Throw up after drinking Stale Milk

Our local government has been giving out free milk to the pupils since I was in Primary School, I do not know whether other States in Malaysia doing the same or not.  We appreciate the good gesture from the government in providing nutritious milk to the students over the years.  

However, milk is a very perishable item, it turns bad or stale easily.  It will do more harm than good if the cartons of milk turn stale due to improper handling during storage and logistic.  

Our girls like to keep these free milk in the fridge and consume them while cool.  There were two occasions that Crystal have had diarrhea for no reasons because we were having the same food, why only her having stomach upset??  After chit chatting with parents at school, I gathered that the free milk from school was the culprit.  I have since stopped my girls from taking them altogether since last year.

It was reported in the News today that 100 pupils throw up after consuming the free milk from school, it was no surprise to me as my girl has suffered from it twice before.   

The pupils are suffering from stomach pain and vomiting, all this can be avoided only if the parties handling these milk are sensible enough to make sure they are kept fresh as required.  I have seen a normal lorry truck delivering milk to the school, these milk will then placed at the corridor in the school for many days before they are distributed to the pupils.  The Health Ministry should consider having these milk be transported by a refrigerated truck and distributed to the pupils as soon as the cartons milk arrive to the school.

Pearl was asking for our permission to drink this packet of milk last night which she brought back from school and kept cool in fridge,  we were glad we stopped her from drinking it, or else she could be suffering from stomach upset too.  I showed to my girls the news so that they are aware of it.

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.

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.

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 +

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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.

Caffeine good for Asthma??

Asthma, one of the serious and potentially fatal diseases suffered by many people out there, including my dad. Because of my dad's condition, it leads me wanting to know more about the nutritional blockbusters that fight asthma. The treatment that my dad receives from the hospital are mainly using medications to control the disease rather than on how to protect or make him stronger to fight the disease.

A very useful book entitled "Eat and Heal" by the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing, that I bought few months back has provided me with the basic nutritional knowledge needed to fight asthma. In summary, the nutritional blockbusters that fight asthma are:

• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin A
• Lycopene (such as tomatoes, pink grapefruit, and watermelon)
• Magnesium and selenium (broccoli, oysters, beans)
• Water (at least 6 glasses a day)

and interestingly surprise that Caffeine is useful to fight asthma as well. Reseach shows that caffeine helps relax bronchial tubes so that airways stay open as such it can help improve the symptoms for up to four hours. Therefore, it would be helpful to start the day with a fragrant cup of coffee. I do not know whether my dad would like to have a try on starting his day with a cup of coffee!!?? I should try to convince him.

BACK ON USANIMALS AGAIN

It has been a while that we stopped giving or rather the girls refused to take the vitamins that we find is best for them, simply because the taste of the natural wild berry flavoured of the Usana's Usanimals multivitamin tablets are not as good and alluring as other brands of vitamins. They are made by using natural sweetener and flavouring, and lack of artificial colouring. The tablets are in different animal shapes and grey in colour. We even showed them this Usana's Mega girl video clip just to convince them but the effect only lasted for a while.

Lately, Crystal suffered from nose bleed and severe allergy, so we decided to put her back on the Usanimals multivitamins again a couple of days ago so that she is able to get the nutrients that is lacking from the food that she consumes. Both of them are very picky eaters. Pearl has been eating much lesser solid food than before instead ask for milk more frequently which is good too.

Surprisingly, Crystal is willing to take up to a daily dosage of two tablets as recommended for the last two days; while seeing her sister taking it Pearl also started to ask for her share. Unlike before we have to crush the tablets and put them in their milk. They even rejected the milk after tasting them, kids are smart they know what have been added to their milk right!? Actually, The Usanimals multivitamins are not for sale in Malaysia yet but a friend of ours gave us some by sending them all the way from New Zealand and we also managed to bought some after that by the help of our friend while she travelled to Singapore months ago. Hope the girls are doing good with the vitamins and become mega girls..:)