeaxanthin, Antioxidants That Have Major Benefits for Eye Health
In addition to protein, Studies have shown that eggs contain high levels of lutein and zeaxanthin antioxidants. These nutrients help build up your retina and reduce the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration.
5. Eggs Are Highly Fulfilling and Tend to Make You Eat Fewer Calories, Helping You Lose Weight
The high amount of protein found in egg places it high on the list of satiating foods.
Eating eggs for breakfast can help you eat less throughout the day.
6. Eggs protect your bones
Eggs have more vitamin D than ever before, and this can help protect your body from osteoporosis.
7. Eggs might reduce your risk of cancer
According to women’s health, Choline found in egg might also reduce the risk of breast cancer in women.
8. Eggs are pregnancy-friendly
Doctors recommend that pregnant and breastfeeding women consume between 450 to 550 milligrams of choline per day and consuming two whole eggs contain 250 milligrams. Choline aids in brain development and helps prevent birth defects.
9. Healthy hair, healthy skin
Eggs contain a B-complex vitamin called biotin. This vitamin helps your body metabolize fats and carbs for energy. As an added plus, biotin can improve your hair, nails and skin!
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Peter Okoye, one half of the Psquare group, has stated the only way he thinks the group can ever come back as one.
In a new interview with Vibe Magazine, Peter who now answers by the name Mr. P said, there is every room for reconciliation if only his brother and bandmate, Paul, will and can accord him some respect.
In his words:
“Of course. When the respect is back. When you stay apart for a while, the respect will come. We’ve lost it.
People will never understand but we’ve lost that respect. Like I said in the open letter, we will work in future but when we come back, it will be from respect.”
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Some people believe stress makes them perform better, but that’s rarely true. Research consistently shows the opposite that stress usually causes a person to make more mistakes.
From early aging to heart problems, the effects of the day-in day-out grind can damage your health in irreversible ways.
The accumulated stresses of everyday life can damage your health in irreversible ways from early aging to heart problems to long-term disability.
Here are six examples dramatic negative impacts on your health.
1. Stress can promote disease
Stress has been linked to illnesses that include cancer, lung disease, fatal accidents, suicide, and cirrhosis of the liver.
2. Stress can ruin your heart
Stress can physically damage your heart muscle.
Stress damages your heart because stress hormones increase your heart rate and constrict your blood vessels. This forces your heart to work harder, and increases your blood pressure.
3. Stress can make you gain weight
Researchers confirmed that when people find themselves in stressful situations, they are likely to consume 40 percent more food than normal.
4. Stress can make you look older
Chronic stress contributes significantly to premature aging.
Researchers discovered that stress shortens telomeres structures on the end of chromosomes so that new cells can’t grow as quickly.
This leads to the inevitable signs of aging: wrinkles, weak muscles, poor eyesight, and more.
5. Stress weakens your immune system
The connection between mind and body is often underestimated. But everyone has experienced a cold when they can least afford to.
That’s because the high demands stress puts on the body make the immune system suffer, which makes you more vulnerable to colds and infections.
6. Stress can lead to long-term disability
The potential dangers created by even mild stress should not be underestimated. They can lead to long-term disability serious enough to render you unable to work.
Researchers reached this conclusion that long term stress can lead to angina, high blood pressure, stroke and most times mental illness. (TheWhistler)
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According to a report by Punchng, President Donald Trump hit back at critics within his own Republican party Wednesday, painting them as outliers in what is otherwise a “love fest” between him and allied lawmakers.
A day after Republican senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker described Trump as having a “flagrant disregard” for truth and decency and of “debasing” the nation, the combative president shot back.
Trying to forestall a wider party backlash, Trump said Flake and Corker had decided to resign from politics because they could not be reelected.
“The reason Flake and Corker dropped out of the Senate race is very simple, they had zero chance of being elected. Now act so hurt & wounded!” Trump tweeted.
“Jeff Flake, with an 18% approval rating in Arizona, said ‘a lot of my colleagues have spoken out.’ Really, they just gave me a standing O!” Trump said, hours after meeting Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
“The meeting with Republican Senators yesterday, outside of Flake and Corker, was a love fest with standing ovations and great ideas for USA!” he continued.
Many Republicans privately express grave misgivings about Trump’s behavior in office, but remain publicly supportive.
They see his presidency as the best way to enact long-standing party goals like tax reform and cutting the size of government.
The White House has worked hard to keep the party rank and file focused on those targets.
“Working hard on the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. Great support from so many sides. Big winners will be the middle class, business & JOBS,” Trump also tweeted Wednesday.
But Trump’s ascendency has also led to a battle for the soul of the Republican party, with establishment conservatives struggling to stop an insurgency from the more populist and nationalist wing of the party.
AFP
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A nine-year joint research project conducted by VIB, KU Leuven and VUB has led to a crucial breakthrough in cancer research. Scientists have clarified how the Warburg effect, a phenomenon in which cancer cells rapidly break down sugars, stimulates tumor growth. This discovery provides evidence for a positive correlation between sugar and cancer, which may have far-reaching impacts on tailor-made diets for cancer patients. The research has been published in the leading academic journal Nature Communications.
This project was started in 2008 under the leadership of Johan Thevelein (VIB-KU Leuven), Wim Versées (VIB-VUB) and Veerle Janssens (KU Leuven). Its main focus was the Warburg effect, or the observation that tumors convert significantly higher amounts of sugar into lactate compared to healthy tissues. As one of the most prominent features of cancer cells, this phenomenon has been extensively studied and even used to detect brain tumors, among other applications. But thus far, it has been unclear whether the effect is merely a symptom of cancer, or a cause.
Sugar awakens cancer cells
While earlier research into cancer cell metabolism focused on mapping out metabolic peculiarities, this study clarifies the link between metabolic deviation and oncogenic potency in cancerous cells.
Prof. Johan Thevelein (VIB-KU Leuven): “Our research reveals how the hyperactive sugar consumption of cancerous cells leads to a vicious cycle of continued stimulation of cancer development and growth. Thus, it is able to explain the correlation between the strength of the Warburg effect and tumor aggressiveness. This link between sugar and cancer has sweeping consequences. Our results provide a foundation for future research in this domain, which can now be performed with a much more precise and relevant focus.”
Yeast as an advantageous model organism
Yeast cell research was essential to the discovery, as these cells contain the same ‘Ras’ proteins commonly found in tumour cells, which can cause cancer in mutated form. Using yeast as a model organism, the research team examined the connection between Ras activity and the highly active sugar metabolism in yeast.
Prof. Johan Thevelein (VIB-KU Leuven): “We observed in yeast that sugar degradation is linked via the intermediate fructose 1,6-biophosphate to the activation of Ras proteins, which stimulate the multiplication of both yeast and cancer cells. It is striking that this mechanism has been conserved throughout the long evolution of yeast cell to human.
“The main advantage of using yeast was that our research was not affected by the additional regulatory mechanisms of mammalian cells, which conceal crucial underlying processes. We were thus able to target this process in yeast cells and confirm its presence in mammalian cells. However, the findings are not sufficient to identify the primary cause of the Warburg effect. Further research is needed to find out whether this primary cause is also conserved in yeast cells.”
Source:www.sciencedaily.com
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Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has said she will sue any media platform that publishes an “edited video clip” set to be released by her ex-husband Olakunle Churchill.
The actress said the video has been edited to portray her as “being involved in domestic violence against him”.
In a statement released by her lawyer, Dikeh said the video set to be released was her reaction to physical abuse suffered from Churchill.
The statement entitled ‘Imminent release of edited video on Tonto Dikeh by ex-husband’ was signed for Festus Keyamo Chambers by Okechukwu Uju-Azorji and John Ainetor.
“We act as solicitors to Miss Tonto Dikeh, a prominent Nollywood actress,” it read.
“It has come to our knowledge that her ex-husband, Mr. Olakunle Churchill has perfected plans to release a short and edited video depicting and portraying our client as being involved in some domestic violence against him.
“Our client wants all bloggers and/or journalists to request for the full version of the video showing the said domestic scene which started with a physical abuse of our client by her ex-husband, which earned her a swollen face.
“Her ex-husband only intends to release our client’s reaction to the assault on her and not the assault itself.
“We shall be prepared to take legal action against any blogger/journalist that uses the edited version without insisting on or showing the full version.”
Churchill and Dikeh have been on the warpath since they parted ways on an acrimonious note. They had a child from their short-lived union.
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According to Daily Post, Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja has given reasons he demanded on Monday that former President, Goodluck Jonathan appear in court on Wednesday.
The judge confirmed that he had signed a subpoena compelling Jonathan to appear in court on Wednesday to testify in defence of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh.
Justice Abang made the confirmation on Tuesday during the resumed trial of Metuh and his company, Destra Investments Limited, on seven counts of money laundering involving alleged cash transaction of $2m and fraudulent receipt of N400m meant for procurement of arms from the Office of the National Security Adviser.
Abang said he received Metuh’s application for a subpoena to be issued on Jonathan at about 3.59pm on Monday.
The judge said, “Indeed, at the close of business yesterday being October 23, 2017 precisely at about 3.59pm, the registrar forwarded to the court in chamber a subpoena to compel former President Goodluck Jonathan to appear in court to testify a the instance of the first defendant (Metuh).
“Therefore in line with section 241(1) of Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 and having regard to the subsisting judgment of the Court of Appeal in the appeal CA/A/159C/2017, between Olisa Metuh and Federal Republic of Nigeria dated September 29, 2017 to the effect that it will be tantamount to violating the right of the first defendant to fair hearing not to sign the subpoena.
“I have no option other than to sign a subpoena to compel former President Goodluck Jonathan to appear in court on September 25, 2017 (Wednesday)to give evidence at the instance of the first defendant.”
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