Health Tips - 8 Home Products and Foods That Can Cause Cancer

• Deodorants and room freshener : Room fresheners and deodorants often contain napthelene and formaldehyde , ingredients that can harm your lungs. They may remove the smell from your room or your body but they are hazardous and can cause cancer. Try natural essential oils to avoid unpleasant odors.


• Non-stick cookware : Non-stick cookware like pans, cookers, pots, and other household goods contain POFA which can cause cancer. Chemicals get into food as you cook once the surface gets scratched. These products
should not be used to cook anything over 300 degrees.

• Processed meat : Preservatives are added to processed meat in order to keep them fresh and appealing. These preservatives can contain sodium nitrate which is a cancer causing element. Choose your meat wisely, fresh with no added preservatives.

• Microwave popcorn : Microwave popcorn packets contain chemicals which can lead to liver and pancreatic cancer. This chemical may also damage your lungs.

• BPA : Plastic contains phthalates, DEHA, and BPA which are risky to your health as they may cause cancer. Plastic water bottles sitting in hot temperatures for a long time should be avoided to help prevent
cancer.
Also never microwave or heat food in a plastic container.

• Conventional dried fruits : Having conventional dried fruits does not mean that you are eating healthy. Most conventional dried fruit contain pesticides and additives which are harmful to us and may cause
cancer.

• Scented candles : Many people keep scented candles in their homes for lovely fragrances. These artificially scented candles produce combustion by-products which includes soot. It’s better to avoid such artificial
candles and use beeswax candles.

• VOC (volatile organic compounds) : Paint As per EPA, paints, varnishes, waxes, and other cleaning
products contain cancer causing VOC. These chemicals can be converted into carbon monoxide in the body. Always choose low- or no-VOC paints!

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Free: Browse With N0.00 On MTN

Wow! MTN users can now browse for free with N0.00 via Opera Mini Web Browser.

This means that you have access to browse for free with N0.00 on the MTN Network. No subscription or tweak required.

All you need do is to follow these simple step by step instructions and you are good to go. It works on ALL SmartPhones and  PC (with any browser).

To Activate Your Free Browsing
1. Visit www.opera.com/mobile/minito download the latest Opera Mini web browser or get it from Play Store Here, if you don’t have it before.

2. With your Opera Mini visit http://webpass.opera.com/

Then you can start enjoying your free browsing.

To Make it Power all Apps
That one will involve tweak

1. Download SimpleServer Android version here

2. Create a new APN settings on your phone as follows.
» Proxy: 127.0.0.1
» Port: 8080
» APN: web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
» Save And Activate it as your default settings

Configure Your SimpleServer as Follow:
» Pproxy host: 10.199.212.2
» Proxy Port: 8080
» Injection Method: get
» Injection querry/url: http://server4.operamini.com
» Injection Host: server4.operamini.com
» Injection line: press your enter key 4times
» Log level: debug4.

Close the settings and click the connect button.
Use Auto proxy to power all apps

How To Use it on PC Via SimpleServer
1. Download SS PC version here
2. Extract the zip file to a new folder on your desktop background.
3. Open SimpleServer.ini and set it as follow;

LHOST = '127.0.0.1'
IMETHOD = 0
ISPLIT = 0
RHTTP = 0
TIMEOUT = 60
PHOST = '010.199.212.002'
RQUERY = ''
RPATH = 0
PTYPE = 0
KEEP = ''
BQUERY = ''
MQUERY = ''
RHTTPS = 1
PPORT = 8080
LPORT = 8080
VALHDR0 = 'server4.operamini.com'
VALHDR1 = ''
VALHDR2 = ''
VALHDR3 = ''
IQUERY = 'server4.operamini.com'
ADMODE = 0
CQUERY = ''
CUSHDR2 = ''
CUSHDR3 = ''
CUSHDR0 = 'Proxy'
CUSHDR1 = ''
ILINE = 0
FQUERY = ''
SBUFF = 1024
RPORT = 0

4.         Save the file

5.         Do default mtn settings on your modem.
6.         Connect your modem.
7.         Once the connection starts to read, open the folder containing SimpleServer

and RUN SimpleServer.exe

            A black cmd interface will open...
8.         Allow it to get to READY
9.         Open your Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome etc and configure it as follows:

Go to your Advance  >> network settings...
Click on manual proxy configuration and  Insert  127.0.0.1 in HTTP and 8080 in
port.

Then tick for all server protocols.
That’s all... Save and start browsing till the cows come home…

Caution: It is advisable to use it with N0.00, otherwise MTN will wipe/swallow your credit balance.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Visit here first

http://www.realnaijacontents.com

And don’t forget to always check back for other tweaks.

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JAPAN LOOSES TO UNITED STATES - WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Fallen champions Japan were left stunned and humiliated after being stripped of their World Cup crown by the United States in a tearful 5-2 defeat in Vancouver.

 The ‘Nadeshiko’ – a pink flower symbolising grace and beauty – were trailing four goals down after just 16 minutes at BC Place Stadium on front of a passionate 53,341 crowd of largely US supporters.

Chants of ‘USA, USA, USA’ resounding around the stadium were so loud that coach Norio Sasaki could not be heard as he desperately shouted to warn his team of the danger posed by Carli Lloyd.

Lloyd, 32, started up front and her 13-minute first-half hattrick proved devastating for the Japanese.

The Asian champions had come into the final, which was a rematch of the 2011 championship match in which they beat the United States on penalties, with high hopes.

They were the only team to have won all their games in Canada – although four were against newcomers in Cameroon, Ecuador, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

But the cracks were beginning to show as they advanced past England 2-1 in the semi-final thanks to an own-goal by defender Laura Bassett.

The United States had advanced out of a tough Group D – dubbed the ‘group of death’ – which included Australia, Sweden and Nigeria.

And the Americans had analyzed their rival’s game.

“We knew that if we took it to Japan they would get nervous on the pitch,” said Lloyd.

The Americans had worked on their set pieces and the methodical and technical Japanese had no answer.

“This is not the end of soccer in Japan,” vowed coach Norio Sasaki.

“I love these girls and I really want to continue working with them.

“We lost because the United States played those set pieces successfully, we really need to look back and analyze after losing by that many goals.”

“We came here and we really had pride to play here.

“We could have lost by many more goals but the positive point is that we did not give up.”

– Sasaki ’embarrassed’ –

 Sasaki blamed himself for his players’ inability to react to the threat.

“Japan were a little slow responding. Instead of me coaching the players they need to react without my prompting. It’s my fault, we need to work on this.”

Sasaki admitted they were outplayed by the Americans and particularly Lloyd, who also scored both goals in a 2-1 win which gave the US the Olympic gold at the expense of Japan.

Lloyd, 32, scored her first after just three minutes with the second coming two minutes later, and her third on 16 minutes.

It was the first ever hattrick in the final of the women’s tournament, and her six goals saw her take the Golden Ball award for the tournament’s top player.

Teammates Lauren Holiday (14) and Tobin Heath (54) also found the net.

Yuki Ogimi got one back on 27 minutes for Japan with their second coming thanks to a 52nd-minute own-goal by US defender Julie Johnson.

“We’re really embarrassed,” Sasaki said.

Midfielder Homare Sawa, the heroine of Japan’s 2011 campaign, came on after 33 minutes in place of tearful defender Azusa Iwashimizu — who had a desperate game — but failed to ignite the Japanese.

“I’d decided this would be my last World Cup and I’ve got no regrets,” said the 36-year-old Sawa, who was critical of their campaign.

“We’re very disappointed. We gave away those goals early on which obviously hurt. You can’t afford to do that against a team like America.

“But the result gives a fair reflection of where the team is now.”

Japan captain Aya Miyama won the Bronze Ball for the tournament’s third best player.

“This time we didn’t win, but I think we did our best,” said the 30-year-old.

“Coming first and coming second are very different, so I am very sorry,” she said, as tears streamed down her face.

“It was a tough game, but everyone did her best for the team.”

For Mana Iwabuchi, at 22 the youngest member of the team, the defeat was inexplicable.

“This is our last game together as a team, and I thought we were a great team. We did our best and we finished in second place.”

Ogimi added: “We need to look now towards the next game. Both as individuals and as a team, we weren’t good enough.”

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FG Won’t Pay Salaries Of Staff Schools In Tertiary Institutions – Official

The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC)on Wednesday declared that the Federal Government would not pay salaries of staff schools in the nation’s tertiary institutions.

The Executive Chairman of the Commission, Chief Richard Egbule, made this known at a news briefing in Abuja.

The University workers under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) had threaten to embark on strike for non-funding of staff schools by the Federal Government.

Egbule said the proposed strike action by SSANU was uncalled for as government was not responsible for the funding of staff schools in higher institutions.

He said that some government-owned tertiary institutions had transferred the funding of staff schools established by them to government treasury.

This, he said, had contributed to the bloating of the recurrent cost of federal government budget.

Egbule said that the activities of some of the staff schools had resulted in the additional cost to government amounting to N4 billion annually.

He said that in a bid to find out the state of the staff schools, the commission had in 2013 carried out a survey on their operations.

Egbule said that this was done with a view to generating information on the funding and payment of salaries.

He said that the study revealed that 48 of the tertiary institutions did not have staff schools, while 21 funded their staff schools from their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

He said 51 of the institutions, however, funded their staff schools from the Federal Treasury.

Egbule said that the schools that funded their staff schools from the federal treasury had devised means of including the staff list of such schools as part of the tertiary institutions’ authentic staff.

He said the staff of such schools were wrongly placed on the salary structure meant for the tertiary educational institutions.

Egbule said that the salary structure was higher in quantum than the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS).

He said that the discovery of the commission had resulted in government taking a policy decision.

He said the decision was that the cost of running all staff schools of government agencies including staff remuneration were to be funded from the higher institutions’ IGR.

The executive chairman said that in a bid to implement the federal government decision, the commission had in 2014, issued a circular directing all relevant institutions to adhere to government policy on funding of staff schools.

He said that the reiteration of the policy was one of the on-going activities of the commission in assisting the government to reduce the growing personnel cost and recurrent expenditure.

He, therefore, called on the staff unions not to distract the new administration with unnecessary demands.

Egbule said the federal government had reached an agreement with staff unions of tertiary educational institutions between 2009 and 2010 on funding of staff schools. (NAN)

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UN Asks Nigeria To Ease Abortion Restrictions For Boko Haram Rape Victims

The United Nations rights chief on Wednesday urged Nigeria to show compassion and make it easier for women and girls who became pregnant in Boko Haram captivity to access abortions.

Boko Haram militants are estimated by Amnesty International to have kidnapped more than 2,000 women and girls in northeastern Nigeria since the beginning of 2014, including the 276 girls seized from their school in Chibok last year in a kidnapping that sparked global outrage.

“During their captivity, lasting in many cases for months or even years, women and girls have been sexually enslaved, raped and forced into so-called ‘marriages’,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein told the UN Human Rights council in a special session on Boko Haram.

“Many survivors of these horrific experiences are now pregnant by their rapists … and several reportedly wish to terminate these unwanted pregnancies,” he said. But in Nigeria, abortion is only legal when the life of the woman is at risk, Zeid said, warning that a lack of access would only add to the horrendous suffering the former captives had been through.

“I strongly urge the most compassionate possible interpretation of the current regulations in Nigeria to include the risk of suicide and risks to mental health for women and young girls who have suffered such appalling cruelty,” he said.

He also called on authorities to help women and girls freed from Boko Haram enslavement, who often face stigmatisation, to reintegrate into their communities.

 Hard-handed military tactics

Boko Haram’s insurgency, centred in northeastern Nigeria and aimed at creating a hardline Islamic state, has led to the deaths of at least 15,000 people since 2009.

During his speech, Zeid accused Boko Haram of a litany of other atrocities in Nigeria and in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, including massacres, beheadings, torture, burning people to death in their own houses and forcing children to become soldiers.

He demanded that perpetrators be brought to justice, but also warned that hard-handed tactics by the military and police fighting Boko Haram risked exacerbating the suffering of civilians and increasing support for the militants.

He pointed to reports of “shocking conditions of detention in north-eastern Nigeria, including torture and lack of food or water,” and the lengthy detention of women and children released from Boko Haram captivity, reportedly for screening and rehabilitation.

He also referred to an Amnesty International report last month accusing senior Nigerian officials of “war crimes” in connection with the Boko Haram battle.

Nigeria’s acting foreign minister Bulus Z. Lolo slammed the Amnesty report as “demoralising”, insisting to the council Wednesday that it constituted an “undue interference in the work our security agencies are undertaking under very difficult circumstances against the insurgents (which) can only serve to strengthen and embolden Boko Haram.”

Nigerian forces were not the only ones accused of heavy-handedness.

Zeid referred to the widely criticised case of 84 children, aged seven to 15, detained since last December “in near starvation conditions” after Cameroonian forces raided what was first said to be a Boko Haram training camp, but which witnesses have said is an ordinary Koranic school.

Cameroonian ambassador Anatole Fabien Nkou told the council all 84 children had now been released, and that they had only been held long enough “to establish their level of involvement” in Boko Haram crimes.

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Six Persons missing; three Soldiers injured in Ambush in Plateau

Six persons have been declared missing in an ambush in Pang village in Heipang, Barkin Local Government of Plateau, according to Capt. Ikedichi Iweha, spokesman for the Special Task Force (STF).

He also said three soldiers attached to the STF, maintaining peace in Plateau, were seriously injured in the ambush.

Iweha told the News Agency o Nigeria (NAN) in Heipang on Wednesday that the corpse of one of the six missing persons had been found.

Iweha explained that there was a report of cow rustling at Pang village, which prompted the response of officers operating in the area around 4p.m. on Tuesday, June 30.

“But on getting to Pang village, our team of officers was attacked around 8.30 p.m. leaving three of our soldiers seriously injured.

“About 400 cows were reportedly rustled by some unknown youths, who carried out the ambush and shooting of the officers’’, he said.

The STF spokesman added that the injured officers had been taken to hospital, while most of the rustled cows had been recovered.

Three of the cows were found dead, while four were wounded.

He expressed surprise at the attack on the STF personnel who, he said, were neutral parties.

Iweha promised that the STF would do all it could to rescue the remaining five missing persons and also trace the attackers.

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