Health Benefits Of Swimming

I started to switch to swimming about 2 months ago when my knees, especially the right knee hurt each time I jogged or worked out on the air-walker in the gym. I have been jogging intensively for the past 15 years and I think that my knees have worn down, lost their sponginess, thus are unable…

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Broccoli Health Benefits

Broccoli has recently topped the list of favorite veggies for my girls. We have it for dinner 2-3 times in a week. I normally blanch the broccoli in boiling water with a little salt and oil.  They love it cooked this way, which is not too hard, not soft and mushy, slightly salty and slightly…

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The Benefits and Uses of Dietary Supplements

The news, television talk shows, and the Internet are full of experts who talk about the benefits of using vitamin supplements, herbal supplements, or dietary supplements. Some believe that dietary supplements can improve the quality of a person’s life, while others believe that the supplements have the power to cure chronic ailments. Because there’s so…

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Atrial fibrillation (Heart Flutter – Heartbeat Disorder)

About a month ago, I developed heart flutter, which is a heartbeat disorder. Each heart flutter lasted about 2-3 seconds. Each time I get a fluttering sensation in my chest, it would immediately be followed by what I would describe as a ‘catch’ in my breath, and then a need to cough to ‘set things…

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Three Simple Strategies To Keep Your Coffee Company Growing

If you’re like most coffee shop owners, keeping your company in a state of growth is very important to you. However, many business owners find that their companies periodically come to a standstill in terms of things like visibility, conversion, and the optimization of daily operations. Irrespective of the unique challenge that is precluding your…

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Cakes Made Healthy

My chef wannabe daughter #2 dished up this dessert for her granny, my mum, on her 69th birthday several days ago…   It’s a small slice of the birthday cake (green tea cake with sweetened adzuki beans), with a huge chunk of cream scraped off coz she knows that granny can’t take dairy products, topped…

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Treating Eczema Naturally

Eczema patients are usually prescribed with steroids which will cause a host of unfavourable side effects. This is why we must resort to something more natural which will be a better solution for eczema. The below pictures show how one consumer’s (she’s my friend) chronic eczema on her hands became better after consuming high dosage…

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Cherry Orange Apple Lemon Smoothie

Our smoothie-of-the-day for today… 3 oranges + 1 green apple + handful of cherries (seeds removed)+ juice from 1 lemon.  Simply love the zesty lemony taste from the lemon! Cherries are on offer at our neighborhood supermarket and hubs managed to grab a huge punnet at only RM29.90.  What a steal it was!   I…

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Should Fruits Be Eaten On An Empty Stomach?

I have been eating my fruits on an empty stomach in the morning for almost 20 years. My ex-colleague was the one who introduced this health regime to me. Sure enough, after following this fruit-eating on empty stomach routine for weeks, I felt the difference in my health. And so I have been religiously doing…

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Tanning Salons

There are millions of people who were born with skin that they believe looks too pale. For many years, people like this only had the option of laying out in the sun in order to tan their skin and make it look darker. This was years before anybody knew about skin cancer of the harmful…

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