Health Benefits of Avocados

 

It's Easy Being Green

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They've been the darlings of social media, and they've been called "America's new favorite fruit." Turns out, avocados are popular for good reason. Not only are they delicious, they're packed with vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that can help keep you healthy.

Better Than a Banana

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Your body needs potassium to work normally. For example, the mineral helps keeps your heartbeat steady. Most people think of bananas when they think of this nutrient. But ounce for ounce, avocados have more.

Protect Your Eyes

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Avocados have lutein and zeaxanthin, which absorb light waves that can harm your vision. People who eat lots of foods rich in these antioxidants are less likely to have age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older adults. Most of an avocado's antioxidants are found in the darker green flesh that's closest to the peel.

Help You Lose Weight

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A half-cup of guacamole has about 6 grams, almost 1/4, of your daily fiber needs. Fiber helps you feel full, so you're less likely to overeat. And although avocados are high in fat, it's mainly healthy monounsaturated fat. Research has found that this type of fat in your diet can help trim your waistline. Instead of chicken salad with mayo, try chickpeas with mashed avocado.

Boost Your Mood

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In a cup of avocado slices, you'll get about 118 micrograms of folate, which is almost a third of what most adults need daily. People who don't get enough of this B vitamin could be more prone to depression -- and less likely to respond well to antidepressants. Folate also plays a role in preventing birth defects, so expectant and new mothers are encouraged to get more.

Power You Up

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These green gems are packed with a variety of other B vitamins, too, including thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), and niacin (B3). These help your body convert the food you eat into energy. Avocados are especially rich in niacin, which can fight inflammation in the body and protect your arteries by improving cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

Good for Your Heart

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Speaking of your blood vessels, the American Heart Association recommends that the majority of the fat you eat be unsaturated, like you'll find in avocados, rather than the saturated fats in foods like red meats and whole-milk dairy foods. Early research now shows that avocados in particular can also help lower "bad" cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure.

Save Your Brain

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Avocados give you a good dose of vitamin E, which may help protect against Alzheimer's disease and slow decline in your memory and thinking skills. This may have to do with vitamin E's antioxidant properties -- it can help fight cell damage caused over time by things like pollution and radiation from the sun.

Strengthen Bones

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On average, people eat half an avocado at a time. That gives an adult 15% of their daily vitamin K needs. This nutrient may help improve bone density and prevent fractures. Toss avocado pieces into a spinach salad with salmon, tuna, or egg for even more vitamin K along with vitamin D, another nutrient that's essential for bone health.

Healthy Blood Sugar

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Because they're low in carbs and sugar and high in healthy fat and fiber, avocados check all the boxes as far as being friendly for someone with diabetes. If you don't have it now but are worried about the future, here's some good news: Eating a plant-based diet (that includes avocados) could drop your chance of developing type 2 diabetes by about 20%, according to a Harvard study that tracked 200,000 people for 20 years.

Skin Care

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Whether you eat it or make it into a mask, avocado is great for your skin. Its antioxidants, like vitamin C, can help keep your skin looking youthful by smoothing out wrinkles. And the same nutrients that protect your eyes also protect your skin from UV damage. Avocado paste may help wound healing, so you could slather it on a sunburn.

Fight Cancer

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Avocados have oleic acid, a monounsaturated fatty acid (also found in olive oil and nuts) that can slash the odds of breast cancer, according to a study of more than 4,000 women. And a compound in avocados called avocatin B can kill leukemia cells, according to a lab study. Scientists are even looking into whether the papery husks that surround avocado pits have anything helpful.

Improves Prostate

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Beta-sitosterol, a kind of plant sterol, may help relieve symptoms of an enlarged prostate. (It's part of the family of phytonutrients that help block your body from absorbing "bad" LDL cholesterol.) Avocados have more than four times as much beta-sitosterol as oranges, the next richest fruit source.

Team Player

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Certain nutrients -- like vitamins A, D, E, and K, and the antioxidant lycopene -- are fat-soluble, which means your body will absorb more of them when you eat them along with some fat. Enter the avocado, which just so happens to taste delicious with tomatoes. Try it with pink grapefruit, watermelon, or cantaloupe, too.

Health Benefits of Bitter Kola

 Did you know that Coca-Cola got its name from a common African tree?

Some of the first recipes for Coca-Cola were made using the extract of the bitter kola plant. Though the company hasn’t used actual kola to flavor their sodas in years, the name remains a reminder of the unusual plant that inspired the iconic drink.

Bitter kola, also known as bitter cola or Garcinia Kola, is a plant found in Central and Western Africa that has long been valued for its medicinal properties. Although traditional African medicine uses all parts of the Bitter Kola plant, the seeds are mostly commonly eaten.

Bitter kola seeds have a sharp, bitter flavor that eases into a slight sweetness as you chew, and they’re typically eaten raw.

Health Benefits

Although bitter kola has been eaten in Africa for years, scientists are just beginning to study the health benefits of this flowering plant.

According to these early studies, bitter kola may be able to help with health problems including:

Infections

Bitter kola has been used over the years to fight infections from the common cold to hepatitis. A 2018 study showed that bitter kola can help combat coughs, bacterial infections, and viral infections. Eating bitter kola when an infection starts may help fight the infection and make you feel better more quickly.

Inflammation

Bitter kola seeds have commonly been chewed on in Africa to fight against inflammatory conditions like arthritis. One 2008 study showed that patients with osteoarthritis in their knees showed significantly reduced inflammation when eating bitter kola compared to a placebo. The high levels of potassium in bitter kola may be a contributing factor in reducing inflammation.

Diabetes

Early studies suggest that a chemical called kolaviron, which is found in bitter kola, may protect against hypoglycemia in people with type 2 diabetes. Although this first study was done on rats and has not yet been reproduced on humans, these early findings are promising.

How to Prepare Bitter Kola

Bitter kola can be eaten on its own, uncooked, like many other nuts. Keep in mind, however, that it’s called “bitter” for a reason. Bitter kola can be an acquired taste.

You can sometimes find drinks made or flavored with bitter kola at African markets and online stores. If you don't like the taste but want to introduce bitter kola to your diet, these drinks may be a good option.

ADHD Psychologist at Synapse Services

 Synapse Services is a Centre for Psychological Medicine that is committed to providing a full range of mental health and substance misuse services in a caring, patient- centred environment. We are located in the heart of Nigeria – Abuja, with branches in Lagos, and Anambra state. We provide first class psychological and psychiatric care, with a range of therapeutic programs suited to individual needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: ADHD Psychologist

Location: Abuja (FCT)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description / Responsibilities

• Work with a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, doctors, other psychologists, nurses, and others in the management of clients with ADHD
• Provide special counseling and / or psycho-educational interventions for children and adults living with ADHD and co-morbid mental illnesses
• Help clients and families of people with ADHD gain knowledge on effective coping techniques in managing the difficulties associated with ADHD
• Provide clinical assessment, individual and group counselling for clients with ADHD
• Designs and implement effective outreach programming, including groups, presentations, training and workshops on ADHD to relevant prospects and stakeholders.
• Participates in research projects on ADHD as needed
• Be involved in designing and implementing strategies for the ADHD service
• Participate in staff meetings and clinical conferences and ongoing professional development activities; maintain timely and appropriate clinical records.
• To attend appropriate strategic and operational meetings as delegated
• To participate in Personal and Professional Development. To be responsible for own personal and professional development to actively participate in identifying training needs and to be willing to undertake training where a need has been identified and agreed with the Clinical Director and / or CEO to manage to ensure that an effective service is provided.

• Provide specialist counselling and / or psycho-educational interventions for children and adults living with ADHD and co-morbid mental illnesses
• Ensure and maintain user and service confidentiality whilst maintaining accurate client notes, files and records and make the information readily available for review.
• To disseminate and share the learning from the service through internal presentations and published reports
• To contribute to the development and implementation of quality standards within the ADHD Service. And to promote and work within the values of the ADHD service effectively contributing to its objectives.
• To be able to work flexibly including evenings and weekends, as required.
• Work under the supervision of the Clinical Director.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Clinical Director that may reasonably fall within the scope of the post.

Qualifications

• Masters in Clinical Psychology from a recognized University, including a supervised internship, and training in individual counseling and psychotherapy, group counseling approaches, and outreach programming.
• Experience in providing assessment and treatment for one or more of the following: Substance Abuse, Learning Disabilities, and ADHD, Autism.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Ability to build good relationships with stakeholders for the benefit of service users and the promotion and development of the ADHD service
• Ability to demonstrate good emotional stability under pressure
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professional boundaries in the workplace
• Ability to recognize own personal limits of expertise and to seek advice / support as needed
• Ability to adapt to change and undertake self-development and training
• Ability to work flexible hours
• Computer literate – ability to be able to use computerized systems including Microsoft Word,
• PowerPoint, and email
• Ability to be able to report write and deliver presentations excellent organizational, communication, and human relations skills.
• Knowledge of and adherence to ethical standards.

Application Closing Date
24th December 2022.

Method of Applicaion
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and copies of the certificates to: jobs@synapseservices.org using the Job Title as subject of the email.

or  Click here to Apply

Field Marketer at a Conglomerate Investment Company – Lorache Consulting Limited – 30 Openings

 Lorache Consulting Limited – Our client, a conglomerate Investment company with investment in real estate, film/content production, trades, imports and exports, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Field Marketer

Locations: Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Rivers, Cross River, Ebonyi, Plateau, Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara, Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun, Ogun, Benue, Bayelsa, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kebbi, Nassarawa, Niger, Kwara, Taraba, Yobe, Delta, Edo and Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Providing assistance to customers.
• Revenue generation from agencies, direct clients, and digital campaigns and services.
• Business development through partnerships and generation of increased customer base.

Key Requirements

• SSCE (minimum)
• Minimum of 5 years work experience.

Salary
N50,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
30th August, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: lorachejobs2@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Application Monitoring Engineer at TeamApt

 TeamApt is Nigeria’s largest Agency banking operator and is now building the largest digital bank offering financial services products tailored to meet the needs of the underserved mass market – micropayments, savings, lending, insurance, pensions – using technology and low-cost offline distribution models. We believe providing financial access to the over 350 million Africans who are currently financially underserved will economically empower them and put them on a path to becoming the next generation of middle-class Africans.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Application Monitoring Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)

About the Role

• We are looking for an Application Monitoring Engineer to provide enterprise-level assistance to our production services.
• You will be responsible for the stability, integrity, and operation of systems by monitoring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing production services while also providing root cause analysis with recommendations for improvements.
• Some programming and debugging duties will be required in order to develop queries/reports of varying complexity and to troubleshoot and fix programmatic issues.

Responsibilities
What you’ll get to do:

• Maintain high availability for all assigned critical services and related business impacting services.
• Provide two tier application support to production systems and identify any issue in production.
• Monitor all performance metrics for various production systems and identify root cause for all technical issues and recommend solutions
• Constantly gather information, research, and scope systems for complex issues, enhancement, and continual service improvement.
• Work with system/database administrators and development team to resolve issues.
• Work with software vendor to have application issues fixed, both short term and long term (root cause)
• Act as a technical resource during other projects as required

Requirements
To succeed in this role, we think you should have:

• B.Sc Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field
• Proven work experience as an Application Monitoring Engineer or similar role.
• Minimum of 3 years experience supporting software applications.
• Basic Understanding of OOP concepts and other programming concepts.
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot advanced technical issues.
• In depth knowledge of SQL databases particularly MYSQL.
• Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux/Mac OS environments
• Ability to provide step-by-step technical help, both written and verbal.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

What We Can Offer You

• Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning – We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation – You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance,, Employee Stock Options, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

What to Expect in the Hiring Process

• A preliminary phone call with the recruiter
• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team.