12 Strange Uses Of Peanuts

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 The peanut, being a popular food product, has a surprising number of alternative uses. In fact, 18th century farming specialist George Washington Carver discovered about 300 hundred different uses for peanuts. We are currently enjoying some of Carver’s food-related discoveries like peanut oil, salted peanuts, or peanut milk. Unknown to some people, he also found several unusual uses for peanuts. Here are some of them:
Peanut Soap – Peanut oil is composed mostly of monounsaturated fat. Fat is one of the primary ingredients of soap. Soap fats are responsible for displacing dirt and germs from our bodies, given its thick and sticky base. Peanut oil, for that matter, is thick enough to be a good component of soap. You can make peanut soap by mixing the oil with water, coconut oil, and lye.
Biodiesel Fuel – Did you know that the diesel engine was originally created for peanut oil? The first engines created by inventor Rudolf Diesel ran on various vegetable oils. Today, using peanut oil to power diesel engines can be futile. You can instead use a large amount of concentrated peanut oil to power biodiesel motors. The use of biodiesel motors is slowly gaining fame, given the current fuel prices. You might as well make an engine switch, if you want travel cost-effectively.
 Peanut Laxative – As a laxative, the peanut is not as potent as some of the other known medicenes but it is certainly more delicious than any of them. If you are constipated, you can just snack on a bag of peanuts while watching a movie or a prestigious sporting event. The oil of the nuts will eventually act up on your tummy, improving your bowel movement in the process. Talk about having a good time before taking a dump.
Peanut Dye – Peanuts can never be used for producing colors like food coloring but its oil can act as the base of dyes. The slightly viscous and sticky fluid ensures that the color of dye will stick on many surfaces. If you are not satisfied with peanut oil as a base, you can just mix it with other ingredients to increase its viscosity.
Peanut Shampoo – After watching too many episodes of MacGyver, you probably want to make your own nifty invention. You can make your own shampoo made of peanut oil and Castilla Soap. Just mix the two ingredients in a blender and add scent enhancing materials like lavender or rosemary oil.
 Peanut Insecticide – For some reason, ants and some pests do not like peanut oil. Some manufacturers of insecticides, in fact, add the edible oil when creating their products. Its components is believed to be toxic to several household pests. In any case, you can just splash a good amount of peanut oil at an ant line and they will all drown upon making contact with the sticky fluid.
Peanut Explosive – Peanuts can be used as an ingredient for creating nitroglycerin. The acids that make up peanut oil can act as substitutes for some of the acids used in formulating nitroglycerin. As dangerous as the resulting solution may be, you cannot readily create peanut nitroglycerin, so don’t worry about your favorite snack exploding inside your tummy anytime soon.
Peanut Axle Grease – At first, using peanut oil to create grease may sound silly. Grease is simply too viscous to be made from a relatively thin solution like peanut oil. Now, if you combine peanut oil with rosin oil and lime solution, you might be surprised with the result. You can start applying the resulting mixture on the axles of your automobile.
Peanut Seat Cushion – Some shelled nuts are hard to open even if you have powerful fingers. For these stubborn items, you can use them as substitutes for the contents of beaded seat cushions. Shelled peanuts may shatter when supporting heavy people. You can cover the nuts with a layer of cotton to give them added durability.
Peanut Shell Charcoal – Try observing peanuts when they are being cooked. You will notice that peanut shells do not burn easily. They can absorb decent amounts of heat and even help in cooking their contents. Look at those features closely and you will be reminded of charcoal. If you are peanut lover, you can store shells until you fill up an entire garbage bag. You can then use those peanut containers as good substitutes for charcoal.
 Peanut Soil Conditioner – Burying peanuts along with your garden plants is a good idea. The nuts release oil that adds nourishment and richness to the soil. Your plants will be healthier since they can readily acquire food from the soil. If you want a more direct approach to soil conditioning, you can apply peanut oil on your garden. Its effects may be short term, but your plants will be instantly satisfied.
Peanut Glue – Peanut-based glue may not be the most efficient adhesive but it is pretty easy to make. During your free time, you can mix peanut oil with flour and corn oil. Transfer the mixture onto a frying pan then add boiling water. Stir the solution thoroughly. Once it stiffens, your peanut glue is ready to use.
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51 Strange US Laws That Will Make You Laugh

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  1. In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.
  2. In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760.
  3. Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
  4. In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.
  5. In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
  6. It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
  7. In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.
  8. California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.
  9. In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.
  10. In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.
  11. In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.
  12. In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.
  13. In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front.
  14. A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia.
  15. In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.
  16. In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark.
  17. In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer !     
  18. In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
  19. In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.
  20. In Ohio, one must have a license to keep a bear.
  21. In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday.
  22. In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.
  23. In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge.
  24. In the State of Kansas, you're not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.
  25. In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.
  26. In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday.
  27. In Galveston, Texas, it is illegal to have a camel run loose in the street!     
  28. In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight.
  29. In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum.
  30. In Cleveland, Ohio, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places.
  31. In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.
  32. In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.
  33. In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder.
  34. In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.
  35. In San Francisco, there is an ordinance, which bans the picking up and throwing of used confetti.
  36. In Kentucky, it is illegal for a merchant to force a person into his place of business for the purpose of making a sale.
  37. It is against the law in Connecticut for a man to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship.
  38. In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned.
  39. In the state of Colorado, a pet cat, if loose, must have a tail-light !     
  40. In Phoenix, Arizona, you can't walk through a hotel lobby with spurs on.
  41. In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing.
  42. In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.
  43. In Michigan, it is against the law for a lady to lift her skirt more than 6 inches while walking through a mud puddle.
  44. In North Carolina, it is against the law for a rabbit to race down the street.
  45. In Georgia, it's against the law to spread a false rumor.
  46. In West Virginia, one can't cook sauerkraut or cabbage due to the odors and the offence is subject to imprisonment.
  47. In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.
  48. The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time.
  49. In Texas, it is still a "hanging offense" to steal cattle. 
  50. In Tennessee,Students may not hold hands while at school.They claim its a gateway to sexual activities
  51. In Michigan, it's illegal to cheat on your spouse . A statute on the books since 1931 makes adultery a felony — punishable by a maximum of four years in prison and a $5,000 fine. And if a married man sleeps with a single woman (or vice versa), even the unmarried party is considered guilty and liable for punishment. 
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277 Strange Facts You Should Be Aware Of (3)

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  1. There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
  2. Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
  3. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
  4. Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year! 
  5. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
  6. Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
  7. A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
  8. The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...
  9. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
  10. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
  11. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
  12. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
  13. Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
  14. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
  15. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
  16. In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
  17. Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
  18. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!     
  19. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
  20. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
  21. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
  22. The average person laughs 13 times a day!
  23. Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
  24. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
  25. It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! 
  26. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
  27. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
  28. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
  29. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
  30. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
  31. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
  32. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
  33. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! 
  34. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
  35. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
  36. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!     
  37. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
  38. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
  39. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
  40. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
  41. The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
  42. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
  43. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
  44. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
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277 Strange Facts You Should Be Aware Of (2)

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  1. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
  2. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
  3. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
  4. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
  5. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
  6. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones! 
  7. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
  8. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
  9. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
  10. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
  11. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
  12. Slugs have 4 noses!
  13. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
  14. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
  15.  Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!     
  16. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
  17. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
  18. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses! 
  19. Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
  20. ....rest your eyes.. there's plenty more where that came from........
  21. The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
  22. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
  23. A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
  24. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
  25. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
  26. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
  27. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
  28. The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump! 
  29. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
  30. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
  31. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!     
  32. America once issued a 5-cent bill!
  33. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
  34. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
  35. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
  36. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
  37. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
  38. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
  39. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! 
  40. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
  41. Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
  42. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
  43. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
  44. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
  45. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
  46. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!
  47. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
  48. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
  49. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
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277 Strange Facts You Should Be Aware Of (1)

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  1. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
  2. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
  3. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
  4. Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
  5. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
  6. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card!
  7. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos! 
  8. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
  9. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! 
  10. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
  11. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
  12. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
  13. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
  14. One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year! 
  15. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
  16. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
  17. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
  18. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
  19. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
  20. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
  21. The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!     
  22. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
  23. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
  24. It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States! 
  25. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
  26. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
  27. Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
  28. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
  29. Most lipstick contains fish scales!
  30. Skepticism is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
  31. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
  32. It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
  33. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!     
  34. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
  35. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
  36. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
  37. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
  38. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
  39. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
  40. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! 
  41. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
  42. Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
  43. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
  44. Porcupines float in water!
  45. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
  46. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
  47. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
  48. The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
  49. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
  50. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
  51. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
  52. Cat urine glows under a black-light!
  53. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
  54. The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
  55. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
  56. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
  57. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand! 
  58. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
  59. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
  60. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
  61. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
  62. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
  63. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
  64.  Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!   
  65. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
  66. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
  67. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
  68. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
  69. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! 
  70. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
  71. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
  72. The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
  73. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
  74. you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
  75. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
  76. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
  77. The state of Florida is bigger than England!
  78. There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
  79. In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
  80. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland! 
  81. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
  82. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
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Woman Discovers Her Twin Sons Have DIFFERENT Fathers

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It takes a lot to shock Maury Povich.But the talk show host admitted that even he couldn't believe it when a woman came on the show to prove her ex-boyfriend was the father of her twins - only to find that he was the father of just one of them.
Speaking about the revelation, which was aired live on his show, he admitted he did not even think this was possible.
He said: 'The show has very dramatic and very edgy themes which I think are played out in American society. The most unusual dramatic DNA theme was when the woman came on the show and had different fathers to her twins.'

Regina contacted the Maury show to try to prove that her ex-boyfriend Eric was responsible for her twins.

When Povich read out the DNA results and announced that Eric was the father of just one of her twins, he had to explain to a visibly shocked audience that this was not beyond the realms of possibility.

When it happened a second time on the show in 2008, to 19-year-old Alejandrina and her ex-boyfriend Jose, he was armed with the facts.He said: 'I want to explain about this situation. Its happened before on this show with fraternal twins. Less than one per cent of fraternal twins are from different fathers, to be accurate 0.001 per cent of the time and this is one of those less than one per cent.'

This occurrence is so uncommon that only a few cases have been documented in medical records.

In rare instances when twins are conceived by different fathers, it's called heteropaternal superfecundation, which occurs when two or more of a woman's eggs are fertilized by different men within the same ovulation period.

Before the results were read out, Alejandrina promised that she had not slept with anyone else while she was with Jose and broke down in tears when the truth came out.

He said his ex was a 'party girl' and said the test results proved she was a 'whore'.

Jose said he would take responsibility for the one child while Povich told Alejandrina that they would do another paternity test if she was able to find the father of her second child.

In May 2009, Mia Washington from Texas also gave birth to twins with different fathers.

She and her fiancé ordered a paternity test when they noticed the twins had very different features. She then admitted to having an affair.




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Rape-axe:The Anti Rape Device Any Woman Can Use

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An anti-rape device is a product used for preventing, or deterring, rape. In the 15th century, chastity

The rape-axe is a latex sheath embedded with shafts of sharp, inward-facing barbs. It is designed to be worn by a woman in her vagina like a female condom. If an attacker was to attempt vaginal rape, his penis would enter the latex sheath and be snagged by the barbs, causing the person excruciating pain during withdrawal and hopefully giving the victim time to escape. The condom would remain attached to the man’s body and could only be removed by a doctor, which would alert hospital staff and police. Once the device is utilized, the perpetrator would not be able to walk or urinate.

The device was revealed to the public in 2005, but did not get distributed until 2010, when 30,000 of the condoms were passed out before the World Cup in South Africa. Some critics of the product have objected to Ehlers’ invention, calling it “vengeful, horrible, and disgusting” and are opposed to its sale in drugstores. Other critics fear that the device could possibly enrage an attacker and further jeopardize the victim. Ehlers asserts that she created the product in gradual steps. “I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe.” Ehlers has also pointed out that some women in South Africa take extreme measures to prevent rape, such as placing razor blades in their nether regions.
belts were designed for this purpose. In the last ten years, a collection of anti-rape devices have been marketed in areas of the world that have high rates of sexual abuse, such as South Africa. One such device is the rape-axe, or anti-rape female condom. The rape-axe was invented by a South African woman named Sonnet Ehlers. She was inspired to create the product after working with a patient who had experienced a traumatizing event. The woman said to Ehlers: “If only I had teeth down there,” referring to the myth of the vagina dentata (or toothed vagina).
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American Woman Cured Of Sickle Cell Anaemia(First Adult Woman)

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Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using a unique procedure for stem cell transplantation from healthy, tissue-matched siblings.
The transplants were the first to be performed outside of the National Institutes of Health campus in Maryland, where the procedure was developed. Physicians there have treated 30 patients, with an 87 per cent success rate. The results of the phase I/II clinical trial at UI Health, in which 92 per cent of treated patients were cured, are published online in the journalBiology of Blood & Marrow Transplantation.The new technique eliminates the need for chemotherapy to prepare the patient to receive the transplanted cells and offers the prospect of cure for tens of thousands of adults suffering from sickle cell disease.
About 90 per cent of the approximately 450 patients who have received stem cell transplants for sickle cell disease have been children. Chemotherapy has been considered too risky for adult patients, who are often more weakened than children by the disease.
“Adults with sickle cell disease are now living on average until about age 50 with blood transfusions and drugs to help with pain crises, but their quality of life can be very low,” says Dr. Damiano Rondelli, chief of hematology/oncology and director of the blood and marrow transplant program at UI Health, and corresponding author on the paper.
“Now, with this chemotherapy-free transplant, we are curing adults with sickle cell disease, and we see that their quality of life improves vastly within just one month of the transplant,” said Rondelli, who is also the Michael Reese Professor of Hematology in the UIC College of Medicine. “They are able to go back to school, go back to work, and can experience life without pain.”
Sickle cell disease is inherited. It primarily affects people of African descent, including about one in every 500 African Americans born in the U.S. The defect causes the oxygen-carrying red blood cells to be crescent shaped, like a sickle. The misshapen cells deliver less oxygen to the body’s tissues, causing severe pain and eventually stroke or organ damage.
Doctors have known for some time that bone marrow transplantation from a healthy donor can cure sickle cell disease. But few adults were transplanted because high-dose chemotherapy was needed to kill off the patients’ own blood-forming cells — and their entire immune system, to prevent rejection of the transplanted cells, leaving patients open to infection.
In the new procedure, patients receive immunosuppressive drugs just before the transplant, along with a very low dose of total body irradiation — a treatment much less harsh and with fewer potentially serious side effects than chemotherapy.
Next, donor cells from a healthy and tissue-matched sibling are transfused into the patient. Stem cells from the donor produce healthy new blood cells in the patient, eventually in sufficient quantity to eliminate symptoms. In many cases, sickle cells can no longer be detected. Patients must continue to take immunosuppressant drugs for at least a year.
In the reported trial, the researchers transplanted 13 patients, 17 to 40 years of age, with a stem cell preparation from the blood of a tissue-matched sibling. Healthy sibling donor-candidates and patients were tested for human leukocyte antigen, a set of markers found on cells in the body. Ten of these HLA markers must match between the donor and the recipient for the transplant to have the best chance of evading rejection.
In a further advance of the NIH procedure, physicians at UI Health successfully transplanted two patients with cells from siblings who matched for HLA but had a different blood type.
In all 13 patients, the transplanted cells successfully took up residence in the marrow and produced healthy red blood cells. One patient who failed to follow the post-transplant therapy regimen reverted to the original sickle cell condition.

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15 Unknown Facts About Breasts

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A most sensitive, soft, supple, curved, attractive, warm, and sexy part of women body is…Breasts. From the beginning of the time, they have been a focus of sexual attraction, fashion, and health. In addition to the stimulation of sexual desire, breasts are also known as a symbol of femininity and beauty. Breasts can be included in the list of first things that men notice in women. These all are the reasons, why most women are always attentive about their breasts. But excluding these basic things, there are many other fascinating facts about women's breasts for which you should be aware of. In this article, there are 15 Lesser-Known Fascinating Breast Facts that will surely wonder you.

1) In most women, the left and right breast is usually not the same and for some reason the left one is usually larger.

2) When breasts get stimulated, they swell up and get bigger & erect – similar to the penis!!! Around 1 percent of women can reach orgasm really just by arousal of their breast.

3) When stimulated, the average female nipple gets erect and measures 3/8 inch in length that is somewhat longer than 5 stacked quarters.

4) The weight of an average breast measures around 0.5 kg (1.1 lb). Each average breast holds around 4 to 5% of body’s total fat and thereby holds around 1% of the total body weight in an average woman.

5) The average breast size among women in the United States has been increased to 36C from 34B in just 15 years.

6) In comparison to the cow’s milk, woman’s breast milk is sweeter and contains more essential fatty acids, more vitamin E, more iron and less sodium.

7) Sheyla Hershey, a Brazilian woman made the Guinness World Record for having world's largest breast implants in 2009. After 9 surgeries and 10,000cc silicone implants, she achieved her breasts size of 38KKK. 10,000cc is equal to 2.6 gallons.

8) In 2008, breast enlargement surgery was the no.1 cosmetic procedure in the United States with 307,230 surgeries, which is above the nose surgeries standing at 279,000 and liposuction standing at 245,000. In these surgeries, 28% of patients were 40-54 yr, 35% of 30-39 yr and 30% of 20-29 yr.

9) The average cost of breast enlargement surgery is about $3700, which includes the cost of initial implant, fees of surgeon, cost of hospitalization and anesthesia. This cost is just for the initial implant. Some other surgeries are often necessitated by women to fix rippling, wrinkling, & ruptures.

10) In the early days of surgical breast enlargement, surgeons tried various sorts of implants made from weird ingredients like glass balls, ivory, ox cartilage, ground rubber, polyester, and silicone injections. These all implants had given disastrous outcomes. Breast enlargement surgery using silicone injections was very popular in the 1960s, which ultimately caused severe health complications like disfigurement and granulomas.

11) Around 17,903 breast reduction surgeries were performed on men in 2008, as well as, nearly 20,967 women got rid of their breast implants during the same year.

12) Studies suggest that breastfeeding doesn’t contribute to the sagging of breasts but cigarette smoking does. Cigarettes contain chemicals, which break down the elastin protein of human skin and thereby eliminate the skin elasticity, causing smokers to have saggy breasts.

13) In 5% cases, newborn infants produce breast milk for the first two months after birth. This is called witch's milk or Neonatal milk, and it can secrete in both sexes.

14) The women who do not want to wear a bra can legally go topless in the states of New York, Ohio, Maine, Hawaii and Texas. However, they can still be arrested on public nuisance laws. On the contrary, women found topless on public places and beaches of Dubai are thrown in jail for 6 months.

15) Bra like garments are in use from the 7th century BC but the large scale production has been started only in the 1930s. Today, the bra industry makes a business of $16 billion annually.

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26 Very Strange Facts About Pregnancy You May Not Know!

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There are millions of things about pregnancy that aren’t listed in books and that no one ever tells you about. For instance, did you know that being pregnant can cause you to have perpetual hiccups for months on end?.. And that’s not even the strangest.
Here are 26 strange and interesting pregnancy facts that I’d bet you didn’t know.
1.) During the second half of pregnancy your baby will pee about a liter a day. Where does all of that urine go you ask? The baby swallows it. Consider it your kid's first lesson in recycling.
2. When nearing the end of pregnancy, a woman's placenta produces more estrogen in one day than a non-pregnant woman will produce in three years.
3. It's common for women to experience change in skin tone during pregnancy. It happens about 90% of the time.Saying a pregnant woman is glowing is a common expression, but most people chalk it up to the woman's excitement about becoming a mommy. As it turns out though, glowing skin is a very real thing for pregnant women. While you're pregnant, the amount of blood in your body will increase by 50%. The extra blood ends up showing through the skin in many areas, particularly the cheeks.On top of this, hormones cause the oil glands to become more active, resulting in a softer, shinier appearance. When the increased blood flow combines with shine, the result is a noticeable glow.
4. Studies have shown that babies can taste what the mother is eating. Strong flavors like garlic are especially able to pass through the amniotic fluid.
5.Babies cry in the womb. Not because they're upset, more as practice for their big day.
6.Pregnant women and new mothers can lactate at the sound of a baby crying, even if it's not their baby.
7. The baby's fingerprints are formed within the first three months of pregnancy.
8. Your heart grows:Progesterone softens the joints. Your ribcage stretches out and, as your uterus grows, everything else in your body shifts about. Organs, such as the heart and live, enlarge too, due to their extra workload.
9. Your bones soften:High levels of the hormones oestrogen and relaxin cause ligaments throughout your body to relax, including those in your back. The extra strain on the muscles and joints of the lower back area can cause back pain.
10. Your body can swell anywhere.Extra fluid circulating can sometimes cause swelling (oedema) throughout your whole body, but more commonly in the ankles due to interstitial fluid building up.
11. Your skin changes.Hormones mean skin can dry out. Extra collagen in your skin tears when it stretches, causing stretchmarks. They won't go after the birth but may fade.Help your body - Use a body moisturiser to improve the condition of your skin.
12. Blue veins appear.Some people are genetically predisposed to varicose veins, some aren't. Light exercise and support tights may help.
13. Your womb holds a pint of water.At the start of pregnancy, your uterus is the size of a small Conference pear. By the end of the nine months it's more like an oversized watermelon, holding a baby and at least a pint of water, so it's not surprising you feel twinges as it grows, especially as it will be touching the bottom of your ribs. At 16-20 weeks you may feel slight pain caused by some ligaments beginning to stretch.
14. Your hair's thicker,Your hair becomes glossy and thicker due to the oestrogen receptors it contains. It is thicker because growth has slowed down and hair loss is reduced.
15. You're more stretchy .To prepare your body for childbirth, the hormone, relaxin, reduces cartilage and ligament density, so you can stretch parts of your body a lot more than normal.
16. Your hands tingle.Numbness and tingling may be a sign of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - pressure on a nerve where it passes into the hand at the wrist. Anyone can get it, but you're more at risk in pregnancy. It usually disappears after birth.
17. You produce more blood.Your total volume of blood is 50% higher than usual and cardiac output (the amount of blood pumped out with each heartbeat) increases by 40%. You manufacture 20% extra red blood cells to carry more oxygen around your body. It's normal to feel out of breath at times in the later months. But breathlessness can be a sign of anaemia so if you're concerned, ask your midwife to check your iron levels.
18. Your baby gets food before you.It's important to eat healthily in pregnancy. The baby will take all the nutrients he needs, but this can leave you lacking, especially in iron. Your GP can provide iron tablets if you're anaemic.Help your body - Vitamin C in a glass of orange juice helps your body absorb iron. Most breakfast cereals are fortified with iron, too.
19. You breathe deeper.As your uterus grows, the diaphragm is compressed, It seems difficult to breathe deeply, but you actually breathe more air.
20. Your pelvic muscles stretch.Incontinence caused by childbirth is decreasing as women get better at doing pelvic floor exercises.
21. Your face darkens.The ‘mask of pregnancy' is caused by a change of pigment in your skin across your nose and cheeks in a butterfly shape. It only seems to affect some women, but no-one knows why.
22. Your tummy develops a line.Some women develop a dark line on their abdomen in pregnancy. This is known as the linea nigra and is caused by higher melatonin levels, but it's not known why it develops. It tends to affect women with dark colouring more than those with fairer complexions.
23. Your boobs keep changing. Many women worry unnecessarily that breastfeeding will ruin the shape of their boobs. In fact, any change in shape is actually caused by the pregnancy itself and not by breastfeeding your baby. Proper support at this time is vital to support the muscles in your chest wall as there's no muscle tissue in your breast.
24. Your teeth need extra care.It used to be said that a woman lost one tooth for each of her pregnancies. Thankfully, that's no longer the case for women who have a healthy, varied diet. But your gums are vulnerable now and gingivitis, or bleeding gums, is very common. It's important to make the most of the free dental treatment you are entitled to (up until your baby is 12 months old) and see your dentist and hygienist regularly.
25. Digestion slows.Progesterone slows your digestion early on so your body can absorb more nutrients to pass to your baby. It can cause constipation.Help your body - Have plenty of fluids, fruit and vegetables. Light exercise will also help digestion.
26. Your blood clots faster.Your blood clots more easily now, a protective mechanism so you don't bleed to death when the placenta is delivered. There's a concern that a clot in the calf may fragment, and cause clots elsewhere, particularly if you've had thrombosis or are overweight.
 
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17 Strange Facts Every Nigerian Should Know

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1. There is a town in Jamaica called ABEOKUTA. It was founded by former slaves from present-day Ogun State who were brought to a plantation in that part of Jamaica.
2· In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called “Hindi” (“from India”wink. In India, it’s called “Peru.” In Arabic, the bird is called “Greek chicken”; in Greek it’s called “French chicken”; and in French it’s called “Indian chicken.” The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
3· The letter ‘i’ that Apple uses (in their products iPhone, iPad, iMac, iPod) stands for “Interactive”.
4· Edward James Roye, the fifth president of Liberia, was of Igbo descent.
5· President Robert Mugabe is Africa’s oldest Head of State and the world’s second oldest Head of State. He was born in 1924.
6· The name”Nigeria” was coined by Flora Shaw, the wife of Lord Lugard, Nigeria’s Governor-General from 1914 to 1919.
7· There is a high school in Kingston, Jamaica named CALABAR High School, the capital of Cross River State.
8· Queen Elizabeth II is the only person who travels to any country without International Passport.
9· Ebun House, located at 85 Odunfa Street, was the first three-story building built in Lagos. It was constructed in 1914.
10· The city of Port Harcourt (capital ofRivers State) was named after Lewis Vernon Harcourt in 1913 by Frederick Lugard. It was originally known as Iguocha.
11· There are 3 things the Human Brain cannot resist noticing –Food, Attractive People and Danger.
12· The CMS Grammar School in Lagos, Nigeria is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria. It was founded on June 6, 1859.
13· The first book written in the Igbo language (Isoama-Ibo :A Primer) was by Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the renowned Yoruba/Creole bishop.
14· Gatwick Airport in London, which is not that far from Heathrow Airport also in London, England is owned by Nigerian businessman Adebayo Ogunlesi.
15· The Naira, Nigeria’s currency, was named by Obafemi Awolowo.
16· Nigerian staple food cassava was brought to West Africa from Brazil by the Portuguese.
17. The Official Residence of the President of Barbados, a Caribbean country, very close to Jamaica and Bahamas, is called Oronna Court. The name Oronna was used by two Barbadorian Citizens close to a decade in tracing their origin to Ilaro in Ogun state. One was named Odewale and the other was named Aramide Oronna( the German Shephard man) was one of the hero/founders of Ilaro town alongside Iya Ala. Oronnais just like the likes of Lisabi and Shodeke in Egbaland.

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75-Year-Old Woman Marries A 27yr Old Man In Uganda

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Zautun Nakanda, a great-grand mother is now married to 27-year-old Steven Tikubuwana and the couple is now living together in the old woman's house in Kyungu village in central Uganda's district of Mukono. To those who were attacking the old woman for getting married to the young man old enough to be her grand child she said;

'Love has no age limit.We love each other and that is what matters in marriage.''

Tikubuwana has advised those against his marriage to the old woman to mind their business and leave them alone. He said,


''I wonder why some people who poke their noses in issues that do not concern them. Why are they concerned about my marrying an old woman of my choice?'' He said that when he lost his job and had nowhere to stay, the old woman welcomed him to her house and some how they fell in love and are now husband and wife. An elder on the village, Vincent Kalule said, ''I wonder whether that young man is in his senses. How can a 27 year old man marry a 70 yr old woman. What kind of marriage is that," he posed.
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5 Darkest Secret Of Coca Cola You Must Know

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Coca-Cola was invented in 1886 by John Pemberton, an Atlanta, Georgia, pharmacist. Pemberton was actually trying to concoct a headache remedy, but once he mixed his special syrup with carbonated water, and a few customers tasted the result, he realized that he had the makings of a popular soda fountain beverage. The name Coca-Cola was coined by Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, who also wrote out the new name in the expressive script that has become Coca Cola's signature logo.

Though the Coca-Cola Company apparently would rather not talk about the origin of its name in detail, it's clear that Robinson derived "Coca-Cola" from two of the drink's ingredients: cola from the cola nut, and extract of coca leaf, also the source of cocaine. Cocaine was a common ingredient of nineteenth-century patent medicines, and by the standards of the day Coca-Cola contained a minuscule amount that probably had no effect on its consumers.

Still, by the early 1890s there was a rising tide of anti-cocaine sentiment, and Atlanta businessman Asa Candler, who acquired the Coca Cola Company in 1891, steadily decreased even the tiny amount of the drug in the recipe. There is some evidence that the only reason Candler kept putting even minute amounts of coca extract in the drink was the belief that to omit it entirely might cause Coca Cola, by then besieged by imitators, to lose its trademark. In any event, Coca-Cola was completely cocaine free by 1929.
That is what is official...but there are DARK SECRETS ABOUT COKE you must know! Watch the VIDEO
 
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VIDEO: RAT is pulled from boy's stomach

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STOMACH-CHURNING footage shows the moment a dead RAT was 'pulled' from a boy's belly button.n the clip a child can be seen lying on his back as a pair of hands seem to dig into his belly button. 

A small amount of blood appears before the man - presumably a doctor - tugs the rodent from his stomach.

A nurse helping out pours water on the boy's belly button as the body of the rat falls apart in the doctor's hand.
As it disintegrates the man lays its body parts on the young boy's stomach to examine it.
Bizarrely, in the background a person can be heard praying in Portuguese.
The gruesome footage was reportedly shot in Brazil and was uploaded to YouTube.

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65-yr-old Man Sees His Own Obituary In Benin,Nigeria

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A 65-yr-old man got the biggest shock of his life when he saw obituary posters of himself posted around some areas in Benin.
Clifford Osawaru, said he got the shock of his life when friends alerted him to posters announcing his death and funeral arrangements.The posters were pasted on some streets in Okunmwun community, Ovia North East LGA of Edo State .
The man who said he was hale and hearty wondered why anyone would print his obituary.
When I am alive, they said I am dead. This is not wife at all' he said referring to the names printed on the poster.
He said he had served the community for over 20 years and didn't deserve to be treated this way.
He called on security agencies to look into the matter.



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21 Top Reasons Why You Should Drink More Water

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Water is so beneficial, so easy, so free yet so easily overlooked.  In fact most of us take it for granted.  But have you ever taken a moment to stop and think just how important water is to you?  For the human body, water is truly a vital resource.  You can go weeks without food but few days without water you are calling for trouble.   When the water in your body is reduced by just 1 percent, you become thirsty.  At 5 percent, muscle strength and endurance declines significantly and you become hot and tired.  When the loss reaches 10 percent, delirium and blurred vision occur.  A 20 percent reduction death may strike.
 Water is an indispensable carrier, distributing essential nutrients to cells, such as minerals, vitamins and glucose to all part of the body. Water removes waste products including toxins that the organs' cells reject, and removes them through urine and faeces.

There is no more important nutrient for our bodies than water.  No other substance is as widely involved in the processes and make up of the body.  A man's body is about 60 percent water, and a woman's is approximately 50 percent.  Do you know that the human brain is about 75 percent water?  The blood is 83% water,the skin is 72% water,while our heart is 79.2% water! It goes without emphasis therefore that your body need water to function properly.
Here are some 21 top reasons why you should drink more water!

1 Water Can Help Control Calories:

For years, dieters have been drinking lots of water as a weight loss strategy. While water doesn’t have any magical effect on weight loss, substituting it for higher calorie beverages can certainly help.
Food with high water content tends to look larger, its higher volume requires more chewing, and it is absorbed more slowly by the body, which helps you feel full. Water-rich foods include fruits, vegetables, broth-based soups, oatmeal, and beans.

2 Water Helps Energize Muscles:

Cells that don’t maintain their balance of fluids and electrolytes shrivel, which can result in muscle fatigue. When muscle cells don’t have adequate fluids, they don’t work as well and performance can suffer. However, drinking enough fluids is important when exercising.


3 Water Helps Keep Skin Looking Good:
 
Your skin contains plenty of water, and functions as a protective barrier to prevent excess fluid loss. Dehydration makes your skin look drier and wrinkled, which can be improved with proper hydration but once you are adequately hydrated, the kidney takes over and excretes excess fluids.

4 Water Helps Your Kidneys:
  

Body fluids transport waste products in and out of cells. The main toxin in the body is blood urea nitrogen, a water-soluble waste that is able to pass through the kidneys to be excreted in the urine.
When you’re getting enough fluids, urine flows freely, is light in color and free of odor. When your body is not getting enough fluids, urine concentration, color, and odor increases because the kidneys trap extra fluid for bodily functions.

5 Water Helps Maintain Normal Bowel Function:
    

Adequate hydration keeps things flowing along your gastrointestinal tract and prevents constipation. When you don’t get enough fluid, the colon pulls water from stools to maintain hydration which results in constipation.
However, adequate fluid and fiber is the perfect combination, because the fluid pumps up the fiber and acts like a broom to keep your bowel functioning

6.Water prevents and helps to cure back pain.
     


Low back pain and ankylosing arthritis of the spine are signs of water shortage in the spinal column and discs - the water cushions that support the weight of the body. These conditions should be treated with increased water intake - not a commercial treatment, but a very effective one.

Not recognizing arthritis and low back pain as signs of dehydration in the joint cavities and treating them with pain-killers, manipulation, acupuncture, and eventually surgery will, in time, produce osteoarthritis when the cartilage cells in the joints have eventually all died. It will produce deformity of the spine. It will produce crippling deformities of the limbs. Pain medications have their own life-threatening complications.

7.Water prevents and helps to cure angina.
Heart pain - angina - is a sign of water shortage in the heart/lung axis. It should be treated with increased water intake until the patient is free of pain and independent of medications. Medical supervision is prudent. However, increased water intake is angina's cure.

8.Water prevents and helps to cure migraines.
Migraine headache is a sign of water need by the brain and the eyes. It will totally clear up if dehydration is prevented from establishing in the body. The type of dehydration that causes migraine might eventually cause inflammation of the back of the eye and possibly loss of eye sight.

9.Water prevents and helps to cure colitis.
Colitis pain is a signal of water shortage in the large gut. It is associated with constipation because the large intestine constricts to squeeze the last drop of water from the excrements - thus the lack of water lubrication.

Not recognizing colitis pain as a sign of dehydration will cause persistent constipation. Later in life, it will cause fecal impacting: it can cause diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and polyps, and appreciably increases the possibility of developing cancer of the colon and rectum.

10.Water and salt prevent and helps to cure asthma.
Asthma, which also affects 14 million children and kills several thousand of them every year, is a complication of dehydration in the body. It is caused by the drought management programs of the body. In asthma free passage of air is obstructed so that water does not leave the body in the form of vapor - the winter steam. Increased water intake will prevent asthma attacks. Asthmatics need also to take more salt to break the mucus plugs in the lungs that obstruct the free flow of air in and out of the air sacs.

Not recognizing asthma as the indicator of dehydration in the body of a growing child not only will sentence many thousands of children to die every year, but will permit irreversible genetic damage to establish in the remaining 14 million asthmatic children.

11.Water prevents and helps to cure high blood pressure.
Hypertension is a state of adaptation of the body to a generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into vital cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis, when water from the blood serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute holes in their membranes, extra pressure is needed for the "injection process." Just as we inject I.V. "water" in hospitals, so the body injects water into tens of trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some salt intake will bring blood pressure back to normal!

Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of dehydration in the human body, and treating it with diuretics that further dehydrate the body will, in time, cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart arteries and the arteries that go to the brain. It will cause heart attacks and small or massive strokes that paralyze. It will eventually cause kidney disease. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.

12.Water prevents and helps to cure early adult-onset diabetes.
Adult-onset diabetes is another adaptive state to severe dehydration of the human body. To have adequate water in circulation and for the brain's priority water needs, the release of insulin is inhibited to prevent insulin from pushing water into all body cells. In diabetes, only some cells get survival rations of water. Water and some salt will reverse adult-onset diabetes in its early stages.

Not recognizing adult-onset diabetes as a complication of dehydration will, in time, cause massive damage to the blood vessels all over the body. It will cause eventual loss of the toes, feet and legs from gangrene. It will cause eye damage, even blindness.

13.Water lowers blood cholesterol.
High cholesterol levels are an indicator of early drought management by the body. Cholesterol is a clay-like material that is poured in the gaps of some cell membranes to safeguard them against losing their vital water content to the osmotically more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as a "shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally exchange water through their cell membranes.

14.Water prevents and helps to cure arthritis.
Rheumatoid joint pain - arthritis - is a signal of water shortage in the painful joint. It can affect the young as well as the old. The use of pain-killers does not cure the problem, but exposes the person to further damage from pain medications. Intake of water and small amounts of salt will cure this problem.

15.FWater helps to combat Travel Fatigue:
The dry air on a plane can dehydrate you - leading to a feeling of fatigue during and after a flight. Try drinking an extra glass of water before the flight and a glass every hour you're in the air.


16.Water is a Weapon Against the Common Cold:
 

Antibodies in the mucus that coats your throat help trap cold viruses. This defense can be weakened if you are minimally dehydrated because a lack of water dries out your mucus-producing tissues. Additionally, many health professionals recommend water as an effective expectorant to relieve a cough.

17.    Water cleanses the body of toxins.
  Water improves your blood circulation flushing out toxins and impurities. It also increases water in your skin cells which helps to get rid of wrinkles and helps you look younger.

18.Water prevents and helps to cure heartburn.
Heartburn is a signal of water shortage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids or tablet medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and the body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage.

Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating it with antacids and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of the stomach and duodenum, hiatal hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and pancreas.

19.Water reduces stress. 
   

Studies have shown that dehydration leads to higher cortisol levels—the stress hormone—making it harder to deal with everyday issues. By staying hydrated you will be better equipped to deal everyday problems.

20.Water acts as a natural appetite suppressant and also speeds up metabolism.
Research shows that drinking a glass of water before meals curbs appetite, helping you eat less and become more satisfied.
    Water speeds up metabolism. Research has shown that an increase in water consumption leads to an increase in the rate in which people burn calories as opposed to storing them as fat.

21. Drinking Much water During The day can help Against Insomnia
Dehydration can lead to increase of toxins in your bloodstream and can cause irritability in your physical levels of comfort and becomes more noticeable at night. Drinking water throughout the day can flush those toxins out of the body. Insomniacs should drink plenty of water during the day is to stay hydrated. (But not 4 hours prior to bedtime, as the urge to urinate can wake them up during the night!)
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Man arrested after 'vandalising grave and RAPING the newly-buried female corpse'

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A 21-year-old has been detained by police on suspicion of vandalising a grave and raping the newly-buried corpse of a woman.
He opened the coffin of a 39-year-old woman, according to police sources in Monchegorsk, Russia, in the far north region of Murmansk.
The man has not been named but is from the neighbouring region Arkhangelsk region.
A criminal case has been opened under an article of the Russian criminal code on desecration of the dead and their burial places.

The maximum punishment under the law would be three months in prison, or a fine of up to £400.
It is the second case of a sexual attack on a dead woman in the north of Russia this year.
This first was in the Komi Republic when two men were jailed for raping the body of a young woman in February.
Monchegorsk was established by Stalin as a nickel and copper mining town and has a population of 45,000.
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Woman Fights Crocodile,Escapes From The Jaws Of Death!

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A 37-year-old woman from Singiri village in Odisha,india showed exemplary courage in staving off a crocodile attack.
Sabitri Samal, a housewife, who is currently undergoing treatment at a government hospital, recalled from her hospital bed how she was attacked by a giant crocodile yesterday while washing utensils in a creek near her house.
"The creek where I was washing utensils was never intruded by crocodiles. None of us had sighted the reptile in the past. The attack was so sudden that I had little time to react. An aluminium cooking bowl and cooking stick that I had brought from home to wash saved me from death," Ms Samal said.
"It was a miraculous escape. The reptile jumped on me and dragged me to water. I was about to be completely dragged into the water when I hit the croc on its forehead and eye. The animal slowly released me. I acted in the spur of the moment as I had taken it for granted that the animal would devour me," she recalled.The last crocodile attack took place outside the national park limits. The state forest department would bear the cost of treatment, Divisional Forest Officer, Rajnagar Mangrove (wildlife) forest division, Bimal Prasanna Acharya said.
Besides, the department would also award compensation to the injured person's family as per revised rules, the official said.
Since past two months, man-crocodile conflict has reached alarming proportions in villages located at the periphery of the Bhitarkanika National Park. The crocs have claimed two lives while injuring at least seven others.
Forest personnel, however, opine that people are exposing themselves to attacks by venturing into crocodile-infested water bodies.

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Watch:The Boy Who Sleeps And Plays With Dangerous Snake-Phyton!(Video)

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Uorn Sambath, a boy,who lives in the village of Setbo in Cambodia, loves to play with his 16-foot-long python. He sleeps with the female python and even kisses it sometimes. “People sometimes call the boy and the snake husband and wife,” says a neighbor. The little boy’s mum believes that the snake has a magical spirit that protects the  family from sickness. Police officials once tried to take the snake to a zoo, but they relented after seeing the snake and the boy cuddling.
Strange world!Or don't you agree?

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Horrible:This Woman Has Been Crying White “Crystals” for 20 Years and Nobody Can Explain Why!

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Laura Ponce, a nursery school teacher in Lins, Brazil, suffers from a strange condition that causes her to cry ‘crystal’ tears. The white plaques start off as soft blobs inside her eyes, but they harden when she blinks in an attempt to expel them, finally emerging as solid white crystals.

This happens to her for weeks at a time, with a new plaque forming as soon as she expels another. It gets so bad at times that she has to take time off work, to remove as many as 30 plaque membranes from her eye in a day. “A clot starts to swell then I have to open my eye to take out the membrane,” she explained. “When it dries it hardens, it gets really hard, it hurts a lot.”

Ponce first noticed the issue when she was only 15 years old – her eye had started to fill with an unknown white substance. She immediately called her mother, Marissa, who was horrified by the problem. They tried removing the hard plaques from her swollen eye socket, but it wouldn’t stop forming. “We took it out and I was scared,” Marissa recalled. “We ran to the ER and the doctor on duty also got scared. The doctor was mystified.”

Ponce, now 35, has never been able to find a cure. She has experienced an episode every few months since then, but no one has been able to explain the mysterious ailment. “The whole family was shaken,” Marissa said. “We went chasing doctor after doctor.”

“I’m a nursery school teacher, I get angry about not being able to work,” Ponce said. “Two years ago it was infected for six months and I was taking 30 membranes out of my eye each day.”

Ponce is currently seeing Dr. Raul Goncalves, an ophthalmologist at Hospital de Olhos de Bauru, Brazil. According to him, there is no case like hers in medical literature, but he’s trying his best to find an explanation. “I have been an ophthalmologist for 25 years and I have never seen anything like it,” he said. “For these plaques to form so fast there could be only one explanation, it must be chemical.”

“Every time you blink, you’re lubricating your eye, and tears are made of three layers – a water layer, a mucin layer, and a fat layer,” he explained. “Each cell separately creates a product and when you blink you mix all this like a dough.” Dr. Raul’s guess is that the protein content in Ponce’s tears aren’t protecting the eye from bacteria. So, her eyes are forced to produce a second line of defence.

“The cornea jumps into action, and in Miss Ponce’s case the cornea’s surface can secrete keratin. This keratin together with other components causes the tear crystallization.” To counter the problem, Dr. Raul has prescribed silver nitrate eye drops, which seem to have provided some relief. Ponce is now experiencing fewer infections and is able to go back to work. But she can’t wait for the day when she’ll finally be rid of the condition.




“My expectation are for my eyes to be cured and for everything to be fine,” she said.


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Ten Solid Reasons Why You Should Run Away From Sugar If You Want To Live Long

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Sugar is a dangerous  poison. Yet it is consumed by almost everyone, on a daily basis, and it does horrible things within the body.  It is also something God never intended our physical bodies to have to contend with. The only sugars God designed our physical bodies to ever have to deal with were the natural sugars found in the LIVING, raw fruits and vegetables that He created and placed in the Garden!

Are you aware that a hundred years ago, the average annual intake of refined sugar was approximately 5 pounds per person per year? Today, the average annual intake of refined sugar is around 170 pounds per person per year. That means that if a person is consuming that:, he or she is placing over 50 teaspoons of refined sugar into their physical bodies each and every day of their life.

Thus, a person who lives to the age of 70 will have placed into their body, during their lifetime, some 12,000 pounds of refined sugar.
Let's take a look at what all that sugar is doing within our beautiful, God designed, physical bodies

(1) Refined Sugar Is A Dead Food
Sugar originated in a living plant, which contained its complete complement of enzymes, but, by the time it reaches the refined sugar stage, all LIFE has been destroyed, and it has become a DEAD food. Let's look for a moment at what processors do with the original sugar cane or beet as they turn the living sugars found in the plant, into a refined, DEAD, product.
 The following information was taken from a newsletter written by Charlotte Gerson:
"Sugar is a basic element in starchy food; however, processed sugar is a completely different matter. The sugar we purchase in the supermarket for personal consumption is processed sugar. This kind of sugar is heated up in chalk-milk, so that calcium and protein are extracted.

After the process, it becomes alkaloid, destroying all vitamin content.

In the second phase, the sugar is mixed with acid chalk, carbonic gas, sulfur dioxide, and finally with Natrium®  sodium bicarbonate. The mixture is cooked and cooled off several times and thereafter crystallized and centrifuged. The dead mass is then treated with strontium hydroxide. Subsequently it arrives at the refinery where it is passed over chalk carbon acid to clean it. Dark coloring is removed by adding sulfuric acid and then it is filtered with bone charcoal. Finally, it is colored with Indathrenblue or the highly toxic Ultramarine. This product's chemical composition is C12H22O11, which you can buy in shops as 'pure cane' sugar."

(2) Refined Sugar Contains No Fiber
Another important thing to understand about refined sugar is that, just like we saw with foods of animal origin, sugar is devoid of all fiber. Let's remember here that God designed our bodies to move food through a very extensive digestive tract through means of fiber, and foods containing no fiber create problems.

 (3) Refined Sugar Is Fragmented
Through heating and mechanical and chemical processing, all vitamins, proteins, fats, enzymes – indeed, every single nutrient is removed until nothing but pure white sugar, pure 'naked calories,' pure refined carbohydrate remains. Sixty-four food elements are destroyed in the processing. Fragmented foods set up nutritional imbalances that precipitate health problems galore.

(4) Refined Sugar Is Highly Acidic 
Like animal source foods, refined sugar is also 'acid forming.' This means that the body must take vital alkaline minerals, calcium being the most plentiful, from the body's cells to metabolize refined sugar. This high sugar use, along with the consumption of animal products, causes the body to take so much calcium from our bones and teeth that the bones become osteoporotic and the teeth decay.

  (5.) Refined Sugar Creates Blood Sugar Disoders: One pound of apples contains 263 calories, whereas, one pound of candy has 1800 calories. Refined sugar in junk foods is concentrated far beyond what the human body was designed by God to ever have to process at one time. Thus, somehow the body has to deal with this incredibly large amount of sugar if it is going to survive. The body does deal with it, but in doing so, it often results in physical problems called DIABETES and HYPOGLYCEMIA.

DIABETES - The primary cause of diabetes is the fat contained in animal products, but also, when a diabetic consumes refined sugar, the pancreas has difficulty producing adequate insulin when the blood sugar rises. Concentrated amounts of sugar cause a rapid rise in blood sugar. Chronic intake of sugar eventually exhausts the pancreas as it tries to compensate. Thus, the diabetic is condemned to having to take ever-increasing amounts of insulin to compensate. Diabetes is the 'Number Three Killer Disease," in America, preceded only by cardiovascular related diseases and cancer.

HYPOGLYCEMIA - is the flip side of diabetes. Hypoglycemia occurs when the body still has a fairly strong pancreas. The body overreacts to a concentrated sugar intake and releases too much insulin from the pancreas. Blood sugar levels then plummet far below the normal, stable level. The suffering Hypoglycemic often experiences fatigue, headaches, mental depression, and irritability. Hypoglycemics often deal with symptoms by taking in more refined sugar, catching them in an endless cycle that causes the pancreas to wear out from the constant over stimulation.  This often results in Diabetes because now the sufferer cannot produce sufficient insulin for normal metabolic activities.

 (6) Refined Sugar Promotes Emotional Instability
After a "sugarholic" has consumed a box of candy or bag of cookies or any large amount of refined sugar, they know how self-abused and depressed they feel. Sadly, studies reveal a strong link between juvenile and adult criminal offenses and sugar addiction. Similar research reveals a link between mental illness and sugar abuse. And hypoglycemic reactions, for the very sensitive consumer, promote extreme irrationality, emotional instability, and oftentimes aggressiveness. Recent studies are revealing that sugar may be as involved in mental illness, divorce, and crime as alcohol has been found to be. Depression is also one of the most rapidly growing problems in our society today, and refined sugar is one of the major contributing factors! ADD and ADHD are running rampant among our children and even some adults! It is a problem doctors are trying to treat with drugs such as Ritalin. Isn't it a sad commentary, that these emotional problems, that were caused by the very toxic and poisonous addictive drug, refined sugar, are then treated with another poison, a doctor prescribed drug! How sad! You mothers who are having a problem with your child's behavior might consider removing all sugar from his or her diet.

(7) Refined Sugar Contributes To Heart Disease
Fat is not the only contributing factor in heart disease. Large amounts of refined sugar cause the insulin in the body to convert blood glucose (sugar) into fatty acids and triglycerides. Those on a high-sugar diet show significantly higher levels of fat in their blood than those who eat no refined sugar. This high fat content in the blood is directly related to the development of plaque build-up within the arteries and ultimately to hardening of the arteries.

Apart from this Magnesium is a necessary ingredient that helps our cardiac functioning.Meanwhile sugar deplete your body of magnesium. In fact for ever molecule if Sugar it takes Fifty Four Molecules of Magnesium to process it!

 (8) Refined Sugar Leads To Addiction And Weight Gain 
Sugar is highly caloric in its pure form, but it is often combined with something containing high fat, like shortening, along with some salt, producing a tempting goodie like candy, fudge, or a donut. Often, these high sugar foods are consumed with a high sugar drink, like soda pop. All of this sugar contributes to weight gain. Recently I read that if a person consumes just one 12-ounce can of soda pop a day, the 11-teaspoons of sugar found in each soda pop could add 12 pounds to their weight in just one year. Furthermore, because of the way it plays havoc with emotions, refined sugar is highly addictive - it works exactly like a protoplasmic poison--a drug. This means that once a “sugarholic” sufferer has given into crystalline sweetness, they can't stop the addiction. And if they dare face withdrawal, the 'sugar blues' give them no peace until they return to the sugar and resign themselves to remain fat.

Refined sugar is every bit as addictive as nicotine and alcohol!. Sugar has a powerful addictive influence upon many people. Have you ever noticed that children who are allowed to have candy are always asking for more, while never being satisfied no matter how much you give them? It is because their bodies have become addicted to sugar, and their bodies are often times literally screaming for a fix.

 (9) Refined Sugar Compromises The Immune System
Let's remember that the immune system is what God built into each of our physical bodies to protect us from the germs, viruses, and bacteria of this world. It is our first line of defense! Refined sugar is an immune system suppressant! In other words, refined sugar cripples and can even knock out this first line of defense. Doesn’t that give us a clue as to why so many people experience infections, colds, the flu, other flu-like symptoms, and more? I haven’t experienced a cold or the flu since eliminating refined sugar and adopting a basically living plant source diet over 30 years ago!

(10) Sugar Contributes To A Myriad Of Other Physical Problems
Refined sugar is associated with malnutrition and decreased resistance to disease. Refined sugar impacts quality of life as it increases the severity of PMS, decreases cognitive or intellectual function, especially in children, contributes to our current epidemic of heart disease, and so much more.

Following is just a partial list of other health problems related to the intake of refined sugar: acne, addiction to drugs and caffeine, alcoholism, allergies, anxiety, behavior problems, binge eating, bloating, bone loss, Candidiasis, depression, difficulty concentrating, eczema, edema, emotional problems, fatigue, food cravings, hormonal problems, hyperactivity, insomnia, menstrual difficulties, mental illness, mood swings, premature aging, psoriasis, ..

To summarize, refined sugar, and products made with refined sugar, are the second most prevalent cause, or contributing cause, of the physical problems being experienced today. Refined sugar products are all DEAD and FIBERLESS and, are the second most popular of the KILLER foods of our day after  animal source foods.

Do you want to stay healthy and live long then quit refined sugar! Good luck!
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Bishop(Dr) Sola Adetunji is the founding President of Chapel Of His Power and Divine Power Bible College. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and attended primary and secondary school in Osogbo before studying Pharmacy at the University of Ile-Ife, graduating with a Second Class Upper degree in 1987. Adetunji is an amazon author of several works and is happily married to Toyin, an ordained Minister of God, with whom he has three daughters and one son: Progress, Praise, Perfect and Paul. He has contributed numerous sermons to Sermon Central and other websites including youtube on topics such as understanding success, overcoming anger, deliverance, the authority of believers, and others. He is the convener of Singles Ready To Marry group on Facebook and Whatsapp.
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