Many people know melon, eat melon and love melon. But majority of the people don’t know the benefits of melons. But today we shall concentrate much on the benefits of bitter melon.

In some tribes of Uganda, bitter melons are called akalera or ampalaya. In American English bitter melons are called bitter gourd.

Bitter melons are considered the safest fruit, in as food and medicine are concerned.

Bitter melons helps to disinfect  and heal cuts, wounds and burns, helps deal with poor appetite, helps in the treatment of intestinal warms and diarrhea, checks some cancers, enhances and the body’s resistance to infections, serves as an effective antioxidant, antibacterial and antipyretic.

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When you force a baby to feed, the resulting stress can make the baby’s appetite worse. When the baby loses appetite, try as much as possible to make meal time fun time i.e include a game that leads to everyone taking a bite of food or a special toy a child can only have at meal times.

It may help to serve a small snack with meals-something a child likes to get them to start taking bites. Cut the baby’s foods into fun shapes or you can use small fruits to make a happy face on the plate.

It is ok if a child doesn’t eat much at meal. S/he may prefer more frequent small snacks throughout a day. Allow a child to participate in choosing his food, avoid sugary drinks because they can displace the more nutritious calories of foods like chicken or fruits.

Stick to fortified drinks like milk or 100% juice. If you have a trouble getting your child to drink milk, add a teaspoon of chocolate or strawberry-flavoured powder. Offering straws may also encourage your child to drink a healthy beverage.

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Many people use gingers while preparing their tea but still many of them don’t know its benefits to human beings.

So because of this our news desk decided to bring you the benefits of ginger to people who use it as a delicacy. Gingers are called ‘entangawuzi’ in Luganda. Luganda is one of the main languages spoken by millions of people in Uganda, east Africa.   

Ginger is so popular both as culinary and medical herb. Dr. Aisha Rashid Lukwago, of Lukwago herbal services says that unlike most spices, ginger has the most culinary and medical values. It grows underground and it’s called the rhizome. It is often mistakenly called ginger root. Ginger is so helpful for people who experience nausea such as pregnant women. It also alleviates other digestive complications like gas and indigestion and is good for rousing appetite.

Ginger is more so useful for relieving colds, helps to reduce cholesterol in the body and it is more effective when lemon is added. The doctors say that smaller indigenous of gingerare more potent than the large exotic one, and so they should always be chosen for medical purposes.

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Millions of people around the world lose appetite and die after their bodies generate toxic materials.

However our media team today decided to bring you how you can revive lost appetite and rid the body of toxins with white radish.

White radish is commonly called ‘daikon, or Mooli or muli.’ White radish traces its origins to Asia, according to Dr. Aisha Rashid Lukwago of Rashid Lukwago herbal clinic in Kampala.

She says that white radish is rich in vitamins B and C complex, carotene, fiber, moisture and carbohydrates. Hajjat Aisha says that white Radish has a strong antibacterial property that combats cancers; it increases the kidneys’ ability to produce urine as it has diuretic effect. White radish exists in different types for example white, red, purple or black and each has different medical values.

Aisha says that the root of white radish is used for making juices. The plant is mainly grown in west and East Africa. A kilogramme of white radish in Uganda costs between 3000 to 5000 shillings in markets, groceries and some supermarkets.

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Leukemia or cancer of the blood starts when abnormal cells fail to protect the body against diseases because the cells are defective. The cancer progresses and it interferes with the production of cells.

Dr. Peter Barongo, an oncologist (cancer specialist) in Kampala says that the signs of leukemia include body weakness, pain in the long bones, loss of weight, low appetite,  and fatigue.

Other signs are bleeding from the gums and under the skin, sweating at night, frequent fevers, infections which do not respond to medication, abdominal swelling caused by the swelling of the spleen and visual blurring.

The commonest form of leukemia is acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This is the leukemia where the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells. To diagnose for leukemia the blood and bone marrow tests have to be carried out and once the patient presents with leukemia symptoms, a thin film test has to be done on him/her to ascertain the number of immature white blood cells. Bone marrow tests are free at Mulago Hospital according to Dr. Barongo.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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 His pals also tell us that Nabeta developed the pressure on the day the High Court cancelled his parliamentary victory over vote rigging and voter bribery.

  We are told that Nabeta has lost appetite and is on drugs. The electoral commission has declared 9^th February as the poling date for the by elections. The race is between Nabeta (NRM), Paul Mwiru (FDC) and Waiswa Mufumbiro of DP.

By James Okello

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