Malaysian Longivity Statistic

year 1990 - male average 69.2 y/o, female average 73.7 y/o.

year 2007 - male average 71.7 y/o, female average 76.5 y/o.

cheers malaysian, we have better life span..........

Malaysian Age Distribution Statistics

10 years ago:
65 y/o and above - 3.91%
15 - 64 y/o - 61.67%
14 y/o & below - 34.42%

10 years later as at 31 July 2009:
65 y/o and above - 4.6%
15 - 64 y/o - 63.6%
14 y/o & below - 31.8%

Note : Increased in aging population and decreased in newborn rate.

Power-pack Kind of Fruit - Durian

3 major types :

white, yellow (comon) & red (uncommon).



Power-pack nutrition versus apple for an average of 230g of important nutrients:

Nutrients / durain / green apple
Protein / 3.57g / 0.58g
Potassium / 1059mg / 239mg
Sodium / 5mg/ 2mg
Calcium / 15mg / 13mg
Magnesium / 73mg / 11mg
Zinc / 0.68mg / 0.09mg
Manganese / 0.79mg / 0.078mg
Vit C / 47.9mg / 10.3mg
Niacin / 2.61mg / 0.203mg

You wanna calculate?

Happy "durian" day.......

Source : US Agricultural Research Service

Wired? Wireless? Which one to choose?

Did you know, wireless will emit stronger waves than the usual wired connection. so, its safer to use wired connection. lol

Pandan Plant

One of our common garden plants

Many uses in our traditional preparation

Something to surprise you:

1) The first research was on year 1960 by an European researcher.

2) It has amino acids very close to natural mother's milk contents.

3) It is not affected under boiling.

happy "pandan day"....

Something About Skin Beauty

Something to share about skin beauty from today's seminar:

1) Normal skin rejuvenation cycle - 28 days.

2) Aging skin rejuvenation cycle - 48 days.

3) The critical factor in skin youthfulness - collagen.

4) Two main factors in pre-matured aging - internal early aging & external UV damages.

Happy skin care day!!!!

Breakfast - The Right Choice!!!

Did you know?

No breakfast will stress on the liver, you will have a low energy to start off your day!

Sugarly/carbo breakfast will stress on the pancreas, you will be insulinated; that means your body cell is under threat or damaged!

Protein for breakfast will give you a 25% more energy compare to carbo; yet, without an inflated blood sugar!

A little good fat will give your heart a real boost; simply, our heart draws energy from good lipids!

Happy & Energised Morning!!!!!

How Do You Count Your Life Span?

general guide, your total heart beat = life span or simply, end of your life...sorry! lol

Next question - are you rushing???? (or to finish heart beat faster or simply shortened life span)....

Surprises about eating fruits!!!

It has been recommended 5 servings of fruits per day are healthy. But, something you are not aware is that, consuming sweet fruits is harmful as it elevates blood sugar; it is a heath threatening fact for those with family history of diabetes or someone with pre-diabetic condition.

Adversely, gout could be triggered by eating too much of sweet fruits versus traditional believes in gout is triggered by food contains high purine foods such as mushroom, beans, meat, seafoods and etc.

Avoid taking large servings of sweet fruits such as lychee, dried dates, watermelon, mango, rambutan and etc.

Taking beneficial fruits such as guava, bitter gout, berries, prunes, lemon, tomato and etc.

Remember, taking too much of sugary food is a poison!!!

About Banana

Did You Know The Wild Forms Of The Banana Plant Come Originally From The Indo-Malaysia Area?

How Many Ways To Serve Banana?

How To Ripe Banana?

1) Natural

2) Store at room temperature.

3) To ripe faster, place under the sun.

Caution: 4) Commercially to make this process go faster bananas are treated with ethylene-gas.

5) Never store bananas in the refrigerator, the fruit will decay from the inside. Banana will not ripe but will turn black in the refrigerator.



The "Food As Medicine" For Banana:

1) Edible banana is yellow when ripe.

2) But recent findings by Japanese scientists discovered that, when deep-ripe banana turned dark yellow with some dark patches on the skin, the bio-active phytochemical is very high and it has beneficial effect of "anti-tumor" activity.

3) Nutrition contains of banana includes :

- a good source of fiber for a healthier bowel movement; but, taking green/un-ripe and deep fried banana/chips will, on the other hand, caused serious constipation.

- a good source of potassium for a healthier blood pressure;

- a good source of vitamins C for a healthier immune system;

- an essential source of 8 types of essential amino acid contains that cannot be produced by our body but to obtain from food source;

- a good source of energy before and after exercise.

The Right Way To Consume Banana

1) If your are on low starch/sugar diet, no more than one banana per day.

2) If you are on slimming regime, no more than one banana per day.

3) If you are not into low starch/sugar/slimming regime, taking deep-ripe banana to gain "anti-tumor" phytochemical.

4) Taking banana before and/or after exercise will help you to quickly "repair and rejuvenate" muscles and tissues and most of all, cut-out all those low quality protein supplements with artificial additives and chemicals.

Go For Banana..........