Health and Fitness

I was talking to one of my favorite nasi lemak sellers the other day.

He told me he was in the hospital and was recently discharged.

“What happened?” I asked curiously.

Apparently he had heart attack – for the second time.

He told me he experienced excruciating pain in the chest and had difficulty in breathing before being hospitalized.

You see when I meet someone who experienced something bad, I always like to find out what he learns from the event.

Not that I am a psychopath that likes to see people suffer but there are great lessons to learn from people like this. [Read more…]

Let’s talk about something other than parenting.

There are many types of exercise. Namely cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility.

The least I used to like is flexibility.

Why?

Because being a macho man that I am, flexibility equals limberness and sissyness. At the end of the day, I don’t want to look everything but wimpy.

Being muscular and having excellent stamina were always my exercise goals.

Not anymore. [Read more…]

We entrusted food companies to produce foods and hopefully safeguard our health.

But more often than not, they have failed us… miserably.

In the latest event, Trader Joe’s has recalled its peanut butt-er jam.

And according to the CDC, it’s said that the tainted peanut butt-er is linked to Salmonella poisoning that caused 30 people ill in 19 states in the US.

Incidents like this make us sick as these companies have breached the trust we have given to them.

Sad but true, this is not a US only issue, it affects every country.

To prevent this from happening, here’s what you can do. [Read more…]

If you remember our encounter with HFMD, you’ll pray hard that it won’t happen again.

Hand, foot, and mouth disease is not funny when it strikes your child.

Last Saturday, K was downed with fever in the evening. It subsided the next day but he suffered from sore throat after which.

The symptoms were the same as HFMD’s initial symptoms – minus the blisters on the hands and the feet.

“Oh no, not again! Could it be HFMD?” I thought. [Read more…]