Energy Drinks Cause High Blood Pressure, Doctor Warns

The Chief Medical Director Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Wale Oke on Monday said the consumption of energy drinks can cause high blood pressure and such beverage should be treated as drugs.

While speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Dr. Oke said energy drinks have been able to penetrate the Nigerian market are treated as beverages which is…

What Do the Numbers in a Blood Pressure Test Mean and What Does This Test Tell the Doctor?

Carmen asks: What do the numbers in a blood pressure test mean? Also, what types of things do these numbers tell doctors?

Well Carmen, blood pressure is really just that- the pressure at which blood moves around the body in your arteries. The easiest and least invasive way to test what that pressure is at any given moment is to momentarily stop the flow of blood and then slowly allow…

Gay marriage pressure on Obama

The Supreme Court will ultimately decide on two same-sex marriage cases, but the court’s attention-grabbing move has put the pressure on President Barack Obama to clarify his stance on the issue.

When Obama announced in May that he favored same-sex marriage — after previously supporting just civil unions — many took it as a full embrace of same-sex marriage rights. It wasn’t: his nuanced language stopped well short of endorsing…

I Married Out Of Societal Pressure, Now I Can’t Take it Any More

I know my story might not go down well with you. But please help me post it. I don’t need advice from your readers because i know i need to get out of this situation. But i need advice from women who have passed through my situation before and how they got out…

Homosexual group, All Out, mounts pressure on Jonathan not to sign impending law

A gay lobby in the United States, All Out, has started a global campaign to collect 100,000 signatures of sympathisers to mount pressure on Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan not to sign the impending law against homosexuals.

As at saturday evening, the group has collected close to 70,000 signatures. But how these efforts will persuade President

Jonathan not to sign the bill into law, remains to be seen.

The group claims to be…

CBN Bows to Pressure: Introduces 4500 Naira note

11 Sep 2012

 

Abuja – The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Government have finally listened to the mass of protest against the proposed introduction of a 5000 Naira note.

Opponents of the plan have expressed concerns over the inflationary effect the note would have, but CBN’s Sanusi has up to now…

Does Blood Pressure Medication Cause Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies?

High blood pressure medication puts you at risk for vitamin and mineral deficiencies, including:

Vitamin B1 Magnesium Potassium Calcium Coenzyme Q10

The best way to lower high blood pressure (hypertension) and reduce your risk for heart disease is through a healthy diet, regular exercise and other changes in lifestyle (more sleep, less stress, etc).

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Facebook IPO: The pressure of being Mark Zuckerberg

With Facebook now on the market with a $ 104 billion valuation, how will the brainchild of co-founder Mark Zuckerberg move ahead as a public company?

At 28, Zuckerberg has seen the project he began building with other students in a college dorm room become the subject of an Oscar-nominated film, the focus of frenzied investors and a central part of the daily lives of nearly 1…

I’m under pressure to withdraw suit on Jonathan’s second term bid

The suit challenging the right of President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election in 2015 may be settled out of court, it emerged yesterday.

An Abuja High Court adjourned till May 30 for report on the settlement process.

Jusctice Mudashiru Oniyangi…

Subsidy probe: Reps under pressure to kill report

*As group kicks, urges House to reject report

BY EMMA UJAH, ABUJA BUREAU CHIEF & BEN AGANDEFrom right: Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke; President Goodluck Jonathan; Chairman, Total Group Worldwide, Mr. Christophe De Margerie and…