Music is the best medicine. Listening to your favorite music for more than 30 minutes a day and improve your cardiovascular (heart) health. According to a study researchers at Maryland University Center for Preventive Cardiology on a group of non-smoking men and women, the blood vessels in their upper arm expanded 26% when they listened to music they like. So do listen to your favorite music everyday for cardiovascular (heart) health.
To start off, why not try listening to my favorite singer and song - Teresa Teng (Deng Lijun):
If you prefer this sweet song in English, listen to Juliana Jones singing "I'm still loving you:
More at healthy music at Songs Lyrics Video
Showing posts with label cholesterol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cholesterol. Show all posts
2009-01-03
2008-02-06
Rolled oats, quick cooking, instant: What is the difference?
Until recently, I have been cooking and eating rolled oats for breakfast. I find it helped keep my blood cholesterol level down, even though there seemed to be a genetic tendency toward high cholesterol as seen in my siblings. However, it appeared to me that rolled oats are getting more and more difficult to find. It is much easier to buy quick cooking oats or instant oats.
I have always tried to avoid highly processed food wherever possible. So I took the trouble to contact a market leader oats manufacturer to ask about the difference between rolled oats, quick cooking oats and instant oats. I was told that the only difference is the degree in the size of the oats to which they have been reduced. Instant oats are ground or cut to a much smaller size than quick cooking.
So if that is true, it is only the degree of physical processing that the oats had been subject to. Physical processing like grinding or cutting the oats are not going to change its chemical composition, so it appear pretty harmless to me. With this knowledge, I am now less cautious about buying quick cooking oats or instant oats.
I will check with the other oats manufacturer to see if I get the same answer. If they all tell me the same thing, I will have no hesitation in buying instant cooking oats, for they will be more environmentally friendly as they take less cooking time, thus would be more energy efficient plus they save time.
I have always tried to avoid highly processed food wherever possible. So I took the trouble to contact a market leader oats manufacturer to ask about the difference between rolled oats, quick cooking oats and instant oats. I was told that the only difference is the degree in the size of the oats to which they have been reduced. Instant oats are ground or cut to a much smaller size than quick cooking.
So if that is true, it is only the degree of physical processing that the oats had been subject to. Physical processing like grinding or cutting the oats are not going to change its chemical composition, so it appear pretty harmless to me. With this knowledge, I am now less cautious about buying quick cooking oats or instant oats.
I will check with the other oats manufacturer to see if I get the same answer. If they all tell me the same thing, I will have no hesitation in buying instant cooking oats, for they will be more environmentally friendly as they take less cooking time, thus would be more energy efficient plus they save time.
2007-10-20
Poll: Raw garlic is the most powerful antibiotic plus health food
Vovici Online Survey Software
The above poll was created with a 30 day trail subscription, so I don't know if it will still be useable after that 30 days. Anyway, here is some information I have gathered about garlic:
I attended a talk by a medical doctor who divided his talk into 3 sections - nutrition, colon cleansing and the third one I forgot. Anyway, my confidence in him was he stressed nutrition first, and said that if you get your nutrition right, the rest will follow. Plus he also started his presentation with the famous saying you see in this blog Header - "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" by Hippocrates. He also said the same thing as what I had wrote about in Landmark legislation on nutrition (click BACK button to get back to this post), that more and more medical schools are now teaching nutrition as a subject.
He also said raw garlic is the most powerful antibiotic as garlic do not spoil. He compared it to a banana which goes bad just after a few days. I myself have experience with raw garlic. I use a juice extractor to extract the juice from garlic, use the extracted juice plus the pulp plus other stuff like honey to marinate chicken for a long time before I use turbo broiler to roast the chicken. Even though I leave the marinated chicken for a long time, it never spoil. Plus the taste is delicious. You should try it one day.
I also have a post Crush your garlic before you cook it or eat it raw (click BACK button to get back to this post).
So I hope you go through all this information before you vote in the poll, or if you have already voted, you can edit your vote.
The above poll was created with a 30 day trail subscription, so I don't know if it will still be useable after that 30 days. Anyway, here is some information I have gathered about garlic:
I attended a talk by a medical doctor who divided his talk into 3 sections - nutrition, colon cleansing and the third one I forgot. Anyway, my confidence in him was he stressed nutrition first, and said that if you get your nutrition right, the rest will follow. Plus he also started his presentation with the famous saying you see in this blog Header - "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" by Hippocrates. He also said the same thing as what I had wrote about in Landmark legislation on nutrition (click BACK button to get back to this post), that more and more medical schools are now teaching nutrition as a subject.
He also said raw garlic is the most powerful antibiotic as garlic do not spoil. He compared it to a banana which goes bad just after a few days. I myself have experience with raw garlic. I use a juice extractor to extract the juice from garlic, use the extracted juice plus the pulp plus other stuff like honey to marinate chicken for a long time before I use turbo broiler to roast the chicken. Even though I leave the marinated chicken for a long time, it never spoil. Plus the taste is delicious. You should try it one day.
I also have a post Crush your garlic before you cook it or eat it raw (click BACK button to get back to this post).
So I hope you go through all this information before you vote in the poll, or if you have already voted, you can edit your vote.
2007-08-04
Oats lower bad cholesterol
I believe most of you have heard that eating oats can help reduce cholesterol in your blood. I have been doing that and so far, tests have shown that my blood cholesterol level is good. Actually, my sisters have high cholesterol and they told me it runs in the family. So I am not sure if I am just fortunate or it has something to do with me regularly eating oats. Not many people like them and I have problems persuading my children (except one) to take them regularly.
I prefer less processed food, and always try to bug rolled oats rather than the quick cooking oats or instant oats. I really don't know how they process them, and what had been taken out by the processing. It is getting difficult to by rolled oats because you find more quick cooking oats and instant oats on the hypermarket shelves. However, my daughter told me that her colleague takes quick cooking oats and her cholesterol level is good. You may say it is just Web anecdotal and not real proof that oats does lower blood cholesterol. But for me, that is enough encouragement to continue my regular intake or rolled oats.
If you want something more substantial, Michael C. Davidson, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center reported that a study showed that it take just 2 ounces of oat bran a day or twice that amount of oatmeal, to lower cholesterol by 10%. Dr Sarah Kelly of the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK did some analyisis and published online April 18, 2007 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews that there is some evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCT) that whole-grain oats can lower LDL- and total-cholesterol levels in those with preexisting risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). They reported that the effect effect can even be seen at just four weeks for total cholesterol to be lowered, so taking whole-grain oats may be effective even with short interventions. researchers found oatmeal foods did produce an overall cholesterol-lowering effect. Other researchers have also found that people who take a diet rich in oatmeal and whole-grain oat products get a decrease in both total cholesterol and unhealthy low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels.
I prefer less processed food, and always try to bug rolled oats rather than the quick cooking oats or instant oats. I really don't know how they process them, and what had been taken out by the processing. It is getting difficult to by rolled oats because you find more quick cooking oats and instant oats on the hypermarket shelves. However, my daughter told me that her colleague takes quick cooking oats and her cholesterol level is good. You may say it is just Web anecdotal and not real proof that oats does lower blood cholesterol. But for me, that is enough encouragement to continue my regular intake or rolled oats.
If you want something more substantial, Michael C. Davidson, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center reported that a study showed that it take just 2 ounces of oat bran a day or twice that amount of oatmeal, to lower cholesterol by 10%. Dr Sarah Kelly of the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK did some analyisis and published online April 18, 2007 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews that there is some evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCT) that whole-grain oats can lower LDL- and total-cholesterol levels in those with preexisting risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). They reported that the effect effect can even be seen at just four weeks for total cholesterol to be lowered, so taking whole-grain oats may be effective even with short interventions. researchers found oatmeal foods did produce an overall cholesterol-lowering effect. Other researchers have also found that people who take a diet rich in oatmeal and whole-grain oat products get a decrease in both total cholesterol and unhealthy low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels.
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