Stephanie Linus becomes Brand Ambassador of California Natural Food’s Green Valley Oatmeal

 

Nollywood actress, director, and producer Stephanie Linus has emerged the brand ambassador of Green Valley oatmeal after signing a deal with the California Natural Foods to present their interest in Africa.

See The Magic Happen To Her Body After Eating This Fruit For Days [MUST READ]

Did you know its proper English name is African Star Apple? It is also called White Star Apple.

Local Name: Agbalumo (Yoruba language) or Udara (Igbo language)

Botanical Name: Chrysophyllum albidum

The Chrysophyllum genus of plants consists of almost 80 different species of fruits all exclusively grown within the tropical region. African star apple (Udara) is a very popular fruit here in Nigeria. Its fleshy pulp is often eaten as a snack and it is equally common in both the urban and rural areas, particularly around Southern Nigeria. Being a seasonal fruit (produces during the dry season between December and April), it is currently in peak abundance flooding the market places and street walkways at about this time of the year. Now, allow me introduce you to some really good news about the nutritious load of Udara/Agbalumo goodness!

Health Benefits of Udara/Agbalumo (African Star Apple)

1. As with most fruits, it has low calorie because of its little fat content so it is definitely a healthy food.

2. It is a superb snack because its high fibre content provides food bulk which both increases satiety and aids digestion so it is very ideal for weight watchers.

3. It has a surprisingly decent amount of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C). Clearly, Vitamin C sources are not exclusive to the citrus fruits family- in fact, Guava has much more!

4. Recently published researches done here in Nigeria about Udara/Agbalumo leaves carried out on rats showed two possible medicinal uses:

5. It could serve as a natural source of Anti-Oxidant booster to remove free radicals from oxidative stress disorders, and

6. Its leaf extract contains Hypoglycemic (to treat Diabetes) and Anti-Platelet activities, although it also had toxic effects on some organs.

Basic Nutrition

1-cup serving of fresh star apple contains 67 calories. Eating star apple as a snack is a good choice as the calories are low and it provides no fat; however, this may not be enough calories to ease hunger pains and boost energy levels, as between-meal snack are meant to do. The Diet Channel notes that 100 to 200 calories per snack is best; consider eating an oz. of cheese or a tsp. of peanut butter to boost the number of calories into this range. One serving of star apple also has 15 g of carbohydrates, or 11.5 percent of the 130 g suggested for daily consumption by the Institute of Medicine.

Nutrient Content per 100g edible Udara/Agbalumo pulp

Nutrient Quantity

Energy (Kcal) 91.09

Carbohydrate (g) 10.49

Protein (g) 6.99

Fat (g) 2.49

Moisture (g) 73

Vitamin C (mg) 25

Cooking Rice With This method Can Result in Hypertension, Diabetes, Cancer Or Death (See Best Method)

It has been revealed that the way people cook their rice can end up affecting their health very seriously.

In the average home, rice is a must-eat food on a daily basis, especially when you have children around.

It’s so easy to cook — or so many of us assume, what with the unceremonious ways we pour it into the pot and cook it in a jiffy!

Yet, researchers are saying that the way we cook rice can lead to diseases and death!

Scientists warn that rice contains a worrying amount of arsenic, a harmful chemical that can cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

According to a group of researchers in Northern Ireland, the way most people cook rice, which is by boiling it in a pan until it absorbs the water, doesn’t get rid of the toxin.

Researchers warn that traces of the poison arsenic – a chemical that contaminates rice as a result of industrial toxins and pesticides used in the growing process – can be found in the rice even after cooking the way we do.

The safest way to cook rice is to soak it overnight first, wash it with cool water the following morning, before finally cooking it.

The researchers found that this reduced arsenic levels by 80 percent.

Chronic exposure to arsenic has recognised links to a range of health problems including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Thankfully, there’s no reason to panic just yet, as a series of experiments showed that it is possible to reduce our levels of exposure to arsenic by simply changing the way we cook rice.

A professor of biological sciences at Queens University Belfast, Andy Meharg, tested three ways of cooking rice to see whether it altered the levels of arsenic.

In the first method, he used a ratio of two parts water to one part rice, allowing the water to ‘steam out’, as identified above.

In the second, he used five parts water to one part rice, washing off excessive water before serving. This saw the levels of arsenic almost halved.

Finally, the rice was soaked in water overnight before being cooked the next day, resulting in an 80 per cent reduction of the toxin.

For the safest results, the overnight rice should be rinsed until the water is clear, before being drained and boiled in a saucepan using a ratio of five parts water to one part rice.

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Via The Punch

France bans free soft drink refills over obesity and diabetes

France has banned illegal restaurants from providing free drinkable refills over the chance of avoirdupois and polygenic disorder. The ban that was 1st passed in Apr 2015, took impact on Fri, January 27, 2017 once the govt aforementioned no restaurants ought to supply unlimited refill of soda and different sweet drinks for gratis.
According to American state Times, the move by France is in line with United Nations agency recommendations, that has urged countries to impose a tax on sweet drinks to battle the rise of avoirdupois within the World.

However, a recent Eurostat survey of adult avoirdupois place the French at fifteen.3%, that is simply below the EU average of fifteen.9%.

Xanthe Clay: all rise! Better bread and what to put on it

Is this the tip for sliced white bread? Sales of the trigonometric function qua non of the bacon sandwich, the idea of the sugar sandwich and also the found­ation of the old style cheese toastie square measure in freefall. Sales of bread overall have born by around twenty per cent within the past ten years, in step with government figures, and bread is bearing the forcefulness.

Going more back, the number of normal white sliced we tend to Greek deity fell a banging sixty eight per cent between 1974 and 2014. Of the massive bread producers, solely Warburtons is bucking the trend with a small rise in overall sales, fuelled by innovations like “sandwich thins” – sq. baps that seem like they’ve been Sat on – and also the new “toastie pockets”; suppose rectangular tyrannid bread.

The producers square measure distressed, and no marvel. Bread is business sector within the UK: 9 million loaves square measure sold-out day after day, quite 0.5 the bakeshop market, that is price £3.5 billion a year....