The Wor(l)d Helo Smartband

Helo stands for Health and Lifestyle Oracle, it is a very advance and new wearable wristband by Wor(l)d which can be worn 24 hours a day to monitor our and our loved ones health well being and physical condition on the go and when we sleep.  It can measure : Blood Pressure, ECG, Heart Rate, Breath Rate, Mood/Energy, Steps and calories burned on a 30 to 120 mins basis.  I set mine on 60 minutes basis, a report will be produced every hourly.

 

 
This is the smart and sexy looking wristband of Helo.  The wristband is designed to fit small to big (musculine) wrist. This is my Helo, fitted nicely on my slim wrist without having to trim the band.

Both Android (has to be Android 4.3 and above) and iOS can download the Helo Apps, the Helo device will link to your handphone via bluetooth.  Amazingly the Helo wristband has the capacity to store all the data, the data can be viewed in your phone as soon as a link is established.

unlike the rest of the wristband in the market, Wor(l)d added extra features to include semi germ stones of Germanium and Himalayan Salt and Hematite for extra health benefits.  These stones are mounted on platinum plate, and can be fitted on the wristband which are in direct contact with our skin when we put on the wristband.

The health benefits of the Germanium, Himalayan Salt and Hematite can be found in many articles in the internet.   

It uses an innovative and advance sensor to obtain data from our body to give an ambulatory measurements as accurate as possible for our self evaluation. 

Another important function of Helo is the Panic Button.  Yes, there is a panic button for emergency purpose, just by pressing the side button 2 times,  the person(s) that you registered in the Guardian-SOS will be alerted via sms with the time, location and google map on the last location where the button was pressed.  

this feature is specially beneficial for the elderly who suddenly feel unwell and children whom find themselves in unsafe situation.

I personally am amazed with Helo.  It can only be bought online at one single price from Wor(l)d website and deliver direct to your doorstep.  You could use my username : agnescfl (l as in small letter L) or www.agnescfl.worldgn.com to make the purchase, you are automatically become a member upon purchase and get hold of the opportunity if you wish to.

Blissful morning walk

Woken up by the heavy rain at 4.40am, alarm rings at 5.25am..only managed to drag myself up from bed when my girl asked me to get up to send her to school.

"Are we going for a walk?", "think so" reluctantly I replied my better half. After sending our girls to school, we went to the nearby park to have a walk and get some fresh oxygen after the rain.  There is no chance for me to have any exercise during working days.  My jobs rely heavily on computer, therefore I got to sit down less walking in the office.

Wouldn't want to push myself to hard, I did only 3 rounds of brisk walking on the track in the park. The air is fresh after the rain.  Lazy at first but blissful after the walk.  The surrounding I have captured: 

water drops on the leave after the rain

children's playground in the park

concrete chair for resting

walking/jogging track

the steps

bright red hibiscus

Breakfast after the walk.  Mee tauhu Tawau style (plain fried mee with a bowl of fried taufu and taufu pok).  Not to my liking, but compensated with a glass of thick kopi kahwin.

Chinese Medicine

After few days of stomach upset and diarrhoea, and the intake of western medications, Crystal appeared weak, pale and having cold sweat.  For the past week even before the stomach upset and allergy problems, she took more naps  and always complained of tiredness.  She has less energy compare to her normal self and had to stop half way through her taekwando lesson last week.

We decided to bring her to a Chinese medical hall to get an advise on what sort of Chinese Herbs that is good for her to regain her health.  The Chinese medical hall introduced us a Chinese medical doctor just across the road in Foh Sang, Luyang.  

The doctor checked on her pulses and throat.  He suggested that Crystal should not drink any cold drinks, cooling tea, no chicken and eggs, no white radish (white lo pak) in her diet, for fruits, only red apple is allowed.  Here are the tablets she has to take 3 times a day 4 tablets each for 5 days.  Due to school time, we only managed to give her medicine twice a day. 

She is regaining her energy after taking the Chinese medicine.  Thank you Lord and His touch on my little girl for helping her to get well and  rejuvenate her body.  

My mum has discharged from the hospital yesterday after admitted on last Thursday due to severe vomiting and diarrhoea.  Will bring her to see this Chinese Medication Doctor for some herbs supplements.

Special Rewards from Blackmores Malaysia

Blackmores Malaysia

In conjunction with its 80th birthday, Blackmores Malaysia is giving out Special 'reward' to their facebook fans. Just email them your name, address, contact no. and IC no. to healthadvisory@blackmores.com.my. They will send you a voucher chock-full of goodies in 4-6 weeks after a confirmation email from them.   Expiry date of vouchers: Oct 2013. Hop over to their facebook page now to enjoy this special reward :D

The Nutrition Benefits of EGGS

My girls always ask for Scrambled eggs as one of the dishes in their meals, they will eat more rice and finish their meals faster if there is scrambled eggs.  I was worry at one point I tried to skip cooking eggs even they asked for it.  I told them that we can not eat eggs everyday, too much eggs would not be good for health, I remember ready an articles about it.

Today, I checked on one of my emails, I received this so called the nutrition facts about eggs :

Malaysia's top nutritionist on eggs, Very Important, EGG is good for cancer too. Dr JB Lim is the current TOP Nutritionist in Malaysia .

Dear all, Thank you for asking me. Sometime back someone asked me the same question about eggs and its effect on health. I have already written and replied to him or her in a lengthy article supporting the nutritive and health benefits of eggs. I also gave scientific updates on more recent findings some of which are correctly given here as sent to me. However the author of the article need to give at least some references of papers published in scientific journals to support the claims even though they are right. But to super-summarize what I wrote last time in just 13 lines without me having to go all over again explaining the complexities of physiology, biochemistry, nutritional pathogenesis related to eggs and waste time and effort again, below are the yes points about eggs in human nutrition. But I have to leave out some minor no points since the positive benefits far outweigh its negative values.

1. Eggs and milk are among the best foods for the body especially to a growing child.

2. Eggs do not cause an elevation of blood cholesterol

3. Eggs do not clog up the coronary vessels as once thought. In fact the opposite is now true

4. Eggs are low in energy value, and is a factor to consider in the formulation of a caloric-restriction diet 

5. Eggs protein quality is extremely high, and has a very high nitrogen-retention value. Hence it is extremely useful in post-surgical care, trauma, and in post-management of hypovolemic shock against negative nitrogen balance

6. Eggs contain vitamin D in its natural form. The benefits of vitamin D require several chapters on human nutrition in medicine to discuss. And I refuse to repeat

7. Eggs are cancer-protective, especially for breast cancer

8. Eggs are very rich in sulfur-containing amino acids methionine which is a very crucial amino-acid in blocking damaging free radicals. These are directly linked to the pathogenesis of heart disease, cancers, DNA damage, all degenerative disorders, and accelerated aging.

9. Eggs protect against fatty liver, slow growth, macular degeneration (degeneration of the macula area of the retina in the eyes. This is responsible for central vision for reading, face recognition and detailed vision), edema (water retention), and various skin lesions

10. Eggs promote healthy growth of nails, hair and skin

11. Eggs are rich in tryphophan, selenium, iodine, and riboflavin (vitamin B2)

12. Eggs selenium content is cardio-protective against Keshan disease, cardiomyopathies (diseases involving the heart muscles, cardiomegaly (enlarged heart), myocardial dysfunction (poor heart function) and death from heart failure.

13. Eggs are protective against Kashin-Beck disease (osteoarthropathy), myxedematous endemic cretinism (mental retardation)

14. The list goes on…on! Regards, and ask me no more on eggs. I have lots of other questions awaiting answers.

jb lim 4:35 a.m. 24 August, 2010

This is one of those articles that may make one go to extreme and consume too much. Remember -- anything that is consumed too much is bad for your health. Do everything in moderation.

Cerumol ear drops for removing ear wax

How do you clear your child's ear wax? do you dig it out or remove it by using ear drops?

I am a bit scare to dig my girls' ear to remove the wax. Their ears' drum are very delicate and they will tend to move their heads when they feel the tickling feeling when I dig their ears so I opt to use ear drops.

The last time I applied the Soluwax ear drops on them was more than a year ago. Recently Crystal complaint to me that her ears are itchy and suspect got lots of ear wax inside, she has been trying to use her little fingers to dig them out but to no avail.

We kept forgetting to buy the ear drop when we were out and about for the past weeks and only remembered to get a bottle from the pharmacy last Saturday.

The pharmacy prescribed the Cerumol ear drops for us. To loosen and removal of ear wax, instill 5 drops into the ear canal with the head tilted, best to lay down on one side, may feel a tingling sensation but it is harmless, keep the head tilted for few minutes to avoid the solution from running out from the ear.

The Cerumol solution contains peanut oil, use the ear drop solution for 3 consecutive days, the wax will come out by itself as mentioned in the direction for use, but DO NOT use more than 3 days.

So far I only applied this ear drop once to my girls' ears and they did not complain of itchiness again. This ear drop is selling at RM13.95 per bottle.

Annual Detox and Rejuvenation

It has been more than a year since I last did my Detoxification and Rejuvenation Programme (DRP). After much delay, I finally put a date to do my annual DRP maintenance on the form to claim for a free set of DRP products from the Company.

I took home these set of health products yesterday and ordered some fruits and vegetable needed for the programme which I have planned to start next week for 7 days, it's going to be a long week because I can not eat like what I normally do, mind you I am a food lover thus a big eater, luckily I love fruits and vegetable or else it would be even tougher for me because lot of fruits and vegetable (preferably organic) are the main diet throughout.
Last year, healing crisis set in right after I completed the DRP programme, hope it won't be so bad this time. It is not easy to complete the whole 7 days program unless I am mentally and physical ready, that is the main cause of the delay in starting my yearly maintenance detox programme. :D, Well, I am all ready to roll now to a healthier me in 7 days.

Hong Kong Pulls Po Chai Pills because of Health Risks

I received this message in my inbox this morning, don't know how true it is, as it has been spreading around the net there must have some degree of truth....

Po Chai Pills is a very common medicine in most of the Chinese household since many decades ago. We used to and still popping a bottle or 2 of Po Chai Pills into our mouth to treat stomach disorder. Believe it or not, I have been carrying a bottle in my bag for emergency used, if it is true that it contents dangerous substances that's mean I am carrying poison in my bag all this while, gosh...!!!

Here is the email message I received:

One of the most commonly used Chinese herbal pills in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia called, "Po Chai" (see images below) have been banned in Singapore. They are also being recalled in Hong Kong. In addition to two dangerous chemicals (phenolphthalein and sibutramine) found by the Singapore Govt., it's also discovered that mercury is a component used in the manufacture of the pills! Mercury can cause serious brain damage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease Hong Kong Pulls Po Chai Pills because of Health Risks, Morning Post Says 2010-03-25 01:49:27.289 GMT By Frederik Balfour March 25 (Bloomberg) - Hong Kong 's Department of Health has instructed traditional Chinese medicine maker Li Chung Shing Tong (Holdings) to recall Po Chai pills after they were found to contain banned substances in Singapore, the South China Morning Post said.

The pills, popular among sufferers from digestion problems, were found to contain phenolphthalein and sibutramine, substances that can lead to serious side effects, according to a department spokesman, the newspaper said.

refer here for further information.

Benefits of sea salt

Do you know that there are differences between iodized salt, refined salt and sea salt? To me all the salt were the same not until I noticed the ingredient contained in one of the health cereal that I bought recently, it uses sea salt as flavoring, why use sea salt? I was wondering.... It therefore triggered my curiosity to search the web to find out more about the benefits of sea salt.

Surprisingly the natural sea salt are found to be up to 70% lower in sodium than other standard table salt. It is produced under tight patent restrictions to maintain its healthy minerals for our body needs, though it is low in sodium the taste is equally great.

Most of us are trying very hard to reduce our salt intake by having little or omitting salt in our food altogether, as a result we do not enjoy our food at all because our meals have lose their tastiness without the sufficient amount of salt.

Since we know what sea salt health benefits can do to our health, especially to those with high blood pressure, it would be wise to do something good for ourselves by consuming quality sea salt from now on and enjoy our meals without worries.

Amazing truth of Fruits and vegetable

I am a vegetable lover but not a vegan. Times and times again, I read about the health benefits of certain fruits and vegetable but never noticed some of the vegetable I usually eat actually resemble our body organs and have direct benefits to that organ too. Do you know that?

It was brought to my attention when I received an email enclosing a slide entitled "God's Pharmacy" from my colleague today. It is amazingly true, that,

1. Carrots, when it is cut into halve, the round middle part resembles the eye, thus eating carrot enhances blood flow to and functions of our eyes.

2. Tomato, has four chambers is very similar to the heart which has four chambers too. Tomatoes loaded with lycopine, a form of carotene, good for the heart and blood.

3. Grapes, a cluster of grapes hanging on the tree resemble the human heart thus also profound heart and blood vitalising food.

4. Walnut, look like the brain. Consuming walnuts help develop more than 3 dozens neuron, the transmitter for brain functions.

5. Kidney bean, look exactly like kidney, it actually heals and helps maintain the kidney functions.

6. Celery, its stems look like bones. it contains sodium which is what our bones need. Eat celery to replenish our bones strength and skeletal needs.

7. Avocados, eggplants, pears, provides the health and functions of the womb, cervix of female. It says that by taking one avocado a day helps balances the hormone, prevents cervical cancer. Do you know that it takes 9 months to grow an avocado?

8. Fig, the fruit is full of seeds, hang in 2 on the tree. It has the function of increase the mobility of male sperms and increase the sperms numbers.

9. Sweet potatoes, looks like pancreas, thus has the function of balancing the glycemic index of diabetes.

10. Olives, assist the health and function of ovaries.

11. Oranges, grape fruits like the mammary glands of female, assist the health of the breast and the movement of lymph in and out of the breast.

removing ear wax

The doctor prescribed this ear wax remover drop for our girls when we visited her clinic more than a year ago. We used it once or twice to ease the excessive wax from Crystal ears. This is the SOLUWAX ear drops , its function is for softening the ear wax thereby it can be removed or drop out by itself easily.

And last week Crystal complained that her ears were very itchy and kept digging them with her fingers when she was trying to sleep at night. She requested for the ear drops. But we had to get a new bottle as the one we have had already expired on 01.08.09. Even though it had only expired for about 2 weeks, to be safe than sorry, I got Clet to buy a new bottle.

I have been applying the drops on Crystal's ear for the last 2 nights, Pearl saw it and wanted the drops for her ear as well. She too having plenty of wax in her ears. We have never cleared our girls ear wax since they were born cos too scare to hurt their ears with the little scoopy thingy knowing their always on the move characters so it would be safer to use ear drops.

Pearl thought it is fun and giggling there when I put the drop in her ear, she supposed to tilt her head for 4-5 minutes, she does not even bother, started with her playful act soon after I put the ear drops. hmmm... How do you clear your children's ear wax??

Preparation - Detoxification and Rejuvenation Programme (DRP)

I guess some of you might be wondering what the DRP I am talking about, I should have posted this before I even started with my DRP 6 days ago.  But all is not too late, right?

After the live blood test, the result got me worried about my overall health. I told myself that by hook or by crook I have to start the DRP programme as soon as I got the free package of the DRP set which was given free to me as staff on an annual basis by the company that I work.  Together with my two other colleagues, I started with the programme 6 days ago, mentally ready of course.  Besides having the DRP set in place, there are certain vegetable and fruits that I have to get ready before starting the programme.  Basically the whole programme put us on a very strict diet, only fruits, vegetable and supplements are allowed.

The content of the DRP set from NewLife International

The Hippocrates soup

These are some of the fruits and vegetable recommended in the programme.  The carrot and apple are for juices.  Celery, onions and potatoes together with tomatoes, leeks, garlic to be cooked into Hippocrates' soup as meals throughout the 7 days.  I got bored of the soup on the 3rd day that I replaced my meals with mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes and fruits instead.

I made 6 containers of yogurt as part of the meals to be taken together with flaxseed oil

I have been coping well with the strict diet with no much temptations to break the fast, it would be a challenge if I am a meat eater, glad that I am not.

The boiled and let cool to body temperature coffee enema mixture  

I was a bit worried on carrying out the coffee enema at the beginning, luckily I managed it quite well from the 3rd day onwards where I found a comfortable place to do it, that is, the bedroom, even with Pearl coming around again and again to check on me, and asked "mummy, you do the "emema" again?".

There is still one more day to go to complete the programme.  I have been asked what I feel like having for my first meal right after this programme, my answer was, Laksa flavour Maggi Mee, hahaha...just kidding.  I would go for porridge so that my stomach will not be shocked after 7 days without solid food.

Detoxification and Rejuvenation Programme (DRP)

I am into Day 5 of the 7 days Detoxification and Rejuvenation Programme (DRP), I am amazed how this programme works, I already felt the cleansing taking effect on the 4th day, I guess the cleansing effect could have been faster if I were to do 2 coffee enemas a day as recommended. I have been on 1 coffee enema a day due to time constraint.

This programme is easier to follow than I first thought especially on the coffee enema part which I did not feel at ease with initially. I finally got myself comfortable doing it in the bedroom than in the bathroom before taking my shower and dinner. I did the coffee enemas in the bathroom for the first 3 days in the morning which I find very uncomfortable lying on the bathroom floor for one thing and also the need for the morning rush has deterred me from carrying out a proper coffee enema which usually takes up to 15 minutes at least.

I am a bit tired today could be because I have had very little solid today than the previous 4 days. Got bored with the hippocrates' soup since the 3rd day and the urge of eating solid is not there anymore, moreover, my stomach is filled with cleansing drink, tissue building drink, health drink and juices most of the time.

There will be 2 more days to go to complete the whole programme and I am happy with my progress so far.

I will post more about it in my coming posts.

Live Blood Test Result

I had a live blood test 3 weeks ago. The result....can be better. If I hadn't been taking any supplement all these while it could be even worst.

Live Blood testing is some what different from the normal lab blood test. It tests the quality rather than quantity of our blood.

This test report of my showed that cholesterol crystal are found, my blood viscosity is high (the obvious symptom is the numbness or tingling of feet or hands), calcium Deficiency Observed and mild Free Radical Damage was also observed. Eventhough there is nothing serious to worry about but it is also advisable to better my health position before situation get worst due to poor diet, lack of sleep, stress, and other factors.

A few supplements were recommended to me together with the report.

Newlife office in Tanjung Aru Plaza is offering Live Blood Test on every Wednesday, RM55.00 for members and RM75.00 for Non Members. It is the only place that offers Live Blood Test in KK so far.

For betterment of my health, I am taking the 7 days DRP (Detoxification and Rejuvenation Progrmme) at the moment, hopefully it will show a better health result after the DRP.

Exfuze Seven +, An amazing nutritional fruit juice

The Exfuze Seven+, the highly nutritional fruit juice that consist of the extract of 7+ super fruits from the earth, namely, Mangosteen, Acai, Seabucktorn, Noni, Goji, Gac, Fucaidan, that are fuzed into a bottle densed with nutrition, it is now second to none health supplement drinks in the market.

Joyce did a research on Exfuze Seven +, and she found an ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) report which shows Exfuze Seven + is truly a class above all of the other botanical nutrition supplements.

Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) is a method of measuring antioxidant capacities of different foods. The higher the ORAC value, the higher the antioxidant capacities to help slow down the process of aging for the body and the brain, also aid in prevention of degenerative diseases, like cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, etc.

The ORAC report for Exfuze Seven + have 50,000 per litre. It is a highly nutritious health drinks that no one could afford to reject. Here is the comparison of ORAC for the other popular health drinks with Exfuze, unbelievable powerful:

• EXFUZE Seven + = 50,000 ORAC per bottle
• Young Berry Juice = 32,750 ORAC per bottle
  
• Mona Vie Juice = 18,500 ORAC per bottle
• Xango Juice = 13,750 ORAC per bottle
• EB Tahitian Noni Juice = 12,500 ORAC per bottle
• Himalayan Goji Juice = 10,000 ORAC per bottle
• Silver Sea = 2,000 ORAC per bottle
  

We are glad that we have found a complete and affordable health supplement for my family. If you care for your health and your love ones, seriously consider exploring the power of Exfuze Seven+ today. Exfuze will be launched in Malaysia soon, you could contact us to get the greatness of Exfuze even before it's launched.

eXfuze The Power of Seven +

www.exfuzesabah.blogspot.com

Great News!! The long waiting nutritional supplement drink will be in Sabah in a month time. The seven + potent ingredients have been blended and fused into a revolutionary products called eXfuze The Power of Seven+, eXfuze has combined the powerful nutrition of 7 super foods, they are : Gac, Acai, Goji, Noni, Fucoidan, Mangosteen, Seabucktorn, and the + being the Pomegranate, Wild Blue Berries, Aloe Vera, Concord Grapes and Structure water. It is unbelievable tasty. This health drink is going to take on Malaysia like a storm.  I love making drinks for my family each morning before we start off our days.

Cancer Warning on Talcum Powder

This was published in the Utusan Konsumer Mar -Apr 2009 edition. In fact I have heard about the danger of using talcum powder many years ago but never bother to really find out why it is so. Believing in what I have read today, I decided to throw away every single bottle of the talcum powder from my house.

Pandan Leaf

My mum gave me a bundle of pandan leaves last saturday just before she went for her mahjong session. She asked me to boil them to make some juice. The pandan leaves juice is believed to have anti-diabetic properties. The leaf come from screwpine tree, it is widely used in our local delicatessen as well as in Thailand. It is also said to be able chase away crocoaches by having some pandan leaves around the house.

Negative Ion products

People have been talking about negative ion but never did I pay any attention to what health benefits it could bring. Due to its many health benefits, more and more manufacturers have incorporated this feature into their products. Few of the many products that I know of having negative ion are air conditioner, sanitary napkin, definitely air ionizer, and undergarments for health purposes… The 8 keys benefits that I found from my recent research on negative ion/minus ion are:

1. Eliminate bacteria
2. Eradicate odour
3. Enhance hormonal balance
4. Treat inflammation
5. Remove Fatique
6. Strengthen immunity
7. Improve metabolism
8. Reduce stress

Some might have doubt whether there is any negative ion exist in the products as claimed by the manufacturers, I am one of them too. To ensure the genuineness of the products, it is advisable to ask for prove and method of testing to see the existence and density of negative ion as claimed rather than just rely on what it is stated on the label or packing. We have once too many fake stuff around. Don’t you agree?

Breathing Therapy

I received this in my email, it was sent by my friend. I find it interesting and hope this therapy will help those always suffer from headache and tiredness. Here how it goes,

"When having headache, try to close your right nostril and use your left nostril to do breathing for about 5 mins. The headache will be gone. If you feel too tired, do it the opposite way. Close your left nostril and breathe through your right nostril. After a while, you will feel refresh again. Because the right side belongs to heat, so it gets hot easily. The left side gets cold easily. Women breathe mainly with their left nostril, so they get calm down easily.Men breathe mostly with their right nostril, so they get angry easily.When we wake up, do we notice which nostril breathes faster? Is it the left side or the right side?If the left nostril breathes faster, you will feel very tired. Close your left nostril and use your right nostril for breathing and you will get refresh quickly.You can teach your kids about it. The effect of breathing therapy is much better for adults.Practice the correct ways of breathing (breathe in and breathe out) and your body will be in a very relaxing condition."