How to solve the constipation before it develops into piles or colon cancer

Cancer, be it the number 1 killer at Singapore is affecting people at younger age now. 

Among all the cancer, Colorectal cancer is the Top 1 who is affecting the population. 

Source: https://www.singhealth.com.sg/TomorrowsMed/Article/Pages/Sharpriseinnumberdiagnosedwithcancer.aspx

1 in 5 Colon Cancer Cases are Young Adults

Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/fit-to-post-health/1-5-colon-cancer-cases-young-adults-024111127.html

Constipation is normally one of the biggest factor that causes Colorectal cancer. 

How do we know we have constipation?

1. If we aren't able to go to toilet daily

2. If we feel difficult to go toilet daily

3. If our stool is smelly even if we go toilet daily

4. If we still feel bloated even if we go toilet daily

All in all, it has to do with the amount of fibers that we take take daily. Due to the modern lifestyle, we are seriously lack of fiber in our diet. 

According to Health Promotion Board, average Singaporean consumes 13 grams of dietary fiber per day. Recommended amount is 30 grams a day

Source: https://www.singhealth.com.sg/PatientCare/ConditionsAndTreatments/Pages/High-Fibre-Diet.aspx

How do we know how much fiber are we taking daily? 

Let's look at fiber type

Let's look at the fiber amount for various food

Say if we eat 1 medium Apple, including skin. It's only 2 gram of fibers. 

The daily requirement is 30 grams

If we are going to keep the doctor away, we need 15 Apples daily

You can check the fiber amount easily by google:

Fiber in xxx (food you want to check)

To better illustrates 100g, look at this picture. This is 100g of Oat

Let's look at a healthy Singaporean daily meal, and to know how much fibers are there?

You can use above method to check on fibers

For example:

Breakfast

- 1 medium cup of oat (10g) - 1.1g

- 1 Banana - 2g

- 2 Slices of bread - 1.5g

= 4.6g fiber

Lunch

- Rice with 2 servings of vegetables (Spinach and Cabbage) + 1 serving of meat 

- 1 slice of Papaya

= 4g fiber

100g of spinach gives 2.2g of fiber. 

To give you illustration of 100g of spinach, which is whole packet. Normally we buy 1 packet and shared among family, which is definitely less than 100g of fibers, at most 30g of fibers

Dinner

- Noodle soup with some vegetables and mushroom

- 1 apple and 1 orange 

= 5 g of fiber

Total fiber: 13.6 g of fiber

Recommended intake = 25 - 30g. Even a healthy person only fulfilled 50% of the fiber needed

Insufficient fiber intake easily cause constipation, looking at the diet habit above, it's understandable why constipation has become so common nowadays. 

If we step into the food court or any food center, you may realize that the food choices we have is lack of fiber. 

Food such as Chicken rice, Ban Mian, Duck Rice, Fried Noodle/Carrot Cake, Japanese Food, Beef Noodle, etc

Many have suffered from Haemorrhoid after experiencing chronic constipation for a period of time

The above problem easily lead to Colon Cancer if it's not being rectify. 

There are many fiber products available in the market to help to solve the constipation problem. Most of the products are "effective", but is it safe? 

For example, some gives laxative effects to clear the bowel by stimulating the bowel movement. Laxative effects give rise to many health problems in the long run. 

Read up here

Thus, it's important for us to read label to understand what we are putting into our body

My friend shows me this label of a product she took

It looks herbal, natural and seems healthy. However, she experiences laxative effect after taking it

So I went to check the ingredients, One of the ingredient Follium Cassia Angustifolia is a laxative which can cause serious health issue, such as heart disease

Beside laxative, some even consume probiotic to help in bowel movement. Yet, do you know what are the risk associated in Probiotic? Read up here

Be a wise consumer, learn to read product label to identify what ingredients is that in the products, so that beside effective, it's safe for our consumption as well. 

Which will you choose based on below ingredient label?

Left or Right? Why?

How to increase our fiber intake through fruits and vegetable in a very convenient way?

I choose to take following for my regular bowel

1. Every Stay D - Which is high in fibers and protein for convenience

2. Vege Color - Which contains 28 types of fruits and vegetables in 5 different colors

PM to find out more

Cheers

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Consultant

90263064

How I stay young and stay healthy with Oxyginberry

Aging is major culprit for most illnesses, irregardless of our age, aging happens. 

Aging happens both internally, and externally.

Let's look at what will happen when we age?

Of course there are other issues, such as hair dropping, chronic fatigue, skin sagging etc.

A recent article that emphasizes on why there's a tremendous increase in the number of people getting cancer, which is due to Aging Population


Our body age due to exposure of FREE RADICALS 

Where does free radicals come from?

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All these free radicals causes aging, and depleting of collagen in our body

Read up more on Why Collagen depletes after 25 years old?

I encounter serious insomnia, and gastric while I was working in investment bank 7 years back, due to high stress and irregular meal hour. I tends to delay my meal timing due to meeting or when rushing projects. 

I wasn't aware that my body was deteriorating back then. Without much knowledge on health, I was loaded myself with sleeping pills, anti-acid and pain killers with the hope to get better.

While I loaded myself with all these medication, I suffer from side effects, especially chronic fatigue, hair dropping, and frequent flu and cough. 

As a consumer, informed choice and right knowledge is important to safe guard our health. I wasn't aware back then. 

I did spring cleaning early last year, just spotted all these are in my cabinets still, which I had thrown away some. 

This is me and my best friend before I get to know about Nutritional Immunology. I was 28, always tired. 

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Thanks for giving myself opportunity to learn more about Nutritional Immunology, I am able to get myself out from the bad cycle in relying on various medication, and look good too.

I know that day to day I can't have much healthy food. Most of the food available are focusing a lot on basic carbohydrate and protein, such as Ban Mian, Chicken Rice, economic rice, fish soup, carrot cake, etc, healthy food options are not easily available. 

There was a period of time, I keep having salad as my lunch as it's generally healthier. One salad meal near my office at Raffles Place easily costs about $10-$16, with typical vegetable such as Lettuce/Spinach as base, with my other favorite topping such as capsicum, mushroom, chickpeas, sweet potato, edamame, pumpkin, kidney bean, etc. 

I started consuming Oxyginberry when I get to know about Nutritional Immunology 

Oxyginberry contains 6 precious ingredients, Ginseng Berry, Cactus, Cactus Fruits, Grape Seed, Rose, and Seaweed. 

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Ginseng Berry
Most of us heard about Ginseng Root, yet hardly heard about Ginseng berry. Research shows that Ginseng berry has better Ginsenoside than ginseng root. Overall, 

- It increase physical stamina
- Increase blood supply to the brain, , especially for children and adult with busy schedule
- High in antioxidants (1.4 times mo






Learn more about Oxyginberry


With the 6 precious ingredients, especially Ginseng Berries, Cactus and Cactus fruits, it's much higher nutrition compare to salad meal that I normally take. All ingredients are Superfood. 

I pay much lesser with more nutrition value. 

Let's look at the benefits of these 6 precious ingredients

Ginseng Berry
Most of us heard about Ginseng Root, yet hardly heard about Ginseng berry. Research shows that Ginseng berry has better Ginsenoside than ginseng root. Overall, 

- It increase physical stamina
- Increase blood supply to the brain, enhance concentration, better concentration for studies and work
- Increase metabolism, better appetide
- Calm nervous and fight against fatigue, especially for children and adult with busy schedule

- High in antioxidants (1.4 times more than vitamin C), thus reduce the overall aging process


Cactus and Cactus Fruits

According to research, Cactus and Cactus Fruits are King of all the plants. For cactus to be beneficial and accumulated up to 10,000 types of phytochemicals.  


As compare to the normal fruits and vegetables we eat, such as such as Orange has 100 types of phytochemicals, Aloe Vera has 300 types of phytochemicals. Cactus has 10,000 types! Thus, the ability to detox is very well

What are the benefits of Cactus and Cactus Fruits?
- Large quantity Phytochemicals and Antioxidants, promote immune efficiency
- Significant in wound healing for fall and stratches, and prevent stretch mark
- During Cancer research, cactus extract enhanced cellular immune mechanism, causing immune system to function more efficienty
- Decrease choleterol levels
- Balance blood sugar in body
- Calcium and phosphorus in cactus provides minerals which build strong bones, joints and connective tissues. Especially when kids are growing up. For elderly, it help them strengthen bones and joints

Check out Cactus in NTUC, one pieces is selling at 3-4 dollars, depending on how big is the size!


Grape Seed
-Contain OPC, powerful antioxidants which helps to fight against free radicals and strengthen immunity
- Delay the whole aging process
- OPC is great for vision and eyes. Especially when kids or adult who keep facing computer or handphone daily, it helps to protect our eyes to stay transparent
- It helps to prevent DNA damage
- Strengthen blood vessels, prevent stroke


Rose
- High concentration of basis nutrition (vitamin A, B1-B3, E and K) and antioxidants powerhouse. Which then helps in immune efficienty
- Best for the skin texture and stimulate the production of collagen
- Extremely high vitamin C, 50 times more than lemons. 
- Protect from hardmful UV Rays, helps combat colds and prevent disease
- Enhance digestive system, for better digestion and stomach 
- Relieve feminine problems, and help increase circulation
- Anti-bacterial and anti inflammatory for better detoxification


Seaweed
- Nutrients in seaweed is most potent for anti-aging
- Seawed has skin repair ability
- Prevent blood clotting
- Easily eliminate toxin from our body, internally and externally. Especially we constantly expose to processed food, such as hot dog, sausages, which contain lots of chemicals, such as nitrosamine. 

With the combination of Antioxidants, Phytochemicals and Polysaccharides, it helps our body to be healthy, to achieve balance Immune System. 


We need a balance Immune System
In the past, we been thinking, our immune system has to be strong. 

Is that true?

NO!

When our Immune System is Weak, we tends to fall sick more regularly, such as flu, fever and frequent coughing. Or worst, Cancer, AIDS. 

How about a strong Immune System?

When our Immune System is too strong, we will develop hypersensitivity of immune system, such as allergy in respiratory tract, food or skin allergies. 

And how about if Immune System is confused?

A confused Immune System easily lead to Auto-immune Disease, such as Eczema, Lupus, Vitiligo, Psoriasis, or inflammatory diseases. 

Understand Nutritional Immunology here.


Many of my friend ask me, why I choose Oxyginberry, than vitamins or others products out there? 

With Nutritional Immunology, I learnt to be a wiser consumer in reading label.  

Given both, which will you choose?

I choose the wholesome one on the right, what about you? 

Read up why I choose wholesome here

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Besides, it also help our body to self produce collagen to prevent internal organ sagging.

We heard so much about collagen products out there in the market, with various advertisement and fantastic testimonials in commercial ads. 

However, can we simply replace the collagen from animal into our body? What are the sources of these collagen products? Are they safe?  

Read up more on Everything you need to know about Collagen.

Of course, when I want to consume a food product, I definitely need to ensure that it's safe. 

Read up more on
Safety of Oxyginberry, can we take E.Excel food for long run? 

After consuming Oxyginberry for 4 years plus, I am glad that I didn't age much yet look more youthful and healthier both internally and externally. 

This is priceless. Prevention worth millions. 

Beside aging gracefully, Oxyginberry helps to prevent diseases by protecting our body from free radical attacks. 

Instead of taking 4-5 days to recovery from fever, the kid who has HSP has speedy recovery. 

Flu like symptoms disappear next day!

Improvement on Bronchitis

Improvement from sensitivity nose

 Improvement in immune system from Flu and Fever

Better in Appetite!

Sharing from a friend who has discoid lupus and thyroid when she was young. Can you see how important it is to nourish our immune system day to day?



 Improvement in eczema



Become a wiser consumer after understanding more about Nutritional Immunology

PM to find out more on how you can stay young and stay healthy too. 


Cheers
Siew Choon
 90263064

Why I choose to use cold medicine wisely

Had a spring cleaning earlier of the year, and look at what I found

My collections of medicines in the past, which I stored in container earlier

I find it scary that I load myself with so much medicines.I used to fall sick easily, frequent flu and cough. So you can see there are various type of Panadol (Green one, blue one, purple, etc and many others)I take Pain Killer when I have headache, migraineI take Pain Killer when I have menstrual crampsI take Pain Killer when I have stomacheI take same one when I have fever, flu or muscle-acheEverything is Pain KillerDoes it solves the root of the problem?Let's understand these cold medicines in details and their respective side effects

From other newspaper and researches, there are many information keep coming up to prompt public to be aware as well

Read up more: 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064964/Warning-hidden-danger-taking-Paracetamol.html

Antibiotic post era due to resistancy

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015

Always be a wise consumer to know what you take. 

Knowledge is power

The best is still our best doctor, which is our immune system, so it knows how to fight against viruses and bacterial naturally.

How can we build a better immunity?

Building up Immune System is not overnight, it takes daily nourishment, so it improves well and long lasting.


Enjoy reading

Cheers
Siew Choon
90263064
 

Is EExcel/Elead Healthy Fast Food Safe to be consumed in long run

Dear friends, 96

Lately, there are friends asking me if it's safe to be consumed EExcel food in long run, but how do we know if a food is safe to be consumed for long?

These are criteria which help me to evaluate

1. Firstly, I will simply look at the label, if there is anything that I don't understand, aka synthetic ingredients.

For synthetic ingredients, such as Ascorbic Acid, Beta Carotene, these are being made synthetically in lab, you can read up further on following article on where does the source come from

http://www.precisionnutrition.com/all-about-vitamin-supplements

In the past, no doubt vitamin have safe a lot of people, such as how vitamin save life from scurvy disease. 

Let's look what are the common side effects of vitamins

Read further here

http://immunesuperfood.blogspot.sg/2014/03/are-you-still-taking-vitamin.html

Why I choose EE food is simple, because it's wholesome food, which is in freeze dried form

2. Food safety tests from manufacturer. 

 Let's look at the food contamination issues that we have been seen so regularly in newspaper, since 1880 until to date (I didn't load the entire list, as there are too many incidents)

The recent incident are GOS compound in infant milk powder, which causes those babies who has the allergies, eczema, asthma to be worsen 

Read up:

GOS in baby milk powder

Another one affecting most staple food, which is the Glyphosate in Quaker Oat

As a food manufacturer, quality control is very important, any careless handling in raw material can easily cause health hazards 

For EExcel, since 1987, they have placed safety as first priority

Raw ingredients and final packaging are being tested before it's being rolled out for consumer

Let's look at what are the safety measure taken

Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) which is a basic and stringent guideline for all pharmaceutical (drug) companies to comply to in order to begin production. It emphasizes product quality, hygiene and safety during production processes. However, it is not required for food manufacturers.

E.Excel manufacturing plants are proud to announce that they have obtained GMP certification to maintain their high quality and safety for 25 years.

Multiple safety tests are also conducted.

1. Comprehensive Microorganism Tests (Bacteria E.coli, Salmonella spp, Yeast & Mold etc) on raw materials, production processes and finished products to ensure product safety.

2. Heavy Metals Tests (Mercury, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium) to ensure products are free from these harmful component contamination.

3. Pesticides Tests on raw materials to ensure crops are not polluted by pesticides in water used for irrigation or from neighbouring farms.

4. Poison Tests on 1822 different types of poisons including narcotics (eg. cocaine), steroid drugs (eg. cortision), banned drugs (eg. Fenfluramine) and human growth hormones.

5. Microscopic Test on raw materials for foreign objects like dust, hair, wires.

6. Finished Product Testing to detect accurately objects like metals, glass, plastics, stones, hairs in the products.

7. Stability Testing on finished products to ensure a product's quality does not change during the validity period stated on the product's label.

Additional unique specific tests are also conducted for certain products.

1. Gene modification tests conducted on Soy. Besides organic ingredient, E.Excel uses only non-genetically modified soy that is high in protein.

2. Antibiotics Tests done on all honey, royal jelly and pollen to ensure no presence of antiobiotics before use in production.

3. Caffeine Tests on Aromantic and triflora for caffeine content of green tea leaves to ensure green tea leaves selected are of lowest levels of caffeine.

4. Melamine Tests. E.Excel is proud to announce that melamine has never been detected in E.Excel products.

5. E.Excel processes ginseng immediately after harvest and hence does not go through sulfur-smoke process which will cause serious harm to health.

6. Careful selection of packaging material to meet international safety standards.

Safe and Clean Production Environment based on the below aspects to prevent contamination of raw materials, production processes and packaging to ensure product safety.

1. Humidity

2. Dust

3. Temperature

4. Bacteria

5. Water

6. Automated Production

Read up my article on list of pesticides and poisons testing that company does to ensure the safety. 

How safe is Organic Food?

Read up more below

Watch the video on how the manufacturing plant at Shanghai works

3. Safety Aware by Government agency 

For many food products out there in the market, there are many awards for food products from various company, such as Star Product Award, Most Revolutionary award, etc. 

For me personally, I will put emphasize on Food safety related test, as this is something that we will consume

E.Excel food manufacturing Singapore has received FOOD SAFETY EXCELLENCE AWARD (Grade A) from Singapore Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) for consecutive 10 years! Congratulations!

fAVA Food Factory Grading Scheme was introduced to encourage food manufacturers to achieve excellence in food safety. Since E.Excel products are wholesome plant foods, NOT vitamin supplements/ medicine, hence E.Excel factory's safety is regulated under AVA Food Factory Grading Scheme, not Health Sciences Authority (HSA).For more details about which health products under HSA regulation or AVA regulation, can refer to the below link:http://www.hsa.gov.sg/publish/hsaportal/en/health_products_regulation/complementary_medicines/product_tree.htmlUnder the AVA Food Factory Grading Scheme, food factories are categorized into 4 grades: A, B, C, D based on their food hygiene and food safety standards. Grading criteria cover aspects such as structural designs, process flow, cleanliness and hygiene practice, as well as implementation of quality assurance systems, including Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) and food safety training for staffs.Hence, everyone can rest assured to consume E.Excelfood products including pregnant ladies and infants & children.Fore more details about the AVA Food Grading System, you can refer to the below link:http://www.ava.gov.sg/NR/rdonlyres/A912E1E8-9384-46C0-A065-A91514FEF44B/13066/Attach1_GuidetoFoodFactoryGradingSystem1.pdf
4. E.Excel food are not base on replacement therapyHow does replacement therapy works?  Means that when our body lack of certain component, we will replace it from external sources. Most common example will be, 

• When we lack of collagen, we replace it via collagen from animal (Fish collagen), or synthetically made
• Read up more: http://immunesuperfood.blogspot.sg/2015/07/can-collagen-be-replaced-in-body.html
• When we lack of glucosamin, we replace it from glucosamine which is made of shelf of lobster, crabs or shrimps and replace it into our body
• When we lack of certain hormone, most common during menopause. We replace it with Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
• When we lack of good bacteria, we replace it with probiotic products , instead we should be taking more right amount of fibers to let our body to self produce good bacteria
• Read up more: http://immunesuperfood.blogspot.sg/2016/05/is-probiotic-really-safe-for-your-health.html
• and many many more, such as fish oil, enzyme etc

When we keep replacing these into our body, it will cause dependency in the long run. Thus causing more health hazards. 

We can simply look at why there are more and more people taking supplements, yet, diseases rate is getting higher. 

It's utmost important to be a WISE CONSUMER

Cheers

Siew Choon

90263064

Nutritional Immunology Consultant