Articles from the ‘Health & Lifestyle’ category
Posted by Contributor on July 31, 2008 at 10:58 am in Health & Lifestyle
Would you like to have more money in your pocket, face the future with more confidence and be able to set up a successful business for yourself? It is easier than you think. All it takes is a dream and a little planning. Read about what these teenagers were able to accomplish: Naomi, 13 Naomi [...]
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Posted by Contributor on July 30, 2008 at 11:25 am in Health & Lifestyle
Light from the sun or from any hot source is called white light. But, as Newton was the first to show, white light is really a mixture of light of all colours. When a beam of light is made to pass through a glass prism, we see all the colours of the rainbow—red, orange, yellow, [...]
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Posted by GNA on July 27, 2008 at 4:50 pm in Health & Lifestyle
The Mankessim Programme Area Manager of Plan Ghana, an international humanitarian and child-centred development organization, Mr Jacob Turkson, has called on communities practicing matrilineal inheritance not to make the system to become an impediment to the welfare of the child. Mr Turkson noted with concern that some people, particularly fathers, were shirking their responsibilities for [...]
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Posted by GNA on July 16, 2008 at 11:37 am in Health & Lifestyle
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday warned expectant mothers against complacency that pregnancy is a natural phenomenon and therefore safe under all conditions. It therefore advised them to take advantage of government’s free maternal health policy to visit the health facility for antenatal care and dismiss the misconception that those who delivered in hospitals [...]
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Posted by GNA on July 15, 2008 at 11:33 am in Health & Lifestyle
Mr. Samuel Adjei, Director of the Kumasi Centre for National Culture (CNC), says there is high incidence of non-communicable diseases in the country of late, partly due to high patronage of foreign junk food by many Ghanaians. He said cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and diabetes which were non-prevalent decades ago, were now taking a [...]
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Posted by GNA on July 14, 2008 at 10:24 pm in Health & Lifestyle
Ghanaian consumers have been urged to always insist on compliance with hygienic food handling practices by food retailers to ensure food safety and good health. “We must not underestimate the need to create the demand for safe food in the ways that permanently change behaviours of food providers with spectacular results and also control the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 4:12 pm in Fitness and Nutrition, Sports
Ghana’s Under-20 team, the Black Satellites, qualified to the next stage of the African Youth Championship qualifiers despite a 1-0 loss away to Angola yesterday. The Satellites conceded the goal in the first half but that was not enough to cancel their 5-1 victory during the first leg of the tie in Accra. Ghana will [...]
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Posted by Contributor on July 6, 2008 at 11:19 am in Health & Lifestyle
We are in the midst of many relationship failures, heart breaks, selfishness and increasing tendency for single life but one thing is certain. All human beings need love and have to love. If you are looking for love, you are not alone, but you must know what love is and looks like and this helps [...]
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