HEALTH ISSUES

It wasn’t always easy—but it paid off. Like most women, I’m a night nibbler. I’m good all day and then my hunger demons (and emotional eating) come out in the evenings. So I decided to try and stop eating two hours before bed for a whole month to see what ...

Sex is good and it is meant to be enjoyed. If you want your day to be hitch-free and stress free, then, you should start your day with a good roll in the bed with your partner. Adults who make love first thing in the morning apparently not only feel ...

An STD is characterized by any disease that is spread by one partner to another via sexual contact, and that can be orally, vaginally, anally, or via hand to genital contact. Regardless, they are spread when one partner passes the disease-causing organism onto the other. Obviously, preventing STD transmission is ...

HIV/AIDs is arguably the most talked about sexually transmitted disease in Nigeria (which, by the way, has the world’s second largest number of people with HIV), however many people still don’t know many facts about the disease. Here are some of the myths peddled by ignorant folk followed by the ...

I have been fighting live battles, with some male chauvinist, who think that infertility and inability of women to conceive male children are the sole responsibility of women. One incontrovertible medical evidence is that only males determine the sex of their babies. Some die hard males, called science a liar. ...

Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory have called for a law that will allow female employees in Nigeria to have a day off work to observe their menstrual period each month. The residents made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria  in Abuja recently. The call ...

…What you should do instead! If you’ve ever had a urinary tract infection, you know they are their own special kind of hell. And considering one in five women gets a UTI at least once in her life, according to the National Kidney Foundation, chances are your ticket will get ...

Regular sex can help protect men against prostate cancer, a medical study has found.   It showed that the most sexually-active males had less chance of contracting the potentially-fatal disease. Frequent sex was also linked to less aggressive prostate cancer, which is more likely to respond to treatment and has ...

I really don’t seem to understand why men think of vibrators as competition. Like seriously, if the toy that can’t pull her hair, spank her, bite her or talk dirty to her can compete with you, you need serious training. I really don’t seem to understand why men think of ...

The term “psychopath” makes people a little nervous. So if you were regularly hanging out with a psychopath, you’d probably want to know, right? Scientists can help with that. They’ve now discovered an easy way to detect if someone has higher odds of being a psychopath: Watch how they yawn. A new study published in ...