Nightlighting

October 5th, 2009 at 12:48 · Filed Under At Work, Blogging, Diet, Medical · 1 Comment 

Recently, I have been reading a little about women’s health while working on a software project. It is astonishing to know most of the facts about women and women-related illnesses. When reading about menstruation, I learned some terms such as menarche which means woman’s first menstruation, dysmenorrhea which is a medical condition characterized by severe uterine pain during menstruation.

Heredity, diet and health condition can affect a young woman’s menarche. This is something most parents with growing young daughters have overlook. Diet plays a very important part in young women especially teenage girls. Many teenage girls despite of having their menarche years earlier, neglects or intentionally limit their dietary intakes for body slimming purposes. This ignorance can seriously affect their reproductive system.

One most interesting fact I learned about menstruation is the term “Nightlighting”.

The word “menstruation” is etymologically related to “moon”. The terms “menstruation” and “menses” are derived from the Latin mensis (month), which in turn relates to the Greek mene (moon) and to the roots of the English words month and moon—reflecting the fact that the moon also takes close to 28 days to revolve around the Earth (actually 27.32 days). The synodical lunar month, the period between two new moons (or full moons), is 29.53 days long. — Wikipedia

In some traditional societies without nightlighting believe that women ovulate in full moon and menstruate in new moon. There are studies in both humans and animals where artificial lighting at night does alter the menstruation cycle. While none of the studies have suggested the lunar phase affects the ovulation cycle, bright light exposure in the morning stimulates more regular cycles.

Research also suggested that sensitivity of women’s cycles to nightlighting is related to nutritional deficiencies of certain minerals and vitamins. Again, balanced and healthy diet is utmost important to women’s health.

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又是肉干飘香时

February 1st, 2008 at 23:17 · Filed Under Blogging, Chinese, Diet, Food · 3 Comments 

春节来咯！大街小巷每个角落肉干摊子林立，烤肉干的香味四处飘。又是肉干飘香的时侯。平时卖肉干的摊商零星可数。春节一到，可说卖肉干的人全都趁时机卖肉干大捞一笔。

肉干可是我的最爱。小时爸爸常买肉干让我夹面包当早餐。小时肉干还相当便宜的。现在肉干的价钱可要比我小时候贵了好多。这也是平时不买肉干吃的原因。不过偶尔会食指大动，买一点来吃。前两个礼拜就已经吃完一盒肉干。我那三个恐龙也很爱吃。不到三四天就吃完了。昨天朋友送来一盒肉干，晚上按耐不住，把它开了，吃了两片半。刚刚又吃了两片。

我喜欢单吃肉干，由其是猪肉切片的。如果配啤酒味道更好。肉干夹面包也美味。肉干拿来炒饭也很好。过了年，又要节食了。唉，一年一次吗…

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Light foods

January 8th, 2008 at 23:25 · Filed Under Diet, Karate, Training Journal · Comment 

I had some crackers before training this evening. Crackers is a slow-release carbohydrate, said LA. So, I tried this evening. I had about 4 pieces, washed down with a mouthful of fresh milk and a tall glass of water. I felt fine as my stomach was not too full for actions and not to empty for training. Just nice.

After the training, I took an orange, and 5 pieces of crackers with sweet coconut jam or kaya. More carbohydrate and sugar. Yeah sugar, good for my brain to work on blogs and trouble-shooting some hardware problem for my client. Here starts the night of the day!

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Cooking Oil Rationing

January 6th, 2008 at 11:33 · Filed Under Blogging, Diet, Health, Shopping · Comment 

There is cooking oil rush nationwide when the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry announced shortage of cooking oil and limited consumers to buy a 5kg cooking oil at one move. This rationing will not affect my family as we are always on healthy diet. Less frying and we loves steamed food.

Steamed foods are more healthy than oily fried food. I guess it is the time for us to eat more steamed foods rather than using oil to cook. If you like fried chicken, you may consider pan fried without oil or pan grilled. The fat in the chicken will be melted and flow out of the meat making it more healthy. It is also very delicious too.

Salad made of fresh vegetables with delicious Italian sauces is another healthy food too. The vitamins in the vegetables will not be destroyed by heat. Our children love salad as well.

The rationing will encourage more hawkers to recycle cooking oil. So, avoid fried foods like goreng pisang (fried banana) and fried chicken.

A change of your diet is not only good for your health, it is also good for your economy. Save more money rather than funding cooking oil producers and hypermarket! Why is there a sudden shortage? To raise price!

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Diet for Weight Loss

January 4th, 2008 at 9:59 · Filed Under Blogging, Business, Diet, Health, Marketing, Social · Comment 

When I flip through magazines, newspapers, flyers, brochures and etc, I can see many slimming programs advertised in those media. Slimming program is one of the lucrative and sought-after beauty industry. Women, particularly, are becoming more beauty minded instead of health oriented.

With proper diet and exercise, we can keep a healthy body without gaining too much weight. What is the best way to lose weight? Well a proper diet plan and good exercise will be the healthy way to stay fit. First, you need weight loss diet plans which fit into your active lifestyle. A balance diet plan is the key to weight loss. It provides the necessary calories to keep you active and enough vitamins and minerals to keep your body functions healthy.

Second, you will need exercise plans to help you to burn your excess calories. A well formulated diet plan coupled with a good exercise plan works best and give good result. But, what is the right diet plans or weight loss program for you?

Weight Loss Diet Help provides a comparison of weight loss diet plans such as Medifast, Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers and many others. You can search for the right plans which work for you at one source. In addition, this website also has some articles related to diets, weight loss, weight control and how to stay healthy. You may also find coupon codes at this site so that you can enjoy good discount should you decide to sign up for your diet plan or weight loss program.

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Dinner for training

January 4th, 2008 at 9:18 · Filed Under Blogging, Diet, Health, Karate · Comment 

Since the opening of the dōkōkai in November, my dinner on weekdays are usually post training. Sometimes I continued my training after the class and I would be home around 10 or 10:30pm. It is rather late for dinner but LA had kept some food for me. I felt very difficult to sleep after the dinner even though I did not eat too much. I know this is bad for health but there is an empty stomach. So, I would continue working on computer to let the food be digested a little. But I will usually linger until midnight or pass midnight before going to bed.

Yesterday, I changed my pattern to try it out. I had my dinner before the training. Not a full dinner but it certainly did not feel good during the first part of the training. I guess I will have to have my dinner a little earlier, about 5 to avoid a full stomach during the training at 7.

I had a grapefruit and 6 slices of breads last night after the training. I felt much better but I slept at 2am because I was updating my blog.

Or perhaps, some light food and fruits before training and bread after training will be better off. I should try this today.

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