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Avoid This Beverage to Reduce Your Risk of Having a Stroke and Heart Attack

When feeling tired and low on energy, many 
people’s first reaction is to reach for a cup of 
coffee. Energy drinks are the other popular 
‘solution’. One of the most famous energy 
drinks, Red Bull, created a name for itself as a 
beverage that ‘gives you wings’. Sponsoring 
many extreme sport events, Red Bull’s 
marketing motto states that they support 
daring people and innovative ideas. They don’t 
mention the potential health dangers of their 
signature drink.
The popular Red Bull has now been associated 
with cardiovascular problems, including stroke 
and heart attack. It has been banned in Norway, 
Denmark and Uruguay, and France stopped 
selling it between 1996 and 2008.
Red Bull thickens the blood and provides the 
body with an unnatural level of stimulation. 
Scott Willoughby, lead researcher from the 
Cardiovascular Research Center at the Royal 
Adelaide Hospital in Australia , reports that one 
hour after drinking just one can of Red Bull, 
blood consistency of the research participants 
became abnormal and resembled that of a heart 
patient. Willoughby warns that when combined 
with stress or high blood pressure, Red Bull can 
cause damage to blood vessels and creates the 
risk of blood clotting. This is especially 
dangerous for people who have a predisposition 
to cardiovascular disease.
Red Bull’s primary ingredients are caffeine and 
sugar. The latter is in the form of 
glucuronolactone, sucrose and glucose. It also 
contains aspartame, the artificial sweetener 
that has been linked to neurotoxic, metabolic, 
allergenic, fetal, and carcinogenic effects. The 
Red Bull’s original manufacturer in Austria even 
warns their costumers not to drink more than 
two cans a day.
As with other caffeinated beverages, Red Bull 
gives you a quick high. But this is short-lived 
and it turns into a low, so you soon feel you 
need another energy boost. And another can (or 
cup). You enter a vicious cycle and many people 
get addicted to Red Bull and other energy 
drinks.
On top of the adverse effects connected with 
high caffeine content, Red Bull contains 
different chemicals that have not been properly 
researched yet. Many people also combine it with 
alcohol, which adds to the potential dangers. It 
means mixing a stimulant with a depressant. This 
can overload the body and lead to serious health 
problems. According to an article published in 
2001 in the journal Medicine, Science, and Law , 
when combined with ephedra, which is also a 
stimulant, Red Bull can cause acute psychosis.
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Avoid This Beverage to Reduce Your Risk of Having a Stroke and Heart Attack

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10 Unique Tips To Win A Nigerian Girl Over Before Valentine’s Day

1) Nigerian women are generally submissive and will always prefer strong and 
confident men over those that hint weakness. 
For this reason, any first date with a Nigerian girl should be preceded by 
necessary preparations. 
This should involve coming up with different starting lines as well as doing some 
things to help you relax and remain at ease with yourself during your date. 
2) Don’t go overboard in choosing a place to spend your first date. 
Just choose a comfortable place that perfectly fits into your budget and a 
Nigerian girl will certainly love it. If you don’t know where to take her, just ask 
her where she prefers to go. 
Take whatever answer she gives as a suggestion only, but be the man to make 
the final decision. 
3) For your first formal date, don’t go empty handed. Just get her a small gift. 
This doesn’t necessarily have to be expensive but enough to show her that you 
feel something for her. 
A box of chocolate, her favourite candies and/or flowers will actually do. 
Just don’t go for a more expensive gift on your first date as your company 
is already a perfect gift for her. 
4) Nigerian girls love getting into relationships that will eventually lead to 
marriage. 
In fact, they normally assess different men to single out the one that perfectly 
fits into the marriage category (You’re definitely not the only one taking her 
for a date). 
For you to pass this test. then your talk has to prove to her that you’re 
very honest and considerate. Listen to her while she talks and at the same time 
value her opinions. 
5) Unless she’s the one that proposed for the date, you definitely have to pay 
for it. 
On the contrary, most Nigerian girls love to play nice and will offer to settle the 
bill, just don’t accept it unless you want to be viewed as being less of a man. 
Pay the bill and extend the offer by paying for a taxi to take her home after 
the date. 
6)Don’t make the first date long. In fact, you might end up ruining things if 
you stay on your first date with a girl for too long. 
Let it last for dinner and after that fake an excuse to leave. 
Just come up with an excuse like am meeting someone for business’ or am 
meeting with a client within an hour’. 
But before you leave, just promise her that there will be a second date. 
7) Look her into the eyes whenever you talk to her. Take your time to evaluate 
her body with your eyes by staring at the whole of her and let 
the last stare insinuate that you approve her beauty. 
Just don’t go overboard with your stares in any manner that might suggest that 
you’re a pervert and you’re only lusting for her. 
8) When your date is truly beautiful, don’t get carried by the beauty by telling 
her how beautiful she is. 
In fact, telling a girl how beautiful she is on her first date doesn’t add any 
value to your conversation. It makes her feel like she has more power over you 
with her beauty and obviously, there are several of other me out there who have 
already told her that and you can’t afford being one of them. 
Let her see you as the only man that’s not intimidated by her beauty and that 
will give you an upper hand over most of the other men. 
9) Don’t talk about yourself on your first date. But instead let the entire talk 
revolve around her. If she asks for what you do to earn a living, just come up 
with something crazy to avoid answering that question. 
You can even say ‘am a drug 
dealer’ or ‘a terrorist’, and ask her what she does. 
Nigerian women love mystery and you can’t disclose everything about yourself on 
your first date but instead use the opportunity to know more about her. 
10) It has already been said that ‘if you can make a woman laugh then you can 
make her do anything for you’.
That’s where humour comes handy: and believe me when i say that everyone is 
funny.
You actually don’t need to master some stand up comedy stunts to make a 
women laugh, but instead be systematic with the way you respond to the 
conversation and you’ll definitely make her laugh.
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Do you know that Hugging and Cuddling have Health and Emotional Benefits?

Laughing, cuddling and hugging not only display your affection towards your 
loved one, but it can also be a health benefit.
According to HealthMeUp . Multiple researchers conclude that hugging and 
cuddling can cure depression, stress, tension, anxiety and loneliness.
A proper hug where your heart touches the other person's heart can aid you 
with the following health benefits:
Hugging leads to release of love hormones called Oxytocin, which fights feeling 
of depressions, loneliness and also fits of anger.
It promotes a sense of safety, trust and honesty in a person.
A long hug results in an increase in serotonin levels, which elevates your mood 
and makes your happy.
As mentioned on mindbodygreen, 
"Hugs strengthen the immune system. 
The 
gentle pressure on the sternum and the emotional charge this creates 
activates the Solar Plexus Chakra. 
This stimulates the thymus gland, which 
regulates and balances the body's production of white blood cells, which keep 
you healthy and disease free."
Hugging is a way improves one's self esteem and helps in nurturing the ability 
to love oneself.
As they boost blood circulation to the softer tissues hugs can ease your pains, 
relax your muscles and can also relax your body.
Hugs are similar to meditation or even laughter. You're mind stops thinking 
and you live in the moment. So you get out of your circular thinking patterns 
and unite with your heart, emotions and breathing simultaneously.
Hugs get you out of your circular thinking patterns and connect you with your 
heart and your feelings and your breath.
According to Virginia Satir, an American author and psychotherapist, "We need 
four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We 
need twelve hugs a day for growth."
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