As fast as children whiz from classroom to activity to home and back again, their brains are just as rapidly growing and changing. The foods they eat are important. These years are critical for brain development, and what they eat affects focus and cognitive skills. 1. Rolex The protein and nutrients in eggs help kids concentrate, according to nutrition experts. How to Serve It: Fold scrambled eggs into a whole-grain chapatti (yes, Rolex) for a filling breakfast or late-afternoon snack. The protein-carb combo tides kids over until the next meal with no sugar-induced energy crash. You can also try serving egg…
Author: Onyinyechi Nwanunobi
To have a hobby is to have a life. In a busy world where we spend 70 percent of our waking time at work, it is easy to forget to have a life outside work. What we do outside of work can often contribute to our success at work. Maintaining a healthy level of stress has many positive benefits but there is a thin line between healthy and negative stress which we all cross from time to time. That is where the hobby usually comes in to balance out the excess stress, proving crucial for mental health. Here are the…
Suffering from loose motion? Don’t forget to add these 5 foods to your plate, for speedy recovery. Diarrhoea or loose motion is very common among all the age groups and in most cases the symptoms associated with the condition disappear within a day or two. However, unmanaged diarrhoea can lead to other health issues, including dehydration. But do we all know what causes it? Causes of diarrhoea Diarrhoea is a condition in which the digestive system fails to function properly. It can be caused by a bacterial infection, a virus, food intolerance (some uncooked or undercooked dishes, for instance), food…
White rice is a staple in many households because it is easy to cook, light on the stomach and all age groups find it delicious. People who have struggled with excess weight and have tried to lose weight have come to learn that rice, especially white rice, makes it hard to lose it. It has a bad reputation for several other nutritional problems. White rice got a bad reputation because it is highly processed and lacks the vitamins and minerals, present in its counterpart, brown rice. While it is delicious and easy to tempt us to have as often as…
We use cooking oil regularly to prepare all sorts of dishes, including meat, eggs, vegetables, sauces, even for katogo, but few people choose their cooking oil carefully. As it turns out, there is good and bad cooking oil, healthy and unhealthy. Experts say that the goodness or badness of cooking oil depends on whether the oil is still healthy to consume after you’ve heated it during cooking. This is because cooking oils have a range of smoke points, or temperatures at which they’re no longer stable. Cooking oils that tolerate high heat cooking are good while the opposite is the…
If you’ve been to the gym lately, you might have seen a group of people dancing to loud, vigorous music in the name of aerobics, except it is not aerobics in the classic sense of the word; it is just vigorous dancing named Zumba. As it turns out, dancing is more fun than exercising which explains why more people go to the gym to dance than to lift weights and stretch. As it turns out, again, dancing regularly has huge health benefits. So if work is stressing you out and you hate going to the gym, dance. It can be…
Ask anyone who grew up with a pet about their memories of the experience and they will tell you heartfelt stories of true friendship, happiness and untainted love. Pets mean so much to children and writers of children’s books know how to take advantage of this to make millions in book sales. Pick up a book from a young child’s bookshelf and you’re more likely to find an animal protagonist than a human one. Children choose story books about animal characters than human characters for a reason. They can’t get enough of them and there seems to be an spiritual…
Donating blood is one of the most selfless gestures anyone can do. Putting your own blood on the line just to save someone else’s life; someone you don’t know. It’s one of the best aspects of civilization. Having said that, if you are planning to donate blood, there are certain foods you can eat to help your body replenish the blood that you just gave away. It is important to keep your diet healthy and nutritious post-blood-donation. Yes, blood donation is a noble act but how you take care of your body post-blood donation is important. What happens when you…
Insomnia and other sleep-related problems can be a nuisance when it goes on and on. And for many people, remedies come in the form of alcohol, marijuana, medication and so on; all external solutions, but there are solutions inside our very souls, as it turns out. One among six people suffers from insomnia and other sleep-related issues according to several studies. Many people might have sleep problems that aren’t insomnia. Their symptoms would generally be erratic sleep, nightmares, light sleep, etc. This could be caused by a lot of factors like stress, burnout, over-thinking, unusual sleep cycle, etc. But this…
Is it really possible to shower the wrong way? We all shower every day (at least that’s the hope) and it goes without saying that it is a simple task that can’t be done wrong except of course if you are four years old. But as it turns out, there is the right way and wrong way of doing everything. We just have to live with this. Here are the common showering mistakes that you should never make. 5 Showering Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make Here are the showering mistakes, according to experts that you should not make: Duration of shower…
About a month ago, Kampala was shrouded in a particularly thick cloud of smoke for about four days that no one seemed to want to talk about, but deep down we all knew it was air pollution because this was not new. Air pollution is the presence of filth in the air that can cause damage to living organisms. Air pollutants can be solid particles or liquid droplets or gases that can be natural or man-made. Some of the main air pollutants are particulate matter (dust), sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide. It goes without saying that breathing toxic…
Pressure cookers are very popular with urban dwellers across the world because they conserve cooking gas, electricity or charcoal depending on whichever fuel one prefers. Convenient, super-fast, and easy to use. That is what pressure cookers are. But are they safe in terms of the food that comes out of them? For instance, is it normal for food to cook so fast at such high temperatures? Experts say healthy eating is not just about choosing the right foods but how you cook them also plays a role. For example, exposing food to high levels of heat may cause the food…