Good Sleep Good Health

A good sleep is the best medicine. Therefore, developing good sleeping patterns are utmost important to all of us.

Have you heard of people say nothing better than a good night sleep? Our body can not rest unless we have a good sleep, it is the best way for restoration after a day of school, hours of work, and other activities. Our body and mind are refreshed and restored to face a fresh new day of challenge after a good night sleep.

Besides having to settle our mind to prepare for a good sleep, there are certain sleeping habits or patterns that we need to observe. Improper sleeping habits or patterns will cause much danger to our health.

1. Beadroom environment : The bedding materials, ligthing, smell, noise level, and temperature in the bedroom have great effect on our sleep. Ensure our bedrooms are condusive and comfortable.

2. Remove makeup before going to bed would allow our skin to breathe, thus our skin are healthier.

3. Avoid covering our head during sleep. There are negative effects with head covered with blanket. We tend to inhale more carbon dioxide which is trapped inside the blanket, resulting insufficient oxygen circulated to the brain as well as to the rest of the organs, this will cause headache, drowsiness. At the same time, the dirt and dust that accumulated under the blanket is detrimental to our airways in a long run.

4. Small kid sleeping in between the adults. The kid in between tends to be in an insufficient oxygen position. This will affect the growth of his/her physical health.

5. Use bra to sleep deters blood circulation. Studies show that those who use bras more than 12 hours a day are 21 times higher in developing breast cancer as compare to those seldom or not using bra. So it is best to change into comfortable clothing at home and avoid using bra to sleep.

6. Go to bed right after meal will lower blood pressure thus lower blood flow to the brain, the possibility of having stroke is higher. It would be good to have a short stroll after meal, a good blood circulation will prevent stroke.

7. Sharing a piece of blanket is definitely not a good idea, because any movements will disturb each other’s sleep.

8. Sleeping outdoor is surely more comfortable to many especially during warm humid weather, however, the temperature will turn lower after midnight, accordingly to Chinese theory, the cool breeze after midnight to dawn is cold in nature, sleeping in this environment will cause cough & flu, headache, stomach upset, joint pain and rheumatism.

10. Sleep before 11pm. Our body is in the state of detoxification from 11pm to 2pm. If we are still awake at these hours, our body will not be able to carry out the detoxification function to eliminate the toxin from our body.

11. Avoid going to bed with anger, try to settle any disagreements with other(s). Having a big heart to forgive other(s) and ourselves will help.

12. Say a little bedtime prayer before sleep. Count our blessings and be thankful for what we have.

Have a good night sleep every one!!

Bioglo Pure Aloe Skin Care

After a trial of a month of using the Bioglo Pure Aloe Skin Perfecting Moisturiser that I bought from Cosway, I love it so much that I bought a set of 3 of its products under promotion this month which consists of Skin Perfecting Cleanser (120ml), Skin Perfecting Moisturiser (50g) and White Radiance Facial Mask (3 sachets).

This set of skin care only cost me RM46.90, super cheap.I can feel the freshness, smoothness and supple of my face on the first application of the Perfecting Moisturiser, and I love it instantly.

These products are made in Malaysia. The content of the Aloe Barbadensis in Skin Perfecting Cleanser is 40%, While the Moisturiser contents concentrated 200% pure aloe gel and 200% Active Aloe in the facial mask. Not that I know the measurement of the aloe contents but the result of using the Skin Perfecting Moisturiser is very satisfying, even my daughter noticed and commented on the smoothness of my face and like to touch my face more.


*this is purely my personal testimonial after using this products, not a paid post.

Sea Salt

I once read an article about the benefits of sea salt.  It says that the calcium content in sea salt is much lower than the refined salt.

To avoid consuming to much salt I usually control on the salt in my cooking that result a lot of complains from my family because they find the food are tasteless.  

Since knowing sea salt is a better alternative to the normal salt, I started to look for it in the supermakets, surprisingly I could not find any even in the major hypermarkets.  I was happy to see this sea salt in the cosway shopping catalogue.  I bought one bottle for a try and it tastes as good. 

Fresh fruit juice

I always make it a point to prepare fresh fruit juices for my family everyday. We consume the juice immediately when it's out from the juicer, this way we could have all the nutrients from the fruits and vegetable.

In order to have sufficient fruits and vegetable for my juices, I stock up the basic ingredients, apple and carrot are the must have in my juices, simply because my girls prefer apple juice over the rest.

With apple and carrot juice as base, I add in green vegetable, like celery, and any organic vegetable that I could buy from the shop. I like to have green in my juices especially for my hubby who do not like to take vegetable in his meal.

It is also a good idea to include green leafy vegetable in the juices for the kids just like what I do for my daughters who do not like to eat vegetable at all, but in a much lesser portion.

cut them up into small pieces for ease to pass through the juicer even though my juicer can squeeze the whole piece of carrot, I won't want to over work my expensive juicer. :)

A glass of freshly squeeze juice. Sometimes I add in some potassium salt or a packet of green food for extra nutrients, but not for the kids.

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Sparkling Green Cocktail from Belgium

The colour of green is definitely look refreshing to us as compared to the pink and blue ones of the same brand on the shelf, so we bought a bottle thought it is one of the fruit juice.

We were wrong. It is something similar to those carbonated drinks in the market, hardly or contains no nutritional benefit at all.

The ingredient is just water, sugar, aroma, citric acid, co2, color E122.

If you like sparkling carbonated drink, try this one. It would be good to serve this at the party, it gives a loud "pop" sound just like opening a champaign. Best to be served chilled.

Marigold 0% fat strawberry yogurt drink

I bought a bottle of Marigold 0% fat Strawberry Yogurt Drink this evening. My daughter must have attracted to the cute packaging of the 250ml container in the chiller at the 7-Eleven outlet. Honestly I like the design and the cute handy container too.

I usually make my own yogurt at home but my daughters do not like its sourly taste, since she picked this one I thought it would be nice for her to drink some yogurt.

It says on the packaging that it contains live and active cultures, 0% cholesterol, calcium and fruit juice. It is a delicious fermented milk drink specially created to assist the everyday well being of you and your family.

Packed with the goodness of of Live And Active Cultures and blended together with the taste of fruit juice. It is a delicious and convenient way to get your daily boost of Live And Active Cultures.

The ingredients are water, sugar, milk solids, strawberry concentrate, calcium, and Live Cultures namely, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus acidophilus & Streptococcus thermophilus. Contains permitted food conditioners, flavouring and colouring.

Nutritional information for the 250ml container as stated are:

• Energy : 118kcal (493kj)
• Protein : 1.8g
• Total Fat : 0g
• Cholesterol : 0mg
• Carbohydrate : 25.8g
• Total sugars : 24.8g
• Dietary Fiber : 1.8g
• Sodium : 155mg
• Calcium : 168mg

My daughter took a few sips and said she doesn't like it probably because it was not chilled, it should be kept refrigerated below 7 degree C. I drank some and left the rest in the fridge . Hope she will drink it when it is cold.

It suppose to be a healthy drink but I find the taste of this drink is a bit artificial, glad that it is light pink in colour and not dark pink like the packaging. It is sold at RM2.80 per container at 7-Eleven.