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Health 2 Know - June 2009

My Mother’s Vericose Veins Story

June 30th 2009 05:38
Each person has his/her own untold story…

It’s been three years, since I worked as a high school counselor. Honestly, I must say that parents are over pampering their children, until some of them having “The Pampered Child Syndrome”! When this happened, it not only won’t help the children to live independently by themselves, but it put the children at the risk for serious social and physiological disabilities as well.

Honestly, those children who having the pampered child syndrome won’t appreciate everything what their parents have done to them! They’re keep complaining and nagging all day long. It’s a very serious situation, where it can be fixed within days or weeks! I’ve been encountered with several teenagers who have this syndrome before, and yep, it’s even more complicated than I could ever imagined.


I discovered a similarity on those teenagers, which they’re mostly ignored to their parents advices/words. Honestly, I felt sympathy for the teenagers and their parents, as both sides are suffering, due to the syndrome!

Talking about parent, my mum and dad have been my idol, since I was six-year-old. Since I was six, my mother had quit her previous accountant job and move to the rural area with my father.

At there, my mums have helped my dad in the farm. We all know that life, as a farmer isn’t easy (Honestly, it considered as one of the hardest job in the world, which is require ninety-nine percent perspiration).

However, my mum didn’t complaint about it, instead she always smiled, when she’s working in the farm.

After a long hour of working for over thirty years, the varicose veins starting to affect her life. For those that didn’t know about varicose veins, they’re veins that have become enlarged, discolored and tortuous. Her calves are fully covered with painful and itchy varicose veins.


Every time, when I backed to my hometown, I asked if her want to have varicose veins treatment at the nearest center, she will mostly refuse my requirement. Until one day, the varicose veins have started to affect her walking ability. She has no choice, but listens to my advice and went for treatment at westchester vein center. After a few time of treatments, she’d finally released herself from the suffering of varicose veins.

Frankly, my mum has been sacrificed too much for family and me. She deserved to have a better and healthier life, especially in her golden age!

I love you, mum.
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People in nowadays have different types of problem and insufficiency. However, one and probably the most common problems is the lack of sleep hours!

According to the surveys, there is nearly 45 percent of American that has less than 6 hours of sleep every day, while there is less than 25 percent of American that sleep at least 8 hours per day!

Due to this phenomenon, the sleep deprivation is spreading its invention and causing many sleep disorder problems.



Many people seem to neglect the important of sleep, as they think it won’t be a matter, if they have less sleep hours and more working hours. The truth is the lack of sleep hours can cause many unexpected troubles, which are:

• Memory loss,
• Drowsiness,
• Weaker concentration,
• Blurry vision,

Don’t believe on what I’m saying here? Then, go ahead and try to staying awake for over a few days! I’m guarantee that you’ll start to have hallucinations, nausea or even panic attack.

It’s very important to have a good and quality sleep hours, remember that you’ll still need to repay the price, if you ignored the sleep hours! And, it’s even better to sleep at night, as the old saying, “Begin with the sunrise and stop with the sunset.”

PS: Picture credit thanks to healthhype.
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The obesity problem has been a global problem. Honestly, it only turns into a serious matter in the last two decades, where the people who living in highly developed countries have the higher rate of having obesity problem than those from least developing countries!

Based on the latest studies, there are over 65 percent of U.S. adults have trouble with obesity, while nearly 62 percent of U.K. citizens are battling against it.

Well, I knew that appearance doesn’t mean the whole thing to us, but sometimes, it could be very painful and torturing, especially you’re being teased by other people without showing any sympathy/mercy.

My friend, Katherine is one of those who being struggled by the obesity. I remembered when she was studying in college; she’d been elected as the college ‘Prom Queen’, due to her outstanding slim body! To be honest, she was proud of her body and will do anything to keep it in shape.

However, after a several times of broke up with her boyfriends, she started to stuff herself with foods day after day. When she graduated from college, she’s already a woman with plump and flabby body size!

She told me, in the past few years, she was very pathetic and misery about everything in her life. She was too upset with herself, until she nearly done something stupid, by ending up her precious life!

However, it seems that her lucky charm has arrived, when she was able to lose her fat away, since nine months ago. She said it wasn’t really hard to do it, as you just need to pop the daily supplement, drink more water and workout regularly.

Well, Katherine. I’m glad that you’ve gained back your lost confidence, is time to use your weapon (beauty) and conquer your loved ones. Live up your life and be happy everyday!
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Everyone has own favorite. Some of us love something hot and spicy, while the others might enjoy those foods with rather plain favor.

No matter what types of people you are, most of you might have tried the mustard before.

Mustard are several plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis, where the small mustard seeds are used as a spice and turned into condiment that we all familiar with: Mustard!



Do you know that mustard can help to stimulate the appetite by increasing one person’s salivation by up to eight times? Furthermore, it also has digestive, laxative, antiseptic, and circulative stimulant properties as well!

And, mustard effective in neutralizing toxins and helps ward off an upset stomach. Mustard contains sulphur, where it has been used as a treatment for skin related diseases as well!

However, the only one thing we should aware here is mustard greens are not good, especially for those with thyroid. The mustard green has the ability to increase the size of thyroid!

PS: Figure thanks to touchofeurope.
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People in present days are always complaint of having too little time, as they’ve devoted most of the time into the job/work. Plus, with the heavily polluted environment that full with contaminated substances, we’re having higher risk to be infected by numerous types of diseases/illnesses.

Due to the insufficiency and lacking of multivitamins, it’s very easy for us to fall sick. However, did you know that there are several symptoms might appear, before you’re getting sick? Well, you should pay attention, when you’re having:

• Headaches,
• Dizziness,
• Joint aches,
• Fatigue, or
• Sleepiness.

In this period, you might want to take a day off, take a good rest, by simply relaxing your mind or body. Well, I knew it’s easier said than done, as many people didn’t have enough time, even for having meals!

However, when you take a minute and think about it, “Would I still able to work like this way, if I suddenly fall ill, such as having the cancer?” I didn’t mean to curse you here, but did you know that in Japan or worldwide, the people who died because of Karoshi (It means ‘overlyworked’) have been skyrocketing since the past few years?

By the way, when we’re overstressed, you’re likely to get the constipation! I got several ways to help you overcome the matter.

1. You must drink at least a glass of fresh tomatoes juice daily.
2. A glass of warm water after you’ve woke up is good for overcoming the constipation.
3. Eat an orange an hour before you’re going to sleep!

If you’re practicing the above tips for health, then the nasty and irritating constipation problem will be gone in several days.

For those who love to consume high fructose corn syrup, you need to beware of it, as my friend, Ronald, a nutritionist in one food producing company, had told me that high fructose corn syrup is known as the main cause of leading to many diseases, such as diabetes, heart burn, heart related diseases and cancers!

Therefore, please take note about it and mind about the diet information, before you’re become the victim of this invisible killer.

Have a healthy lifestyle and keep smiling…
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The Miracle Parts of Acupuncture

June 22nd 2009 14:33
Today, I’m feeling very upset, as my neighbor, Margaret had suddenly got the stroke attack in her home’s kitchen in this early morning (Gosh, I’m in huge shock when I knew it). Luckily, her daughter is watering plants in the backyard garden. She drove her mother straight to the nearest hospital!

After an hour of rescuing, the doctor managed to save Margaret life, but after the unpredictable attack, she is not able to walk as usual, as her legs became a little bit paralyze!

During the lunch hour, I rushed to hospital and dropped Margaret a visit. Although she seen much better, and she’s smiling during my visiting, but I sensed something wasn’t right (maybe sorrowful feeling) underneath her smile! No matter what, I must help her recover from the inability…

After I went back to my working place, I started to search on the internet. Well, it seems that the god of luck is always besides me, where I found a very effective way to treat Margaret’s paralysis.

Honestly, it’s one of the most common methods and it’s being classified in the alternative therapies field. Yep, I’m talking about the acupuncture here!



Well, I’m going to skip the introduction of acupuncture, as the main topic is how to use it to cure the stroke patient.

If someone is being attack by stroke, you must stay calm and don’t be panic. For those that living in a rural area, and you didn’t have the time to wait for the ambulance to come by, then you can use this ‘bloodletting’ method.

Actually, bloodletting is one of the ancient world’s medical techniques, where it requires one person to release certain amount of blood from a patient. It is belief that this method would cure the illnesses instantly!

By the way, here are the steps and you can try it, especially when the stroke patient is situated in a very critical position!

1. First of all, you must slowly move the patient. Make sure that he/she sitting on the chair/couch.

2. Then, find a needle (It’s better using the sewing needle, or a copper pin is also fine as well). Before it, remember to disinfect the needle, by burning the needle on fire for about 30 seconds!

3. After it, you need to use the needle and prick on the patient’s fingers. In this case, please ensure that you’re pricking on all the ten fingers!

4. Lastly, squeeze the patient’s fingers hardly until you see the blood coming out from it. After a few minutes, the patient will awake from the unconscious.

I’m feeling very sorry for Margaret, as I cannot use this method to save her, when she’s need it the most! However, I’m sure with the stroke acupuncture methods, which I learned from a very special health forum, she will recover from the paralysis very soon!

Hopefully, you all will learn this simple life rescue method, as it’s can be as useful as CPR, when you’re dealing with the stroke patients.

Note: Figure thanks to healthjockey.
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All right, I know most of you here were very familiar with this word, “Arthritis”. However, did you know that there are over 100 other types of arthritis? Amongst the 100 types, Osteoarthritis is the most common type, which comprises up to 75% of the total amount!

According to the recently research from The Arthritis Foundation of United States, there are over 27 million Americans suffering with Osteoarthritis and the arthritis treatment costs nearly $128 billion every year.

Here’s another shocking fact from The Arthritis Foundation! Eight out of ten people whom aging 65 years old and above will be affected by arthritis. Although the arthritis isn’t a fatal disease, but it does bring much of pain to the patients.

For those that having osteoarthritis, you should:
• Do more exercises;
• Maintain your body weight;
• Avoid injury to joints.

Furthermore, you should intake the healthy foods that can keep you away from the pain of Osteoarthritis, such as:

1. Foods that enriched with Omega-3;
2. Vegetable or Olive oil;
3. A lot of fruits and vegetables (Except the eggplant and paprika).

Osteoarthritis doesn’t mean the end of the world to you here. Therefore, you’re deserved to live up your life as any other healthy people as well!
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Human beings are considering one of the most unique living creatures, as we’re been gifted with mind, which allow us to think, act and response to others.

Some people might think they’re powerful and indestructible, but they didn’t know that with only a tiny infection from flu viruses, their life might be in risk, if they didn’t get the cure as soon as possible!

Honestly, when the swine flu virus was first detected in Mexico City on March 18, 2009, we didn’t expect that it would become so worse, only after the WHO’s Chan declared the outbreak as the worldwide pandemic and adjusted the Pandemic Alert Level to six on June 11, 2009!

My friend, Kevin had dropped me a mail on the early morning. He told me, the Swine Flu has outspreading to over 90 countries and so far, there are more than 51,000 cases have been reported and 254 deaths. Most people start to become worrisome, as the statistic keep rising day after day...

Furthermore, he said that the swine flu might infect up to half the population, if the spreading rate is keep accelerating and didn’t slow down!

Kevin was very concerned about it, hence he spent several days to collect the information about the swine flu and post it in his health blog. He said he must do something to remind the people about the dangerous of swine flu, especially in this critical time!

Honestly, the swine flu prevention is necessary, no matter where you are. Do remember, please keep yourself away from the crowd, drink plenty of water and sleep well, as these three methods are the basic and essential ways to against the infection of swine flu!

By the way, some scientists discovered that the green tea, ginger tea and lemon tea are good for preventing the flu as well. So, let’s change your daily routine a little, by including the tea drinking habits into it.

Life well, guys. I hope you all will have a nice and healthy living style.
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Well, we’ve always been advised to add certain types of foods into cooking, as it might help to prevent assorted diseases.

Today, I would like to talk about the Walnuts. For those of you that love the walnuts taste, then here’s the another solid reasons, why you must insert walnuts into the diet!

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have been discovered that by adding a moderate amount of walnut into a cooking might help to improve the elders’ motor and behavioral skills.

The research group pointed out that walnuts are rich in polyphenols and other unsaturated fatty acids. These essential minerals are important to boost up the neural tissue and hence improving the performance on tasks of the aging people, especially when they require the motor and behavioral skills to do some simple tasks in their daily life.

If you do love about your parents or the elders, then you must add at least 20 grams of walnuts into the main meal everyday!

By the way, I got a recipe here and it’s called, “The Sweet Candied Walnut”. You can try it if you want to…

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup of coarse sugar,
• ½ cup of brown sugar,
• ½ cup of brown sugar,
• ¼ cup of sour cream,
• 2 cups of walnuts.

Cooking Process:

First thing first, mix all the sugar, brown sugar and sour cream into a pot. Cook it until the whole mixture becoming sticky.

Secondly, add the walnuts into the pot and stir it until all the walnuts has been coated with the mixture.

Lastly, pour the candied walnuts into a plate and put it into the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

Voila, you’re now have the icy cold and sweet candied walnuts!
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You’re frustrated and upset with the wrinkles on your face, the painful arthritis and unattractive bulging body-shaped? Honestly, the more you’re thinking about the disadvantages of your own body, then the problem would be going to get worse!

According to Ellen Langer, a Harvard University psychologist and professor, has been discovered that the mind has a very unbelievable “power”. It can help us to overcome many problems, such as lack of self-confidence, eliminate the bad habits and even stop the aging problem!

Believe it or not, Langer did a research study on two group of old people. One group is placed and isolated from the modern world. They’re being told that they’ve traveled back in time 20 years earlier. In the meantime, the other group is living their life as usual.

After one week, those men who being isolated from the modern life have been found had more joint flexibility, less arthritis and faster dexterity than before. Furthermore, 80% of them claimed that they’re feeling 20 years younger, after they spent the whole week in the room with all those stuffs 20 years earlier!

Well, for some of you here, it might sounds like the “Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights”. However, it’s nothing wrong to try it, as it didn’t have any side effect to your body, isn’t it?

Maybe, a quick of 10 – 15 minutes of meditation per day will make your feeling refreshing and rejuvenate again…

Note: Figure thanks to lisucr.
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People always think that only the elders will be mostly affected by the arthritis or osteoarthritis. This fact is acceptable, ONLY in the past 50 years!

Based on the latest health research, the experts discovered that there are more and more people, especially the younger generation having the higher risk of getting arthritis than the elders!

Honestly, I’m not feeling shock about the result, due to the utterly bad and unhealthy eating habits. Basically, those youngsters who love to eat a lot of fast and junk foods will have a higher risk of becoming the next victim of arthritis!

My elder uncle, William has been suffered with arthritis ten years ago. Frankly, every time I visit him, I always saw him sitting on the wheel chair and complaint how painfully he is being tortured by arthritis. He complaint that he didn't pay attention for the joint care when he's young, and now's the punishment time for him! I’m feeling sorry for him, as I cannot help him to bear his suffering.

For your information, my uncle’s eldest son, Benson has dropped me a call in this afternoon. During the conversation, he told me that his father’s arthritis condition becoming worse in the past few days. He hoped that I could do him a favor, by helping him seek the solution.

As a result, I tried to search all over the internet and hope to find the permanent solution for reducing my uncle’s arthritis pain. Well, after hours of searching and analyzing, I finally discovered that there is an effective solution for my uncle’s arthritis!



Have you ever heard about glucosamine before? Well, it is an amino sugar and part of the structure of normal cartilage. Where can we find the cartilage? It can be found between bones and acts as a cushion in a joint! Glucosamine, which is also known as “Chitosamine” can be extracted from the covering of shellfish.

Glucosamine is claimed effective to the patients who suffering with arthritis or joint pain. Even some of the doctors use it as a therapy for treating the osteoarthritis too!

I’m feeling a little bit overexcited, as I managed to discover the solution for my uncle’s illness. Hopefully, he’s able to gain his life back like the old times!

Note: Figure thanks to eorthopod.
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Guys, have you ever wondered, “How do the proteins take the orders and work accordingly in our body?” Well, I remembered that I used to ask this question on my nana (She’d been passed away more than 20 years) and I got the answer, “Well, Willy (My nana used to call me “Willy”) believe it or not, human body’s a very complicated part, and it has many things that cannot be explained by science at all!”

“Oh, is this means it has no explanation for it, nana?”

“Maybe it’s not for now, but it might be revealed in the future, Willy!”

Although my nana is a very experienced biology teacher in the 80’s, but she still cannot figure out the answer for this question. In other case, she was right about it, as the answer is finally revealed after two decades…

Don Arnold, the molecular and computational biologist at USC College has figured out that proteins will be given specify encoded information by the brain, before they’re heading to the final destination in the cell.



For your information, each neuron has dendrites and axons. The dendrites are responsible for receiving signals while the axons are in charge of sending the signals to other cells. Proteins is to be found travelled in bubbles and powered by motors named, “kinesins”.

Arnold has been discovered that the kinesis is able to carry both types of proteins (Dendritic proteins and axonal proteins) towards the axons in the same time!

Hence, 99.99% of the proteins will go to the exactly place, once it accept order from the main brain! It’s impossible that the proteins went to the wrong place, so you don’t have to worry about it at all.

PS: Nana, thanks for the words. You’re right here, as the question has been unveiled after 20 years of time! I’ll always missed you…

By the way, picture thanks to medicalgeek.
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Welcome back and thanks for sticking with me from the part 1 until this new part. Well, this is the last part of the fermented soy food series and I hope you’ll enjoy it as you did in the first three parts! Hooray, I was a little bit overwhelmed about it (Am I a freak or what?!) lol

Ok, back to the topic. Does anyone here ever hear about this word, “Tempeh” or “Tempe” before? By the way, I’m not talking about the Tempe City at Florida, but rather a traditional food.

Well, for your information, Tempeh is a very famous Javanese food, where is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process. The Tempeh makers will bind soybeans into a cake form and let it fermented for over a period. Tempeh is a staple source of protein and is very common in the Southeast Asia region!



Beside that, tempeh has been claimed to have a higher contain of protein, fiber and vitamins compared to tofu. Tempeh also has a very strong and complex flavor. Well, it’s hard to describe it, is some kind the mixture of nutty and meaty-like taste. That’s why, tempeh also being referred as “Javanese meat” in other form!

Along with tofu, natto and miso, tempeh also has been listed into the “Top Four Healthy Fermented Soy Foods”.

Amongst the variety of tempeh, I loved the Tempe goreng (Deep-fried tempeh) in Indonesian Language the most. By the way, here’s the recipe of the Tempe goreng, try it if you dare!

Ingredients:

• 2 garlic clove (Make sure to crush it first)
• 2 teaspoon salt
• ½ pound fermented tempeh (You have to slice each of it into 2" X 1/2" in size!)
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• Two hot red chilies (It has to be seeded and sliced)
• ½ teaspoon shrimp paste

Cooking Process :

1. First of all, try to mix together the garlic and salt. Then, rub this mixture all over the tempeh. Put it aside and wait for at least 15 minutes.
2. Then, heat the oil in a skillet, and fry the tempeh over medium heat for about 3 – 5 minutes.
3. Blend the chilies and shrimp paste into a paste form. Serve the fried tempeh with the tantalizing paste!
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Life is a journey that full with many epic and dramas. To be honest, it isn’t easy to live up our life, as there are so much responsibility that we need to take care in daily life!

Well, let’s take an example. A person that we recognized can be a father or mother to other elders; He/she can also be a parent for their children, or uncle/aunt for their nephew/niece! The interaction between people-to-people is endless, and it shouldn’t be as well.

Living in this 21st century can be really challenging. Unlike those that living in the past, as there are many bad influences surrounding us in nowadays’ world.

According to the survey, up to 52 percent of the teenage drug addicts get involved with drugs, thanks to their so-called “best friends”! That is why, parents should always keep their eyes on their children behavior, as there are many unpredictable events might be taken place in this lunatic world.

Taking about the drug, I remembered a real story and it’s happened while I’m a volunteer social worker at a local community center (Yep, I’ve been a social worker for 9 months, soon after I graduated from the college).

Frankly, during the period, I’ve handled many cases, and believe it or not, 80 percent of the cases are related with the teenagers’ drug abuse problem (Sigh…)!

There’s a case about a young teenage girl who involved herself in the drug abuse matter. I clearly remember her name until today. Carly was only a thirteen-year-old teenage, when she was being caught red-handed using drug at her bedroom by his parents! Her parents were very pissed off and upset, they’ve decided to send her to the local community center, hopefully they can seek for some help here.

At the first time I saw Carly, I knew something wasn’t right about her. I asked the permission from her parents to allow me asking a few questions on Carly, without the supervision of her parents! They agreed with my request and decided to leave us alone in my office.

I started to ask Carly about her personal interests, her school life and her relationship with parents. At the very beginning, everything seems fine, as she’s answering my questions with gorgeous smiles. However, the situation is started turning upside down, when we’re talking about her parents!

She was crying and complaints. She said to me, “One of the main reasons why I involved in drug is to draw my parents’ attention!” Gosh, I was a little bit shocked with this statement.
“Although they’ve given me hundreds of dollars and uncountable gifts, but I don’t need these types of craps at all!” Carly said.

“All I want is the loving and caring from them, I hope they can spend more time with me than their bloody jobs!”

Carly knocked her right knuckle on the table and crying once again…

She confessed that after she started taking drug, it leads to another serious side effect, where she hated to eat the daily meals. The even worse thing is she will vomit the foods out from her throat inside the toilet! At the moment, I was thinking that Carly’s really need some attention and help from us. Maybe, an eating disorders treatment will help her gain the normal life back.

Once I’ve finished hearing Carly’s confession, I called her parents to join us discussing the solution for Carly’s problem. To be honest, Carly’s parents were totally flabbergasted, when they heard Carly’s confession and they’re feeling very guilty for not being a responsible parent!

Since Carly’s drug abuse situation is quite serious, I suggested them to go for the residential heroin detox programs. During the program, Carly’s parents should show their concern about Carly’s progression, by visiting her occasionally in the center!

Beside that, I also advised Carly’s parents to put Carly into the inpatient eating disorder treatment, as she really needs to overcome the eating disorder matter as soon as possible, before it turns into a deadly disorder!

Of course, all the treatments are going to take times. No matter what, as long as Carly didn’t give up, she will be able to regain her life back!

In the end of conversation, Carly’s parents did take my advices. Three days after the meeting session, Carly was headed into a local drug rehabilitation center. Three months later, I received a phone call from Carly. She was crying and shouting with joy over the telephone. She told me that she had successfully recovered from the drug abuse and eating disorder problems. Now, she’s ready to pursuit her life goal without any hesitation…

I’m very proud of you, Carly girl!
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After the pickled tofu and miso, I continue to recommend you another fermented soy food, Natto.

Based on its name, you know that it’s another Japanese traditional foods. It made from fermented soybeans and it’s one of the most popular breakfast types for the Japanese.

Natto is normally sold in small polystyrene containers, which is included with a small packet of soil sauce (shoyu) and mustard (karashi).

The medical researchers discovered that there’s one substance, pyrazine who giving the natto the distinct smell, has the ability to reduce blood clotting, thrombosis, heart attacks, pulmonary embolism or even stroke! In the latest studies, Taiwanese scientists found that the nattokinase in natto could be used to prevent or cure the Alzheimer’s disease.



Also, natto has been proven effective to:

• Prevent cancers,
• Lowering the high cholesterol level,
• Strengthen your immune system,
• Prevent obesity,
• Improve digestion,
• Slow down the aging problem.

However, the natto has a very strong ammoniacal smell, which is similar with the strong smell from the raw cheese. Some people might think it’s totally gross and disgust to eat the sticky yet strong smell food.

Go to the local market, buy one natto and taste it yourself! Love it or hate it? Remember to speak out your comment about it…

PS: Picture credits goes to bookmice!
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