Unusual usage of eggshells

he next time you’re making omelets, don’t toss your shells. Eggshells have nearly as many uses as the eggs themselves. Here are a few ways to get the most from your eggs.

Put them on your face
 To restore youthful glow to your skin, pulverise clean, dried eggshells with a mortar and pestle. Mix the powder with some egg white and spread on your skin. Allow the mixture to dry before washing it off.

Clear up your skin
 Drop an eggshell into a small container of apple cider vinegar and let it soak for a couple of days. Dab the mixture on minor skin irritations or on itchy skin.

Sweeten your coffee
  Add some crushed eggshells to ground coffee before brewing it to make it taste less bitter.

Clean your house with them
  Ground eggshells make a wonderful (and non toxic!) abrasive for those tough-to-clean pots, pans, and thermoses. Mix them with a little soapy water for a powerful clean.

Unclog your drains
  Keep a few ground eggshells in your kitchen sink strainer. They trap additional solids and when they slowly break down, they will help to naturally clean your pipes on their way out.

Fertilise your garden
 Eggshells are rich in calcium and other minerals that help your garden thrive. Crush eggshells into tiny pieces and use them as compost.

Fortify your pet
 Dry eggshells in a 250-degree over for 30 minutes. Then put them in a plastic zipper bag, seal it, and crush the shells with a rolling pin until they are a fine powder. Put this into your dog’s food as a great calcium supplement to help its bones and teeth.

Scare away slugs
  Crush eggshells and scatter them around your vegetables and flowers to fend off hungry herbivores such as slugs, snails, and cutworms, without using toxic pesticides. The smell of eggs will also deter deer.

The Petroleum Industry

Jobs in the petroleum industry are fun and exciting because they provide people with a chance to "do geology" in a high-technology, high-data environment that isn't found in most other geoscience professional jobs. Even better, many petroleum companies provide generous salary and benefits packages that include annual bonuses, flexible work schedules and company-sponsored training. Petroleum geoscientists gather, process, and analyze seismic data and well data in order to locate drillsites for their companies. During a typical career, people learn to locate three different types of drillsites: exploration drillsites (big scale/high risk), field-development drillsites (medium scale/medium risk) and producing-field drillsites (small scale/lowest risk). Most petroleum industry jobs are based in major cities like Houston and Denver and require some domestic and foreign travel as part of the job assignment.

TB, malaria, HIV: Deadlysome three

Three diseases seem to be holding developing countries like ours by the jugular. Two of these diseases — HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis — are communicable, while one — malaria — isn’t.

While they don’t necessarily lead to death when managed effectively, sometimes, they do lead to morbidity — a state of unwholesome feelings.

Tuberculosis is an air-borne infectious disease, which, though preventable and curable, still afflicts millions of people globally, including Nigeria.

According to a World Health Organisation factsheet, in 2011 alone, 8.7 million people fell ill with TB, including 1.1 million cases among people living with HIV.

That same year, 1.4 million people died from TB, including 430,000 among people who were HIV-positive.

Experts say this infection is one of the top killers of women worldwide, as a whopping half a million women died from TB in 2011 alone.

Worse still, there were an estimated 310,000 cases of multidrug-resistant TB among notified TB patients with pulmonary TB.

Malaria seems to be present with us perpetually, and that is one reason why many take to self-medication whenever they are down with what they self-diagnose as a bout of malaria.

Experts warn that though malaria may be endemic in the country, it is one deadly disease that should not be trifled with. The WHO says if not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs.

Many people are not aware of the fact that malaria can cause:

HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF CANNED JUICE INTAKE

Different brands of canned juice are a common feature at parties. VIP tables must be filled with assorted brands to demonstrate the financial capability of the host. Serving juice at parties has become a sort of status symbol. Not too important guests may be served sachet water, but being denied fruit juice at parties brings a lot of good. Don’t you think so?
WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE INHERENT DANGERS OF CANNED JUICE INTAKE? 
 Potassium is substantially lost when foods are canned or frozen. Not only that, the natural balance between sodium and potassium is actually reversed. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Nutritive Value of American Foods Common Units, no 456, a cup of raw peas contains 458 milligrams of potassium and just 3 milligrams of sodium. It says that when those same peas are canned and salt added during processing, it raises the sodium level to 588mg (a nearly 200- fold increase), while potassium is roughly halved down to 239mg.
WHAT IS THE HEALTH IMPLICATION OF THIS?
Given the blood pressure-lowering effects of potassium, low levels of this mineral in the canned juice may precipitate hypertension and kidney failure. The body functions normally with low level of sodium in foods ingested, but canning raises the level of sodium in canned fruit juice. This exposes consumers to hypertension, diabetes and cancer.

The message on the label of canned fruit juice contains chemical preservatives. Only undiscerning persons will believe that canned juice has no additive or chemical preservative. Even in elementary chemistry, students know that when fruits are juiced and exposed to air for just 10 minutes, all the nutrients would be leached into the air, leaving degraded juice. By the second day, such juice must have started fermenting, with its chemistry and quality totally different from what it was naturally.

HEALTHY NUTRITION

While it’s true that the fields of diet and nutrition are areas of evolving research, there are some basic concepts you can keep in mind to be better equipped about dietary advice.

•Water: Water is essential for our bodies because it is in every cell, tissue, and organ in your body. That’s why getting enough water every day is important for your health. Water helps your body with the following: Keeps its temperature normal; lubricates and cushions your joints; protects your spinal cord and other sensitive tissues; gets rid of wastes through urination, perspiration, and bowel movements.

•Dietary fat: While fats are essential for normal body function, some fats are better for you than others. Trans fats, saturated fats and cholesterol are less healthy than polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats.

•Most of the fat that you eat should come from unsaturated sources: polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats. In general, nuts, vegetable oils, and fish are sources of unsaturated fats.

Carbohydrates: Your body uses carbohydrates to make glucose, which is the fuel that gives you energy and helps keep everything going. Your body can use glucose immediately or store it in your liver and muscles for when it is needed. You can find carbohydrates in the following: fruits, vegetables, breads, cereals, and other grains; milk and milk products, foods containing added sugars (e.g. cakes, cookies, and sugar-sweetened beverages). Healthier foods higher in carbohydrates include ones that provide dietary fiber and whole grains as well as those without added sugars.

•Proteins: are part of every cell, tissue, and organ in our bodies. These body proteins are constantly being broken down and replaced.

EATING HABITS REFRESHED

Do you feel like your diet needs a fresh start? When you abandon healthy food in favour of whatever is nearby or comes out of a packet or pouch, it’s time for a ‘clean’ break. It’s easy and the payoffs include skyrocketing energy, weight loss, better control over your appetite, and even better looking skin.

Just follow these five simple rules and try our clean-eating meal ideas:

EAT ONLY WHOLE FOODS

 That means eating oats and blueberries rather than a blueberry muffin. When you eat packaged foods, only buy brands that contain “real food” ingredients — ingredients you easily recognise, can pronounce, and would use to make a “from scratch” version in your own kitchen. If a food contains even one ingredient that makes you think “huh?” skip it, at least during the clean eating challenge.

KEEP MEALS SIMPLE

 Delicious, healthy food doesn’t have to contain a lot of ingredients. Keep your meal ingredients to a minimum; just be sure to include a source of whole grains, lean protein and healthy fat at each meal.

EAT SLOWER

 Put your fork or spoon down between every bite, and focus on the flavours and textures of your food.

EAT ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE

 Try not to let more than about four hours go by between meals or snacks. Steady meal timing helps regulate your digestive system, blood sugar and insulin levels, and appetite.

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

 Eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full, meaning satisfied, not stuffed. The recipes here intentionally don’t provide amounts. That’s so you get used to relying on your hunger and fullness cues to tell you when to stop and start eating.

Whats with Nose Bleeding?

Nose bleed

Bleeding through the nose is a condition that is common in young and adult. But sufferers have always employed a wrong tactic to stop it.

 The bleeding usually comes from a blood vessel at the very front part of the nose. Anterior nosebleeds are usually easy to control, either by measures that can be performed at home or by a doctor. Posterior nosebleeds are much less common than anterior nosebleeds. They tend to occur more often in elderly people. The bleeding usually comes from an artery in the back part of the nose. These nosebleeds are more complicated and usually require admission to the hospital and management by an otolaryngologist (an ear, nose, and throat specialist).

Nosebleed in children could be as a result of trauma or tumour, but in adults, the likely cause is hypertension, especially when there is no injury in the nose. Nosebleed also occurs in people that have bleeding disorder, which is called haemophilia. This means when the blood doesn’t clot because of a deficiency.”

Causes include excessive nose picking especially during a harsh and dry season, which will further aggravate the condition. But for more serious problems, like a vascular and or platelet disorder, the bleeding might be more intense or prolonged. The nosebleed can last for as long as the trigger persists. “It can be treated based on what the primary problem is. For example, a nose picker should be discouraged from the act. For deeper problems such as the platelet disorder, the individual will benefit from replacement therapy. Once an individual has nosebleed, he or she should seek immediate medical attention so as not to aggravate the condition.