Healthy for Life

Moving on to Simply Carnivore

2018-07-29T14:57:00.002+08:00

Since the day I started ketogenic diet, I had moved on from 20g of carbs to almost no carbs these days. Hence, I had decided to share my experience and in the new blog called "Simply Carnivore". You guys can check out my post there.

Low Carbs High Fat, Ketogenic Diet and Training

2018-06-06T09:04:00.000+08:00

*Posted in FB Group: 14th March 2018

This is a long post and it is technical.

It was very interesting when I watched the interview with Dr. Peter in the dietdoctor.com. What he did is exactly what I had done on myself. Both of us were on the self-discovery path on how keto way of eating improve our sports performance, especially in the area of both aerobic and anaerobic fitness.

While I was doing my easy 10km run this morning, I was thinking how should I write this post for you guys. Before I continue to write, I would like to have the basic information right for everyone first.

IF: It means intermittent fasting. It means you don't eat for a certain period of time and eat within a window. I personally practise 18/6 on a daily basis. 18 hours of fasting, 6 hours window of eating. Can eat as much as you want. Must be Keto-complied. Some days higher in protein like yesterday and some days not.

Aerobic training: It means you train at a level not at your maximum heart rate. Or 70% to 80% of your VO2 Max. If you do low aerobic running, you should be able to have a decent chat with your running buddy along the way. Usually Aerobic training must be at least 60 mins and longer to start gaining positive effect on the body. It burns fat as fuel during exercise time but there is no post fat burning after effect. All endurance athletes train in this area. Aerobic training should be at 80% to 90% of the training regime to make the body fat adapted.

Anaerobic training: It means you train at a level you want to die. You cannot breath properly. You train at short burst at maximum HR or max VO2 Max. This is usually your HIIT or Interval training. Such training maximum is 30 mins not more than that. It is usually about 20 mins. They called it fat burner exercise. It does not burn fat during the exercise time but it burns during post exercise. If you are a sprinter, this training will give you what you need. But such training is glycogen highly dependent and athletes training in this area are tend to be glucose dependent. Not recommend for fat adapted body and it should be about 10% to 20% of the training regime.

When a fat adapted body train in this area, the pancreas will response by producing high insulin to counter the glucose/cortisol produced by both liver and adrenaline. HIIT/Interval training can cause addiction, especially to those who are addicted to the Adrenaline rush. Commercial gym use high adrenaline group exercise to attract people to join the gym. Workout like body combat, zumba and etc... they burn calories and can have high adrenaline.

VO2 Max: It is the measurement of the maximum amount of oxygen that an individual can utilize during intense, or maximal exercise. It is measured as milliliters of oxygen used in one minute per kilogram of body weight (ml/kg/min). It is one factor that may help determine an athlete's capacity to perform sustained exercise.

Disclaimer: I'm not a Doc. Just sharing my passion.

Chasing LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) Losing fat? Water or Mass?

2018-01-21T15:07:00.001+08:00

For this post, let's talk about losing fluid (water) or mass or both? In fact, when an individual is focusing on so-called weight lost, they tend to lose either ways or both. If they are doing detox, you will not be surprised the weight lost is due to releasing of toxins from the colon. Some people can be constipated for life and the built up in the pipe can be tremendous.

If you have not done detox before, try taking those off the shelves detox pills in the market. They can be quite effective in clearing the toxins in our colon. Once that is done, you won't be surprised you may have lost like 3kg to 5kg of weight with a flatter tummy. However, this is just one part of the equation and it is not the main topic of this post.

I want to focus on both fluid (water) and mass lost when an individual embark on a so-called weight lost or dieting journey. I want to stress again. Dieting is temporary, changing your habit is permanent.

Fluid or water loss

It is common to hear someone that this weight lost program is effective. I had lost x number of kg in these few days... I will like wow!!! What have you lost? Is your tummy flatter? do you think you have lost water? Or you have lost your fat? Did you shit a lot or what? Because there are many factors to weight lost.

It is very common for woman to have water retention issue. During dieting, this maybe one of the factors that is contributing to the weight lost. So how does one have water retention issue? There are many reasons. I will just name a few.

Too much sodium or an imbalance between sodium and potassium
A weak kidney. This is what Chinese medicine theory will state. In fact, people will real weak kidney will have water retention as well.
Lack of exercise
Hormonal changes
Medication
Pregnancy

The list will go on and on.

When an individual starting to diet, especially those dieting that advocates eating lots of greens, you may want to see your water retention issue been resolved. The reason is very simple. Assuming your past diet was full of sodium such food with MSG, saltish food and etc... Out of sudden you reduce your intake of sodium and increases other source of minerals such as potassium, your water retention issue will start to go away. If you are dehydrated, then it is a different issue.

If you are someone with weak kidney whether it is real or by Chinese medicine definition, then water retention is inevitable. It is a symptom of your body or your kidney not able to flush out the fluid from the body through urine. For such issue, then it requires medication attention. I will not explain further. If you suspect your water retention issue is due to this issue, please check yourself into hospital or see your family doctor ASAP. End of story.

If you lack of exercise, then definitely you will start losing water. Assuming you exercise and you lost lots of fluid through sweat or urine, if not your body weight may stays the same.

So these are the common issues of water retention. Once you resolve it, your body weight will drop and you will be surprised how much water you are keeping in your body.

Just a word of advice. If you are the active type, always riding, running and doing some of exercise daily, you may be dehydrated. So there is a need for you to drink small amount of water regularly to get your body hydrated. This will increase your body weight but who cares. This is not important.

Losing Mass

Losing mass is a serious issue. You may lose mass due to losing calcium from the bone or muscles. A good example is old folks or people suffering from eating disorder AKA anorexia. Once you start losing body mass, a whole lot of other issues will into play. From osteoporosis to accelerated sarcopenia with aging. I'm not sure if there is such a thing as accelerated sarcopenia (muscle loss) with aging, once you start losing muscle mass, you will start to lose stamina. Once you start losing stamina, you will start to lose your habit to exercise. Furthermore, once you stop exercise, HGH (Human Growth Hormone), insulin growth factor and some other hormones will be of lower concentration in the body. This is not a good news.

Thus, you must exercise. Whether walk or a simple weight training exercise with a few reps is good for the body.

Conclusion

When someone said I had lost some weight, take a step back first. Ask yourself, is it water? fat or mass? The right question will determine the way you handle weight lost. Remember, dieting is temporary. Changing habit is permanent. Change your habit and the rest will follow through.

Everyone is chasing Low Carb High Fat diet

2018-01-12T22:11:00.000+08:00

Nowadays, if you have friends who are health fanatic, you will hear something like "Low Carb High Fat" diet or "Keto Diet" or whatever it can be.

To me, dieting is temporary. Changing the way you eat and forming good habits are permanent. We need to understand what we want to achieve from the new habit. Everyone talks about I want to lose weight. I always question them. What actually are you trying to lose? The usual answer is I want to lose weight. But do you know weight is just a number. The question I will ask again is this. What are you trying to lose? This is a very fundamental question. If we don't get this right, we will be doing it wrong. Let's take a look at this.

There are three things that we can lose when we want to lose weight.

1) Fats
2) Fluid or water
3) Body mass such as muscles or bones.

Losing Fat

This is what everyone wants to do. I want to lose fat. So my next question will be. Which part? Overall body fat or tummy? Because the strategy to lose overall body fat and tummy fat is very different.

Losing overall body fat

Let's talk about overall body fat. Losing overall body fat is easy. If we use the 80/20 rules, you just need 20% effort to achieve this 80% result. How? Cut your calories intake. Exercise. Increase your saturated fat intake such as Omega 3 and reduce Omega 6/9 intake. Cut your carb (which gives you blood sugar) to control the release of insulin and increase your protein intake. Wow... magic will happen. You will start shrinking. You will see you will start wearing your old shirts again. Old pants again and etc... The strategy to reduce shirt size is to lose overall body fat. I have a friend who had a medical condition. He was overweight. What he did was straight forward. He started running 5km to 10km a day or every other day. He started to reduce his fat intake (although I don't recommend). He started to eat brown rice (since everyone said it is good) and etc... Within 6 months, he had shrunk tremendously. His cholesterol level was normalised and everyone who knows him was like wow!!!

I had a meal with him the other day. Although he runs everyday or every other day (I could see it from his Strava ), his fitness level had plateau. He said he want to lose more... So I asked him what do you actually want to use? End up we had a 3 hour lunch... Of course business conversation is one of the topics.

Losing visceral fat

You may have lost overall body fat, you may not have lost your visceral fat. This is what we call skinny fat. You look skinny but actually, you are fat internally. This is called the deep fat wrapping your major organs. To lose this fat is a different ball game.

To lose this fat, you need to have new habits. Stick to it and take it slowly. The first sign of visceral fat is tummy fat. If you can reduce your tummy fat, you will be reducing visceral fat in the body. Tummy fat is affected by both insulin and adrenaline from our body. I do not want to go into the details. In a nutshell, insulin tells the muscle, liver and fat cells to take up blood sugar so that our blood sugar level in the body is normalised. Because of this function, it tells the body to stop burning its fat stores and instead, absorb some of the fatty acids and glucose in the blood and turn them into more body fat. So remember this. The more insulin you have flowing in your blood, then more fat will be manufactured in your body. So this is something you don't want.

Let's talk about this hormone called Adrenaline. Adrenaline is a hormone secreted by the Adrenal glands. It is called the flight and fight hormone because it is produced when we are excited or when we are under stress or we are in an extreme dangerous situation. This hormone is secreted to get us ready to save ourselves from a dangerous situation. Our blood circulation increases, our breathing becomes more rapid and our heart beats faster. Our muscles contracted faster too. We are getting ready to sprint out of a dangerous situation.

If we always in a stress environment, we will start experiencing adrenal fatigue. That means we will feel tired when we wake up. We need coffee or some strong caffeinated stuff to kick start our day. We are addicted to sweet stuff. If you always like to eat sweet stuff, this is also a symptom of someone having adrenal related issue. This in turn spike the insulin level in the body. That means cannot lose fat.

Let's talk about another hormone called Cortisol. Adrenaline is related to heart and Cortisol is related to fat cells, liver and pancreas. When Cortisol is released, it increases the glucose levels in the body and get it ready for the body to use. It stop other systems such as digestion and immune system from functioning properly. And increase in glucose levels also mean there will be an increase blood sugar levels. An increase in blood sugar levels means there will be an increase insulin too. This also means the body cannot burn fat. The accumulation of extra calories due to eating more than you need coupled with stress hormones flowing around, this is where you start accumulating visceral fat or tummy fat.

Actually to lose tummy fat is straight forward, but to form the habit to lose it is tough to many folks.

1) Lead a simpler life. Leading a simpler life means it reduces stress. The less stress you have, the less stress-related hormones you have flowing in your body. I know this is tough. It is up to you. Ask yourself. Do you need to keep up with your neighbours? Or ??? The less stress you have, the better you will be.
2) Control your free flow of insulin the body. Anything that is free flow is bad. Just like buffet, free flow of soft drinks. Now that is a killer. Production of insulin is all about the level of blood sugar in the body. If we reduce the blood sugar levels, we reduce the insulin needed in the body. Cut the carb to almost as little as possible. Increase both protein and fat intake. Protein will still spike insulin but not a lot. Fat does really not spike insulin (I'm simplifying it) because it does not increase blood sugar level. So it makes sense we should eat more fat, medium protein and low to zero carb. But you still must eat your vegetables like those with leaves and flowers. Nothing under the soil.
3) Exercise is key to lose tummy fat but only relaxing exercise helps. If you do interval or VO2 Max kind of exercise, you will lose overall body fat but no that tummy fat. The best way to lose tummy fat is to take a walk. Walk faster than your normal walking pace but slower than your running pace. Walk at least an hour not counting the number of steps and you will see tremendous results. If you do it daily, you will see your tummy becoming smaller and smaller.

In my next post, I will talk about point 2 and 3. That is losing water and muscle mass and vice versa.

The New Me

2018-01-12T20:52:00.000+08:00

The year of 2018. I should see major changes in myself. Last year, I started to participate multi-sports events such as Duathlon.

Meta-sprint
Tri-factor
City60
Singapore International Duathlon

I participated in OCBC Cycle too.

Training include running 3 to 4 times a week. One of the days will be either cycle follow by a run or vice versa. Waking up in the early morning like 4 to 4:30am is no joke. Same as weekend. Waking up around 4:30am as well to start riding at 5 to 5:30am. One side effect of waking up or having not enough sleep put tremendous stress on the Adrenaline glands.

It is common for athletes to experience Adrenal fatigue. We love pain because we push ourselves to reach the next new PR (personal record). We took pain with pride. No pain no gain. And yet, many of us ignore the damage it does to the body. As much as we push ourselves, we need to accept the fact that rest is crucial too. With rest, the body gets enough time to repair and build new muscles and etc... Of course, we need raw materials for recovery too.

So what do we need? Protein is key. It is especially critical for post recovery during the first 30 minutes after exercise. Depending on the exercise that you had done, whether it is Aerobic or Anaerobic will also determine how are you going to do your recovery.

I will talk about Aerobic and Anaerobic exercise and recovery in my next post.

4th Change: The Start of Wearing Made to Measure Pants 5 years ago

2016-08-24T21:09:00.000+08:00

What gives me enough confidence to take bulletproof was wearing my made to measure pants that were made 5 years ago. My tummy started to flatten and I continuously burnt fat. How do I know? You can always buy a ketone stick to test your urine.

What is more interesting is that I started to wear S size shirt instead of M. I had shrunk from L to M and then to S. I used to hover around 76kg to 80kg but nowadays, I hover around 75kg. Fat percentage is around 20%.

My colleagues around me had noticed how much weight I had lost. I have also started to recycle my clothes. Letting go my size L & M shirts.

Nowadays, I don't really take bulletproof coffee per se. Instead, I will ensure drinking a cup of black coffee with a piece of butter. Whether I'm at a cafe or a coffeeshop. A long black with a piece of butter is a must.

I will share with you about the 5th change in my next post.

3rd Change: Starting the journey with Bulletproof Coffee

2016-08-20T15:04:00.000+08:00

3rd Change. The day I started incorporating butter into my coffee...

Yup. A lot of people around me were stunned with this new habit of mine. Although a few friends know what I'm doing, many don't know what is that. It is called Bulletproof coffee. You guys can google it. It is out there.

So what is my first hand experience with Bulletproof?

1) It totally remove my dependency on sugar. The need to have cup of teh in the late afternoon. The need to have a cake after a meal. The need to have something sweet. It is all gone.

2) The need to have a large portion during a meal. This is gone for some reasons. The body started to tell you when to stop.

3) The increase in mental capacity and energy level.

4) You never look at fat the way you used to look at it.

I don't worry about oily or fatty food these days. However, there was still a problem, which I will share later.

I drink at least once a day with my coffee with butter. If at home, I will use aeropress to make my bulletproof coffee. Mix with grass fed butter from Anchor and coconut oil. If not, I will request long black with butter from the cafe to have my "Bulletproof" coffee.

Because of this coffee habit, I started to lose a lot of fats with little change in weight. I did lose a bit of weight but I started to lose fat. My cloth size started to shrink and this is a good news. I started to wear pants that were made to measure 5 or 6 years ago. Amazing...

Shall end here. Will share the next change.

2nd Change: Coconut Oil Pulling in the morning

2016-08-18T22:34:00.001+08:00

After taking coconut oil before sleep, the next thing that I did was coconut oil pulling. Something that my colleague mentioned to me. I thought to myself, hey why not give it a try?

I read online on the many benefits of coconut oil pulling. Basically, just have some coconut oil in your mouth first thing in the morning. And before doing that, have a cup of water. I always do that in the morning. Drinking water first thing in the morning helps to activate the organs.

So why do I want to do it? One of the benefits stated that it will help to grow back the gums. To me, that is wonderful. Hence, I started to do it daily and miracle happened. A bit of gum start to grow back. And when I first started the pulling, I kept on having phlegm coming out from my throat. I don't know why.

Then came one day, it stopped. And since then, I believe coconut oil pulling helps to improve my health.

Will share the next change. It is my journey with Bulletproof coffee.

BTW, when you do coconut pulling, you don't need to use toothpaste to brush your teeth. Just brush it with the coconut oil on your teeth. It feels clean.

1st Change: Coconut oil before sleep

2016-08-17T08:49:00.001+08:00

How should I start??? It's been a wonderful journey for the past few months since I started on my weight management journey with the Bulletproof diet. In fact, everything was pretty coincidence.

I had been taking coconut oil for a long long time with results but not good enough. My weight always hover around 75kg to 80kg. To some folks, I'm not overweight and seriously, from the outlook, I just look a bit round not fat at all. However, it does have some issues. My breathing wasn't smooth or to certain extent, you don't feel regulated when you breath. Secondly, the constant urge to buy new clothes due to new waistline. It can be quite frustrating. My father has diabetes and high blood pressure, that means there is a chance I may get it too since I'm the eldest in the family.

Everything change when my friend introduced me to bulletproof. Initially, I took it with a pinch of salt. I mean we all had read about Atkins (high fat high protein almost zero carb) and others. So how the heck this one will work? I was still taking my coconut oil in the morning.

The 1st Change:

The first change from Bulletproof. I read about taking coconut oil before sleep helps. You will have read somewhere that taking coconut oil before sleep is like taking coffee before sleep. You are not going to sleep. I took the leap of faith and I slept well.

https://www.bulletproofexec.com/the-top-6-ways-to-improve-your-sleep-using-food/
Point 1:Fill up with fat at dinner. I didn't fill up fat at dinner. I fill up fat before sleep.

When I woke up next morning, I felt good. Really good. But there was a side effect. I was hungry. Very hungry. For the entire day, I just ate and ate. I couldn't control my hunger. It just went on and on for the next few days. And then something happened. My tummy shrunk a little bit when I was eating the whole day.

Stay tune for the next post.

Resting the digestive system

2014-02-23T22:31:00.002+08:00

Detox to let the digestive system rest

Starting weight: 78kg
Fat: 26%

Basic stuffs:

Drink lots of water
Eat organic fruits if possible.
For coffee and tea, take without sugar

Day 1: It is a fruit day. Some folks focus on more water content fruits. I called it the day you just eat all kinds of melons.

Bought a water melon, rock melon and honey dew. Thinking I'm able to finish all these in one day.
Feasted the entire day on rock melon.
What else did I do?

Did a 5km run both in the morning and evening.
Had a flat white in the afternoon.
Had some home made tofu at my mother in law's place.

Day 2: Today you should be eating any kind of leafy vegetables with no oil or anything at all.

Bought seedless black grapes in the morning. Ate most of the grapes in the entire day.
Had egg salad for lunch. Remember, you must tell them to put salad sauce by the side.
I had two or three apples in between. Cannot recall what is the actual number of apples I took.
What else did I do?

Had a cup of soya milk and soft bean curd for breakfast.
Did a 5km run in the evening.
Had coffee together with my egg salad.
Had dinner at my mother in law's place. Couldn't resist her cooking. Had fried vegetables, home made tofu plus 1 big bowls of barley rice. That means, I ate most of the barley that was used to make barley water.

Day 3: Today you should be eating both vegetables and fruits.

Had half a honeydew for breakfast.
Lunch was cooked vegetables and sliced salmon sashimi. No choice as I had to attend an event.
Ate lots of grapes and apples in between.
Had an apple for supper
What else did I do?

Had a tall Americano in the morning, Mocha in the afternoon and a Latte in the evening
Had Sushi salad at Sushi Tei

Day 4: Today you should be eating bananas and drink 3 cups of milk

Had the other half of the honeydew for breakfast.
Had another apple plus a tall latte.
What else did I do?

I had 2 more apples throughout the day
Lunch was tofu and vegetables
I had a mocha in the evening
Neighbour passed me a bowl of curry fish head. Ate the vegetables and some fish

Day 5: Today you should be eating beef and six tomatoes.

Ok. I didn't eat my banana yesterday. So I'm going to do it today. Furthermore, I hate tomatoes.
Breakfast was one apple.
When I reached office, I had a banana and 500ml of soya protein shake.
In the entire day, I had 6 bananas.
What else did I do?

I had a piece of steak in the evening.
And a bit of curry chicken and vegetables. Left over by wife dinner. haha...

Day 6: Today diet should be an increased of protein and vegetables.

I had a banana for breakfast.
In the mid morning, I had a plate of tao pok, cabbage and lots of tou fu.
Feast a big bunch of grapes.
Dinner was a plate of omelette with onions and chicken meat.
What else did I do?

Did 30 mins of cardio exercise.

Day 7: Today diet should be an increased of protein and vegetables.

I had a banana and protein shake for breakfast.
In the mid morning, I had the Starbuck eggwhite roll with black coffee. However, I did not eat the wrap.
I had Ding Tai Fung 1 basket of 10 xiao long bao.
Another banana and an apple for tea.
Dinner was another banana and a piece of pan-fried Salmon steak.
What else did I do?

Had a flat white together with my kids at Starbucks. They had babycuino.
Had been feasting on grapes throughout the day.

Results:

Weight: still the same actually

Fat: 24%

However, tummy is definitely flatter now. May continue this diet for another 7 days. Feeling is great. Energetic. Remember, the objective of this diet is to allow the digestive system to rest. I'm doing this because of the festive periods that I had just gone through. Christmas, New Year followed by Chinese New Year. Feasting too much of food.

Why billions eat unhealthy rice - and shouldn't

2011-03-13T13:28:00.000+08:00

I think this article is definitely worth reading if you are having some health challenges. Regardless what it is, whether it is your heart, your brain, your leg and whatsoever, read this article.

I'm an advocate of "rice-less" diet. Or, I should say "no white rice diet." In my numerous health talks in the past, I had mentioned many times why white rice is so dangerous. I just want to raise it again in this blog.

1) Eating white rice is no difference than eating pure white sugar, except without the sweet taste. If you can imagine eating a bowl of white rice is equivalent to eating a bowl of sugar, will you still eat it?

2) White rice does not have any nutrition versus non-polished rice. Although white rice is cheaper, it gives you problem versus brown or non-polished rice, although they are more expensive. So the case is very straight forward. Cheaper but will kill you eventually, or more expensive but will save you. Take your pick.

3) Diabetes, kidney problem, heart and etc... all these health challenges have a common characteristics. These individuals may have pursue what I called a high calorie diet. In Asia, most likely, it will be white rice than anything.

A white rice loses the following nutrients: Fibre, vitamin B and plus some other nutrients. If you think it this way.

If you eat a bowl white rice, would you agree with me that you must take fibre tablets before eating your rice? Thereafter, you will still need to take B-complex and Daily or Double X.

What to bring when you travel frequently

2010-12-16T18:04:00.002+08:00

I travel a lot. In fact, at least twice in a month for 2 days 1 night each. Not long, but it is quite stressful for the body.

I will usually bring both Omega fish oil and daily with me, which I think it is easiest to bring. I will take both daily and fish oil one each three times a day. Helps to reduce stress and keep me going.

It will be even better if I take B-complex and Bio-C with me as well. Just that my vitamin box is not big enough. Perhaps, I just making excuses. Hahaha...

Health Report

2010-11-21T13:24:00.004+08:00

Recently, my wife's company has this freelance GP going to their office to do blood test. His job was to collect sample blood, send to lab for analysis and return with a report card. That's all he did. He didn't explain why like that? Or what does the report tell you.

So one of colleagues show her her report card and asked her how? So without much delayed, she called me. This what she told me. Couldn't remember the exact words.

"I think something about protein somewhere. I think is kidney." My wife said.
"ok. What about Liver?" I said.
"Got a asterisk there too." She said. BTW, this is very common. If the kidney has problem, usually the liver is already having it.
"what else?" I said.
"There is something about her red blood cells... Don't know what is that. Cholesterol no good." She said.
"What else?" I said.
"Got calcium also..." She said. Chee...Is she dying or what? That was the first thing in my mind.

The conversation didn't end there actually. However, I shall stop here. Thereafter I asked a couple more questions to confirm my assumptions.

Unhealthy lifestyle. Fried food more than anything.
Over weight.
Lack of exercise. Of course, if not point no.2 won't happen.

Her colleague went to see her GP and her GP wants her to start medication straight away. As for me, I don't think taking medicine is a sure way to cure it. This is basically or typically a lifestyle problem. If she makes a commitment to change her lifestyle, her health report will definitely take a positive turn within the next 6 months.

Start taking more fresh food than those that can last many days. Fried foods are meant to last for days. Even ants or flies won't go near it. Fresh food is good for the liver and less strenuous for the kidney.
Start a low impact exercise. Start sweating so that the body Qi moves. This is a very Chinese thing, but we believe in it.
Read more health books, mix with the right people who cares about their health than those who care more about McDonald. Sorry McDonald, one of those who like you but not your food.

Supplements to take:

2 scoops of protein powder with positrim in the morning. Start having more quality protein will help the body to repair.
Double X both in the morning and evening. A high quality multi-vitamins give the body a boost.
1 capsule of Salmon Omega fish oil 3 times a day. Start giving the body good oil rather than those bad one. Improve cholesterol level and brain function.
4 tablets of Milk Thistle before sleep and after breakfast. Repair liver. Save kidney.
Take lecithin E as many as possible during the entire day. Take it as a snack rather than eating sweet. Lecithin helps to remove bad fat and vitamin E helps to repair body.

Although there are many more to take, but this is a good start.

Cancer

2010-11-16T15:54:00.001+08:00

WAKE UP CALL FOR ALL

PLEASE SPARE 5 MINUTES TO READ THIS AND THEN FORWARD THE SAME TO ALL

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (TRY THE KEY WORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a.. Sugar, is a cancer-feeder.

By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like Nutrasweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt. ( THE WEST MADE US 2 CHANGE FROM SEA 2 WHITE IODISED SALT ).

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro- intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus.

By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment.

A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful,especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.
About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.

Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water- best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Florssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins,minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.

Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

PLEASE READ ON :

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This info is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.

Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital was on a TV program to explain this health hazard.

He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat.

He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.

Instead, he recommends using glass, such as CorningWare, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food.

You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Heart Attacks and Drinking Warm Water

2010-11-16T15:41:00.002+08:00

Heart Attacks And Drinking Warm Water

This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about Heart Attacks . The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating.

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

Common Symptoms Of Heart Attack...
A serious note about heart attacks - You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting . Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.Nauseaand intense sweatingare also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive.

A cardiologistsays if everyone who reads this message sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this & Send to a friend. It could save a life. So, please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you care about.

I JUST DID - -

11 danger foods for diabetics

2010-10-19T22:44:00.000+08:00

Article can be found in this URL: http://www.asiaone.com/Health/Eat%2BRight/Story/A1Story20101018-242943.html

Health advice from a taxi uncle

2010-09-25T07:44:00.002+08:00

No canned drink.
No canned food.
No take away drink in plastic material.
Eat or drink only at the food store.
No bubble tea because his wife got diabetes after drinking bubble teas. BTW, bubble tea is full of artificial colouring and sugar.
No vegetable that is grown in the air. Try putting man in the air and see what happen to him.
No vegetable that is grown in the water. Try asking a man to submerge for one day and see what happen to him.
Vegetables are meant to grow in the soil. Anything that is not is artificial. To me, I think this is a damn good advice.

Putting Comments

2010-09-23T16:37:00.002+08:00

To all readers,

First thing first, I really appreciate that you have been visiting this site regularly, finding it useful. However, I also appreciate that when you put your comment, it does not have a URL to another site that sells something else.

There has been a significant increase to such posting and I hope, kindly stop doing it.

Thanks

Visceral Fat from Channel News Asia

2010-09-23T16:31:00.001+08:00

Supplements for long distant runner

2010-09-11T16:14:00.002+08:00

A friend of mine had been taking a particular brand for quite sometime. You merely need to put the powder into a container and shake shake shake.

However, the other day he told me he is thinking of changing brand. So I asked him why since you have been doing that for a long time? There is a difference between powder and tablets type. Powder type offers you convenience. Save time like a 3 in 1 coffee. Tablets type requires you to pop different tablets in a day, but it gives you more control. So I ask him, which do you prefer? He couldn't answer me. Next question was, what should he take them?

Let's review this question. For a long distant runner, what does your body need them?

A strong heart. That will be COQ10.
A clear highway for blood to flow. That will be Lecithin E and Salmon Omega fish oil.
Requires a lot of repair, especially those lean muscles. That will be protein.
A high level of oxidative stress. That will be multi-carotene, Bio-C and Lecithin E.
Efficient energy conversion. That will be your B-complex.
Always maintain good joints. That will be either Glucosamine-7 or Glucosamine-HCI.
Relax muscles: Calcium and Magnesium
Last but not least, maintain health. XX or Daily.

What do you think? Is this a lot?

COQ10 Therapy

2010-07-15T23:36:00.002+08:00

You maybe wondering why the blog post is called COQ10 therapy? Is there something wrong with me?

Well, it is actually. You see, I have been going for my weekly chiropractic session recently. Tuning my body, adjusting my spine and hips. You may say I look ok... I think so too after my first adjustment and seeing my X-ray. Actually, it is not true. There is quite a far bit of misalignment and my right leg is shorter than my leg. Hmm... no wonder my right foot customized insole always cracked all these years...

So why COQ10? Well, it seems that after the adjustment, I'm kind of experiencing a bit of breathless. Especially after my long run (I'm on the micoach Marathon training program), I just feel something is wrong. I'm not blaming on the chiropractic, in fact my doc said is kind of strange actually. I thought so too... wakaka....

Anyway, I suspect is the way my body is adjusting itself after tuning. Like my chiropractor said, new information is flowing into my brain since my releasing more blood into my brain. I truly believe in that as after my first session, I felt quite a far bit of pressure on my left eye. You only experience pressure on your eye balls when you have high blood pressure. I mean really high ok.

Breathlessness maybe related to the way you breath, sometimes, it is also due the heart needs to pump harder or faster to get more oxygen for the body. It may signals there is something wrong with the cardiovascular system. And for my case, I will take it because of the new adjustment.

After taking 2 capsules of Nutrilite COQ10 per day for the past few days, it seems everything is like back to normal. In fact, this morning I had my 1 hour green zone run with 79% in the zone. What do you think? Not bad right?

Perhaps, my COQ10 is depleting as either I'm getting older, running too much or having too much stress. Whatever the reason it can be, COQ10 becomes essential as some point in life. Don't leave home without it.

Nutrilite for the adventurous

2010-02-15T14:43:00.002+08:00

If you have been taking Nutrilite for a long time, here are recommendations. BTW, do remember, to each his own. Whatever is written here is not approved by Nutrilite.

After breakfast, after lunch, after dinner and before sleep.

Protein Powder: 2/-/-/2 Green tea also can.
Double X: follow bottle instructions.
Multi-caorotene: 3/3/3/3 until skin turn orange. Then you stop. Once it is back to normal, continue again.
Bio-C: 4/4/4/4
Lecithin E: 4/4/4/4
B-complex: 3/3/3/3. If you can't sleep after taking 3 tablets before sleep, please take it out. If you feel you sleep better after taking 3 tablets before sleep, please continue.
Salmon Omega Fish Oil: 1/1/-/-
Milk Thistle: -/-/-/4

If you can afford, add the following into your regime:

COQ10: follow bottle instructions.
HCI: follow bottle instructions.
Saw Palmetto: for man. follow bottle instructions.
Garlic: 1/1/1/- (optional)

If you are going to take power breakfast, then skip on dosage for breakfast.

Power Breakfast formula:

•fresh milk or soya milk or water (your choice)

•Green Apple

•Active 8 -you decide how much (try out yourself)

•B complex - 4

•C- 2

•CaMg-2

•Protien powder- 2 scoop

•Positrim- 1/2 packet to 1 packet

•Daily-1

•Ginseng and gingko biloba-1

•Lecithin E-2

Lancet formally retracts 1998 paper linking vaccine and autism

2010-02-15T12:52:00.003+08:00

So now Lancet formally retracts this report, how do you feel about it? As for me, I'm still worried about its after effect not because of autism or whatsoever.

Here's the problem, when a baby receive a vaccination, he or she will have fever and they can't tell you. The only way to know is to observe, constantly checking their temperature and see whether they are showing sign of tiredness or they are still active.

For some cases, babies will have high fever and you won't know until don't know when. And by then, their brain or hearing maybe affected. Although we can give our babies crushed bio-C and put in their drink or, give them cherry drink, I still feel that this is not the solution.

Most importantly, it is best to give them vaccination when they can start expressing themselves. Anyway, this is my personal view. Do take it with a pinch of salt.

Eczema

2010-02-08T23:04:00.004+08:00

Eczema is actually not a skin problem. It is actually a sign telling us either we are under too much stress or, the body is having inflammation issue. It is that simple. Not matter what cream you apply, what skin doctors you visit, at the end of the day, that particular cream you use will have a limited effect. So, the best solution is solve the root of the problem.

If you are always under tremendous stress, then it is time to de-stress yourself. Learn to take things easily, breath deeply and have a positive mind will help you to reduce the problem of eczema.

And of course, you must also try to find out whether you have any allergy issues and etc... Sometimes, certain allergens will give rise to eczema too. Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables will also help to improve the problem too.

Ensure that you take water-soluble vitamins regularly. That means, take both B-complex and Bio-C on an hourly basis if you can. Take 2 tablets each and observe your skin conditions after 2 to 3 days.
Take salmon omega fish oil 1 capsule either 2 or 3 times a day.
Lecithin E: 16 to 32 tablets per day. You can divide it yourself since Vitamin E is an oil-soluble vitamin.
Take 1 capsule of COQ10.
Take 3 capsules of multi-carotene 3 times a day until your skin turn orange and stop.
Take 2 tablets of Milk Thistle to strengthen your Liver

Food to avoid:

Dairy products
Chemical or perfumed soaps, bath oil and etc...
If you are sensitive gluten, avoid it

Food to focus:

Fresh fruits and vegetables
Add full-grained rice to your diet
Drinks lot of water but not to the extent you need to urinate every now and then.

Lastly, you can still lead a normal life as long as you are willing to make some positive changes to your current lifestyle.

BPA news in Asiaone.com

2010-02-02T15:50:00.001+08:00