“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (World Health Organization, 1948). Good health is a necessary tool to live a happy and thriving life. Maintaining good health is essential! What if I told you that you could improve your health almost unconsciously by doing a few things that you really enjoy regularly? Sometimes it can become overwhelming trying to incorporate an entirely new schedule s

Homocysteine Homocysteine is a common amino acid found in our blood, and a homologue to cysteine. First discovered in 1932 by Butz and Vigneaud, and eventually identified for its role in promoting arteriosclerosis in 1969 (McCully, 2004). New studies in 2016 and 2017 are now linking high levels of homocysteine to degenerative brain disorders, and other illnesses ( (Refsum & Smith, 2017). As we age, our ability to enzymatically metabolize and absorb folic acid is compromised,

UNICEF’s latest data on Senegalese’s early childhood education indicates that attendance in early education is at 22%, gross enrollment ration (GER) in pre-primary education is at 15%. The net attendance ratio (NER) in primary education is 64%, and the proportion of out-of-school children of primary education is 21%. The proportion of children starting 1st grade and attaining 5th grade is 61%. The country’s literacy rate of 15 – 24 years old is 66% (https://data.unicef.org/

What is health security? “Health security is the awareness of being secure that health is good and if not there are ways to obtain care to return to good health. It aims to guarantee a minimum protection from diseases and unhealthy lifestyles” https://goo.gl/pWDRHK). Over the past 17 years thousands of lives have been lost, and billions of dollars of countries income have been wiped out due to multiple pandemics. Most recently, there has been the terrible effects of Zika in

As of June, 5th 2017 the CDC states that about 700 women in the United States die each year at delivery or soon after delivery due to complications during childbirth (https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth). A USAID report states that in Senegal, “almost 1,800 women will lose their lives every year while giving birth. The major cause of these deaths is massive, uncontrolled bleeding following delivery, a condition known as postpartum hemorrhage” (www.usaid.gov). In an effort