| Archived 29th December
2005 |
| Mental health
this Christmas |
| Mental illness can be prevented to enable people
live a decent life. It is everybody’s wish to enjoy a
good state of physical and mental health. |
| Bad
breath? No sweat |
GRANDMA'S REMEDY
So many people in this country suffer from Haltosis,
which is basically bad breath, no matter how much you brush,
how much gum you chew, or fresheners you spray. |
| Archived 22nd December
2005 |
| Stress and
cancer |
Doc’s Diary
In several articles, we explored the relationship between certain
medical ailments and mental illness. Stress or anxiety reactions
and cancer pose an even greater challenge to both the sufferer
and the medical team. |
| Kayukiyuki clears
cataract |
GRANDMA'S REMEDY
The sight of someone with an eye cataract sends many scampering.
Negligence in treating the same may lead to impairment or loss
of sight. |
| Milk can be dangerous |
| Being an ardent fan of milk, Mbarara is among
my favourite districts in Uganda. There, I have the chance of
taking milk with the exception of one form: the unboiled milk
because it causes brucellosis. |
| Archived 15th December
2005 |
| 13-year-old body,
4-year-old mind |
| Sharifar Mulindwa was only 8 months old when
she first showed signs of autism, a childhood psychiatric disorder.
|
| Are you frigid? |
GRANDMA'S REMEDY
More women than you can imagine suffer from frigidity.
It is not really virginismus (where the vagina muscles are
abnormally tight in a woman), but rather a coldness that does
not allow a woman to warm to her husband or respond sexually. |
| Drug abuse
fuelling AIDS |
Last week we looked at alcohol as one of the
socially acceptable substances, which can be harmful to health.
There are also addictive drugs that are potentially harmful
to life and society. |
| Archived 8th December
2005 |
| Build your home
gym |
| Unless you have the dispensation of being able
to work out at lunch, you’re usually wedged between going
to the fitness center in the morning or after work. |
| Flowery cure for
asthma |
| Grandma will let me share this one. After the
suffering a visiting cousin went through at the start of the
rainy season with strenuous hard cough due to asthma and the
strenuous breaths throughout the night, grandma had to stay
up to nurse her. |
| Alcohol and
the law |
| Uganda was recently ranked high in the consumption
of Alcohol as per the findings of a WHO (World Health Organisation)
study. |
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