Can you read the label?

Which one will you choose?

A banana or a banana muffins?

Can you read the ingredients list or labeling?

Is it some chemical name, such as vitamins, niacin, b1, b2, etc? Is it whole food or it's synthetically made ingredients？

What happen if you are eating the chemical on daily basis?

How does it impact your liver, kidney and other parts of organs?

Choose whole food, than chemically added food. 

Cheers
Siew Choon
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What you need to know about Soy

Q: Will phytoestrogens in soy trigger cancer cell growth?

Phytoestrogens from plant foods are highly beneficial to the human body. They fill estrogen receptor sites on cells, keeping animal-derived estrogens from promoting growth of malignant cells. In this way, phytoestrogens help lower the risk of estrogen-dependent cancers, such as breast cancer.

In addition, a study by experts from National University of Singapore, Cancer Research UK, and the US National Cancer Institute concluded that females who consumed high amounts of soy had less dense breast tissue, according to X-ray reports. Hence, compared to females who did not consume large amounts of soy, they were at lower risk of suffering from breast cancer.

Q: What is phytic acid? Will the phytic acid in soy affect health?

Phytic acid is present in the hulls of grains and seeds. It binds easily to elements like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and, in particular, zinc in the intestinal tract. Hence some people think that long-term consumption of soy products will cause a deficiency of trace elements in the human body.

Soy contains moderate amounts of phytic acid. However, soy is rich in calcium and iron that are easily absorbed by the human body. It is also rich in fructooligosaccharides (FOS), which can increase the good bacteria in the intestine and also promote absorption of calcium and magnesium, thereby making up for the metallic elements bound to phytic acid. In addition, the medical community has discovered that phytic acid may prevent colon cancer. Hence phytic acid in soy will not have a major effect on mineral absorption when there is moderate or suitable consumption of soy products coupled with a balanced diet. In fact, phytic acid may be beneficial to health with its anti-cancer effects. If you are still concerned, you can soak soybeans before removing their skin to reduce their phytic acid content.

Q: Will soy cause gout?

Soy contains purines, which are organic compounds that occur naturally in the human body. Uric acid is produced when the body breaks down purines. Excessive amounts of purines in the body will lead to high levels of uric acid in the blood, which can cause gout.

The amount of purine in soy is lower than purine-rich foods (e.g. organ meats) but higher than foods low in purine (e.g. fruits and vegetables). Most purines are removed along with water during the manufacturing process of many soy products. 500g of soybeans can produce 2,500ml of soy milk. Hence the amount of purines in 500ml of soy milk is insignificant. A Japanese study by Yamakita and co-workers of Hyogo College of Medicine concluded that tofu is a safe source of protein for gout patients due to its small and transient effect on plasma urate levels. A 12-year study by Hyon K. Choi and co-workers involving more than 45,000 men found that higher levels of meat and seafood consumption are associated with an increased risk of gout, whereas moderate intake of purine-rich vegetables is not associated with an increased risk of gout.

In addition, estrogens help inhibit formation of uric acid. Soy isoflavones can restore balance to men experiencing irregularities in uric acid elimination due to interference from male hormones, and replenish estrogens in menopausal women, thereby reducing gout incidence. Compared to fish, meat, seafood and freshwater delicacies, soy and soy products are relatively safer and more ideal sources of protein.

Q: Are plant proteins more beneficial to health than animal proteins?

Let's look at the comparison chart. 

For better protein intake, I will definitely opt for safer option, which is soy protein, as compared to whey protein, cow's milk or others. 

Nutrifresh is the best convenience for me given that it's formulated with principle of Nutritional Immunology, and it's safer, free from all preservatives and chemicals. 

Nutrifresh Ingredient Label

As you can see most ingredient you can read easily, such as Asparagus, Barley, Broccoli, Citrus Peel etc. 

 

Ingredient Label of other protein powder in market

Which normally contain of other synthetic ingredient, such Glycine, L-Glutamine, etc

 

Siew Choon

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Safety Concern of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-medicines-may-contain-high-levels-toxins-230754907.html

British health regulators have issued a warning that some traditional Chinese medications contain "dangerously high" levels of lead, mercury, and arsenic.

On Tuesday, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned people not to use a number of unlicensed Chinese medicines, including a product called Bak Foong Pills, which are used to treat menstrual pain.

The medicine has been recalled in Hong Kong after it was found to contain up to twice the level of lead permitted by the Hong Kong Government.

Another Chinese medication called Hairegenerator, used for the treatment of hair loss, has also been recalled in Hong Kong after a sample was found to contain 11 times the permitted level of mercury.

The Swedish National Food Agency (SFNA), meanwhile, has found extremely high levels of arsenic in products going by a variety of names, including Niu-Huang Chieh-tu-pein, Divya Kaishore Guggul, and Chandraprabha Vati.

These are used for the treatment of mumps, sore throat, tonsillitis, toothache, skin infections, anorexia, and fever in young children.

"The adulteration of traditional Chinese medicines with heavy metals is a significant international problem and can pose a serious risk to public health," said Richard Woodfield, MHRA's Head of Herbal Policy.

 UK consumers can follow Woodfield's advice: "To help you choose an herbal medicine that is suitable for you, look for a product that has a Traditional Herbal Registration (THR) or product license number on the packaging.

These products have met the acceptable quality and safety standards. – AFP/Relaxnews, August 22, 2013.

As mentioned by Dr Chen during Live of Dr Chen chapters, there are 3 category of plant foods:

1. Poisonous Category (example, Ma Huang)

2. Herbal Categry (Korean Ginseng, TCM)

3. Fruits and Vegetable Category - Given that it's food, it can be consumed on daily basis. 

Commonly, we thought that TCM is better than western medicine, given that it's herbal. However, let's look at one example, Aspirin. Which is used to treat fever, inflammation, joint pain or even heart disease. 

Aspirin could be made from medicational herb call White Willow Bark. In TCM, white whillow bark is also used to help with pain relief, arthritis, reduce inflammation. 

However, why white willow bark from TCM "seems" better? Often, it's due to the concentration whereby in preparing the TCM, it's not as concentrated as western medicine. Thus, the effect is slower and side effect is lesser than western medicine. When we are consuming it, it will burden our kidney as well. 

Cheers

Siew Choon

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Combating haze again

Haze is coming to Singapore again, the PSI hits above 300, the hazardous level. It's the first time hitting this level since July 2013.

Look at the before and after!!

                

When inhaling these air pollutants, it easily cause irritation of nose, throat, our respiratory system. Thus, we may easily have fever, coughing and sneezing.

For those who has existing medical condition, the condition may be worsen as there might be asthma attack, allergies or even cardiovascular problem. All these pollutants may entering our blood stream and causing inflammation within our body.

I am sure we are more well prepared already, compare to 2013. To add on further, here are some of the good tips.

1. Close all the windows, turn on the aircond or air-purifier if you have.

2. Stay indoor if possible

3. Try not turn to medication if you have sneezing, coughing or irritation, as those are just working as suppressant. In contrary, you should be nourishing your immune system, so that you are able to cleanse out the dirt, mucus, phlegm effectively.

In order to nourish your immune system, take more than 15 serving of fruits and vegetables as we are living in a complex and stressful environment. As a convenient, here is what I do, as a convenient.

I will take 

1. Oxyginberry

http://immunesuperfood.blogspot.sg/2014/05/oxyginberry-is-immune-strengthen-food.html

2. Triflora

Triflora contains the five leaf ginseng, which also known as sweet tea vine, which are very effective in detox the heavy metals, preservatives, air pollants and toxin chemicals from our body.

3. Orchestra

Which contains the Ashitaba and Kumazasa. Kumazasa has the powerhouse in cleansing and detoxification, especially for our blood and liver. Thus able to cleanse out the air pollutant easily.

Ashitaba, which containing chalcones, flavonoids, coumarins, chlorophyll, thus able to fight against the free radical damage caused by the air pollutants.

Hope all is well and the haze is going away soon!


Cheers
Siew Choon

Everything you need to know about Collagen

What is our first impression when we heard about Collagen? 96

It's good for skin!
It's preventing wrinkles
It's gives elasticity to skin!!!
etc etc etc

Does collagen only works for skin?? NO, the scope is much larger. Total there are 28 types of collagen. Here are the 5 main types

Collagen is indeed very important, However, according to research, our body stops producing collagen at the age of 25, some even earlier.

What happens when our body doesn't have enough of collagen?

Definitely, without collagen it affects our skin greatly. Besides, it affects other parts of body as well

Other issues will start to surface:

- Such as joint issue, osteoarthritis, whereby collagen type II is needed to glue the joints
- Calcium and osteoporosis, whereby we need collagen to lock the calcium
 - internal organ sagging, as there's no collagen to support internal organ
- Hair loss due to unhealthy scalp
- spreading of cancer cells, given that collagen is needed to prevent the metastasis
- Stroke, given that we need collagen to strengthen the blood vessels, and make it to be more elastic
- Transparency of our eyes

Given that collagen is so important, market are flooded with collagen supplements

Can collagen be replaced in the body? Let find out from this article (You can zoom in to read up more)

In Summary, Can we take animal's blood or organs to replace into our body?

If we can't, then how can we replace animal's collagen such as fish collagen and pig collagen in our body? 

How do we know if a collagen product is belongs to replacement therapy?

Make a guess, what is the collagen source of these collagen products?

Yes, both are replacement from Marine Collagen (Fish, or other types of marine creature)

How to Self Produce Collagen?

By Taking food with high antioxidants, and high phytochemicals, our cells will become younger.
When our cells are younger, we can self produce collagen automatically.

With that, our body knows where our body need to have collagen, and it will produce collagen at the necessary area.

Oxyginberry vs Collagen Products

In recent years, collagen products have been actively linked to the topic of ANTI-AGING. Many beauty companies have introduced a wide range of collagen products for those wishing to stay young, have smooth skin etc. The response and feedback from most collagen users, however, is that collagen only gives short term results. Once stopped, skin rapidly returns to its previous condition within a few weeks. The reason for this is collagen breaks down easily, especially under direct sunlight. This is why constant supplementation is necessary. 

Is it wise to spend money for such short-term results when a long term investment is needed?

Collagen is not well absorbed into the body when taken orally as it has been proven clinically that the body is incapable of absorbing direct intake of Collagen. One way to get around that is to take it by the vein (intravenous). Are you prepared to do that- inject yourself daily?

Synthetic collagen marketers want you to believe that there is no difference between naturally occurring collagen and synthetic because the synthetic are easier to produce and thus carry a much higher profit margin. It is that simple. It is the triumph of profits over health and most consumers including doctors have unknowingly bought into that value system.

Your education of the supplement industry up until now. You have been told that majority of supplements are nature's own ingredients. But the sad truth is that in the case of commercially mass produced collagen, they are synthetic hormone or animal placenta. Most collagen will be destroyed during our digestion process.

Your supplement manufacturers maintain that this type of synthetic collagen is identical and just as effective as the naturally occurring collagen produces in our body . They are not.

Scientists have never successfully created an orange from scratch in a laboratory!

Likewise, neither can scientist create synthetic nutrients that exactly duplicate or replace naturally occurring collagen we need in our body.

Oxyginberry is perfect for anyone who:

·      Wants to take a pro-active step to maintain good health, beauty and longevity

·       Is looking for the ultimate antioxidant protection for the immune system to stay young and healthy

·      Work or study, is the perfect solution to help improve concentration and boost memory

·      Wishes to detoxify the body from the harmful effects from pollutants, smoke, alcohol, caffeine and drugs

·      Desires a deep state of rest during sleep and increased energy and vitality

·      Is serious about protecting their skin and improving its appearance; to diminish signs of aging by reducing fine lines and wrinkles

·      May be exposed to an increased amount of free radicals, i.e. those who live in urban areas, smoke or work around chemicals, exercise frequently, eat a diet of processed foods, or has been or is still frequently exposed to sunlight.

Read up how my friends are benefited from Oxyginberry (OB), which is helping our body to self produce collagen.

How OB helps in Skin and improves bowel movement 

Helping in more firming up of internal organs including breast :)

Skin to be fairer and better complexion

And improvement in joints

Sharing by a teamates, on hair growth for an elderly friend who is 70's! 

PM to find out more


Cheers

Siew Choon
Whatsapp: 90263064

Immunotheraphy vs Nutritional Immunology in fighting Cancer

Saw the newspaper article lately in medical science in Immunotheraphy in fighting cancer, whereby it's leveraging on patient's own immune cells to attack cancer.

However, it's taking the immune cells out from the patient's body and do intensive training in the lab so that it knows how to fight a cancer cells when releasing the immune cells back to the body.

Why not we train up our immune cells on daily basis? Than waiting until things happen then only started leveraging on "external's intensive training"? How much is it going to cost and how effective it is?

This is something that has been advocating in Nutritional Immunology for about 30 years.

Who is the best Doctor?

Our immune system, who is the best doctor in the world, does 3 major function. Protect, Cleanses and Repairs. 

Let's look at how it fight against the normal viruses/bacteria.

So how to train up our immune cells on daily basis? 

Isn't it that we have to nourish with the right nutrition? 

Understand more on What is Nutritional Immunology here, on Dr Jau Fei Chen's session at University of Toronto, School of Medicine

Regards
Siew Choon
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What are the danger of Whey Protein?

Where does Whey Protein come from? 

Whey protein is a mixture of globular proteins isolated from whey, the liquid material created as a by-product of cheese production.

Whey protein typically comes in four major forms            

concentrate (WPC), isolate (WPI), hydrolysate (WPH) and Native Whey.

Whey Protein Drink Side Effects

Whey protein is a dietary supplement, a powder derived from cow's milk that is lauded by athletes and bodybuilders for its ability to build hard, lean and strong muscles. The body needs protein as a source of energy, for building and repairing muscles and bones, and to maintain the body's metabolic functions. Whey protein contains the branched chain amino acids (BCAA) leucine, isoleucine and valine, essential amino acids for athletes and those who exercise. Whey protein is of high quality. It's easily digested and absorbed into the body.

Serious Side Effects

Some serious side effects of whey protein may be related to a high protein intake. These include osteoporosis, kidney damage and liver damage. Another serious side effect is an allergic reaction, particularly in people with lactose intolerance.

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a condition in which bones become porous, weakened and brittle. They may fracture while bending or during a fall. Low levels of minerals in the bone, such as calcium, results in osteoporosis. Excessive whey protein may cause osteoporosis because amino acids break apart and pass into the blood during the digestion of protein, raising the acidity of the blood. According to the North Western Health Sciences University website, because your body must have a balanced pH level, calcium is pulled from the bone to neutralize the acidity. Therefore, the more protein taken in the diet, the higher the acidity of the blood and the more calcium needed.

Kidney and Liver Damage

Excessive whey protein may not cause kidney or liver damage in healthy people. But because the body doesn't store excess protein, according to the Mayo Clinic website, the product of excess protein, nitrogen, is excreted by the liver and the kidneys.This makes people with kidney or liver disease and other chronic health condition at risk for kidney and liver diseases when excess protein is added to the diet and has to be excreted. These people should consult their health care provider before starting a new diet.

Allergic Reaction

People with milk allergy or lactose intolerance may be at risk for developing an allergic reaction when taking whey protein drinks. Whey protein products shouldn't be taken by these people. Symptoms of an allergic reaction may include a rash or hives with itching and swelling of the face, tongue or throat, along with shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. An allergic reaction is a serious medical condition that requires immediate medical care and attention.

Less Serious Side Effects

Less serious side effects of whey protein supplements may include headache, abdominal cramps, bloating and diarrhea.

Instead of taking Whey Protein, i will opt for safer alternative which is Nutrifresh, which contains 15 types of fruits and vegetables, with main ingredients - Soy Bean.

What's the main different between Plant based Protein vs Animal Protein?

You can look at the FAQ on Nutrifresh here.

http://www.eexcelasia.com/EN/Product/SVQA/JCYY/qa9.aspx

You are what you eat, why not choose something safer?

http://immunesuperfood.blogspot.sg/2014/03/milk-leads-to-more-calcium-loss.html

Cheers
Siew Choon
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How many serving of vegetables are you taking in a day?

Do you know you need a rainbow colour of fruits and vegetables everyday?

Where do you get the colours from? 

For convenient, you can look at Vege Colour! Which containing of 28 types of vegetables, organic and non-GMO for your convenience. 

How can you use Vege Colour?

Mixing in salad or Porridge!!

Cheers

If you are looking for convenience, please contact Siew Choon at 90263064!

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