5 Five Funny Exercises you should always do.

Crocodile Breathing

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To crocodile breath, lie on your stomach and breath deeply into your diaphragm. When we are stressed out, we become chest breathers. Bringing our breath down to our diaphragm presses the reset button on rest and digest.

Rocking

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Imagine a baby learning how to crawl. Rock back and forth on all fours. Rocking improves posture, mobility, and engages the abs. Info via OriginalStrength.net

Rolling

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Rolling facilitates spinal rotation and stretching. It also helps prevent injury. If you learn how to roll you can gracefully recover from a fall.

Crawling

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Literally crawling like a baby – or even more advanced if you keep your knees off the ground. It teaches your top and bottom halves how to synch up with each other, builds real strength that directly applies to other strength and athletic moves, helps you move better almost immediately and gives you mobility and flexibility. Info via Originalstrength.net

Skipping

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Skipping – like you did when you were a kid – improves cardio-respiratory fitness, coordination, flexibility, symmetry, rhythm, and balance. The mental benefits include increased concentration and mental alertness.

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Have fun!

Ebola Scare In Lagos As Passenger Dies Inside Luxurious Bus

The Oyingbo park in the Jibowu area of Lagos was the scene of pandemonium yesterday, August 31, 2014 as a passenger on board a luxurious bus slumped and died.

A witness told Pulse.ng that the incident occurred at about 7pm as other passengers were boarding the bus which was heading to Kaduna and Kano.

People in the area were immediately struck with fear and they began to assume the worst due to the Ebola disease which has inflicted some in the country.

According to the witness, some men eventually summoned courage and brought the corpse out of the bus while wearing nylon bags on their hands.

Police officers attached to the area were also called in and statements were given about the unfortunate incident.

The victim has not been identified as at press time and no official confirmation has been issued regarding the event.

Source: pulse.ng

An Ebola vaccine developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in conjunction with the US National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline might be tested in Nigeria, the US has said.

The proposed trial test is scheduled to hold in mid-September and will also be conducted in The Gambia and Mali.

A statement released to that effect reads:

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has initiated discussions with Ministry of Health officials in Nigeria about the prospects for conducting a Phase 1 safety study of the vaccine among healthy adults in that country. 

The pace of human safety testing for experimental Ebola vaccines has been expedited in response to the ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa.

The early-stage trial will begin initial human testing of a vaccine co-developed by NIAID and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and will evaluate the experimental vaccine’s safety and ability to generate an immune system response in healthy adults. Testing will take place at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland,” 

The vaccine will initially be given to 3 healthy people and if there are no adverse side effects, it will then be given to another small group of volunteers.

The Nigerian Ministry of Health has not issued an official confirmation regarding the proposed trials.

Meet the world's Oldest Person (127)

The world's oldest person, Leandra Becerra Lumbreras celebrates 127.

The Mexican woman was born on August 31, 1887, making her the oldest person documented to have ever lived.

According to her family, the keys to her long life are reportedly "sleeping for days on end," never getting married, and fighting. What a woman!

Lumbreras's granddaughter Miriam Alvear told Mexico's El Horizonte, "She was always a woman who fought. She was still sewing and weaving until about two years ago."

Lumbreras also reportedly fought in the Mexican Revolution as leader of the all-female group the 'Adelitas'.

Metro reports that 'the tragedy of Ms Lumbreras long life is that she has already buried five children and several of her 20 grandchildren, the last of whom died in 2013 – aged 90. She also has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.'

Mexican authorities are reportedly trying to provide Lumbreraswith a new birth certificate after she lost the original about 40 years ago.

Ebola-Infected Doctor’s Wife, Child Moved To Lagos

According to reports, the wife of the Port Harcourt doctor who died of Ebola has been moved to Lagos for treatment.

Dr.Iyke Enemuo died of the disease on August 22, 2014 after treating an infected ECOWAS diplomat and his wife became symptomatic after.

Mrs. Enemuo and the couple’s 3 month old baby have been quarantined in Lagos after she asked to be moved out of Port Harcourt for “emotional reasons”. According to the Rivers State Health Commissioner, Samson Parker:

“She is also a doctor. Her three-month-old baby is alive and well. The result of the test conducted on her (for Ebola) is not yet out,”

160 people in the state are also being observed after making primary or secondary contact with the deceased.

Dr. Iyke Enemuo is the 5th Nigerian to die of the disease after infected Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer died on July 25 in Lagos.