Oral Health and Overall Health – Reliable, easy-to-understand health insights and wellness guidance to support a healthier, more balanced life.
Oral Health and Overall Health explores the strong connection between oral health and the overall functioning of the body. This category highlights how conditions in the mouth such as gum disease, infections, and inflammation can influence or be influenced by systemic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, respiratory conditions, and autoimmune disorders.
It provides evidence-based insights into how maintaining good oral hygiene contributes to better whole-body health, and how underlying medical conditions can impact dental health outcomes.
You learn about the bidirectional relationship between oral and systemic diseases, risk factors that link them, preventive strategies, and the importance of integrated care between medical and dental professionals.
Whether you’re managing a chronic illness or aiming to improve overall wellness, this category helps you understand why oral health is a key part of full-body health and long-term disease prevention.
Garden egg leaves are not known for their health benefits; not that they don’t possess them, they have in abundance, but the fruits are more popularly known in this regard. [ninja_tables id=”67880″] Garden eggs, also called egg plants, are vegetables that is cultivated in the humid tropics of Africa, especially West and Central Africa. It …
Ordinarily, it is bad news to be diagnosed with high blood sugar, but worse in Nigeria because you will hardly find foods for diabetic patients in Nigeria. Not that they are not available but there is a lack of information on which foods for diabetic patients in Nigeria are readily available and what makes them …
Human growth hormone or HGH is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland and is essential for growth, cell production, and cell regeneration. The HGH regulates growth during adolescence and triggers the growth of tissues and bones in the body. However, as we age, the pituitary gland reduces the amount of growth hormone produced and …
Ehuru seeds, gotten from Ehuru also called Calabash nutmeg is indigenous to Africa and it goes by many names; ehiri, ariwo, Jamaican nutmeg, African nutmeg (Monodora Myristica), airama, to mention a few. Its seed is commonly used as part of a culinary requirement (as a substitute for the nutmeg) but less commonly, its plant is …
African Pear, Dacryodes edulis, is an evergreen tree that grows in the humid and sub-humid regions o f the tropics. It is grown in countries like Angola, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Malaysia for the many uses that can be derived from its leaves, trunk, and fruit. The tree grows to a height of up …