Category: Foods & Drinks

This is an amazingly simple recipe, with few ingredients and brief preparation time.
Preparation: 5 mins, Cooking time: 5 mins

Ingredients (serves 2)

• 200g rice, cooked
• 20g carrot, peeled and diced
• 1 slice (25g) ham, diced
• 10-12 pitted black olives, sliced
• 1½-2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 clove garlic or 1 slice ginger, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
• salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• a small handful freshly chopped coriander, for garnish

Method
1. Heat oil in a non-stick pan over medium heat and stir fry the garlic or ginger till fragrant.
2. Throw in the carrot, vegetarian ham and stir fry for 1-2 minutes.
3. Stir in the cooked rice, olives and season with light soy sauce, salt and pepper. Fry about 2-3 minutes or until rice is heated through. Sprinkle with some water if it is too dry.
4. Garnish with coriander and serve hot.

Tip
1. Rice for frying must be cooked at least 2 hours in advance or the night before.

Enjoy…

1. People who use their “brain” to work or students who study hard day and
night.Should drink more chrysanthemum Tea.

2. People who need a lot of body energy to work or those people that do a
lot of exercise everyday. Should drink Wu Loong Tea.

3. People who travel on a bike or work in dirty and polluted places.
Should drink Green Tea.

4. For people who likes to sit down all day long and not doing anything
even exercising
Must drink Green Tea and Flower Tea.

5. People who smoke and drink a lot of alcoholic drinks.
Should drink more Green Tea.

6. Carnivore (those people who must eat meat at least once a day, or feel
sick or not feeling well) Try to drink some Wu Loong Tea.

7. People who go to the washroom too often or too less.
Should drink more Honey Tea

8. People with high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
Wu Loong Tea, Green Tea.

9. Those who work with computers everyday.
Need to drink a Lot of Tea (any tea will do).

Whenever you are working with the computer, you should make some tea; drink  it when you are free. Drinking Tea is healthy, it can protect and prevent the harmful Ultraviolet light from harming us (when using computer).
Furthermore, it can also cure us when we are tired and help making our body feel fresh again.

All of us know that soyabean drink provides good protein to our body… but many of us doesn’t know that there are certain days we should avoid. Soya bean drinks are best consumed on hot sunny days where the sun is burning and glaring. The soya milk will gives lots of nutrients to the body, as the body
is able to absorb the protein well.

However, avoid the drink when the weather is cloudy or raining. Taking thedrink in these weathers, the body will not be able to take in the protein thus will result in a disease called “GOUT” or “high acidic urine” due to
the high protein residue in the body, after a long run.

This disease will cause pain to your knee joints and it will only be in control when you  control your food intake of proteins and medications. The pain is unbearable and usually you will have no idea what you have taken to cause the pain. Food like soya beans, ikan bilis, broccoli, spinach, peanuts, animal organs (i.e. pork liver) etc will have to be avoided to prevent the pain from attacking.

If you go out to a restaurant to eat, you probably watch your calories very closely.  To assist you with your calorie watching when dining out, these tips will help you make the most of it.

Always order salad dressings or sauces on the side, as this way you have control over how much you add to your meal.

When you order grilled fish or vegetables, you should ask that the food be grilled without butter or oil, or prepared with very little or either or.

Anytime you order pasta dishes, be on the lookout for tomato based sauces instead of the cream based sauces.  Tomato based sauces are much lower in fatand calories, and tomato sauce can even be counted as a vegetable!

 
You should always try to drink water, diet soda,  or tea instead of soda or beverages that contain alcohol. 

If you order dessert, share with a friend. Half  of the dessert will equal half of the calories.

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Collagen is the key to continuous youthfulness and beauty. When age catches up, the amount of collagen reduces. Therefore, replenishing generous level of collagen is a must to maintaining a healthy and youthful outlook.

Collagen is one of the long, fibrous structural proteins whose functions are quite different from those of globular proteins such as enzymes. Tough bundles of collagen called collagen fibers are a major component of the extracellular matrix that supports most tissues and gives cells structure from the outside, but collagen is also found inside certain cells. Collagen has great tensile strength, and is the main component of fascia, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, bone and teeth. Along with soft keratin, it is responsible for skin strength and elasticity, and its degradation leads to wrinkles that accompany aging. It strengthens blood vessels and plays a role in tissue development. It is present in the cornea and lens of the eye in crystalline form. It is also used in cosmetic surgery and burns surgery. Hydrolyzed collagen can play an important role in weight management. As a protein, it can be advantageously used for its satiating power.

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For 4,000 years, the Chinese people have been using green tea as treatment for everything from headaches to depression.             

Today, studies are conducted in Asia and the west in order to produce hard evidence of the health benefits of green tea. In the 1994 edition of the Journal of National Cancer Institute, the results of an epidemiological study stated that one of the health benefits of drinking green tea is that it can reduce the risk of esophageal cancer in Chinese men and women by up to 60%.

The rich presence of catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is the reason why green tea has so much health benefits. A powerful antioxidant, EGCG can not only inhibit the growth of cancer cells but can also destroy them without harming healthy cells.

The University of Purdue has also concluded a research on how a certain compound present in green tea can stop cancer cells from growing. Still another health benefit of green tea is its ability to lower down cholesterol levels and improve the ratio between good (HDL) cholesterol and bad (LDL) cholesterol.

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Soy protein is emerging as one of the great alternative protein sources for human consumption. Health experts are all excited about how soy protein can change the face of nutrition. What’s all the rage? Here are some great reasons to get with soy protein.

Soy Protein is Plant Protein
Soy beans contain complete protein and have one of the best protein digestibilities among all protein sources. Soy beans also contain little or no fat and have virtually no cholesterol. Lactose intolerant ones will be pleased to know that soy beans contain no lactose.

Being a plant protein, soy is free from steroids and antibiotics animal protein contains. It is also free from the parasites that contaminate some of these products. They also contain none of the diseases one can contract from mean sources such as Mad Cow Disease, and Foot and Mouth Disease.

Vegetarians love this bean as it provides a comparable – if not better – source of protein as compared to its animal counterpart. It provides a protein that is better and easier to digest and is comparable to most protein supplements.

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Soy protein is generally regarded as the storage protein held in discrete particles called protein bodies which are estimated to contain at least 60–70% of the total soybean protein. Upon germination of the soybean, the protein will be digested and the released amino acids will be transported to locations of seedling growth. Legume proteins, such as soy, and pulses belong to the globulin family of seed storage proteins called leguminins (11S) and vicilins (7S), or glycinin and beta-conglycinin in soybeans. Grains contain a third type of storage protein called gluten or “prolamines”. Soybeans also contain biologically active or metabolic proteins such as enzymes, trypsin inhibitors, hemagglutinins, and cysteine proteases. The soy cotyledon storage proteins, important for human nutrition, can be extracted most efficiently by water, water plus dilute alkali (pH 7–9), or aqueous solutions of sodium chloride (0.5–2 M) from dehulled and defatted soybeans that have undergone only a minimal heat treatment so that the protein is close to being native or undenatured. Soybeans are processed into three kinds of protein-rich products; soy flour, soy concentrate, and soy isolate.

Soy protein is emerging as one of the great alternative protein sources for human consumption. Health experts are all excited about how soy protein can change the face of nutrition. What’s all the rage? Here are some great reasons to get with soy protein.

Soy Protein is Plant Protein
Soy beans contain complete protein and have one of the best protein digestibilities among all protein sources. Soy beans also contain little or no fat and have virtually no cholesterol. Lactose intolerant ones will be pleased to know that soy beans contain no lactose.

Being a plant protein, soy is free from steroids and antibiotics animal protein contains. It is also free from the parasites that contaminate some of these products. They also contain none of the diseases one can contract from mean sources such as Mad Cow Disease, and Foot and Mouth Disease.

Vegetarians love this bean as it provides a comparable – if not better – source of protein as compared to its animal counterpart. It provides a protein that is better and easier to digest and is comparable to most protein supplements.

(more…)

Greek Yoghurt recipe. Greek yoghurt is a thick, creamy and extremely flavourful variety of the traditional milk product. It can be eaten plain, with nuts, fruits or honey or even as a topping. Why not make our Greek Yoghurt recipe today?