LetLucia

Have you ever heard that palm oil is unhealthy? That it raises blood cholesterol or that it even CONTAINS cholesterol? This research took me a long time because I wanted to make sure I was looking through the right research papers. And from the information I found, it seems like the idea that palm oil is unhealthy came from just the fact that it is saturated fat. A researcher even claimed that that notion was developed as a way to boost the sales of vegetable oils. In other words, it was a political agenda that was orchestrated almost 40 years ago. Sigh! The reason why I got interested in this topic was because I have high levels of cholesterol (LDL) which seem to be genetic and hasn’t reduced (I’m still hoping it does as I get stricter with my diet and work out). As a result of this condition, I cut down on a lot of oils and food types, and palm oil was one of them. It was really hard because that’s a staple in Nigeria that I grew up with. But I just thought I should ...

Hey you! It’s good to have you back on my blog! How am I doing on consistency? ‘A’ for effort? No? Too soon? Okay, my bad…LOL! I’m getting better at this, don’t worry. The post for today was inspired by my sister Wini who inspired this whole blog in the first place - Thank you Wini! I love you! I got a call from her telling me about her 5-year-old baby (yes, I’m that annoying aunty that would call a 10-year-old a baby! 🙄 ) who needed to take a pill for the first time in his tiny cute life. Imagine his introduction to pills – a big ole capsule! Poor baby! Anyway, she was wondering if she could just open up the capsule and pour its contents into his favorite juice in order to get him to take it. But the question there was if exposing the powder in the capsule would affect its potency in the body negatively.If I remembered anything from my toxicology class about the mechanism and kinetics of drugs, I didn’t think it was safe, simply because drugs are designed in a specific way for ...