Ignore all that hype about antioxidant supplements: Why daily vitamin pills can INCREASE your risk of disease

Did you take your vitamins today?
Many of us have been so seduced by the idea that supplements help protect us against ill health that we happily pop one, two or even more a day — and feel guilty if we forget.
In the UK alone, we spend more than £300 million on supplements every year.
But while this might be keeping the manufacturers in a healthy state, are vitamin pills really so good for us?

For decades the message has been clear: supplements deliver vital nutrients often missing from our diets, particularly antioxidants such as vitamins A, C and E, which help fight the damaging action of free radicals.
These molecules are derived from oxygen and are produced by factors as varied as pollution and breathing.
Worryingly, free radicals have been linked to a host of serious ailments, including cardiovascular disease, degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, autoimmune conditions, diabetes and cancer.

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LEO TWALA HIVI: Seafood Pasta

Ingredients

1 Medium onion diced

2 Medium green peppers, diced

2 Tomatoes, diced

2 Cloves garlic, minced

 Olive oil for frying

75ml (2 ½ fl oz) White wine

1 litre (1¾ pints) Water

¼ TSP Saffron threads, infused in just a littled boiled water

250g (9 oz) Clams, scrubbed and washed and any that will not close discarded

150g (5½ oz) cuttlefish, cleaned, preapred and cut into small strips

150g (5½ oz) King prawns peeled

100g (3½ oz) Hake, filleted and cut into small pieces

 Salt and pepper to taste

200g (7oz) Short lengths of spaghetti or a pasta shape such as tubetti lunghi

Method

1) In a heavy-bottomed saute pan, fry the onion, peppers, tomatoes and garlic in olive oil until soft.

2) Add the white wine and cook for about 10 minutes to reduce the liquid.

3) Add the water and saffron liquid and cook on a high heat for 15 minutes.

4) Add the clams, cuttlefish, prawns, hake, seasoning and pasta and continue to cook over a low heat for about 10 minutes, until the fish and pasta are tender and the liquid has been absorbed. Discard any clams that have not opened. Serve in individual dished.

Enjoy you meal!

Tips

Better to serve it in earthenware dishes.

By Carolyne

SIO KWAMBA TUBWETEKE NA KURIDHIKA

Japokuwa tuna kila sababu ya kujivunia usafiri wetu wa daladala, haimaanishi kwamba tubwetene na kutokuuboresha. Mdau mmoja kanitumia picha hizi za usafiri wa daladala za MALI huko Africa Magharibi.

JANA 13/08/2012 HATIMAYE TUKAONANA

Jana nilikutana na Da'Mija, ilikuwa ni shangwe tupu, story ndo usiseme.....was nice meeting u my dada, mwanamke wa shoka mkongwe kwenye masawala ya kublogisha, Love u so Much

Photo Credit: http://damija.blogspot.com/

KDF neglected injured Uganda SOLDIERS

Tuesday August 14, 2012 - The Sunday plane crash incident where three Uganda Air force helicopters disappeared off radar in Mt Kenya forest has exposed the shame and rot in our Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF).

Despite having state to art communications gadget and radars, our mole from Nanyuki Air Base said Kenya Defence Forces were not willing to help our Ugandan brothers.

KAZI NI KAZI: MTAALAMU WA NYAMA YA FOIL KAZINI

AJALI: NILIIKUTA MAENEO YA GOBA - DAR

UTAFITI WA KWANZA WA TB MKOANI LINDI

 DR.Chezel akichukua rekodi ya wagonjwa Kijiji cha Nangaru Lindi

 Gari lenye mitambo ya X-RAY

 Dr. Chezel

 Team leaders and Village health workers

 Gari za kubeba watoa huduma

 Kazi imepamba moto -nangaru village

 Pima uzito hapa

 Mmoja mmoja unaingia kupima

 Dr. Chezel

 Wagonjwa wakisubiri kupiga X-RAY ya KIFUA

Gari maalum la Wizara Afya lenye mitambo ya X-RAY kutafiti kifua kikuu

 Team leaders from NIMR at KIWALALA village LINDI

 Washiriki Mkutano wa utafiti wa kwanza wa TB LINDI

 DR.Chezel home visiting at KIWALALA village LINDI

 Morning preparation kiwalala village

Photo Credit: Thanx Dr. Chezel

OLYMPIC 2012 IMEISHA: WATANZANIA TUMEJIFUNZA NINI??? NA KAMA TUMEJIFUNZA TUTAYAFANYIA KAZIIIIIIIIII???

DR. ULIMBOKA IN TOWN