Nutrition Tips for Your Exam Week

            When we had a caffeinated drink, we always had these symptoms that might disturb us eventually after several hour of consuming it. Hand shaking and heart beat so fast than the usual rate are among the normal symptoms. I get that a lot since I consume coffee to keep me awake along the day. But when it comes to exam week, I avoid coffee in the morning because I don’t want to be disturbed mentally during the examination hour. So instead of drinking coffee, I drink a cup of green tea with no sugar added and a bar of chocolate. It’s just work on me, I feel fine and better when I had this in the morning. I don’t know if it works on you but you might want to try it as well. Tea and chocolate for a better mind and thinking! J

Do you know why mum keeps nagging us to eat vegetables?

Mums always know what's best for their child. They always give us good things that we sometimes take it for granted. For example like eating something that doesn't suite our taste. My mum used to nagged me to eat more vege when i was a little, she said that i need to eat it to grow up and become healthy.  She was right, look at me now, i'm tall, i'm healthy and i have quite a good skin. The only vege that i can accept during that time was cabbage. I disliked sawi during that time because to me the texture was kinda lembik and i kinda hate the bitter taste of it. However, for cabbage, there was a crunchiness every time when i ate those compared to other vege. I used to hate eggplant too but now after i learnt how nutritious it'd be to our body, i started to take it and love it till now. 

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Do you know that various kind of vegetables&fruits bring different function to the system in our body? The darker the the leaf, the better it'd be to our body. 

I learnt about carotenoid through journals recently, so this is just gonna be my two cents on what i have just studied. 

Carotenoids is in the lipid group which means that they contain fat on it. However, since they are only a derived lipid, there'd be only a small amount of fat on it. They're like a good source of fat to our body.

Carotenoids are actually a fat soluble pigment that can be found mostly in vegetables and fruits which is responsible for the colour of the particular plants. Some of the most common form of carotenoid are β-carotene and lycopene. β-carotene can be found mostly in fruits like carrots or anything in orange colour plants. They act as a precursor of Vitamin A which is good for our visual, growth rate and embryonal development for the pregnant women. 

As for the lycopene, it can be mostly found in tomatoes or any other red fruit or vegetables. I like lycopene because it contains some natural antioxidants properties on it which would be very good to my skin because i tend to have a lot of concern on my skin. On top of that, lycopene's antioxidant properties may also reduce the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. An effective antioxidant helps to remove the free radicals from the body system either by reacting with them to yield harmless products or by disrupting the free radical chains. Or in simplest sayings, it means that the antioxidant fights against free radical and protect the cell structure from damage. 

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Look at how beauty this tomato is. Eat this more and you'll get your porcelain skin.

For your information, carotenoids do not only function on fruits and vegetable particularly but also in other forms. For example, the carotenoid helps the ripening of fruits, turn the leaves from green to brownish colour during autumn and also helps the harvesting of light energy during the photosynthesis of plants.

Since our body cannot synthesize carotenoid, we need consume it from plant sources. It is advised to take it from natural sources so that it'd be naturally absorbed into our body system. However if you are under certain condition of diseases, you are advised to take it in supplement form. 

So guys, eat more colourful fruit or vege if you wanna stay healthy!! 

My weekly self-challenge (October)

It’s 1 am now and I’m wasting my precious time on this blog writing unnecessary story. I'm just so eager to share with you all about my week. I can actually write this tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, like anytime I want. But right now I really feel like writing so please excuse me dear assignments and brain please stop reminding me about my presentation tomorrow.

So last week, I did some self-challenge to myself. It was just a random thought. I call it as “ Exercise& Clean Eating. I started on the day 2, which was Tuesday. It was the Hari Raya Korban holiday but still I came to USIA so that I can start jogging on the evening. But then, my friend asked me to join them (BASIC) for a small jungle trekking to the UMS Peak. I was more than happy to join them cuz two is always been better than 1. So that evening, we walked from USIA to UMS Peak, imagine how tired it was. But of coz we had our rest in between the time.

UMS Peak at 190m conquered

The good thing doen't stop there, i also went for a jogging at the UMS complex like 1 time on Thursday. I couldn't remember how many rounds i ran, but probably around 6. And then on Sunday evening, me and my friends went for a beach run at ODEC. Well we only jog there for like 15 minutes. Because it was too hot and we were sweating like hell. We end up taking picture instead. Lol. But hey, after the short run, we walked back from ODEC to 1Borneo. Imagine how far it was!

My beach run at ODEC, UMS.

Another form of exercise is modeling. Hey, high heels do make you burn that calories. So, we had our rehearsal on Friday night. All the fashion show participants need to walk back and forth with HIGH HEELS on the stage. It was really tired i tell you.  I was actually helping my friend out for the fashion show design contest in conjuction with the Pesta Tanglung Event. And yey, the dress that I modeled for won the first prize! Congrats Fel  :)

Felicity E. the designer, me and Vanessa W.

So yeah, mission accomplished! Okay, i need to sleep now. Adios.