Foods making you feel sleepy at work

Ever felt drowsy or sleepy when you are supposed to be beating some work deadlines? Your meal could be the culprit behind this feeling.

 No boss needs a sleepy head for a junior for we all know that sleep is a great enemy of productivity.

 It also gets embarrassing in case your colleagues catch you sleeping when you aren’t supposed to be sleeping. You will become the laughing stock of the office or even worse, tongues will start wagging behind your back and word will be that you are incompetent.

Here are some of the foods that could be making you feel sleepy in your place of work:

 Milk and other dairy products

Dairy products are rich in tryptophan. Tryptophan is an essential amino acid which helps produce serotonin. Serotonin can be converted to melatonin which is a very good sleep inducer. Serotonin is also believed to give feelings of well-being which means comfort.

Oatmeal

Oatmeal is a healthy breakfast option. But just like dairy products, oatmeal contains melatonin an amino acid that also induces sleep.

Lettuce

Another sleep inducer is lettuce. Yeah, right from our gardens. Lettuce contains lactucarium which is notorious for sedative properties.

Carbohydrates

Foods rich in carbohydrates are also notorious sleep inducers. They produce insulin and high levels of insulin in your body can make you feel sleepy.

Bananas

Bananas are rich in magnesium and have a lot of benefits to the body. However, the same magnesium can lead you to fall asleep.

Honey

Honey contains glucose which is likely to cause the brain to shut down orexin a chemical that is responsible for keeping you alert.

By Juma

7 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Universe To Put Your Ego In Check

Just consider for a moment that while Earth has an equatorial diameter of 7,926 miles, the Milky Way’s is about 621,000,000,000,000,000 miles.

“If your ego starts out, ‘I am important, I am big, I am special,’ you’re in for some disappointments when you look around at what we’ve discovered about the universe,” Tyson once said. “No, you’re not big. No, you’re not. You’re small in time and in space.”

Fortunately, studies have shown that, in addition to an ego check, taking the time to experience awe and feel small can make people happier and less stressed. 

Below, seven facts from NASA that will blow your mind and bring you right back to Earth.

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  Our sun is one of at least 100 billion stars, just in the Milky Way. Scientists calculate that there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, each one brimming with stars. There are more stars than grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches combined. 
  
  In 1995, the first planet beyond our solar system was discovered. Now, thousands of planets orbiting sun-like stars, also known as exoplanets, have been found.
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  The Milky Way is a huge city of stars, so big that even at the speed of light (which is fast!), it would take 100,000 years to travel across it.
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  Roughly 70 percent of the universe is made of dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25 percent. The rest — everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter — adds up to less than 5 percent of the universe.
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  If the sun were as tall as a typical front door, Earth would be the size of a nickel.
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  The sun accounts for almost all of the mass in our solar system, leaving 0.2 percent for all the planets and everything else.t

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  Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding and that at one point in time (14 billion years ago) the universe was all collected in just one point of space.
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  Four American spacecraft are headed out of our solar system to what scientists call interstellar space. Voyager 1 is the farthest out — more than 11 billion miles from our sun. It was the first man-made object to leave our solar system. 
  
  Voyager 2 is speeding along at more than 39,000 mph, but will take more than 296,000 years to pass Sirius, the brightest star in our night sky.

Top 7 Highest Paid Nigerian Football Players In 2018 Both Europe And The World Including Their Salaries

The Nigerian football industry in recent years keeps growing and getting better when it comes to our players value.

Many top Nigerian players get paid quite high right now many Nigerian players are on the list of highest paid players in Africa.

We have seen some interesting transfer deals within the last 24 months.

Checkout the highest paid Nigerian footballers in the world right now below:

1. Odion Ighalo – £190,000

Odion Ighalo is now ranked as the current highest paid footballer in Nigeria. He earns £190,000 per week. He plays as a striker for the national team and also for Changchun Yatai.
2. Obi Mikel – £140,000

Midfielder, Mikel Obi is second earner on the list of highest paid Nigerian footballers in the Chinese league with a weekly salary of £140,000 at his current club, Tianjin TEDA.
3. Obafemi Martins – £95,000

He is another top player that has played for many clubs in Europe and even in China. He played as a striker for the national team and plays for Chinese football club, Shanghai Greenland Shenhua. Martins earns £95,000 weekly.
4. Kelechi Iheanacho – £75,000

Iheanacho was formerly leading as the top earner in Europe until Ighalo took over. Although he is listed among the Nigerian professional footballers who play in the English premier league.

He earns £75,000 weekly at Leicester City after a transfer from Manchester City
5. Victor Moses – £75,000

Used as a wing back in Chelsea, Victor Moses can operate as a winger and is also among Nigeria football stars to earn big salary in England. He earns £75,000 weekly.

6. Ahmed Musa – £60,000

Musa became fans favourite when he scored two goals against Iceland in the world cup 2018. This made him the undisputed Nigerian football star of the worldcup.
Ahmed Musa is paid £60,000 weekly as his salary in CSKA Moscow where he plays as a left winger for the Russian club.

7. Wilfred Ndidi – £50,000

Ndidi plays as a holding midfielder for Leicester City in the EPL. He is an outstanding Nigerian football star that earns £50,000 at his club