A few months ago, I wrote about Diet foods that make you fat and this post is sort of like a continuation of that post. We can never be too careful when it comes to choosing healthy foods especially when shopping at the supermarket. Often, we get cheated by all the advertising hype of how this food is healthier, that food is better or this drink can make you slimmer.
Read on to find out more:
1. Energy drinks
All those caffeinated, carbonated drinks labeled as so-called energy boosters or sports drinks are NOT healthy. And yes, . . . → Read More: More so-called ‘healthy’ foods to avoid
I know I have neglected my blogs quite a lot in recent times…I don’t even know if I still get regular readers or just organic traffic. Whatever it is, I guess I can’t do much about posting here regularly due to time constraint so I will only be putting up a post around once a month.
Of course, if you are a food blogger or food photographer and wants to be a guest contributor in my site, do feel free to drop me a line via the contact form. I do accept guest posts once in a while to . . . → Read More: Diet foods that make you FAT
I have quite a lot of flour stock up just in case I have this sudden urge to bake, bake and bake. So, inevitably, this means I sometimes end up with expired flour because I didn’t have time to bake or didn’t bake enough to finish all the flour. Previously, I would have just thrown the whole packet of flour but now, it suddenly dawned on me that I should not let it go to waste at all.
It’s been awhile since I did a food trivia post. Well, since I did loads of fat burning food, foods to prevent cancer, etc, I might as well, do one on foods good for men, as in, you know, to keep things ‘up’ when it’s supposed to be and to keep the prostrate healthy too so that you can maintain the flow when visiting the loo. (be patient, women, I will post a separate one for women’s health later, now just read this and impart it to your husband/father/ brother/ etc)
Much has been said about the good and bad of drinking coffee. The recent onslought of advertisements by Nescafe claiming that coffee is good for you because it contains anti-oxidants made me decide that it’s time I do some digging around to find out the truth behind all these claims.
Let’s first look at the nutrition value of coffee without looking into the various claims by various researchers and scientists.
Nutrition value of Coffee
If we talk about 2g of regular instant powdered coffee:
This is not a food review or recipe post but I felt that I really need to put it up here simply because it is food related and I really feel very strongly about it.
Anyway, last week, I did put up a post on the foods I ate in Bangkok but unfortunately, due to some virus in the server, it was ‘eaten alive’. So, ended up I will probably have to redo the post and put it up again soon.
Today, I’m going to give the low-down on flax seeds and its health benefits. Why do we need this oily looking seeds and why is it so good for us? Well, read on to find out more.
Health Benefits of Flax Seed
These tiny golden seeds (or brown) do pack a lot of health benefits, much more than sesame seeds although they both look alike, in a way. Flax seeds are a bit bigger than sesame seeds and looks oilier. Well, no wonder, because flax seed is high fat. Before the alarm bells ring in your head due . . . → Read More: The health benefits of flax seed