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Diet & Weight Management

The Health Benefits of Watermelon

Loaded With Lycopene

The cheery red color comes from lycopene, an antioxidant. Studies show it may help curb your risk of cancer and diabetes as part of a healthy lifestyle. Watermelon has more of this nutrient than any other fruit or veggie -- even tomatoes. To load up on lycopene, choose a melon with bright red flesh rather than yellow or orange. And the riper, the better. Also, seedless melon tends to have more lycopene than those with seeds.

Sun Benefit?

Some pigments help protect plants from the sun. Oddly enough, just eating them may shield your skin, too -- at least a little. The lycopene in watermelon may make it less likely that you get sunburned. But that’s not for sure, so keep using your broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF of 30 or higher every day.

Healthier Heart

Watermelon is rich in an amino acid called citrulline that may help move blood through your body and can lower your blood pressure. Your heart also enjoys the perks of all the lycopene watermelon contains. Studies show that it may lower your risk of heart attacks. Of course, your whole lifestyle affects your heart health. So make sure you also work out, don’t smoke, limit saturated fat, and keep up with your doctor’s advice.

Protects Your Joints

Watermelon has a natural pigment called beta-cryptoxanthin that may protect your joints from inflammation. Some studies show that over time, it could make you less likely to get rheumatoid arthritis.

Easy on Your Eyes

Just one medium slice of watermelon gives you contains 9-11% of the vitamin A you need each day. This nutrient is one of the keys to keeping your eyes healthy. Foods are the best ways to get all the vitamins and minerals that your body needs.

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The Vertebral Column

The vertebral column of man is made up of (33) bones while the rabbit has forty-five bones in my its vertebral column.
The vertebral column also known as the backbone. It begins from the back of the skull, the first bone being the atlas bone which helps for nodding the head. This vertebral column ends at the hip region giving rise and to the tail part.
Each Vertebrae is held to the other front and back by ligaments. A special covering (disc) of cartilage occurs in between them. The disc is to prevent the Vertebrae from jarring (wearing away). Because of these the vertebral column has become firm and flexible.
Types of Vertebral Column

-- Cervical vertibrae(neck region)
They are seven in man.

-- Thoracic Vertebrae (the chest region)
They are twelve in man.

-- Lumber vertebrae (waist or loin region)
They are five in number for man.

-- Sacral/sacrum (the hip region)
They are five in man.

-- Coccyx/ caudal (tail region)
They are four in man. Although the tail part does not protrude out in man, it is present skeletally.

The Mamalian Skeleton

The skeleton can be defined as the structural frame work of the the body. The Mammalian skeleton consist of 206 bones.
These bones making up the Mammalian skeleton can be divided into two main parts:-

---Axial skeleton.

--- Appendicular skeleton.

The Axial Skeleton, is broken into the following parts.
I. Skull, which has the following parts.
--Cranium; is the part which encloses and protect the brain. It is also known as the brainbox and it bones are fused together so that movement is not allowed.

--Facial region; is the part which carries the socket for the eye and nose.

--The two jaws(upper and lower jaw); The jaw is fused to the cranium. The lower jaw form a joint with the cranium and it is moveable. Both jaws carry teeth. A minute opening called foranien magnum occurs at the base of the skull when the animal is alive, the spinal cord passes through it to the brain.

To Be Continued.

ARTICLES

The word articles generally refers to 'a' ,'an' and 'the'. Articles play important roles in English language, like identifying nouns, especially compound nouns. We have three articles in English language, which can be splitted into two groups;

--The indefinite article ('a' and 'an').

--The definite article ('the').

The indefinite article ('a' and 'an')
These indefinite articles are used to tell of an object that is common in a group. These articles go well or are used with common nouns mainly. And they are used when an object is being introduced to an audience or being spoken of for the first time in a sentence.
Note that it only introduces an object in a sentence, a new and foreign character/object not known by the object and is just being spoken of for the first time in that sentence.

Example
i. A boy came to this house today.

ii. An entourage came to this house today.

iii. I was told that a boy came here today.

iv. I was told that an entourage came here today.

If you notice in those sentences above, they both speak of a boy. There are many boys, right? You may be asking which boy? Which one? But the sentences say 'a boy'. They both speak of an indefinite subject 'a boy'. They don't tell you a particular one, they are telling you of an indefinite boy. There may be ten boys you suspected came, but you're not given any hint on which boy came to your house, the subject 'a boy' is indefinite because it carries the indefinite article 'a'. That's the job of an indefinite article, it gives you an indefinite character (subject or object)/ description or an idea.
EXAMPLES
i. Sarah, a boy in that group broke your phone.

ii. Sarah an Ostrich among those broke your phone.

Again you're going to ask, which boy?, which Ostrich? That's because 'a boy' and 'an Ostrich' is indefinite due to the presence of article 'a' or 'an' with it.

DIFFERENCE IN THE USE OF ARTICLE 'A' OR 'AN'

-Article 'a';
Is used/to be used when the word(noun) after it has a consonant sound beginning its pronunciation.

-Article 'an'
Article 'an' is to be used only when the word(noun) being pronounced has a vowel sound beginning its pronunciation.

The definite article 'the'
Is an article used only when the character(object) being introduced or talked about (occupying whether subject or object position) has been spoken of before, or is well known by the character (occupying the object position), whom is being spoken to or told of an occurrence.

EXAMPLES

i.The God of the universe.

ii. I learnt the earth is the only planet that has life on it.

iii. The president of Nigeria is a muslim.

iv.The boy putting on red suit came to this house today.

v. I was told the boy putting on red suit came here today.

vi. Sarah, the boy with black trousers in that group broke your phone.

The definite article 'the' tells you clearly what you're dealing with, it gives you definite description of what is being talked about.

NOTE;
That the articles ('a' , 'an' and 'the') are used to identify a noun as they proceed a noun;

EXAMPLES

A boy, a man, a car, an orange,.....

Only adjectives can come between an article and a noun.

EXAMPLES
i. A pretty lady.
ii. A beautiful car.
iii. An orange umbrella......

CHEMISTRY

Matter: This is anything that has mass or weight and occupies space.

BUILDING BLOCKS OF MATTER
The building blocks of matter are the particles that make up a matter.There are three main building blocks of matter. They include;

1.Atoms
2.Molecules
3.Elements

ATOMS
Atoms are the smallest indivisible particles of an element which can take part in a chemical reaction. It is the main building block of (i)Molecules (ii)Compounds, and (iii)Elements.
Atoms are always from elements and so are elements themselves.
Atomicity;
Is the number of atoms present in a molecule or compound.

Molecule;
Is the smallest indivisible particles of a SUBSTANCE that contains its chemical properties and can take part in a reaction.

Element;
An element is a substance which is in it simplest form and cannot be split into any other simple form.
PROPERTIES OF AN ELEMENT
1.It is in its simplest form.
2.It cannot be split into any simpler form.
3.No other element can be gotten from an element.
EXAMPLES OF ELEMENT
1. Hydrogen (H)
2. Helium (He)
3. Lithium (Li)
4. Beryllium (Be)
5. Boron (B)
6. Carbon (C)
7. Nitrogen (N.)
8. Oxygen (O)
9. Fluorine (F)
10. Neon (Ne)
11. Sodium (Na)
12. Magnesium (Mg)
13. Aluminium (Al)
14. Silicon (S)
15. Phosphorus (p)
16. Sulphur (S)
17. Chlorine (Cl)
18. Argon (Ar)
19. Potassium (K)
20. Calcium (Ca)