Health Talks with Diyenau

One evening during this fasting period as I walked through Bauchi Road, I saw so many "Almajiri" children struggling to get food from a vehicle to break their fast. From the way they struggled and the small quantity of food being shared, I knew that so many of them were hungry and the food was not going to sufficiently satisfy their hunger.  It reminded me of a very busy day I had some time ago. I was so busy and occupied that I forgot to eat. By the time I got back, I was too hungry to cook something and too weak to even stand so I took water and slept.😅 Someone reading this blog post may have never been " hungry " before. When I mention the word "Hungry", I mean intense, gut-wrenching hunger. The type that would embarrass you in public and make you just want to find something to eat. The type that would leave you shaky and very weak such that you might not even have enough strength to do anything.  If you have experienced such before, then you will rela...

From the last time I made a post till now, I have aged tremendously this is because I had to go through very stressful moments.  I had a very beautiful and well-drafted timetable as to what I had to write and even how I was going to go about writing all of them, but because we do not always get what we want, I didn't get to make any of those posts.  I do not know if today's post has anything to do with health, but I know that today is my birthday and people say that we age every time we celebrate our birthdays (though I want to believe that I'm not aging 😪)  To understand how it is that the fusion of a sperm and an ovum gives rise to a human never makes complete sense to me despite the biology and anatomy lectures I've been privileged to attend. To further understand how people are born, how they grow, and how they eventually get old with time is not something my brain finds easy to do.  I know that while aging, people decline and eventually lose the ability(ies) th...