A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
From the three days that I spent in school at the start of the school term recently, I noticed that Cass did not wash her hands before she ate during recess. From my observation, 9 out of 10 kids do not wash their hands before they eat and I am appalled. I am appalled as…
A few weeks ago, I had a sharp pain on my left knee cap each time I squatted down. Sometimes there was a cracking sound and the knee felt cold and numb. The pain went on for about 10 days. The funny thing is that when I did my usual run in the morning, I…
Recently, my girls were down with a bout of cough, mild running nose and a phlegmy throat. When my eldest girl coughed, the phlegm in her throat made her cough sound pretty bad. Someone close to the girls passed a remark as to why I am reluctant to bring them to see the doctor to…
Two days ago, Alycia did something really silly — she tried to drink water when she was chewing on a piece of chewing gum and swallowed the gum together with the water! This girl of mine is not new to chewing on gums. But it is the first time that she has swallowed the chewing…
This is one of our easy-way-out lunches, comprising of fried eggs, chicken ham and turkey ham. Deli meat, as with canned meat and fast food are an occasional food for us. We eat them like several times in a year only. As I was blanching the slices of ham, I was wondering if anyone else…
Many people will raise their eyebrow if I tell them that I drink coconut water at least 3-4x in a week. They would remark that coconut water is too cooling for one’s body, will cause ‘wind’ in the tummy, will cause stomachache and will induce cough. But I feel healthier ever since I started to…
Before cooking your beef spaghetti bolognaise or steaming eggs with meat, do you wash the minced meat? If yes, do you wash it with a sieve. I have always instructed my previous maids to wash any type of meat before cooking them, including minced meat. For meat used to boil soup, I even instructed her…
We use to patronize this ‘pan meen’ noodles stall at a nearby coffee shop. That particular pan meen is really very tasty and my girls love it to bits. I started to feel turned off when one time, I saw how the stall owner’s foreign worker prepared the mixed pork meat. In a very large…