5 UNBELIEVEABLE FOODS THAT MAKES YOU LOOK YOUNGER

It's no secret that a great diet can help you look and feel younger, but you might be surprised to learn about some specific foods that have age-defying properties.
Elisa Zied is a nutritionist and author of "Younger Next Week," and she has shared her favorite age-defying foods:
1. Popcorn. "It's 100 percent whole grain and it's also a great source of fiber," Elisa says.


Popcorn also has great plant chemicals called polyphenols which have anti-oxidant properties. "They fight the free radicals that are in your body and in the environment that ruin skin and other body cells," she adds.

2. Potatoes. While low-carb enthusiasts might be shocked to see the potatoes presence on a power food list, Elisa says "carbs are so essential because they give your body, your brain, your red

blood cells, your whole nervous system the basic glucose that you need to be energized." They also enhance the production of serotonin, "that wonderful chemical that keeps you from being depressed."
3. Cereal. "Aim for whole grain, high fiber, low sugar cereal because the fiber and whole grains fills you up, and the whole grains protect you against disease," Elisa says. Cereal is also a great "cluster" food that goes well with other foods like yogurt, fruit, or nuts.
4. Nuts. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed longevity benefits for those who ate an ounce of nuts every day. "The key is portion size," she says.
5. Eggs. "They're a source of high-quality protein," Elisa explains. "Two-thirds of the fat in an egg actually comes from unsaturated fats. including it as part of your breakfast or as part of your lunch will fill you up and help you reduce your calorie intake.
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THE BREAD WINNER OF THE LARGEST FAMILY IN THE WORLD POSES WITH HIS FAMILY

Ziona Chana is happy to be blessed with 39 wives, he also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.
They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.
Mr Chana said: "Today I feel like God's special child. He's given me so many people to look after.
I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world's largest family."
The family is organised with almost military discipline, with the oldest wife Zathiangi organising her fellow partners to perform household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals.

One evening meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 132lb of potatoes and boil up to 220lb of rice.
Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.
He even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific, and enjoys his own double bed while his wives have to make do with communal dormitories.
He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away - and there is a rotation system for who visits Mr Chana's bedroom.

Rinkmini, one of Mr Chana's wives who is 35 years old, said: "We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house."
He is the most handsome person in the village. She says Mr Chana noticed her on a morning walk in the village 18 years ago and wrote her a letter asking for her hand in marriage.
Another of his wives, Huntharnghanki, said the entire family gets along well.
The family system is reportedly based on mutual love and respect.

Shared bedroom: A look inside the four-storey mansion
And Mr Chana, whose religious sect has 4,00 members, says he has not stopped looking for new wives.
"To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the U.S. to marry," he said.
One of his sons insisted that Mr Chana, whose grandfather also had many wives, marries the poor women from the village so he can look after them.
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Thailand Snakegirl Attracts Crowds Of Pilgrims And Tourists [Photo]

According to the country's top medical expert, Dr Ping Lao, 8 year old Mai Li Fay suffers a very rare syndrome known as the Serpentosis Malianorcis  or Jing Jing's disease, which gives her lower body a distinct reptilian form and aspect. Only a handful of such cases have been recorded throughout history, so the scientific knowledge accumulated about the pathology is rather limited and there is no cure in sight at the moment.
The Fay family have welcomed the situation brought by Mai Li's situation with  a mix of anguish and excitement, as the never ending lines of tourists and pilgrims have brought the badly impoverished family some substantial revenues and given them an important raise in their social status but cost them there privacy and intimacy.
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EATING FRUIT: Do it Right!!

EATING FRUIT ~
It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat.

DON'T EAT FRUIT AFTER MEALS!
FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.
It will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.
FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD. Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so. In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil....
Eat fruit on an empty stomach or before meals! People complain, "Every time I eat watermelon I burp; when I eat apples, my stomach bloats up; when I eat a banana🍌 I feel like running to the toilet, etc " This will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. Fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas, hence you will bloat! Gray hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under eyes will NOT happen by taking fruit on an empty stomach.
There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon 🍋are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to research. Master the correct way of eating fruits, and you will have beauty, longevity, health, energy, happines and normal weight.
Drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.
Eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!
KIWI: 🍈A good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.
APPLE: Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.
STRAWBERRY: .. have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
ORANGE : Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessening the risk of colon cancer.
WATERMELON: Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. A key source of lycopene the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.
GUAVA & PAPAYA: 🍈 for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation.
Papaya is rich in carotene; good for your eyes.
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Cholera Outbreak Claims 71 Lives in Kano

No fewer than 71 deaths have been recorded in a cholera outbreak in Kano the Project Director of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in the Federal Ministry of Health, Professor AbdulSalam Nasidi has said.

According to him, the outbreak which was first noticed in the State on November 6th, 2013 in Kano state recorded 2165 cases from 22 local government areas of the state, adding that Fagge local government area recorded highest number of death with 12 lives lost.
Speaking at WHO office in Kano before handing over drugs worth over N34 million from the Federal government to assist the state, Nasidi put the total cases reported at 276.

According to him, "The first cases reported on 6th November 6, 2013 with 22 local government affected,344 wards were affected while 713 settlement ravaged by the diseases and a total number of 71 deaths recorded from 17 local government area which represented 3.3 percent case fatality rate".

He also explained that most of the affected persons were from the metropolitan local government, adding that the federal government donation was to support the Kano State government to address the scourge.

He assured that teams of professional health experts have been deployed to the state by the federal ministry of health to ensure the alleviation of the bacteria.

In his address also, the State commissioner of Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, said that the state government has spent over N76 million to provide necessary drugs to combat the disease in the local government areas of the state, while beds were also provided to various hospitals where the cholera were affected.

The commissioner said "we were happy to receive the delegation today, this shows government concern to the outbreak of the Cholera in the state.

"Cholera epidemic has been in the country since September last year , though at the initial stage Kano was not affected , this can best be attributed to the effort of the government in informing the general  public on the need to take adequate care of their health as well as necessary logistic provided by the government". 

Dr. Yusuf said the Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, did not waste time, the moment the outbreak of the cholera was noticed, adding,  "this government has spent over N76 million to provide drugs to various hospitals and centres where the diseases were affected".

He also disclosed that more medical experts were given necessary training needed to educate various communities towards guiding the occurrence of the diseases, while numerous beds were provided in the hospitals.

The Commissioner stated that the government of Kwankwaso has spent a lot in making available potable water to every nook and cranny of the state, "but when the outbreak started we were recording about 97 cases, but as I am talking to you in all the eight centres, we have less than 40 cases.
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Obasanjo leaves PDP, Fires Letter To Jonathan And Tukur

President Olusegun Obasanjo has fired another letter, this time, to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, in which he gave a notice of his withdrawal from the activities of the party.

Obasanjo also sent a copy of the letter to President Goodluck Jonathan as National Leader of the party
The former president, in the letter, said he was withdrawing from all activities of the party because the PDP had been negating the principles of morality, decency and discipline in its decisions, especially as they affect the South West where he comes from.

The letter, dated January 7, 2014, according to a source at the national secretariat of the party, was received in the office of Tukur on Wednesday, 8 January, 2014. It is believed that President Jonathan also got his own copy on Thursday.

Obasanjo accused the party leadership of imposing someone (names witheld), who he described as a criminal wanted abroad, on the party as its South West zonal leader and proceeded to add that he was forwarding with the letter, "recent documents" on the alleged activities of the person.

Efforts to get copies of the "recent documents" from both the PDP national secretariat as well as from Obasanjo's side were, however, not successful but a source at PDP's national secretariat confirmed that the letter came with attachments. He did not give further details.

The three paragraph letter reads:

"While I believe that a good and truly national political party must be a microcosm of the nation in its membership, made up of all sorts of characters from near-saints to near-satan, I also believe that on no account should a known habitual criminal that is wanted abroad to face criminal charges levelled against him be extolled as a political leader in a respectable and wholesome nation-building political party.

"(…Names witheld) has been so extolled in PDP in South-West geo-political zone which I personally find unsavoury. Politics played by any national political party must have morality, decency, discipline, principles and leadership examples as cardinal practices of the party. I have attached here recent documents that clearly indicate that your extolled PDP Zonal Leader in the South-West zone of Nigeria and an indigene of Ogun State is, to say the least, not a credit to the party as a member, let alone being a zonal leader.

"Since I stick in my practice of party politics to the hallowed and cherished principles enunciated above, I take this opportunity to let you know that while I continue to remain a card-carrying member of PDP, I cannot and I will not subscribe to a wanted habitual criminal being installed as my zonal leader in the party; a criminal for whom extradition has been requested by the US government. In the meantime, I will consider withdrawing my activity with PDP at local, state, zonal and national levels until the anomalous and shameful situation is corrected."

A meeting of South West leaders of the party, it was gathered, will hold in Ibadan, Oyo State, today and may also come up with far-reaching decisions on the future of the party in the zone.

PDP governors give fresh conditions for peace
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) governors have given fresh conditions for peace to return to the party and for the chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to remain in office.

Part of the conditions, according to information gathered is for President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on Tukur to return the structures of the party to them in their respective states as well as make them the leaders. Only after this would they agree to resume adequate funding of the party at all levels as well as its national secretariat.

Part of Tukur's 'sins' is his alleged incessant interference in the affairs of the state chapters, which is said to have led to the setting up of caretaker committees for some of the chapters. The situation did not go down well with the governors, who saw the action as erosion of their powers as leaders in their respective states.
The new development, sources close to the governors said, followed the intervention of some respected leaders of the party who reportedly counseled them on the implications of removing Tukur now that the 2015 general elections are around the corner.

we however, learnt that the development had created a sharp division among the governors, as some of them are still insisting that the embattled chairman must go as earlier demanded, for them continue to be relevant in the scheme of things in the party ahead of the 2015 elections.

The likes of the governors of Jigawa and Niger states, who were members of the aggrieved G7 Governors before five of them defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), and some others are said to have insisted that for genuine peace to return to the PDP and for the party to maintain its supremacy come 2015 elections, there must be a complete change of leadership.

However, one of the aides to Alhaji Tukur revealed that the cause of friction between Tukur and the governors was his insistence that the party must be returned to the grassroots, and that the constitution of the party must be followed to the letter to allow for due process in election of candidates for party or elective offices, rather than the old order of imposition of candidates by state governors without due process.
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Beyonce & Jay-Z Celebrate Blue Ivy’s Birthday By Renting A Zoo!

Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their daughter's second birthday by hiring out a Miami zoo for the day.

Beyoncé and Jay Z celebrated their daughter's second birthday in style, by hiring a zoo! The couple closed down an entire theme park on Tuesday (7th January) so they could take Blue Ivy round unobserved by the public, according to TMZ. They also invited a group of select friends with who to share the experience.



 

Jungle Island in Miami was the zoo in question, a park which holds a wide variety of exotic animals and exhibitions. Unfortunately, as Blue Ivy is two, is seems unlikely much of the expensive and exclusive experience will remain with her. We suspect the zoo may have been hired primarily for her parent's entertainment!

The zoo officials were sworn to secrecy regarding the cost of hiring out the entire park for the day. One can only assume it was exorbitant, considering a VIP safari tour, according to the zoo's website, costs $240. Regardless of this, in order to offset the zoo's cost, you'd still have to buy hundreds of thousands of tickets at $26.00 upwards. Whichever way you look at it, the couple certainly splashed out on her daughter's big day! ing her name in lights (or diamante):

Blue Ivy is used to hav restaurant for lunch. Blue Ivy's new gifts could clearly be spotted as the family and friends ate their meal, with Blue Ivy sporting a gold chain with her name emblazoned on it. Other reports suggest Beyoncé and Jay-Z bought their toddler a $75 000 Arabian horse, although these remain unconfirmed. 

Beyoncé also posted a special message from her fans to her daughter. A collage had been created out of all the well wishes fans had sent and uploaded on her Tumblr account.
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