Category: Health

• Health Tips

  04.22.14 |Garden Tips, Health| Permalink | Comments Off on Health Tips

  I seldom get sick and I have a couple of health tips to share. I believed it has something to do with my garden. First tip to avoid sore throat and flu, is to chew basil leaves. I chew a couple of basil leaves every day. I plated lots of basil in my garden. I tell you, it is better than any sore throat candy you can find in the store.

  Second tip is to eat mulberry. Yeap a good friend gave us some mulberry cuttings to plant. Now the mulberry tree cannot stop bearing fruits. Mulberries have lots of vitamin C and anti-oxidants. I heard it can prevent stroke too.

  Lastly is drink more water and do exercise. I usually exercise when I work in the garden. It involved pruning plants, weeding and plant more herbs. Great way to make the environment better!

  
  
  

• Benefits of Cucumber

  02.27.14 |Health, Household Tips, Living| Permalink | Comments Off on Benefits of Cucumber

  I like snacking on cucumber every now and then especially those Japanese ones. I am glad it can be grown here. Recently I read that cucumber can help remove uric from our body system. Here is the concoction:

  

  Try it and hope it helps you!

• Secret of Looking Young

  03.26.13 |Health, Living| Permalink | Comments Off on Secret of Looking Young

  How many of you would follow if you know the secret of looking you? I know I would not because I know I cannot give up certain things.

  Yesterday I saw a video that someone shared about a lady who is 70 looking like a 30 in age. She only eats fresh vegetables, fruits and drink fresh juices. She plants them herself. You can see her looks and judge by yourself.

• Food Poisoning

  02.14.11 |Health| Permalink | Comments Off on Food Poisoning

  I really had a bad case of food poisoning I never had before. It happens the day I returned back from KL. I wasn’t sure it was the green curry or the fried oily noodle. I suspect it was both. I was feeling nausea the whole night. I woke up in the middle of the night, applied some oil on my stomach to get rid of the wind and then…..throw up.

  Next morning I had fever so I slept. The day after was better but the headache cling on. After that, it was nausea all the way. Next few days, I felt my tummy has a lot of acid. I guess I may need to get those antacids to make me feel better.

  The whole week has been horrible for me and yet my work is not helping. It is piling up! I am glad tomorrow is a holiday.

• Exercise Progress

  11.18.09 |Health| Permalink | Comments Off on Exercise Progress

  I am making progress on my new treadmill. I exercise to stay healthy, not so much of losing weight. Although slimming down my thighs would be a good thing.

  What my progress? Hrmm…very slow. The first time on the treadmill, I managed to burn 50 calories on a 30 min walk and run. Yesteday, I burned 70 calories on a 25 min run. I ran out of time because I had to go out.

  Today, I burned 0 because I was too sleepy after work. However after my nap, I took 370 calories of delicious World Class Baskin Robins ice-cream. There goes all the hard work. As I said, I exercise not to lose weight but to give my heart a healthy exercise and sweat out all the body toxins.

  Next week, I will hope to burn 100 calories per day.

• Only 50 Calories

  11.16.09 |Health| Permalink | Comments Off on Only 50 Calories

  I walked and ran 1.6km on my treadmill. I only burned 50 calories. That is not even 1 roti canai or 1 egg. I need to work harder.

  Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to lose weight. Just stay healthy.

• My New Toy

  11.11.09 |Health| Permalink | 3 Comments

  I always wanted to exercise but no time to do it. By the time I reach home and wait for my son to finish dinner, it is late. The other day while my family was shopping, we went into a fitness shop and started asking about treadmills. I tried some of them. The sales man cum instructor gave us a lot of info on treadmills. He told me that among the brand, made in US is more durable. I tried on some of them but the price was beyond my budget.

  We went to another shop called Takasima, the sales man is really good in his tactics of marketing. He didn’t know I can see through it. First he said that there is a promo, if we get the treadmills, we will get a free exercise bicycle and he threw in a massage thingy. The price is still beyond my budget. Next he came up with a coupon with 35% discount. He kept telling me that the coupon is the last one and if I don’t make up my mind, it could be taken by someone else. Yeah Yeah Yeah…all sales people do that.

  Anyway the price is within my budget and I wanted to own it. It has all the features I need with programs, incline, speed, pulse rate checks, safety feature and fold-able. It comes with life time warranty service. I didn’t even know treadmills need service. It is definitely a good deal for the price I am getting. Gift from my hubby.

  Now I can exercise at home and stay healthy. It is long overdue. I just had 30 minutes of great workout. I feel superb!!

  
  
  

• H1N1 Reality

  08.15.09 |Health| Permalink | 6 Comments

  Today my friend relayed this story to me. Take it with a pinch of salt. She has a sick relative suspected of high fever and flu. She took her to the clinic to check, hoping for a blood test. The doctor said that she should have gone to the hospital and not come to the clinic. My personal thoughts: The doctor was afraid of a true case of H1N1. He refused to do a blood test for her. Well the doctor has a point, if she is truly H1N1 or flu, she will be spreading to others in the waiting area. Maybe even close down the clinic for a week.

  So my friend took her to a private hospital emergency wad. The hospital told her to wait at the emergency waiting area. There were people there too, also in danger of getting her flu. Finally she got to see the doctor again refuse the blood test. The doctor said if he was to do a blood test and it is a true H1N1, they may need to close down the hospital. He directed her to General Hospital, GH (aka public hospital). My personal thoughts: Yeah, should have just sent her away to GH quickly and not have her wait in the waiting area, right?

  She went to GH and also directed to the waiting area with lots of people in queue. She had to wait longer until 2am. Finally her turn came. It is funny, when the doctor heard her symptoms, quickly he grabbed a mask and put it on. He also gave her one to put on. GH didn’t have a proper quarantine waiting room, put her in a secluded area. She finally got the blood test done. My personal thoughts: I wondered why they cannot put up a proper secluded waiting area and gave out mask ahead for flu symptoms patients. The process need to be changed. GH is way under staffs and there are too many patients.

  The blood test result state that she has dengue. Actually my friend already suspected that her relative got dengue because of the red spots. However doctors refuse to listen or maybe too scare to do the blood test. Poor sick gal had to go through the terrible ordeal, waiting and rejection. Is that how we get treated if we are sick? Something for the govt to ponder.

  
  
  

• Work Out Needed

  06.26.09 |Health| Permalink | Comments Off on Work Out Needed

  I desperately need a workout before my doctor sound the alarm. I have been busy working and hardly have time for exercise. The only exercise I have is chasing after my children. Now they have grown up, it has reduced.

  How I wish I have one of those home gyms. I always wanted a tread mill. I remembered when I was working in US, I could just go down to the basement and walk on the treadmill during my free time.

  It helps me relax and when I am running on the treadmill, I can think through things. I need a treadmill that I can store away easily but big enough for me to jog on it. It will be cool!

• Knocked Out

  05.07.09 |Health| Permalink | 1 Comment

  Today getting MC is a breeze. I came down with flu, nothing serious but now with the spread of swine flu, everyone is very cautious. I do not have fever because it is really hard for me to get fever. The panel doctor will not give me MC if no fever with some exception cases.

  Anyway, I went to the in house clinic and try to get an MC. I was really feeling dizzy and body aching, not fit to work. Maybe lack of sleep due to late night conferences. To my amazement, the doctor issued it right away, no question asked. I jokingly said that most of my colleagues are avoiding me because I am having flu. She asked me whether I want a mask. Sorry, I hate those masks and I rather stay at home.

  Today I am working from home for the benefit of others. I don’t want to spread my germs around.

  A little memo came out to say anyone having flu, avoid going to the office and seek medical attention.