You Are What You Eat

Organic Vegetables and Fruits
I noticed more and more people are purchasing organic vegetables and fruits. Mostly young adults. Why are they choosing organic over the non-organic ones? This is because our so called fresh fruit and vegies have been sprayed with toxic pesticides and chemicals and our water contains contaminants. And what about all the processed foods that we eat that contains preservatives. Do you know that eating this toxic, pesticides and chemicals will make our body go sick day by day? Your immune is low and therefore you fall sick – fever, flu, cough, sore throat and so on.
Really when you think about it who wants to eat pesticides and chemicals? Lets face it we get enough of those just from breathing so why add to it with contaminated foods.
Fast Food and Trans fat
Fast food is bad for our health, it contains trans fat.  Trans fats are concentrated in margarine, solid vegetable shortening, doughnuts, crackers, cookies, chips, cakes, pies, some breads and foods fried in hydrogenated fat (chicken, fish, potatoes).  Here’s the list of fast food restaurant with trans fat content.
I have always thought that “Subway” is free from this transfat, after reading from the list above. I think i will eat less Subway’s “healthy” bread.

Meadow lea margarine also have 1% trans fat, whereas butter contains 3 – 4% trans fat.


Source Meadowlea
Antibiotics inject to our meat
Antibiotic in Cattles – Chicken, Pigs, Cow
Heres’ the news link
Excessive use of antibiotics by meat producers, 8 times more than in human medicine, contributes to alarming increase in antibiotic resistance
Processed Food, Tin food, Junk Food, Fake Food
Processed food is made from real food that has been put through devitalizing chemical processes and is infused with chemicals and preservatives. Chicken nugget, meat balls,  Beef jerky, canned tea, jam, hot dogs, and low-fat yogurt with sugar or aspartame are a few examples of processed food.
Junk foods contain very little real food. They’re made of devitalized processed food, hydrogenated fats, chemicals, and preservatives, and include anything made with refined white flour. Canned breakfast drinks, cold/sugary cereals, doughnuts, drive-through foods, and soda are examples of junk foods.
Fake foods are made primarily of chemicals, and often contain gums and sugar fillers. Examples include bacon bits, bottled salad dressing, dehydrated soups, and instant coffee.

Source
 Note: Someone said to me that MILO actually contains colourings?
Do i need to make my own soya bean for breakfast drink every morning? Gosh!.
Styrofoam container
Okay, i know this is bad for your health when you take away hot food using Styrofoam. Avoid it by putting on a paper container or better if you bring your own stainless steel container.
(Alcoholic drinks dissolves styrofoam cups)

Plastic Mineral Bottle
Plastic bottles are not always safe to reuse over and over as harmful chemicals can leach out into the contents. These plastic bottles which get dinged up through normal wear and tear and while being washed—increases the chance that chemicals will leak out of the tiny cracks and crevices that develop over time.
HOW safe is TUPPERWARE?
Since everything is not safe to consume? Even soya sauce, taucu, black sauce not safe? Fish contaminated with mercury contamination in sea from industrial waste? Are we choosing organic over non-organic ones? Eating outside food that contains MSG (Monosodium Glutamate). It’s up to you to choose because

Organic Shampoo

What shampoo do you use? Do you look at the ingredients of the brand X-shampoo before you make your purchase?
What is SLES and SLS?
Both Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) and its close relative Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) are commonly used in many soaps, shampoos, detergents, toothpastes and other products that we expect to “foam up”. Both chemicals are very effective foaming agents, chemically known as surfactants.
Unfortunately, both sodium laureth sulfate and its cousin are also very dangerous, highly irritating chemicals. Far from giving “healthy shining hair” and “beautiful skin”, soaps and shampoos containing sodium laureth sulfate can lead to direct damage to the hair follicle, skin damage, permanent eye damage in children and even liver toxicity.

Will prolong usage of this ingredients lead to hair thinning?

I found this organic shampoo at Midvalley Justlife store
Justlife outlets :
• IKANO Power Centre
• Kuala Lumpur
• Subang Jaya
• Petaling Jaya
• Seremban 2
• Puchong
• Melaka
• Penang
• The Gardens, Mid Valley
There is one store near my housing area, they doesn’t have lots of choices in shampoo. What they have is Silken by Neway which is cheaper in price also http://www.itsyourlife.uk.com/shampoo2.html
Those selling in Justlife is way too expensive.

I am trying to find more choices to select with cheaper prices.
And another is Sukin and you can find this in Malaysia too!

Anymore organic brands sell in malaysia?

The annoying 'common' cold

That’s right, I was down with a sore, painful throat and a bad cold for the past few days. I feel that the common cold is the most annoying of all the illness, thats bcos, one is not actually sick but still cannot go about the regular discourse without a feeling of unease. Since it is said that ‘A cold cures in 7 days without pills and in 1 week with pills’, I thought this time I’d take the 7 days trial :)
I am going to write a separate post on the ‘sukku kashayam’ (the dry ginger potion) that actually worked wonders on my cold. But here goes small tips that work in a big way! If you have a bad cough, try these home remedies:

1. To 1 glass of hot milk, add 1/4 tsp turmeric powder and crushed black pepper (3 to 4) and natural brown sugar (panam karkandu) and mix well. Drink it when it is tolerably hot. This not just soothes the throat but also controls the cough.

2. To a teaspoon of honey, add 3 to 4 crushed pepper and powdered cinnamon (about 1/2 inch long). Drain this down the throat slowly so that the taste lingers in the throat for sometime.

3. It can be really irritating if coughing does not cease when we try to sleep. Try having one black pepper (slightly crushed) and 1 rock salt (size of the black pepper) in your mouth. Don’t swallow it, just keep it in the mouth and let the flavor get to the throat slowly.

4. Gargle with hot salt water at least 3 times a day and keep drinking hot liquids all through the day whenever the coughing sensation sets in.

P.S: Even though the cold kept me from posting new posts, it didn’t stop me from watching a lot of movies. So look out for many reviews in the next few days!

Do you have any other tips that had come useful when you had cold? Do share them in comments.. I am sure they’d help me next time around

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