How To Save Yourself From Having Kidney Problems

How can you prevent kidney disease? This is one question making the rounds as more people are falling to the disease without knowing what led to it. Now, more than ever, Nigerians are becoming more conscious about protecting and preserving their kidneys.

Every year, several Nigerians suffer kidney problems and thousands die or require regular dialysis or kidney transplants. Factors ranging from bad diet choices and habits like smoking and obesity, among others are linked to an increased risk for kidney disease.

Experts note that there may still be time to slow down the progression to kidney failure. Indeed medical care with early intervention can change the course of chronic kidney disease and prevent the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant. Here are simple tips to prevent or delay common kidney problems.

Understand the symptoms

The key to prevention or delay of severe kidney disease is early detection and aggressive intervention — Early detection is the first step in treating chronic kidney disease.

The symptoms of kidney disease may include: nausea and vomiting, passing only small amounts of urine, swelling, particularly of the ankles, and puffiness around the eyes. Other symptoms are unpleasant taste in the mouth and urine-like odour to the breath, persistent fatigue or shortness of breath, Loss of appetite Increasingly higher blood pressure Muscle cramps, especially in the legs Pale skin Excessively dryness, etc.

Know your risks
Since diabetes and high blood pressure put you at risk of kidney disease, know where you stand with these risks. If you can, find out if diabetes, hypertension, or kidney disease runs in your family.

Get tested regularly
Get checked at least once within the year. Get tests of your urine, blood pressure reading, fasting blood glucose test, and your average blood glucose level over the past two to three months. Ask for a creatinine test that measures the amount of waste from muscle activity. When the kidneys are not working properly, the creatinine rises.

Control diabetes
If you have diabetes, keep your blood sugar levels under the best possible control.

Control high blood pressure
If you have high blood pressure, get your blood pressure within target ranges.

Give up processed food
Say bye-bye to potato or plantain chips, crackers, cheese and deli-meats, etc., because they are processed foods high in phosphorus additives and sodium – both of which can have a damaging effect on the kidneys.

Reduce sugar intake
Consuming too much sugar can result in diabetes or obesity – both linked to kidney disease

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SEE Why Nigerian Celebs Are Going Naked

With the likes of singer Maheeda and Dencia, actress Afrocandy, model Ify Jones, Iyanya, Peter Okoye of Psquare and others leading the trend, celebs have found a way to take advantage of every opportunity to show off some skin, be it on the red carpets or on Instagram photos.

This trend has gotten many the much-needed attention that they crave to forge ahead in their careers as musicians, actors or models. It starts with a little show of cleavage and then other major body parts begin to follow in the raunchiest of photos.

When asked in an interview why she takes pleasure in posting her nude photos online, the controversial singer Maheeda stated that, ‘It is deliberate. I know what I am doing. The pictures are not targeted at anything. It is all about attention and there is no mistake about it. This business of music is called show business and I am convinced I am on the right track. I owe no apologies. I just realised this way will be a faster hit than any other way. The pictures are working for me’.
While the ladies strut around displaying their boobs, the guys on the other hand are always eager to show off their six packs and abs, and most times not afraid to strip on stage revealing a crotch. As in several cases that we have witnessed, sometimes, the lady fans are allowed to get a feel of their crotch in some show of sexuality and appeal.
Celebs  getting naked isn’t exactly a new phenomenon but the last year saw more of them shedding their clothes in the name of promotion. Celebrity nude photos inspire instant fascination from a lot of fans, most of who hardly care but even wish for full disclosure.
With phrases like ‘nudity and sex sells’ and ‘sexy is the new cool’, we seem have come to an era where showing some skin seems to be the in thing and sometimes termed the new definition of sexy.
Like many will say in defense of their actions, ‘if you have it, flaunt it’.
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Catholic Nun Gives Birth, Names Baby After Pope

What is happening? Another shocking scandal has been recorded in the heart of the Catholic church...

A nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth in Italy this week after she felt stomach cramps in her convent and was rushed to hospital for proper treatment, Italian media reported on Friday.

The 31-year-old nun and her baby boy, who weighs 3.5 kilogrammes (nine pounds), are doing well and some new mothers in Rieti hospital have begun collecting clothes and donations for her, the reports said.

“I did not know I was pregnant. I only felt a stomach pain,”
The Salvadorean nun was quoted as saying at the hospital. La Republica said she gave birth on Wednesday.

ANSA said the nun had named her baby Francesco (Francis) — which is the new pope’s chosen title and one of the most popular names in Italy, where St Francis of Assisi is the much-loved national patron saint.

The nun, who is yet to name the man who impregnated her, belongs to the “Little Disciples of Jesus” convent in Campomoro near Rieti, which manages an old people’s home and reports said she would keep the baby.

Her fellow nuns say they were “very surprised” by what has happened.

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APC To Federal Govt: You’re Incompetent

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as “a cruel irony” the accusation of inconsistency and double standards levelled against its leaders by the presidency, saying an incompetent and flip flopping administration has no moral authority to point an accusing finger at anyone, least of all the patriotic and respectable APC leadership.
‘’The Presidency is behaving like a punch-drunk boxer who, clearly dazed by a barrage of right-on-target punches from the opponent, ran to the ropes and started punching the air, when he should be thinking of a comeback strategy,’’ the party said in a statement in Lagos yesterday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
‘’This presidency is definitely dazed from its own failings, the collapse of the party that sired it and the opprobrium being poured on it daily by Nigerians who are grossly disappointed at its woeful performance and clear lack of direction. We are therefore not surprised that in addition to incompetence and cluelessness, it has now resorted to twisting facts,’’ it said.
APC challenged the Presidency to tell Nigerians when the party called on President Jonathan to respond to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s scorching letter, as claimed by the Presidency on Monday. ‘’What we said, in our press release dated December 13, 2013 and titled: ‘APC to Jonathan: Don’t take Nigeria back to Abacha days’, was that President Jonathan should address the allegations that he has put 1,000 Nigerians on a ‘political watch-list’, in addition to training snipers at the same facility where Abacha’s killer squad was trained.
’Even then, our grouse about the President’s letter is not that he should not have responded, but that he should have exhibited a high level of decorum in his response, bearing in mind that the Presidency is an institution that should not be dragged into the mud, while the President is only a tenant.
‘’In order to show clearly that the Presidency either did not understand our subsequent press statement on the lettergate or has decided to distort our stand, we hereby reproduce the relevant part of the second statement we issued on December 26, 2013, on the basis of which the Presidency has misfired: ‘The party said while it is not interested in joining the fray over the issues contained in the letters written by both men, the decision by the President to go personal in his reaction crossed the threshold of decency and brought the Presidency – and indeed the country – into disrepute.
‘’’It said in other climes, the President would have simply issued a terse response to such a letter denying the allegations that border on national security, if any; as well as saying the former President’s observations have been noted, and that the government would study them and then engage with the former President in private, while assuring that the ship of state is on course’.’’ On the accusation of inconsistency and double standards leveled against its leaders, the APC said the Presidency was simply shooting the breeze.
‘’The problem with this Presidency is that it still cannot get over the fact that our leaders, including Chief Bisi Akande, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have decided to put their differences aside and make personal sacrifices to rescue Nigeria from the PDP death grip. The Presidency cannot understand why the permutations of its fake political consultants, that personality clashes between Buhari and Asiwaju will not let the APC see the light of day, have failed.
‘’Also, they have been gripped with mortal fear that the leadership of the APC has reached out to all Nigerians, irrespective of their political leanings. They cannot understand that those who are genuinely committed to rebuilding a nation that has been made so fractious by a bungling ruling party must be flexible and accommodating, while holding on tight to their principles,’’ the party said.
It urged the Jonathan presidency to expend its energy on telling Nigerians why it should not be voted out in 2015 for running the most incompetent administration yet in our country’s history. It should explain to Nigerians why billions of naira have been squirreled away under its watch.
It should tell Nigerians why they spent their Christmas and New Year holidays in darkness; why most of our qualified youth are unemployed, and why the government’s contrived economic growth has yet to result in economic development (that’s hoping they know the difference). ‘’These are the issues that should bother this clueless presidency, not whether the APC asked President Jonathan to respond to a letter or not. We are for issue-based engagements, not frivolity-based exchanges,’’ APC said.

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