The Importance of Good Quality of Water in Our Body

Many ailments begin with the quality of water we put into our body. Many a times we have drink water only when we are thirsty. When that happens that is too late because your body needs the water before you feel the thirst. When we feel the thirst, the cells that is in our body has already been dehydrated and membrane may have cracked. Bacteria may have entered these crack and caused inflammation.

In order to prevent you from this situation, one must drink sufficient water. Many have a misconception of drinking water; almost everyone knows the fact to drink 8 cups/glass of water. Well there is a specific method of drinking water. Water drank must be good quality water, tea, coffee, soda juices are not considered as water. When one drink coffee, tea, soda, juice etc one must drink as at least 1.5 litre of water.

Why water is so important? Water is important is because 90% of our body is made up of water and below is the breakdown.

Tissue Percent Water
Blood 83%
Heart 79%
Muscle 76%
Brain 75%
Skin 72%
Bone 22%

18 Days water management for a better health.
1 to 2 glass of water every morning (glup it donw)
2 Liters of water to be consumed within a day by drink an approximate of 1 cup of water every hours. (this cup of water to drank by mouthful every 10minutes to 30 minutes within an hour). Why 18 Days? This is because with the cycle of the 18 days the water in our body will be changed.


Importance of Water in our body.
Water as a Transporter
pH regulation
Electrolyte Balance
Temperature Regulation

Your Face Tells a Thousand Signs of Your Health.

Nowadays, when I look at someone, I will pay special attention to one's skin tone, blemishes, pimples and look out for liver spots.

These are tell tales signs of how strong or weak our internal organs are. Unlike our stomach it will protest if we over eat, our stomach to protest and make us feel sick and one can experience indegistion. Some of our organ do not prostest out by making us feel unwell, but continue to work harder and harder to detox just like our liver. How can we know if we overworking our liver.

Here are our tell tales signs on our face. One would have pimples, blemishes, age spots or liver spots usually more often on our left cheek. How to overcome this skin problems? You need to change your diet. One should give up heavy food such as meat, deep fried food, Prata or chanai, ( I know they are so irresistable especially the Roti Tissue at Kayu.) Forgo your wine..

Instead have some leafy greens, you can enjoy the salads of danelion, chicory, avocado, radicchio, squeeze some lemon juice and olive oil, salt and pepper. Sprinkle a little pine nuts over it. Voila .

Have a wonderful day.

Vegetarian Eating for Sports

Athletes need more protein but most athletes get plenty of protein through regular eating. There is a misconception that athletes need a huge daily intake of protein to build large, strong muscles. Muscle growth comes from regular training and hard work. And taking in too much protein can actually harm the body, causing dehydration, calcium loss, and even kidney problems. Good sources of protein are legume, eggs, dairy, nuts, soy, and peanut butter.

Carbohydrates
Good sources of carbohydrates include fruits, vegetables, and grains. Whole grains are better choice (such as brown rice, oatmeal, whole-wheat bread) as these grains has a slower release of sugar as compared to their more processed counterparts like white rice and white bread. That's because whole grains provide both the energy athletes need to perform and the fiber and other nutrients they need to be healthy.
Calcium
Calcium helps build the strong bones that athletes depend on, and iron carries oxygen to muscles. To get the iron you need, eat green, leafy vegetables; and iron-fortified cereals. Calcium — a must for protecting against stress fractures — is found in dairy foods, such as low-fat milk, yogurt, and cheese.

Hydration
Water is important to unlocking your game power as food. When you perspire during games, it's easy to become overheated, headach, and worn out — especially in hot or humid weather like Malaysia and Singapore. Even mild dehydration can affect an athlete's physical and mental performance. Athletes should drink before and after exercise as well as every 15 to 20 minutes during exercise. Don't wait until you feel thirsty, because thirst is an indication that your body needed the water sometime ago.

Eating for a Game
Irregardless of whatever sports/games you are in you do not want to your game to be interrupted by having to go to the relief yourself. So you do not want to fill your stomach with high fiber foods the night before.

Mushrooms and their Nutrition Value

Mushrooms have always been considered as vegetables and very beneficial to our body. In actual fact, mushrooms are fungi. Some of poisonous and some have nutrition value. Nowadays mushroom are cultivate in farms are available ready and a low cost.

Mushrooms have high content of riboflavin, potassium, niacin, selenium and low in fat and calories. Selenium is an anti-oxidant and in ideal food for weight watchers as they are also low in calories and 80% of it is water. Portabella mushroom has even more potassium than a banana . Shitake mushrooms are white use by the Asians. Now there are more variety of mushrooms are available in the supermarkets. You can pick up a tub of mixture of mushrooms (Portabello, button mushrooms, shitake mushroom and oyster’s mushroom.) You can add mushrooms to salads, soup, sandwich, grill on its own (portabello steaks are my favourite. They can be used as an appetizer or main course.

Here are some simple mushrooms recipes.

Cream of Mushroom (put in blender to chopped it)
White button mushroom
Milk or puree cashew nuts for thickening
Pepper and salt to taste.

Bake Rice with Mushrooms
Put in cook rice into tin
Place sliced shitake mushroom on top of rice
Top it with cheese
Bake till golden brown.
Salt and pepper to taste.

Grill Portabello Steaks
4 Portabella Mushrooms
2T olive oil2 cloves garlic, minced (optional)
1T fresh oregano, minced
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:1. Preheat broiler.
2. Clean mushroom with a damp towel, removing stems. In a small bowl, combine oil, garlic (optional) and oregano. Brush caps with oil mixture, season with salt and pepper.3. Place stem side down in broiler rack 4-6 inches from heat. Grill for about 4 minutes until well marked from grill. Turn and cook . 2-3 minutes longer, or until tender but still hold their shape. Serve with potatoe wedges and brocolli and carrots. Good for 4 person.

Different Types of Vegetarian

What is Vegetarian? Vegetarian is someone who does not include meat in their diet.

There are different types of Vegetarian. I didnt understand that very well when I initially expose to all the meals on board the aircraft. Especially when the passenger requested for vegetarian meal and theire meals were not loaded on board the aircraft due to some miscommunications along the way.

Vegans - Someone who does not include meat and animal product such as milk, cheese, eggs and honey but funny they consume pseudo meat.

Lacto Vegetarians- This group of vegetarin include dairy products in their diet but not eggs.

Ovo Vegetarians - Eat eggs but not dairy product.

(Lacto Ovo Vegetarian) - These group of vegetarian includes eggs and dairy products in their diets.

Pescatarian - This group consider themselves as vegetarian. They abstain from animal flesh with the exception of fish. (When I was a christian this was the diet I kept especially on Friday and during the time of Lent 40 days before good friday.) Some are on this diet because of health reasons.

Raw Foodists - This category of vegetarian eat mainly raw food or food heat up to 46 degree celsius, foods cooked above this temperature have lost a significant amount of their nutritional value and are harmful to the body. Cooking processes destroy the enzymes. (Some food turn toxic in the process of cooking especially meat and the properties of the food changes especially high heat. )

Semi-vegetarian - These group of vegetarian will go on vegetarian maybe half a day till noon or 6pm and on certain days of the month.

So What kind of Vegetarian are you and why do you want to be vegetarian.

5 Elements Chart

Food For Norishing Your Lungs

If you understand the 5 elements which is wood, fire, earth, metal and water. You would know what to eat to nourish the energ of your lungs.

Wood is consider Tree and therefore Green in colour
Fire is fire and is Red
Earth is Yellow
Metal is white and water is black.

Each elements corresponds to one main orgain in the body
Wood - liver, Fire - Heart, Earth - Spleen, Metal - Lungs and Water - Kidney

3 steps now you know that Metal is white and it governs the energy of the lungs. If you want to nourish the energy of the lungs go for food that is white in colour.

eg. White fungus with almonds with chinese pear.( double broil it with rock sugar and red dates) a dessert that can be taken either hot or cold. This dessert can be found easily but if you are in KL go to Jaya 1 and Kechara Oasis a new restuarant. http://www.kechara.com/oasis/outlet.php

You Dont Need Meat to Nourish Your Body

Just like humans, all vegetables comes in different colours, shapes and size. Some are deem cold, cool to warm and heat. Although most vegetables are ying there are some yang vegetables as well.

What does colours means? What is the going to do in my body?

Spinach, Carrots, chillis pepper pods, mustards, cabbage, cauliflower sweet potatoes,mushroms, fungus, lingzhi. These vegetables are beneficial for our 5 main organs, namely Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs and kidney.

Some chinese people tend to have a misconception that by eating the same type of organs from and animal it will help to nourish the same organs that one has. (In cantonese the saying goes Yi yeng po yeng). In actual fact that is more harmful to consumer. If you eat a pig's liver to enhance the energy (Qi/chi) of the liver that is wrong. When a pig is led to a slaughter house, the poor animal is aware of its environment and situation that the animals is secreting alot of fight or fright hormone and the liver has to detox it and you eat that pork liver you are consuming toxins so how can you be norish by it. Think about it... come back for more