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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wonders Of Chilli (Names: Chili, chilli or chile, pepper, capsicum , paprika or 辣椒)A Slimming Agent and Beauty Agent - main ingredient in chili, is called capsaicin.
- help burning out fatty cells.
- as it works, it goes deep into the fatness and improves circulations by increasing metabolism during the process of burning.
- toxins and wastes are eliminated at the same time thus improving the firmness and smoothness of the skin.
- low in fat, calories low in sodium; and has zero cholesterol.
Chili as a painkiller - Contains pain-alleviating compounds called salicylates (found in natural aspirin) which act only on pain receptors, and not on normal cells.
- relieve pains due to shingles as well as other skin ailments.
- helps to relieve cluster headaches, migraine and sinus the pain.
- used for muscle or joint pain like rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, backache, strains, sprains, and frostbite.
- capsaicin stimulates blood flow to the affected area, reduces inflammation and associated discomfort.
A Health Food In Lowering Blood Cholesterol - Dilates the blood vessels, cleanse the mucus lining and lower the blood cholesterol.
- intake of capsaicin, the LDL or the bad cholesterol actually resisted oxidation for a longer period.
- helps relieve the heart of a heavy work task, thereby creating a stronger and healthier heart.
- reduces the risks of heart attacks and strokes.
A Natural Antibiotic - Due to its acidic nature, pungent, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, chili is also known to exhibit immunization abilities.
- Researches have shown that chili kills more than 75 % of the thirty harmful bacteria present in food under studies.
- helps to relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel symptoms.
- Recent researches have proven that red chilies does not cause stomach ulcers, as has been erroneously believed by many.
- On the contrary, intake of chilies can actually prevent or heal them!
- Research shows that countries with high consumption of chilies have three times less reports of stomach ulcers.
How does capsaicin work against cancer ? - Chili, pepper or capsicum also contains minerals like folate, molybdenum, manganese, potassium, thiamin, and copper.
- low in sodium which causes the thickening of blood.
- Capsaicin is a fantastic health stimulant.
- Capsaicin is a potent anticancer agent, induces apoptosis or programmed cell death in cancer cells and produces no significant damage to normal pancreatic cells, indicating its potential use as a novel chemotherapeutic agent for pancreatic cancer.
- Capsaicin had a profound anti-proliferative effect on human prostate cancer cells in culture.
- also dramatically slowed the development of prostate tumors formed by those human cell lines grown in mouse models.
How does chili help in the prevention and slowing down of cancer cell formation? - A very rich source of antioxidants.
- richly endowed with vitamins A, E and C necessary for general health.
- contains seven times more vitamin C than orange.
- good source of most B vitamins and vitamin B6 in particular.
- antioxidants like C and E protect the body against these destructive effects of free radicals which attack normal cells in the body in order to obtain these electrons as they're 'hungry for electrons'.
- The deprived cells, now being ripped of their own electrons, in turn attack other normal cells. This may ultimately lead to a chain reaction, resulting in the cascading formation of abnormally reactive cells, or cancerous cells.
References: http://www.chiliwonders.com/ Okay, i think now i'm rather convinced to include chilli to my meals. Stay tuned for the next "Food Health Facts 101"! Labels: chilli, Food Health Facts
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Today's class was pretty okay, just that my french teacher can be quite draggy. Ok not quite, but VERY. Oh for your info, he doesn't teach us french but he's our faci for Consumer Psychology. And i got a grade C for his previous lesson, NEH NEH. But never mind, cause i think i did better yesterday so he BETTER give me a more decent grade. Or else, i will really teach him de 'FRENCH LANGUAGE'. Once i got in class (as usual i was late) there were lots of cups of COLA and PEPSI. What's the occasion? It's related to our problem for that day, which is "The Cola Challenge". Cool right? Haha. But felt bloated after drinking lots of them cause we had to differentiate which cup has Coke, Coke Lite, Pepsi, Pepsi Lite. BURRRPPPP!DRUNK! Lessons were supposed to end at 4.00pm for Year 2s and 3s but he ALWAYS end class at around 4.30pm, see how draggy he is. And i'm the only pathetic few among my friends to attend lessons on WED, cause i decided to take my FCM (Freely Chosen Module) this year and not next so that i can have more 'free' days next year. WOOHOO! This is what i call smart thinking. LOL!After lesson straight away chiong to Raffles for gyming and it was pretty fine, just that now my chest feels abit sore. But it's okay, cause i get to ogle at HOT PEOPLE! There were exotic arab females, and of course male ang mohs! Okay, i know i sound very gay by saying that but then it's the fact la. Female ang mohs were sparse over there. People who know me knows that i like foreign flavours, just that i don't know whether in the future i would marry someone who's non-chinese. Then of course you have the parents to deal, THE ULTIMATE STAGE.Chinese guys over there vary in sizes, literally. Ones that are very muscular, scrawny, saggy, tipping off the scale, small-sized (smaller than me), and of course not forgetting the unproportional. There's this guy who has great upper body (wearing singlet) but his lower body is really cui. As in, his legs/calves are not meatyand looks small. So overall he looks super unproportional. I understand that most guys workout/focus mostly on the upper body but you can't neglect the lower body as well. Later your legs cannot support your weight then you know ah. The girls over there were not that bad either, even some were wearing skimpy workout outfit. *droolsOHH YEA! Apple came out with a new laptop and it's TOTALLY ORGASMIC, and it's also greener! What i meant greener is that, the MacBook is designed with features that reduce its environmental impact. Would LOVE the person to BITS AND PIECES if i were to have one of this. Mummy can i buy?13.3-inch 2.4GHz MacBook- 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed.
- 1066MHz frontside bus.
- 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB.
- 250GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive.
- Optional 320GB 5400-rpm hard drive or 128GB solid-state drive.
- 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW).
- 5hrs wireless productivity.
- Built-in full-size illuminated keyboard.
- Weight: 2.04Kg
- 2.41 cm thin.
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics.
- Price: S$ 2,588.00
The NEW MacBook 
13 inch suits fine for me, but 15 inch would be BETTER! 






Isn't that really COOL?! What a total beauty and sexy bitch! The only thing that i don't like about the MacBook is that there isn't black color for the cover, unlike the previous one. So when there're scratches (on the new MacBook) it will be so damn obvious then it'll be freaking fugly. For more details/information, please visit http://www.apple.com/sg/macbook/. Last FRIDAY went out with MEI TING to Vivocity for shopping at Pull and Bear, and i spent 90 bucks! OHH MANN!!! Bought a tee and a polo. After that we went to River Island to shadeswhore AGAIN. Haha. 
uhm chio-ing 
Mei Ting, why do you have to open your mouth? 
am going to wear this for RETRO PARTY! Friends know that i'm not a chilli eater and recently JEFFERY, JERALDINE and VIVAN have been asking me to adapt and try to accept chilli. Partly because there're lots of great food i wouldn't be able to appreciate, Chilli Crab, Stingray (coated with chilli) and many more delicacies. JERALDINE just told me that eating chilli will improve one's body immune system (i'm low in that) and consists lots of vitamins. So i decided to google about it and find it out myself. Since this post is quite lengthy already, i'm gonna post the health facts in the next post. Stay tuned! Labels: chilli, MacBook
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