“Choose Your Hard”: The Street Wisdom That Could Save Your Life
We all know this saying, especially Nigerians. It’s a staple of Nigerian Pidgin, a piece of street logic...
Category: Healthy Living
Pain Points do pack a punch
Most mornings I climb the bathroom scale and wonder for a brief moment why my weight has gone...
Light a Candle
One weekend in 1994, I made a choice during a visit to Ogoloma, my home town. I’d heard...
Homelessness, WhatsApp and I.
My first formal employment in UK was as Lifestyle Officer at National Heart Research Fund (now Heart Research...
A LETTER TO OUR PATIENTS LIVING WITH DIABETES
Today is 14th November, 2023. It is World Diabetes Day. This year, there is a focus on “equitable...
The Rhema of Diabetes Care
In our practice, we know 620 patients who are living with Diabetes. There are many more who have...
What causes smoking?
I was driving to a multi-agency meeting the other day when I saw in my mind’s eye a...
Know Your Health Flag
Dido’s White Flag song was about ‘going down with the ship of love’ with no plans to surrender....
Self-Care: A stitch in time
What is Self-Care? It can narrowly be defined as the actions taken when one has an ailment that...
‘Tis the Season to be Jolly
I saw a patient in clinic the other day and she told me on exploration of her presenting...