Restaurant food not much healthier than fast food

 

Home cooking is still the best way to control the calories, fat, sugar and other nutrients that families consume, a new U.S. study suggests. Researchers found that eating food from restaurants - whether from fast food places, or better establishments - led to increases in calories, fat and sodium compared to meals made at home.

There might be no saving the world's top banana

 Six decades after a banana-killing fungus all but wiped out plantations across Latin America, a new strain threatens to destroy global harvests.

Why Adults Should be Immunised

Consultant Pulmonologist (specialist in lungs and breathing), Dr. Obianuju Ozoh, in an interview with Rebecca Ejifoma highlighted the importance of children and adult immunisation in Nigeria

Ebola: Counting the Cost

Months after Nigeria was declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group gathered stakeholders at a forum in Lagos to discuss lessons learnt from the crisis and possible ways to prevent future outbreak, writes Martins Ifijeh

Best Health Practices to Improve Your Life -- In and Out of the Office

You know it. I know it. We all know research supports it: Healthy people think, adapt and perform better.

That goes for both in and out of the office.
Here, four key areas -- eating smarter, moving more, sleeping soundly and thinking clearly -- that, when improved upon, enable you to be able to perform at your best.

Laboratory Investigations in Fertility Treatment

Adelay in conception, is an indication, that there is a problem of infertility.  Problems in infertility occur at any time in the process of conception, and these may include 

Playing Safe with Your Food

It is believed that foodborne and waterborne diseases kill an estimated two million people annually including children, particularly in developing countries.

21 health benefits of marijuana

  Despite the fact that the Drug Enforcement Agency categorizes marijuana as a schedule I drug, one that has no accepted medical use, a majority of Americans have thought medical pot should be legal since the late 1990s — and a majority now support recreational legalization as well.

How Diets Help In Management Of Diabetes Mellitus

Medical experts say that healthy eating is a cornerstone of healthy living especially in diabetes. ENDURANCE ONOME writes on this 
According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), diabetes is a group of metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia (high level of glucose in the blood) resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both.

Top Brain Foods For Children

A healthy, balanced diet is not just good for kid’s bodies, it’s good for their brains, too. The right foods can improve brain function, memory, and concentration. Like the body, the brain absorbs nutrients from the foods we eat, and these 10 “superfoods” on the following slides can help children boost their brainpower.