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Cholesterol nowadays become a celebrity... of sickness. It shoot not only to elderly but also youngster to whom love eating processed and junk food. Should we worry about that? Yes, we are. Cholesterol is a substance our liver can produce. It's needed to build vitamin D, cell walls, hormones and help us to digest fat. Cholesterol is a type of lipid, together with protein (become lipoprotein) cholesterol is traveling to every parts of our body through bloodstream. There is 2 type of cholesterol : High-Density Lipoprotein ( HDL ), well known as good cholesterol Low-Density Lipoprotein ( LDL ), known as bad cholesterol. When LDL is high it will hardening arteries and decrease blood flow, which put the risk of having heart attack or having stroke. What cause high in LDL? Diet in high saturated fat and trans fat . Overweight Heredity Less of physically activity Age How to control LDL? Replace your saturated and trans fat foods to fruits , raw veggies, beans, whole grain and fis...

Was so happy to know my blogger friend Fida Abbot want to share her award to me, thanks a lot for this cute award. Rules for the award: Put the award in a post when you receive it. Name and link to the blogger who gave you the award in the post. Write the reason why you love to blog. Pass the award on to other bloggers that you know. Name and link to your recipients in the post. Let your recipients know that the award was passed on to them. The reason why I love to blog: Is because I can have new friends through blogging, I can learn and share altogether good things I know with my blogger friend- could be as a reminder or just knowledge. That's it for now. Than I’d like to pass to my blogger friends... Dorothy L Raj Karumbu Katie_bug Shiro Gazafi Saif Gab’s mom Tripzibit Flying Low Piter

Fat is an essential nutrient to our body. It absorbs and store vitamins A, D, E, K and carotene. Fat is also provides energies to our activity, biggest calories than carbo and protein. But you need to keep balance between calories consumed with physical activity you do. If you consume more calories than you use through physically activity, you will gain weight. Toddlers and kids need fat in certain amount for brain and nerve system development, they can get it through whole fat milk. Both animal and plant food is producing different types of fat, they are: Saturated Fat Found in animal product such in meat, the skin, poultry and high-fat dairy product like butter, full cream milk, cheese, coconut milk, vegetables oils, and used cooking oil. A diet high saturated fat may increase the risk of heart attack and raise your blood cholesterol level. Unsaturated Fat , is divided by: Monounsaturated Fat Is the healthiest fat, these are found in plant foods such grape seeds, cashew, almond, avo...

Fruit and vegetables are loaded with vitamins A, B, C and E, and mineral such as manganese, calcium, potassium and iron. Fruits and vegetables are also contain phytochemicals (beneficial plant substance) that help to strengthen body's immune system. Vegetables is also lowering the risk of heart disease, cancer (by 30%) and stroke. Fruits and vegetables with their fibre can lower blood cholesterol and promotes healthy bowel functions. Variety of vegetables serve us variety of nutrients as well. Dark green vegetables are rich in calcium, folate and iron. And brightly colourful vegetables have more nutrients, neutralizing free radicals and help to fight cancer. What is Phytochemicals? Phytochemical is plant chemical, produced naturally by vegetables to protect against bacterias, viruses and fungus. Studies shown that phytochemical can prevent our body from cancer, stroke and heart disease. Phytochemical can be found in: Carotenoids, found in carrot, crude palm oil and apricot. Flavo...

New MRT facilities can be enjoyed by its passengers in Singapore, now in every door equipped with route display panel as a train direction, the red blinking light shows which station we are now (so, no more self question ... 'where are we now? What station is this?) and yellow light shows the train route. This changing is really helpful because the train direction is a bit confusing me sometimes, especially when you are in Dhoby Ghaut (read in Indonesia : ' Dobi Got ') or City Hall station with lots of train tunnel. And it is refreshing my eyes with it's fancy look, even though it is a bit costly i guess ... of course, with that much train operation everyday in this island wide, in each door installed this route panel display, just imagine how much money government spent for this fresh look in this monetary crisis. That is what common point of view, but if we take a look from other angle that we-our self also need to pamper our self with any (costless if possible) thing...

Dongchimi is known as winter kimchi . It is consist of Daikon (white radishes) as main ingredient, carrot and pear as optional. The way it's made almost as same as Yeolmu kimchi , we just need to coated radishes in salt and sugar mixture for one day in the room temperature , it will leave salty and sweet taste to the radishes. Repeat soaking with new water, sugar and salt together with other ingredients and sauce, fermented for about 1-2 days until vinegary flavour has risen. Store in the refrigerator with self life about 1 week. It is nice to be served cool. Picture is courtesy of park.org/Cdrom/Pavilions/

Yeolmu or young summer radishes is popular vegetables made into kimchi in the summer. The main ingredient of this kimchi is yeolmu. Yeolmu kimchi to be ferment in the paste liquid that can be made by salt, fish sauce, sugar, water and flour as water thickener, brinned fish can be added to replace fish sauce. After the paste is cool add yeolmu together with garlic, ginger, onion, green and red bell pepper. Keep in the refrigerator after couple of days fermentation in the room temperature. Served cool. picture is courtessy of htorderinko.webbridge.co.kr

Bok Choi ingredient is bok choi, jalapeno pepper, red bell pepper (known as paprika), scallion and toasted sesame seeds, with additional fish sauce, ground apple; onion and pear into the sauce. Bok choi kimchi is nice to be enjoyed fresh without fermentation, and can be kept refrigerated up to 2 days.

Oi Kimchi is known as Cucumber Kimchi . With cucumbers as the main ingredient and additional chopped carrot and Korean Radish in the sauce , Oi Kimchi can be eaten right away after 1 hour fermentation or 24 hours for best fermentation result. Oi kimchi don't need closed jar for fermentation, just put in a bowl and leave it open at room temperature. Keep it in the refrigerator after fermentation and it will last for 1 week. Picture is courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/maangchi

This beautiful award i received from BitterSweet Life , thank you so much ... it's so lovely. Salamat sa award, mare ... And here is the message of the award: "To receive this award your blog must be exceptional in design and content ; presenting us with new knowledge , a sense of style , or at times giving us a smile ! Each recipient of this award must acknowledge the person who honored them with the award and then go to http://www.overthetopaprons.blogspot.com to copy/paste the award: Your Blog is Over the Top". Now I'm passing this award to the following Over the Top bloggers that I know: Budiawan Hutasoit Dorothy L Irfan Maya Neslihan

Kkadugi Kimchi known as Radish Kimchi is the easiest recipe for kimchi. With Korean Radishes and scallion as the main ingredients Kkakdugi is the easiest recipe for kimchi, just mixed well ingredients with sauce then put in the jar and close the lid tightly for fermenting process at room temperature for 36 hours. Kkakdugi can be eaten right away when desired and must put in the refrigerator after opened, it can be kept for 4weeks. picture is courtesy of my.agrotrade.net