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Guava and it’s health benefits

Guava is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. Psidium guajava is a small tree in the myrtle family, native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America.

8 Health Benefits of Guava Fruit and Leaves

  • May Help Lower Blood Sugar Levels. …
  • May Boost Heart Health. …
  • May Help Relieve Painful Symptoms of Menstruation. …
  • May Benefit Your Digestive System. …
  • May Aid Weight Loss. …
  • May Have an Anticancer Effect. …
  • May Help Boost Your Immunity. …
  • Eating Guavas May Be Good for Your Skin.

More health benefits of guava?

Medically reviewed by Natalie Olsen, R.D., L.D., ACSM EP-C on March 20, 2019 — Written by Lana Burgess

Guava is a traditional remedy for a range of health conditions. Research suggests that guava fruits and leaves may have a number of benefits.

Guavas are tropical fruits with yellowish-green skin, and they grow on trees in Central America. The Latin name for the common guava tree is Psidium guajava.

People use guava leaf tea as a treatment for diarrhea in several countries, including India and China. In other countries, such as Mexico, people have traditionally used the flesh of the fruit to heal wounds.

In this article, we explore some potential health benefits and uses of guava. We also describe nutritional information, risks, and how to incorporate guava into the diet.

Type 2 diabetes

Guava fruit with health benefits cut up on chopping board

Guava fruit may help treat a range of conditions, including type 2 diabetes.

Guava leaf tea may help prevent spikes in blood sugar and improve symptoms in people with type 2 diabetes.

A 2010 review of evidence from clinical trials and animal studies suggests that guava leaf tea may help improve insulin resistance and lower blood sugar levels.

These benefits may result from compounds in guava leaf extract helping to moderate glucose absorption after a person eats a meal.

Menstrual cramps

Taking supplements containing guava leaf extract may reduce menstrual cramps.

The results of a study from 2007 suggest that taking guava leaf extract supplements may relieve menstrual pain in women with primary dysmenorrhea.

Diarrhea

Guava leaf tea is a traditional remedy for diarrhea in many parts of the world.

Evidence from animal studies suggests that the leaf extract may have the potential to treat infectious diarrhea.

A 2015 study investigated the use of this extract in mice with infectious diarrhea. The infection cleared more quickly in the mice who consumed guava leaf extract than in those who did not. The researchers noted that guava leaf extract shows promise as a treatment for this illness.

Another study from 2015 found that guava leaf extract helped control diarrhea in chickens with Escherichia coli infections.

However, scientists need to carry out more research to confirm these findings in humans.

Flu

Person holding mug of herbal tea

Drinking guava leaf tea is an easy way to enjoy the health benefits of the fruit.

Drinking guava leaf tea may help people fight off the flu.

In a 2012 test tube study, guava leaf tea showed promise as an antiviral agent for flu treatment. The researchers found that the tea inhibited the growth of the virus that causes the flu.

The antiviral effect of the tea may result from the leaf’s flavanols, which are a natural antioxidant.

Blood pressure

Consuming guava leaf extract may help lower high blood pressure.

A 2016 test tube study found that the extract had an antihypertensive effect in rat tissues, which means that it may have the potential to reduce blood pressure.

This effect may be due to the leaf extract’s antioxidant properties. Antioxidants may lower blood pressure by helping to expand blood vessels.

However, scientists need to carry out more studies to determine whether guava leaf extract can reduce high blood pressure in humans.

Osteoarthritis

Some research in animals suggests that guava leaf extract may benefit people with osteoarthritis.

A 2018 study found that consuming the extract protected against cartilage destruction in rats with induced osteoarthritis.

Cancer

Guava leaf extract may eventually play a role in cancer treatment.

Results of a 2014 test tube, animal, and computer study suggest that compounds in the extract may inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

The researchers believe that the effect may occur because guava leaf compounds act like selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs).

SERMs are a class of drugs that doctors use to treat cancer. They work by preventing cancer cells from multiplying.

However, scientists need to conduct clinical trials in humans to better understand the potential for these compounds to combat cancer.

Nutritional information

Guava being chopped up

Guava contains vitamin A and potassium.

Guava fruit is a nutritious and healthful food that is rich in several important nutrients.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, 100 grams (g) of raw guava fruit contain:

Prayer points that brings divine helpers to you

1.Oh Lord please help me, to meet the one who you have destined to help my life in the mighty name of Jesus.

2.Father, just like you provided a helper for Adam.Oh Lord please provided a helper for me so that I might not be weary as I hope and look unto you in Jesus name.

3.Heavenly father, Do not allow me to suffer like one without a soul helper while you have provided one for me.Oh Lord help my helpers to Locate me in Jesus name.

4.Lord Jesus I trust in you and in your strength, please help me that I might not scare away or destroy the help you are sending to me by my characters or actions in the mighty name of Jesus.

5.Father send me a Jonathan like you sent unto David in the mighty name of Jesus.Father send me Companionship that I might be weary in this Journey of faith in the name of Jesus.

Father, as many that has made this prayer o Lord I cry from the buttom of my heart that you will uplift them and show them your light and send helpers that you have destined to help their lives in Jesus name.

Don’t pray this alone, send to your friends and families.And the Lord to will be you in Jesus name.

Things that can harm your kidneys

If you want to live long and healthy, please flee away from the bad habits been mentioned below.

The kidney is one of the most important organs in the body and its primary work is to filter the harmful toxin and filter excess of water from our body naturally.

The human kidney is located just against the back muscle in the upper abdominal cavity of the human body.

Majority of the people adapt some bad and careless habit which might be harmful to kidneys and it might also lead to kidney failure.

These bad habits are listed below:

– Not urinating on time.

Urinating is the most important thing to do in our day-to-day life. Flushing out waste from the bladder is a highly essential and healthy thing for a kidney. When the bladder is full for a very long time without being flushed out, then you are knowingly getting your kidney into serious problems. 

– Consuming too much of salt.

People should consume salt in a minimum amount which will be good for their health. And if you consume salt more than the required amount, then it will definitely destroys the kidney. 

– Drinking less water daily.

Drinking much water is indispensable in our daily life. We must consume adequate water to keep the body hydrated. If you are not consuming enough water, then you are risking your kidney. Insufficient intake of water might have negative impact on your health such as forming stones in the kidney. 

– Consuming too much of pain killers drugs

Taking too much pain killers drugs daily affect the health of the bod. Expert also said that consuming much pain killers will have negative effect on your kidney also. 

– Consuming too much of alcohol.

Talking alcohol more than the required amount directly affect your liver and your kidney as well. Excessive intake of alcohol increases the uric acid and leads to kidney failure by chance. 

Be cautious of these careless habits, which you should have to wipe off.

Share to others, you can save a life and a generation.

Some local businesses that people can start to gain profits.

1. Dry cleaning services and General cleaning services

This is another dirty job that can yield a good return if properly managed. Most times, people are requiring the services of a dry cleaner due to busy schedules.

2. Catering and event planning.

When running a catering business on a small scale or local scale, there is a lot of work involved. You will get really dirty when decorating halls, you will be exhausted from shopping and preparing different cuisines for the guests of an event by the good thing is that it pays.

3. Sale of firewood.

The demand of firewood is high in Nigeria with the rise in cost of gas and kerosene, many are turning back to using firewood for cooking especially large quantities of food for commercial purpose or domestic use.

4. Manual production of soaps.

Detergents, liquid and bar soaps are essential cleaning agents that play essential roles in homes, offices, shops and anywhere humans need to make use of the soap.

5. Sale of food stuff at markets.

Selling in markets is not easy as it appears even though one has to sit down in a dense environment and sometimes under poor conditions to sell the returns of sales is high.

6. Running a car wash.

All that needed for well functioning car wash is constant availability of water, good services and cleaning agents i.e soap.

7. Repair of shoes and bags.

This is an essential services that every environment can not do without some cobblers also make shoes for sale.

8. Roadside restaurants.

A roadside restaurant is very easy to set up, it is not capital intensive and it’s profitability depends solely on the ability of one to make mouth watering delicacies.

9. Farming.

A lot of farms are presently springing up in both rural and urban areas in Nigeria people are investing in both animal husbandry and crop farming, because food is a necessity and people have to feed, the market for products like catfish, eggs, and chickens from paltry, pork, etc is very large.

10. Beauty and barbing saloons.

Lots Of Nigerians are skilled and very creative. Starting up a local saloon is not tedious and it quite affordable.

Prayer to break the yoke of disappointment

Isaiah 41:10 says, ”Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”

Romans 8:28, “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”

The children of God looking unto God for a way out should not give up to life challenges or to the spirit of disappointments. God is always during there during the situations of His children. He would make sure you do not listen to other strange voice or entertain any kinds of unclean advises from friends. In the time when it seems God is not answering your prayers that’s when the spirit of darkness will suggest ways for you to come out from that situation. 

No matter the challenges you are going through, you should not give up, rather be thankful unto God for one thing you have observed in your life that others are suffering from. We can be facing some series of disappointment but God expects us to appreciate Him. It is true that anytime our hope or dream are not achieved, we may feel frustrated or disappointed. Being disappointed is not a sin, it is normal for every believer to pass through this painful experience of life, but it becomes a satanic when it is a constant thing.

The children of God as stated in the Bible faces lots of disappointments. The good part of it is that, they never discouraged. Ranging from Job, Joseph, Sarah, Rebekkah, Elizabeth etc. These people passed through some stubborn disappointments that should have made them to stay off from God, yet they hold on.Today, we praised the because how they were able to overcome the spirit of disappointments. They rejected it at all cost even when it keeps bouncing back at them. In your life battle, giving up is not the best option. 

INSTRUCTION: Take a bottle of water and take Ps 27 on the water. Use it to bath both morning and nightPRAYER POINTS

1. I reject the spirit the spirit of disappointment in my life, in the name of Jesus

2. I break the backbone of disappointment over my life and family in the name of Jesus

3. Every spirit of disappointment going ahead of me to scatter my blessings, I destroy you today, in the name of Jesus.

4. Any department of my life that has been covered by the spirit of disappointments, be released now, in the name of Jesus.

5. I shake off every spirit of disappointment in my marriage, in the name of Jesus.

6. I shake off every presence of the spirit of disappointment in my destiny, in the name of Jesus

7. Every disappointing-delaying powers, assigned to put me in one spot, be destroyed in the name of Jesus.

8. Powers from the heart of my foundation, causing disappointment to take over my life, career. break by fire, in the name of Jesus

9. My life, you shall no more be caged by the spirit of disappointment, in the name of Jesus.

10. O God, deliver me from the spirit that causes disappointment and discouragemet in my family, in the name of Jesus

11. Any house that I have entered that is activating the spirit of disappointment in my life, scatter by fire, in the name of Jesus.

12. Every curse of disappointment from people, I break you by fire, in the name of Jesus.

13. Every spirit of disappointment controlling and delaying my destiny, run away from me, in the name of Jesus.

14. Anointing for double speed, fall upon my life, in the name of Jesus

15. O God, release me from the spirit of rejection and hatred, in the name of Jesus

16. This year, my life must move forward. It must not delay my destiny, in the name of Jesus

17. Everywhere I have been denied access, I enter you by fire, in the name of Jesus.

18. Every altar of wasted effort against my moving forward, blow away by fire, in the name of Jesus.

19. Every power sponsoring the spirit of constant disappointments in my life, receive double frustration and disgrace in Jesus name

20. I REJECT THE SPIRIT OF DISAPPOINTMENT AND DISCOURAGEMENT. Declare it 21 hot times

21. Blood of Jesus, restore all my wasted years, in the name of Jesus

22. Father, make a way for me where there seems to be no way, in the name of Jesus.

23. Every power assigned to frustrate me at the point of breakthrough, be frustrated, in Jesus name

24. My life, turn around for good, in the name of Jesus.

25. Every yoke that multiply problems in the family, be broken in the name of Jesus.

26. Every power standing at the place of my breakthrough, you shall not prosper in the name of Jesus.

27. Every enemy of my success in my life, come out and die, in Jesus name

28. Every arrow of confusion at the edge of divine visitation, be arrested by fire in Jesus name

29. My problem…… (Mention them), you shall not overcome me in the name of Jesus

30. You powers that want to make my condition to defeat the power of God, crumble and die in Jesus name

How you can reduce the risk of getting breast cancer

Breast cancer happens when the cells in the breast grows out of control. The breast is made up of three parts;

a. The Lobules: The Lobules produces the milk.

b. The Ducts: The Ducts are tubes that carry the milk to the nipples.

c. The connective tissue: The connective tissue holds everything together.

We have different types of breast cancer, but there are two major ones;

1. Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: The cancer cells starts from the Lobules and spreads to the tissues close to it. This kind of breast cancer can spread to different parts of the body.

2. Invasive Ductal Carcinoma: This type of breast cancer cells is outside. It starts from the duct and grows to the other breast tissues.

Some symptoms of breast cancer are:

1. Swelling of parts of the breast.

2. Redness in the nipples.

3. Pain in the nipple area.

4. Lump in the breast or armpit.

5. Nipple discharge.

6. Pain in the breast area.

These symptoms can also happen in other illnesses that are not breast cancer. So to be really sure,when you start having any of these signs visit a doctor.

So many factors causes breast cancer like family history,age, genetics and gender,these are factors we cannot control. There are other factors that increases the risk of having breast cancer,we can control.

Some of those things we can do to reduce the risk of breast cancer are:

1. Exercising: Most of us do not know how effective exercising can be. Exercise is very important to the body. Exercise not only keeps your weight in check,but also helps lower the risk of a person getting certain illnesses, like cancer.

2. Fruits and vegetables: Fruits and vegetables helps boost our immune system, which in turn helps fight off sickness and diseases. Regular consumption of fruits and vegetables helps reduce the risk of not just cancer but other diseases.

3. Avoid smoking: Smoking is your number one enemy. Smoking destroys the immune system, leaving the system weak and exposing it to certain illnesses and diseases. Smoking also cause bad teeth and a smelly breath,so avoid smoking by all means necessary.

4. Maintain a healthy weight: Being over weight, most times is bad for the health. Being over weight attracts lots of sickness to the body. It is always important to maintain a healthy weight.

Do you know that you can use salt to pray and break generational curses.

I was listening to one of the messages of Pastor E.A. Adeboye (the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God) which message was focussed on “Breaking Generational Curses.” Then, he threw more insights on praying with salt while backing his teachings with the scriptures (as usual.)

First of all, he made mention of how Joshua placed a curse on the inhabitants of Jericho and the land became fruitless, also, the water was naught for many years.

And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

Joshua:6:26

Luckily for the Children of Jericho, they Prophet of God, Elisha on his way back after he had received the Mantle from Elijah and how he parted the waters. So they ran to meet him.

And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

2 Kings:2:15

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

2 Kings:2:19

And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

2 Kings:2:20

And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

2 Kings:2:21

So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.

2 Kings:2:22

Till date, barrenness was eliminated from the land.

Salt is very important, that’s why the Bible says we are the salt of the earth

You could also pray with other things like handkerchief, olive oil, garlic, sand, water, etc. with Faith according to the leading of the HOLY SPIRIT…

May God break away every generational curses from your lives in Jesus’ Name. Amen

Thanks for your time. God bless you!

Story that can help you

I’ll tell you a story…

When I was between 11 and 13years, was still in junior secondary school, I hawked several stuff for my momma depending on the season but that’s not the story..

You see? My mum had a shop in the old umuahia market, and after school as usual I go to hawk stuff, now in that market, there was an old woman called Daada❤
Daada was a rice seller(cooked rice, beans and their associates)

They had a line where they sold, many rice sellers were on that line, then the next line had Agidi and stew sellers..
The story is about Daada the rice seller, as at when I was 11 or thereabouts, she was already old and wrinkled, with her ‘pancake’ and badly drawn eyebrows😂😂 but one thing stood out! Her STEW!

Daada had this fine touch to her stew that no one could replicate.. I mean NOBODY COULD..

Early in the morning, you would see, women who left their houses, came to market but must branch at Daada’s shop to eat rice, men too weren’t left out! Infact you had to wash your own plate if you want make the rice sure for you ooo, she no get girl wey dey help her, so once she comes to her shop, the plates she comes with are already washed and soaked in clean water, after use, subsequent users must wash their plates because once she sits she’s not standing until she’s done selling🤗

And boy was the rice good? Stew I mean? Damn right, although it had too much unhealthy oils but it was a delight to the taste buds.. this was when you could buy a plate of rice for 20 or 30naira 10naira beans meat 20naira and plantain if you’re feeling like a king😂😂😂

The thing is, from morning till maybe around 2pm in the afternoon, the crowd doesn’t wane until she’s done selling, the other sellers would have to wait for her rice to finish before those who couldn’t buy from her will then patronize them and yes it made them envious

Anyday, Daada is having a bad market day, imagine, what the other rice sellers are having?? Infact most people who would patronize the agidi sellers on the other line would be because they couldn’t buy Daada’s rice!
She’s late now, May she RIP..
My point? You can, distinguish yourself no matter how many are in the same field with you, everyone on that line cooked rice like she did but they didn’t have her recipe..

And for everyday we ate her rice, the taste was ALWAYS SAME!
When you make a clear cut path for yourself, don’t become the ‘typical Nigerian’ and water down your product or regimen…

Daada kept her quality untainted, she didn’t have to beg for customers for one day while that market existed.
If you’re doing business be consistent, if you’re offering services don’t reduce your standards once customers start trooping in, because that was what brought them in at first..

I hope this helps you today and beyond..
Have a great weekend dears❤❤

Stay away from your Abusers

Listen!
If either of your parents were abused by their partner or you have an older sibling who was/is being abused by their partner and THEY STUCK with them..

Listen very carefully, do everything you want with them from afar, show them love from afar, gift them from afar… NEVER let them into your space, let alone living permanently with you and your spouse!

Strange? Yes but I’ll tell you why…
Anyone being abused especially by their love partners most likely than not KNOW that they’re being abused but they’re weak where their abusers are or rather chose to be weak, but that doesn’t mean they’re weak as humans in every area of their lives, they’re just weak when it has to do with their partners..

Now, when someone is weak in an area and they have someone or something upon which they can prove their strength, they go full throttle! Just like they have seen their partner as their superior, they’ll definitely find someone else who they’ll be superior to!

Let me explain…. say for instance, a woman is being abused by her husband and she keeps enduring, she could unleash her frustrations on her kids, maybe not as kids but when they’re grown and MARRIED..

Abused women who STUCK to and endured the abuse most often than not become the ‘wicked mother-in-law’ we keep reading about..
Abuse has a way of RESHAPING someone’s mentality..
She’s likely to see her loving son as ‘weak’ and her daughter-in-law as manipulating or ‘undeserving’ of love..

Men who watched their dads abuse their mums, pick up the dangerous traits and their wives in turn pay heavily because to them abuse is the normal way to live..
Women who watched their mums live with abuse tend to see abuse as normal and stay married to abusive men without complaints which in turn damages their kids and the vicious cycle continues!

The mistake is, we see these things, we watched our parents go through what we term abuse but because as Africans we tend to be the ones to take care of them later in life, we make the mistake of bringing them to live with us! Then the battle begins, the man or woman who did nothing wrong other than marrying their child will start to suffer for what he/she wasn’t the cause..

They come in, run their children’s homes to the detriment of their spouse and when the marriage packs up because this generation won’t want to be subjected to what their generation accepted, people will start telling the divorcee how they don’t understand the institution called Marriage..

Stay far away from people who have accepted abuse as normal and are living with their abusers, except you’re an abuser or comfortable in abuse they’ll most likely make life a living hell for you, it doesn’t matter if they’re mere acquaintances or your parents!

BECAUSE YOU WERE RAISED WRONG DOESN’T MEAN YOUR DAUGHTER SHOULD!

Going down memory lane on growing up, I’d say I wasn’t a preacher of love😂
I am the fight..
I’m the war..
Oh yes, I grew up in what you could rightly call, A Jungle! It wasn’t as bad as ajengule in dirt but it wasn’t a posh neighborhood🤷🏾‍♀️

Have you heard the phrase survival of the fittest? Yes! That’s the right phrase, that’s what I did, that’s what many kids did..
It was violent, it was bloody but then that was what we saw, what we were taught by the environment, either you beat or you’re beaten

Late Obanikoro dubbed me ‘Nwanyi soja’ (the military woman)😂😂 why? I was the fighter, no no don’t get me wrong, I’m not proud looking back and remembering all the kids I bullied but then I’m going somewhere with this story🤗 shall we??

Ok most of y’all know I’m the Ada(first daughter) and because my elder brother gave me 5years and then proceeded to the boarding house, I automatically became the first child to my younger ones, you know what that means yeah? I was at the war front! Every rivalry both to me and my siblings was fought by yours truly within and without..

They picked on our lastborn a lot because she was very quiet growing up, I was the big sister, the loud one, the noise maker, the indabosky if you get what I mean🤣🤣
I had my frustrations as a kid, from forced house chores which I hated with passion to the hustle for daily bread and then I get some little play time you want to intimidate me? Who you? How do you form? How do you exist?

I had a penchant for fighting boys because the girls became cry babies🙄 small push they’re already crying🤦🏽‍♀️ I couldn’t deal😑
You fuck up as a girl, I go and drag your brother to a fight, my father got tired of mediating(problem child fighter I was😞🤦🏽‍♀️) one day in exasperation, he asked the dad of the boy that came to report that I had beaten up his son, how the boy who was well older than I was, stood looking at me and let me beat him up😂😂😂

Now, one thing that episode of my childhood did to me was, I NEVER TOLERATED INTIMIDATION be it from an age mate or an older person..
People then termed it ‘open eye’ I always got that admonition to ‘tone it down you’re a girl’
A woman is not supposed to be nyenyenye😏
Me I choputas not🤷🏾‍♀️

So I grew up! I didn’t learn assertiveness and confidence through the best route but I LEARNED!
I started relating with people in every aspect of daily living, because I refused to be abused(I’ve told the story about how I escaped rape as a child because of my open eye, if I were too ‘quiet’ e for don be for me)I still get that you don’t know you’re a woman cliche😏😏

Men suffer abuse I’m very much aware, but for the purpose of this single post I’ll focus on women…
In 2020, women are still being stereotyped, streamlined whatever on how they should or shouldn’t behave, they’re been hushed and almost forbidden to speak their opinion or express their hurt, next line is, how do you expect to be married with this kind of attitude😏😏

I was once in a relationship with someone who abused me emotionally, financially and once physically, I called out his bullshit and next thing was, do you think a man will marry you like this? E shock unku say I fit dust my nyash leave him in the yeye relationship..

Because in Nigeria currently, the onus still lies largely with women to ‘bring up their kids’ I’ll tell you women to change the narratives in bringing up your daughters..
I wouldn’t want to start a lecture on what should or shouldn’t give in bringing up a girl child lest the post be too long but I’ll tell you this..

BECAUSE YOU WERE RAISED WRONG DOESN’T MEAN YOUR DAUGHTER SHOULD!
Change the narrative….

With this my dears, I wish you a good night and a productive new week❣❤