Often we get so caught up in the rules of a diet that we miss the most important part of a life style strategy: changing attitudes and perspectives about food, and eating to allow a change of habit. Some eating is habitual as an automatic response to various life situations.

Professor Adenike Grange needs no formal introduction in this country. Her CV is as impressive as a well decorated Christmas tree. An excellent Paediatrician, she began her working career at the popular Mercy Street hospital in Lagos.

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day set aside by the United Nations to recognise and celebrate the contributions of women to development across the world We join women worldwide to celebrate their giant strides in self development and political emancipation. How have Nigerian women fared thus far?

Although her desire was to study computer science in the university, her father had a different idea. He wanted his daughter to study medicine. Having spent quite some time as a child visiting dental clinics, it is not unlikely that she got fascinated with that field of medicine and decided to study dentistry at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife where she bagged a degree in dental surgery.

Professor Mrs. Ibironke Akinsete is a Haematologist and an expert in the area of women’s health who has distinguished herself in her chosen career. She is a founding member of the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa, Nigeria (SWAAN) and served as its President till 2000. She is a Life Patron of SWAAN, former Chairperson; National Agency for the Control of AIDS and Presidential Adviser on HIV/AIDS. She is on the board of several companies’ organizations and NGOs. And currently the Chairman of Path Care Medical Laboratory, Lagos.

Who are you and who do you want to be? What direction are you moving in life? It is vital to become clear on this. Knowing the answers to these questions will guide you to making wise choices in who you allow to be part of your journey.

Who are you and who do you want to be? What direction are you moving in life? It is vital to become clear on this. Knowing the answers to these questions will guide you to making wise choices in who you allow to be part of your journey.

Do you know that it is dysfunctional to believe you are in love with a man who has a wife in the house and hope that some day, he will divorce his wife and marry you?

Last week, I started with the highlights of previous articles as requested by you with the aim of giving those of you, my dear readers who by one reason or another missed some of the past editions.

January 4th, 2007 – I’ve been staring at the same spot on the ceiling for the last three hours, I can almost hear each hurried beat of my overworked heart, and I count each one, just waiting |