Health and Fitness

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…]

Don’t get me wrong, I am not looking down on home-cooked food.

(Why should I? I am one who highly promotes it.)

I think the effort of parents preparing food at home is commendable.

It’s a lot of work and thinking and trying and making mistakes.

There are many reasons why parents cook at home.

One of them is to save money.

Secondly, it might be health reason.

I am more of the latter.

But wait… [Read more…]

It sounds like Chinese kung fu but it has nothing to do with martial arts.

It’s less glamorous than that.

Flying Mosquito Disease (飞蚊症) is the Chinese colloquial term for eye floaters.

Last Tuesday, I noticed there are exceptionally more flying objects in front of my eyes.

I thought they were mosquitoes or flies. Upon closer look, they are not. [Read more…]