Benefits of drinking green tea

From the Chinese point of view, they already known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times. it is used it to treat everything starting from headaches to depression. there is some benefits get by drinking the green tea such as:

• Reduced risk for heart disease
• The antioxidants content in green, black, and oolong teas can help to block the oxidation of LDL (bad) cholesterol, increase HDL (good) cholesterol and as the result improved artery function. 
• prevent cancer, the polyphenol content in the tea may kill cancer cell.
• improve glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in individuals with diabetes.
• boosts the body’s metabolism.
• cognitive impro (increased mental abilities in senior citizen). 
• prevent from getting Alzheimer's disease and reduce memory loss by protecting the brain from forming plaque.
• helps burn fat (polyphenol content in the green tea)

Green tea has lots of amazing health benefits. From today, lets start our day by drinking green tea.

Sources: http://greenlivingideas.com,

                http://www.health.harvard.edu

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INTERNATIONAL NO DIET DAY

Usually, our mind is fully with the intention to get nice body figure especially for women. They tends to go on diet in order to get what they want. Therefore, this special day is introduced as a celebration of body acceptance and body shape diversity. In addition, the purpose we celebrated this day is to raise the awareness of people about the dangers of diets (bad habit diet).

The Goals of the INDD:
1. Doubt the idea of one "right" body shape.
2. Raise awareness to weight discrimination, size bias and fatphobia.
3. Declare a free day from diets and obsessions to body weight.
4. Present the facts about the diet industry, emphasizing the inefficacy of commercial diets.
5. Show how diets perpetuate violence against women.
6. Honor the victims of eating disorders and weight-loss surgeries. 

video on bulimia nervosa patient

video on awareness of eating disorder

source: http://dietitians-online.blogspot.com/

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CORRECT WAYS TO READ NUTRITION LABELS

Caution: Don’t go by the claims on the packaging of any food product. If you want correct information, check the fine print and learn to read between the lines.

1. Ingredients

Look at the ingredients list to estimate the fat, sugar or salt content. Usually ingredients are listed in descending order by weight. In other words, the 1st ingredient on the list is the one found in the greatest amount.

2. Dietary disguises
A lot of sugars and salts present in processed food. Often fats, sugars and salts hide under other names. For instance, shortenings, tallow, cream, lard, nuts and seed, all translate to “fat”. Similarly, sugars may be listed as dextrose, sucrose, lactose, fructose, glucose, etc. Sodium goes beyond salt, disguised as baking powder, sodium metabisulphite, monosodium glutamate, and so on.

3. Fighting fat

For a low-fat diet, look for less than 10g fat per 100g of product. Also check the amount of saturated fat. Fats in the form of mono-unsaturated fatty acid (Mufa) and polyunsaturated fatty acid (Pufa), omega-3 and omega-6 are “good fats”; avoid trans-fatty acids (TFA) and high levels of saturated fats .According to the regulations, a product with 0.5g TFA per serving or less can be labelled “Trans Fat Free”. Even with a 0.1g product, if a customer gets three or four such products, he will have 0.4g of trans-fat, in the mistaken belief that he is consuming a trans-fat-free diet. While saturated fats raise total cholesterol levels, TFAs raise total cholesterol and also reduce heart-protective good cholesterol (HDL). Every 2% increase in per day intake of TFAs is associated with a 23% increase in cardiovascular risk.

4.How it measures up 

This is where even reputable manufacturers hide behind ambiguous statements. Nutritional info is typically listed “per serving” or “per 100g”. But what’s the size of a serving, according to the package? (Hint: read closely) And is 100ml really a likely serving for a 200ml box of juice? “per 100g” labels are useful for comparing two products.

http://www.livemint.com/2010/06/21211112/The-truth-behind-nutrition-lab.html
Credit to : livemint.com (The Wall Street Journal)

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LAWATAN KE KUALA LUMPUR

Pada 11-13 April 2012, Lawatan ke Kuala Lumpur telah diadakan oleh pihak UniSZA yang melibatkan pelajar tahun 2 dan tahun 3 jurusan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Dietetik (kepujian). Para pelajar yang terlibat adalah seramai 54 orang dan pengiring yang terlibat adalah seramai 6 orang. Mengikut rencana program kami, kami telah melawat Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Hospital Ampang, Institut Sukan Negara dan Majlis Sukan Negara. Manakala kami menginap di Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).

Lawatan kami ini adalah bertujuan untuk meninjau dan belajar tentang bagaimanakah cara bekerja di unit sajian dan dietetik di hospital tersebut. Manakala, di Institut Sukan Negara (ISN) kami telah didedahkan dengan skop kerjaya pegawai dietetik di sana. Skop kerjaya untuk pegawai dietetik di ISN agak berlainan daripada hospital kerana para pegawai dietetik akan bekerja dengan atlet-atlet sukan. 

Untuk Majlis Sukan Negara, kami telah melawat kafeteria MSN dan kami juga telah melihat serba sedikit bagaimana proses penyediaan dan penyimpanan makanan di sana dilakukan. Secara keseluruhannya, pelbagai ilmu telah kami perolehi sepanjang lawatan ini. 

Semasa di Hospital Ampang ^_^

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