5 Everyday Habits That Cause Sagging Breasts

We all know that with age  breasts become a little less perky. Unfortunately, breast tissue ages two to three years faster compared to the rest of the body, as revealed by a recent study published in the journal Genome Biology. While there isn’t much you can do about the genetic factors, there are still steps you can take to keep your pair from sagging prematurely.

By avoiding some everyday habits, you can do your part in keeping b.reasts young-looking for as long as possible.

1. Wearing a bra that doesn’t fit

This habit is more common that one would think. Most bras are made of flexible materials, and over time with normal wear, they will eventually stretch out. But the bra’s primary purpose is to give support. Wearing an ill-fitting bra can contribute to b.reast sagging as the more your br.east bounce around, the more stressed bre.ast skin and collagen become. You need to figure out what your bra size is, so that the cups adequately hold your br.easts. About 80% of women are wearing a bra that is not their perfect fit, so make sure you get measured, which can be easily done in a lingerie shop.

There is a discussion going on about the pros and cons of wearing a bra, and I have covered this in one of my previous post about the suggested link between br.east cancer and bras. Aside from the scientific debate, what both groups agree on is that you should wear a properly fitted bra.

2.Smoking

Smoking makes the skin lose its natural elasticity, which causes the b.reasts to drop. It reduces the amount of collagen in the skin and worsens the blood circulation. This makes the skin become weaker and age faster.

Smoking causes a lot of other health issues and you can see for yourself what happens to your lungs if you smoke only 60 cigarettes. If you are a smoker, then I have 5 natural ways to help you quit smoking – they are all scientifically proven.

3.Crash dieting

Having a balanced diet is very important to the health of your b.reasts. Yo-yo dieting that makes you lose vast amounts of weight quickly, only to put it back on later, puts a strain on your skin tissue. Repeatedly losing and gaining weight has been shown to make your bre.asts drop. The skin tissue stretches to accommodate the weight gain, but it can’t indefinitely snap back into place when the weight comes back off again. So try to maintain a steady weight or a proper nutrition in a healthy, sustainable way.

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4.Not protecting yourself from the sun

Breasts, and cleavage in particular, can get burnt easily and they absorb their share of the sun’s UV rays. This can damage the skin, make it wrinkle and age prematurely. Protect yourself from the sun and don’t over-expose your skin. Also, sunscreens are not the magic solution and I have written before about the potential chemical dangers that lure in some sunscreens, especially the high-factor ones.

5.Not exercising and adopting bad posture

It’s important to exercise and keep your chest muscles strong. However, some back-and-forth repetitive motions (like in running) can make your bre.asts go saggy, as they breakdown br.east collagen. Make sure you support your br.easts during a high-impact exercise session and pay attention to your posture throughout the day. Walk straight and make your br.easts stand up proudly. You can easily improve your posture by doing the following exercises to improve your posture.

40 migrants feared dead in latest Mediterranean accident

 

A rubber boat crowded with migrants deflated and foundered in the Mediterranean, and as many as 40 people apparently drowned before an approaching merchant ship could get to them, witnesses told the humanitarian group Save the Children on Tuesday, The New York Times reports.

Counting the latest shipwreck, the death toll for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe this year is now more than 1,800. Even so, the number of people attempting the crossing on smuggler boats is rising sharply. The Italian authorities reported that nearly 6,000 people were rescued in the Mediterranean in a 48-hour period over the weekend, including a woman who gave birth to a baby girl on an Italian naval vessel.

The situation has become a humanitarian crisis for Europe, especially after an overloaded vessel capsized during a rescue attempt last month, drowning at least 700 people near the Libyan coast. European leaders responded by tripling their budget for search and rescue operations and by promising to crack down on traffickers, but critics called the response inadequate. The latest sinking occurred Sunday morning. Survivors who arrived in the Sicilian port of Catania on Tuesday and spoke to Save the Children representatives gave this account: Smugglers launched two rubber boats full of migrants from the Libyan coast, and one of them, carrying 105 migrants, was safely rescued at sea by a passing merchant ship. But the second boat, with 197 people, began to steadily lose air, until some people crowded near the edges fell into the sea. Giovanna Di Benedetto, a Save the Children representative in Catania who spoke to survivors, cautioned that the exact details still needed to be verified by the authorities.

“Shipwrecks have tragically become a daily occurrence,” Ms. Di Benedetto said. “We appeal to Europe to finally establish a system that will carry out search and rescue missions at sea.”

Libya has emerged as a haven for smuggling groups, who are making millions of dollars from desperate migrants whom they load into dangerous fishing boats or rubber vessels and send north toward Europe. Survivors of the episode on Sunday said that most of the migrants on the two rubber boats were from Ghana, Zambia, Senegal, Mali or the Ivory Coast, and that several were children.

Hundreds of rescued migrants now arrive almost every day in Sicily. Many have been Syrians or Eritreans hoping to slip through Italy and reach northern Europe, where asylum benefits tend to be more generous. But there has been a noticeable increase this year in migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, including men who were working in Libya but have fled because of rising violence and instability there.

More than 1,200 migrants have been delivered to the small Sicilian port of Pozzallo since Sunday, including several hundred rescued by a private humanitarian group, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, which is based in Malta.

Meanwhile, the Italian Navy released a photograph of the baby girl who was born on the navy patrol ship Bettica over the weekend. The captain, Vincenzo Pascale, told Italian state news media that the mother, a Nigerian, gave birth after six hours of labor with the assistance of a midwife. A photograph of the infant was published widely by news outlets, especially in Italy and Britain, where her humble birth was contrasted with that of the new British princess, Charlotte.

Initially, the Italian news agency ANSA reported, the authorities were calling the baby Francesca Marina, with the first name honoring Pope Francis and the second “in honor of the navy,” Captain Pascale said.

But it appears that the mother has other ideas. She is said to have decided on a different name for her new daughter: Gift.

36 ships laden with foods, petroleum products to arrive Lagos

Thirty six ships laden with food items, petroleum products and other goods are expected to arrive in Lagos from May 5 to May 30, 2015.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its daily publication – `Shipping Position’ – made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos.

It said that the expected ships would sail in with containers, bulk sugar, general cargo, used vehicles, bulk fertiliser, buck wheat, fish, palm olein, rice, kerosene, petrol and buthane.

The document noted that 10 other ships containing rice, general cargo, fish, petrol and kerosene had arrived the ports, waiting to berth.

NPA explained that 18 other ships were in the ports discharging bulk sugar, buck wheat, bulk fertiliser, rice, aviation fuel, petrol and base oil.

Source: NAN

2015 Elections: Nigerians Owe Jonathan Debt of Gratitude -Emeka Anyaoku

 Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council  on International Relations and former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, on Tuesday said Nigerians owed President Goodluck Jonathan a debt of gratitude for his roles in the conduct of a successful elections this year.

Anyaoku spoke after a breakfast meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa.

He noted that Jonathan's magnanimity in calling  the President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) on the telephone and congratulating him even before the final results of the presidential elections were announced was also commendable.

According to him, that singular act earned Nigeria a great deal of admiration and respect globally.

Anyaoku explained that the meeting would be the last that Jonathan would hold with members of the council.

"We had an excellent valedictory meeting. It is the last for our council, it is the last we are meeting with the outgoing President.

"We told him that our nation Nigeria owes him a huge debt of gratitude for what he has done in terms of the success of the elections and above all in terms of the gesture of picking up the telephone and congratulating the President-elect even before the final results of the elections were announced.

"That singular act has earned our country a great deal of admiration and respect abroad. We thanked him and congratulated him and wished him well in his future endeavour" he added.

Source: This Day

10,606 Lagosians test HIV positive in one year

No fewer than 10, 606 people living in Lagos State tested positive to HIV out of the 58,792 clients tested by the State AIDS Control Agency in the last one year.

The dreadful revelation came to the fore during the ministerial press briefing of the Ministry of Health, held at Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, Ikeja.

According to the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris the agency was able to carry out HIV Counseling and Testing  (HCT) for a total of 58, 792 people out of which 18% of them tested positive.

He  also said during the sensitisation exercise for Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV; a total of 28, 736 were counselled and tested out of which 340 tested positive to HIV.

Idris said; “The State Aids Control Agency was able to carry out HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) for a total of 58, 792 clients in the health facilities and 10, 606, representing 18% of these patients were positive.

“The agency conducted the fourth phase of sensitisation of Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) on Prevention of Mother of Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), Universal Safety Precautions (USP) and Referral Linkage to PMTCT intervention.

“A total of 28, 736 pregnant women were counselled and tested during the outreaches. of these number, 340 were positive and referred for PMTCT services.”

Idris said a total of 2,957 HIV positive patients commenced antiretroviral treatment in the year under review, even as 1,066 HIV positive pregnant women and 745 HIV exposed babies were placed on ARV prophylaxis.

Speaking on infrastructural development in the health sector, the commissioner said the state essentially needed to enhance the efficiency of the health workforce as well as increase the scope and quality of service delivery in the health facilities.

He added that the infrastructure development involved the revamping of health and related structures through phased rehabilitation, equipping and upgrading of existing health facilities and the construction of new ones at all levels of care.

Lagos blames unions, students for LASU closure

The Lagos State Government says the challenges in the Lagos State University are caused by the various unions in the institution, as well as some of the students. 

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Chief Fatai Olukoga, on Tuesday during an annual briefing of the Ministry of Education in Alausa, Ikeja, said unions in the university had overbearing attitudes, which had continued to fuel the crisis in the school.

Olukoga spoke after the Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, had briefed journalists on the activities of the ministry.

Olukoja said lecturers, students and management of the university needed to sit together, reason and compromised on some of their stands.

He added that unless such was done, the school would not be reopened.

He said, “LASU was established by law, which gave the management and the governing council power to run the university. When there is a problem that they cannot resolve, that is when it is brought before the governor.

“The crisis in LASU is that the employees want to dictate to their employer to sack somebody, which is wrong. When they said they want the Vice-Chancellor sacked, we said, ‘Look, it is wrong for you to say that we should send the VC away’.

“Imagine if you run a company and somebody you employed wakes up one day and says you should sack the MD. I think we need to have a rethink.

“The problem of LASU is just the overbearing attitude of the unions. The lecturers, the management and the students really need to be talked to.”

On the PhD controversy in the school, the special adviser said 17 out of the 19 affected candidates had been screened and cleared, saying one of those who had yet to be cleared refused to show up for screening.

He said, “About 17 people have been cleared. One of the two remaining persons is the chairman of a union and he refused to come for clearance.”

Earlier, Oladunjoye had said the government succeeded in the area of improved qualitative education.

Source: The PUNCH

Ohanaeze hails zoning of SGF to S’East

The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio- cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has hailed the All Progressives Congress for zoning the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation to the South-East geopolitical zone.

The National President of the Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isinguzoro, who gave the commendation in an interview with our correspondent in Umuahia on Tuesday, however, appealed to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to consider more Igbo sons and daughters for appointment into his cabinet.

The OYC also drummed support for the appointment of a former Abia State Governor and current chieftain of the APC, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, as the SGF, describing him as “a round peg in a round hole”.

The organisation said although Ndigbo did not vote massively for the APC during the elections, the tribe “parades an army of technocrats and competent hands who cannot be ignored in the Nigerian project.”

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Isiguzoro said the beauty of democracy was the right of electoral choice as exemplified in the last election but stressed the need to carry all geopolitical zones along in the allocation of key offices in the country.

He also urged Buhari to consider for appointment more accomplished Igbo technocrats with proven track records such as a former Central Bank of Nigeria boss, Prof. Charles Soludo; former Minister of Education, Dr. Obby Ezekwesiri; and the Director of Public Communications and Strategy, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, Chief Udenta Udenta.

The Ohanaeze helmsman observed that Buhari’s relationship with Ndigbo could only improve through the appointment of credible Igbo who command the respect of the tribe into his cabinet instead of sycophants.

He said, “It was such leaders without electoral values that pulled down President Jonathan as they failed to secure victory for him at the poll despite their assurance before the elections.”

 Source: The PUNCH