What does big C words mean for Women and your loved one?

Many tries to avoid the big C (Cancer), as it always mean death sentences. 

Most of the time, cancer are due to Unhealthy Diet, Lifestyle or exposure to too much free radicals

When it's being diagnosed, it means that it was in our body for the past 10-20 years. 

Public getting more awareness to take care of their lifestyle, by avoiding processed food and add in more fruits and vegetables in diet. People are more health conscious, yet nutrition value may not be enough, why? 

1. Most fruits and vegetables nowadays are being plucked when they are not fully ripped, so they can be kept longer during transportation. Nutrition value may not be there yet. 

When is banana being harvested nowadays? Green or yellow? 

2. Fruits and vegetables that we eat, are they high in phytochemicals, and antioxidants - diseases fighting nutrients? 

All fruits and vegetables contain phytochemicals and antioxidants. Yet, are they high enough to fight against diseases? 

Simple comparison, 

Orange has 100+ types of phytochemicals

Aloe Vera has 300+ types of phytochemicals

Cactus has 10,000+ types of phytochemicals

Which will you choose? 

Phytochemicals help to cut away cancer formation pathway in our body for proper detoxification process. 

3. Safety of the fruits and vegetables to minimize the exposure of pesticides and herbicides 

Organic food may not be safe, why? Read up here

Definitely, beside diet, how we have stable emotion, proper sleep and rest is important too to ensure good health. 

For me, I choose to adopt NI lifestyle as part of prevention. 

I choose prevention over treatment. 

With treatment, it cause both financial and emotional burden. Some may have insurance to cover for their financial. Often, most frightening is the emotional stress than financial stress. 

- How are they going to recover?

- Can treatment guaranteed recovery? 

- What side effects they will suffered from? 

- What happen with the loved ones and family member, especially children. How it will impact them emotionally? 

- How the episodes affect their ability of work? Can they continue to provide for family? 

- etc

Only via proper prevention, we are able to safe guard our health without burdening our loved ones. 

For more details on NI Lifestyle, please contact me at +65-90263064

To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Lifestyle Coach

90263064

Coconut Oil is not a Superfood you think it is

Over the past few years, coconut oil has becoming new trend claiming to be able to aid to prevent heart diseases and cancer. 

From what I learnt from Nutritional Immunology from Dr Chen, I know it wasn't conclusive. 

However, a recent article published in Straits Time, "Coconut Oil not a Superfood you think it is"

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/food/coconut-oil-not-the-superfood-you-think-it-is-say-experts

"While coconut oil is a healthier alternative to butter or lard, it is not as good as unsaturated plant oils"

"There is also no conclusive evidence that coconut oil aids weight loss, according to experts. It might even be counterproductive to consume large quantities of coconut oil in hopes of losing weight, as the oil is high in calories"

"Bottom line, Coconut oil is not a miracle food"

For me, I won't choose oil recommended in article such as olive oil, canola oil. Why? 

There are 2 reasons which need to look at to select a healthy cooking oil

1. Smoke point

2. Omega 3: Omega 6 ration

Read here to understand how to select a healthy cooking oil. 

Isn't it important to learn to be wiser consumer, given that there are many misconceptions from TV, newspaper, magazines, or celebrities. 

Thanks to Nutritional Immunology, I learnt to equip myself with the right knowledge, and it's my mission to spread the gift of knowledge to public. 

Always equip yourself to be wise consumer

To learn more about what's Nutritional Immunology, we have upcoming Nutritional Immunology chapter 4 on 26th November by Dr Chen

Come join me for the session to learn more! PM to reserve the ticket to avoid disappointment. 

Cheers

To keep te body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Lifestyle Coach

90263064

Dietary Supplement links to Liver damage

Dear Friends, 

Are you taking vitamins supplements still? 

Another article which link dietary supplements to liver damage again

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/health/herbal-and-dietary-supplements-tied-to-liver-damage/3185894.html?cid=fbcna

This is inline with what I always shared, whereby taking synthetic/chemically made/extract lead to liver damage

What are side effects of taking vitamins and dietary supplements? 

What happen if overdosing of vitamins? 

Always be a wiser consumer, take wholesome food

PM to find out more

To keep te body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Lifestyle Coach

90263064

Losing weight healthily

Obesity leads to many health issues, it's important for us to shred of the excessive fat to keep our body healthy

Obesity a time ticking bomb

If you want to have a healthy body weight, start counting your calories daily

How much calorie do we actually need a day? 

But how do we know how much calories that we have taken in already? 

One of a good app you can download to check for food's calorie is Healthy 365 

The app gives you good food database on all the calorie to give you a rough idea on how much calories that we taking in a day. 

Say for a lady who is age 31-50 at Singapore, with moderate activity, she needs approx 2000 calorie. 

Let's look at some example of the foods she takes

In the Healthy 365 app, you can find the calorie of those food easily

Example:

Losing weight can be simply by choosing a right food. 

Calorie of Chicken breast: 147

Calorie of deep fried chicken breast: 439

Do you see a big differences? 

Once a food is fried by oil, or go through oil the calorie will shoot up. One teaspoon of oil is 120 in calorie. 

Simply make a wise choice in our food, losing weight can be as simple. 

Let's look at calorie of some common foods

Weight management starts with making right choices with the food 

Here are some of the Superfood which is the best for losing weight healthily, without causing any side effects

Most importantly, we need to be a wise consumer to understand the ingredients, whereby some weight loss products lead to kidney failure. Read up more here

1. Soy bean

Protein from Soy simply convert the fats into muscle and speed up fat decomposition

2. American Ginseng

American Ginseng simply help to give energy while we are monitoring calorie intake, so we are less tired

3. Fibers

Fibers helps to give full filing and thus make us feel full longer. Overall, it gives us sufficient fibers to help to prevent constipation too. 

Of course, to lose weight, we must control our calorie intake too. 

If we are going to lose 1 kg a week, we must maintenance our calorie intake at 800 a day. So our body will convert the existing fats into calorie, thus clearing the storage. 

Similar to a house's storage. If our storage is full at the moment, we have to buy lesser stuff to put into the storage, and at the same time we use up the existing items in the storage to clear it all. 

4. Collagen 

Collagen is important too for weight loss. As when we loss weight, the muscle may becomes sagging. With the support of collagen, our skin and muscle will become more firm up

However, not all the collagen products can be taken safely. 

Letting our body to self produce collagen will not burden our body. 

Understand about Collagen, and how Cactus, Cactus fruits, Ginseng Berry, Seaweed, Rose, and Grape Seeds help to self produce collagen. 

As a convenience, I take 1-Shape/1-Shape lite and Oxyginberry as my high fibers, antioxidants and protein breakfast!

1-Shape and 1-Shape Lite is made of Soy Bean, Psyllium Husk and American Ginseng

As compare to many weight loss products which contains synthetic ingredients. Read up here

Oxyginberry is made of Cactus, Cactus Fruits, Ginseng Berry, Seaweed, Rose and Grape seed

Shock of cancer diagnosis despite regular check

Would like to share this article which I saw in Straits Times lately

"When she heard that she had a fairly big tumour, she said: "I couldn't believe or accept it. I had been going to the NUH to check so regularly"

This is so common nowadays that despite regular scan and checks, yet a person is diagnosed with cancer still. 

Thankful to what I learnt in Nutritional Immunology, I know that cancer doesn't occurs overnight. 

Most of the time, when a person is undergoing scan, cancer cells could be below 1mm, thus it's undetectable. However, it doesn't mean cancer doesn't exist. 

The most sophisticated instruments can only detect tumors when it reaches 1mm, which is equivalent of about 1 million cancer cell

Read up: What does cancer staging means?

In the recent Nutritional Immunology Chapter 3 that I attended, from the Radiological Society of North America, I learnt that for each scan that we did, we are exposing to radiation too. 

For example for a CT scan for Calcium Scoring, it means that we are exposing to the radiation for approx 1 year with 1 scan. 

Always be a wise consumer. Only by being a wiser consumer, we are able to make informed choice. 

What is the best way to prevent Cancer ? 

We have best doctor within us, which is our Immune System. Only by nourishing our Immune System on the daily basis, it will help us to fight against diseases regularly. Ultimately, we are what we eat. 

Prevention is the best cure. 

Understand about Nutritional Immunology here

PM to find out more details

To keep te body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Lifestyle Coach

90263064

Why rebound after losing weight?

Rebound happens when there is toxins accumulated in our body

No Round happens when toxins is removed from our body already

That's the reason why Cleansing is so important day to day. 

Where does toxins come from various part of our organs

1. Lung

2. Skin

3. Gut/Intestine

External Toxins include

Free radicals such as pollution from food center, buses or car

Medicine

Smokes

Harmful chemicals from our household products

Pesticides from fruits and vegetables that we eat

Preservatives, Additives, Coloring in our processed food

Radiation from our handphones, computers

Bacteria/viruses that we encounter daily

Many others  

Internal Toxins includes

Cancer Cells

Fats/Cholesterol deposit

Death/damaged cells during metabolism

Constipation which leads to the toxin accumulation at intestine

Urine Acid affecting joints

Acidic condition in our body

With all these toxins in our body, the more we need to regularly do cleansing to keep ourself healthy.

When we do regular cleansing, the fats won't be stored in body to keep the impurities and toxins, thus weight loss becoming very easy, and we won't keep facing rebound issues. 

There are many weight loss methods which focusing on just losing water, or increasing the metabolism. Instead of cleansing the impurities. 

Read up more here


To have better weight management, understand from here

Take Care of your body, it's the only place that you will live. 

Cheers

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Consultant

90263064

Obesity a time ticking bomb

Global, there are 640m people who are obese. 

In country such as Singapore, obesity is rising especially at younger generation

Read up

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/rising-obesity-among-young-set-to-worsen-diabetes-rate

With Obesity, the risk of getting chronic diseases such as diabetes, and cancer is much higher. 

The risk of getting heart failure can be as high as 104%!

Is your weight healthy? 

Let's do a calculation on BMI to keep your health in check

If you look at above table, if your BMI is above 22.9, you are considered as Overweight or Obese

Are you in your healthy weight? 

How do you keep your weight in check?

Read up on Misconception on weight loss

How to loss weight without having rebound?

Cheers

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Consultant

90263064

Zika Outbreak in Singapore

Since the first case of Zika viruses outbreak, until today, there are total 115 Zika cases in Singapore. 

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/26-more-local-zika/3085542.html

Some of quick tips about Zika virus

1. What is Zika Virus

Zika virus infection is transmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito. The Aedes mosquito is also a known carrier of the Dengue and Chikungunya viruses.

Zika is generally a mild disease, always affect those with weaker immune system


However, Zika virus infection may cause microcephaly in the unborn foetuses of pregnant women. 

2. The symptoms for Zika include

Mild fever
Rashes
Headaches
Muscle pain
Joint pains
Conjunctivitis (a form of eye inflammation)


3. Is there a cure for Zika?

At the moment, there is no cure nor vaccine to prevent Zika infection. Treatment is solely focused on relieving the symptoms. Those infected are advised to get plenty of rest, drink enough fluids

Read up more

https://www.gov.sg/factually/content/5-things-to-know-about-zika-virus

The current approach on Zika virus is focusing on treating the symptoms. 

Can we use Antibiotic to kill the Zika virus?

Read up on Role of medication


Antibiotic cannot kill viruses. Therefore, they do not work against the flu, SARS and other viral infections. Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria and so can be used to treat pneumonia and other bacterial infections. 


Why is it so?

Virus can be worst than bacteria

How does Vaccine works for Viruses?

Until now, there is no cure for Zika Viruses, except nourishing our immune system, so it has ability to fight. 

Best doctor in the world, which is our Immune System, which has Tonsils, Bone Marrow, Lymph Nodes, Appendix, etc

Our immune system has Natural Killer Cells. Which produced in Bone marrow. 

Those with deficiency in NK cells proven to be easily developed in virus infection

Only via nourishing our Natural cells and our immune system, it will protect us from virus infections, including Zika, HFMD, SARS, Dengue, Chikungunya, or even normal virus infection such as cold. 

In order to nourish our immune system. Are you currently adding mushrooms and high antioxidants in your diet? 

Read up about Oxyginberry and Nutriact. 

These is how I protect myself from Zika viruses and it's more important that prevention starts now 

Dr Jau Fei Chen, world renowned Nutritional Immunologist will be here in Singapore to share Nutritional Immunology Chapter 3 on 10th September. 

Details are here

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information

Cheers

Siew Choon

90263064