Saturday, March 11, 2017

How safe is the organic fruits and vegetables?

Grateful to be able to attend a training on 3rd March with Dr Chen and family, to understand more in depth in various aspects including the safety of the food and ingredients that we take. 



How safe is our organic food? 


According to wikipedia

Organic food is food produced by methods that comply with the standards of organic farming. Standards vary worldwide, but organic farming in general features practices that strive to cycle resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity.

Organic farming means a healthier method in producing the fruits/vegetables, however, does it ensure that it's safe from contamination? 

The only way to really sure the safety of the fruits and vegetables produced are via the testing, to ensure that it's safe from those heavy metals, pesticides, micro-organism, poisonous and chemicals. 

I am grateful that all the Superfoods that I am taking are free from those chemicals. 

These are the list of pesticides being tested up to today, in all the Healthy Fast Food that I am consuming. In the future, the list will grow when there are new pesticides come up in the market. 

Pesticide List









These are the poisons that have been tested in all the Superfood that I am taking

Poisons testing

























Looking at the label of the Vegecolor that I am taking, which contains 28 types of vegetables in rainbow of color and free of all the pesticides and chemicals, definitely it's safer than much vegetables out there. 


Cheers

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


Wednesday, February 8, 2017

To-Series Superfoods in town!!

A long awaited To-Series is here finally!! It replaces the older edition of Essence of Knowledge, Essence of Time, Essence of Play and Essence of Simplicity 

Of course company is always innovate in terms of quality and ingredient of the Superfood for everyone of us, read up here

Let's look at what is inside To-Series
















ToThink





ToCaress

Now we have Oxyginberry in Liquid form!!


Together with Oxyginberry, ToCaress helps to stimulate our body to produce collagen, which is important for all part of our body. 

Check out here to know more about myth of Collagen


Fiber up with ToHusk 




Fibers are important, we need about 28-30g of fibers daily. However, with the modern diet, we probably just taking in 13-15g of the fibers. 


To-Enjoy










ToEnjoy is great for those who required protein in their body, and those who has hair fall, less hair and nail growth. 

With Biotin, it helps to strengthen the hair follicle cells, combats dry scalp and split ends, also promote healthier hair. 





Cheers

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

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Taking Omega 3 from fish oil increase the risk of Prostate Cancer

Fish oil, the most popular supplement in the market.

Many taking fish oil due to the Omega 3. Omega 3 is crucial for overall health. 

Benefits of Omega 3


We need Omega 3, to balance the high Omega 6 that we consume daily. High Omega 6 easily lead to inflammation. 

High Omega 6 normally comes from vegetable oils in our diet. 


Many opt for Fish oil as convenience sources of Omega 3, however, there are many researches link the fish oil and prostate cancer


Other sources: 


Taking omega-3 fatty acids, derived from fish oils, can increase a man's risk of high-grade prostate cancer by 71 per cent 
Taking omega-3 fatty acids, derived from fish oils, can increase a man's risk of high-grade prostate cancer by 71 per cent

Fish oils are a huge industry in the UK
However, scientists found that those with the highest levels of omega-3 in their blood were 71 per cent more likely to develop fast-growing, hard-to-treat prostate tumours.

They were also more likely to contract the slower, less deadly form of the disease, with the overall prostate cancer risk raised by 43 per cent. 
 
The team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle warned: ‘There is really no evidence that taking dietary supplements is beneficial to health, and there is increasing evidence that taking high doses is harmful.’

Dr Alan Kristal said the levels of omega-3 linked to the increased cancer risk would be reached by taking just one supplement a day, or three or four meals of fish such as salmon and mackerel each week.
 
Taking omega-3 was also associated with a 44 per cent greater chance of developing low-grade prostate cancer

However, he stressed that when compared to fatty acids received by eating oily fish, the amount consumed via pills was ‘huge’.
It is unclear how fish oil could trigger tumours, but omega-3 may restrict the immune system, or damage our DNA. It is also unclear if it helps tumours to grow and spread.

The finding came amid a wider research project of more than 2,000 men, examining whether supplements of vitamin E and the mineral selenium can help prevent prostate cancer – the most common cancer in British men, killing more than 10,000. Selenium provided no benefit, and vitamin E increased the odds of contracting the disease.

Dr Kristal said: ‘As we do more and more of these studies – and I have been involved in them most of my career – we find high doses of supplements have no effect or increase the risk of the disease you are trying to prevent.
‘There is not really a single example of where taking a supplement lowers chronic disease risk.’ 

Professor Malcolm Mason, of Cancer Research UK, said: ‘The results of this study are surprising, and we clearly need more research to understand what is behind them.’

Although he stressed the researchers could not be certain whether the study’s participants ate oily fish or took omega-3 supplements, he said the results ‘show how complex the effects of food supplements might be’.

Dr Iain Frame of Prostate Cancer UK agreed that ‘larger and more complex studies will need to take place before we understand how the risks of a diet high in omega-3 balance against [its] benefits’.

Several recent studies have called omega-3’s benefits to the heart into question, too. One, which examined 20 studies involving almost 70,000 people, found that those who took omega-3 were no less likely to die of a heart attack or stroke than others

- End quotes from article

It's utmost important to be wiser consumer, you are what you eat. 

That's the reason why I choose plant based Omega 3, than animal based Omega 3, blessed with the Science of Nutritional Immunology

One of the good plant based Omega 3 is made from Kiwi Seed and Chia Seed. Oseed is made from Kiwi Seed and Chia Seed, which is convenience and safe for daily intake of Omega 3

Cheers

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