How to choose a healthy and safe toothpaste???

Let me share with you tooth paste from E.Excel =) 

I have been using it ever since it was launched many years back!! 

Functions:

• Prevent tooth decay
• Whitens
• Fils in crevices
• Clears Plaque
• Anti-bacterial
• Mouth Freshener

Doesn't Contain the below:

• NO flourides
• NO triclosan
• NO Sodium Lauryl Sulfat (SLS)
• NO Abrasives
• NO Bleachers

Contains 

• Oxyginberry Complex (cactus, cactus fruits, ginseng berry, rose, grape seed, seaweed) 

learn more from the below

Best Regards, 

Joselyne

Nutritional Immunology Consultant

+65-9090 9942

Do you love the colours of new collection of Elemente Lipsticks?

Do you like the new series of Elemente Lipstick?

I've got myself a new set!! 💗💗




The below pictures are the sample set to show you the colours: 

Color Drench Lipstick Collection II:

Color Drench Lipstick Collection I: 

Why do I choose Lipstick by E.Excel?

Most important factor is the PRODUCT SAFETY!!! 

Some lipsticks contain LEAD which leads to severe side effects to health!

🙀 Read the below article !!! 

"400 lipsticks found to contain lead, FDA says"

A recent federal analysis showing that 400 shades of popular lipstick contained trace amounts of lead has exacerbated an ongoing dispute between regulators and consumer activists over how much lead is safe in cosmetics.

Five lipsticks made by L’Oreal and Maybelline, owned by L’Oreal USA, ranked among the top 10 most contaminated of the cosmetics, according to testing by the Food and Drug Administration. Two Cover Girl and two NARS lipsticks also landed in the top 10, as did one made by Stargazer.

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/400-lipstick-brands-contain-lead-fda-says/2012/02/14/gIQAhOyeDR_story.html) 

Let's all be a wise consumer !! 

PM me at 90909942 if you have any enquiry. :)

Warmest Regards, 

Joselyne 

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Misuse of Antibiotics caused Superbug

An article that shared on HOW TO BEAT SUPERBUGS?

"85% of Sore throat were from viral infection and patients did not need antibiotics."

Me: Indeed, antibiotics are not helpful in viral infection.

"Doctors need to be judicious in giving antibiotics and use clinical tools such as the Centor score to gauge whether patients have a bacterial sore throat." 

"If patient A loaded with normal bacteria and a small amount of resistant bacteria (superbug) as a result of previous history of overusing antibiotics, came in and was given regular antibiotics for the normal bacteria, he might be well for a while as the antibiotics would kill the normal bacteria. 

However, the superbug would continue to replicate and he would become ill again with the infection driven by the superbug."

Me: I totally agreed. If the person keeps falling ill with the same illness, it means that there are superbugs in the body due to overuse of antibiotics previously. 

"Dr Lee said those in contact with the patient could be infected by the superbug and if they had a weak immune system and other medical problems, he or she might die or require a long hospital stay.

He said doctors would then have to use stronger drugs such as carbopenems or polymixin as a result of antibiotic resistance but these drugs could impair some organs."

Me: Hence, all of us especially being parents, we need to be a wise consumer, and be responsible on our own health and our kids' health, not to hand it to doctors. 

Building your immune system to do prevention / fight with bacteria and virus 

OR 

taking medication when falling sick? 

Which one would you choose? 

Read more to learn how to build your immune system:
http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/08/immune-system-best-doctor-in-world.html

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Singapore - A Nation of Pill Poppers?

"Some supplements may also interact with prescribed or over the counter medications"

"High daily doses of certain vitamin pills can cause more harm than good to the body"

"High doses of vitamin C have been known to cause kidney stones"

Side effects of VITAMIN PILLS:

Toxic truth about vitamin supplements: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/09/the-toxic-truth-about-vitamin.html

Safety concerns on synthetic vitamin: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/08/safety-concerns-on-synthetic-vitamin.html

Vitamin Pills may shorten lifespan: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2014/05/vitamin-pills-may-shorten-lifespan.html

Where do Vitamin Supplements come from: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2014/04/where-do-vitamin-supplements-come-from.html

OMEGA 3:

• How to make a wise choice in choosing right source of Omega-3?http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/08/omega-3-fatty-acid-how-to-make-wise.html
• Risks of obtaining Omega-3 from animal source: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/10/the-risks-of-obtaining-omega-3-from.html
• Taking omega-3 fish oil supplements may increase the risk of aggressive prostate cancer by 70%: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/10/taking-omega-3-fish-oil-supplements-may.html

GLUCOSAMINE:

• Safety concern on Glucosamine Pills: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/08/glucosamine-supplements-safety-concern.html
• Plant-Based Diet for healthy joints: http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/08/get-glucosamine-production-from.html

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Joselyne 

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Chemicals in the Baby Wipes

It's so disheartening to read this article. My girl had a bad rash earlier. We suspected it's the baby wipes that caused her buttocks to turn very red and she kept crying and crying when we changed to another baby wipes of different brand. Ever since that incident, we don't use baby wipes anymore. We use tap water to cleanse her buttocks.

The horrific damage BABY WIPES can do to children's skin: Chemical in the wipes can cause an itchy red rash

• Methylisothiazolinon (MI), a preservative, can cause allergic reactions
• Researchers suggest parents only use baby wipes when they are travelling
• They say that at home it is safer to use paper towels with water
• MI has been blamed for a massive rise in dangerous allergic reactions caused by a huge range of beauty products

  Baby wipes make some children come out in painful, red rashes, new research suggests.
A chemical preservative called methylisothiazolinone (MI) in the wipes causes an allergic reaction in some children, researchers found.
The chemical has been blamed for a massive rise in dangerous allergic reactions caused by a huge range of beauty products.
Until now, no cases of allergic reactions to wet wipes had been reported in the U.S., but the study authors think this could be due to the reactions being misdiagnosed as other conditions, such as eczema.

‘I think it may be more common than people realise,’ Dr Mary Wu Chang, an associate professor of dermatology and paediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, told NBC News.
Scientists at the school of medicine studied six children with severe rashes.
The first child was a girl who had a rash on her face and her buttocks.
The eight-year-old had already been treated with antibiotics and steroids but after each treatment, the rash reappeared.
The scientists suspected that she might be suffering from an allergic reaction so asked her mother what she used to clean her.
The girl’s mother explained that she used wet wipes to clean her daughter’s mouth and buttocks.
Dr Chang had recently read a report about a Belgian man who was allergic to the MI in baby wipes.
She tested the child for an allergy and the results were positive.

Unsurprisingly, when the girl’s mother then stopped using baby wipes, her rashes disappeared.
During the following two years, five more children were brought to the medical centre with similar rashes.
In each case, the rash disappeared as soon as the children were no longer cleaned with baby wipes.
Despite the discovery, Dr Chang does not believe parents should stop using baby wipes.
She told NBC News: ‘They’re so convenient. I have three kids, so I know how hard it is to do the changes, especially when you’re travelling.
‘But maybe when you’re at home, it would be better to use a gentle cleanser and water. That way you minimise exposure.’
Dr Robin Gehris, from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, says the number of children suffering from these reactions is increasing.

 

She believes this could be because the amount of MI in baby wipes has been increased.
As a result, she also suggests parents avoid using them except when they are travelling.
She says that at home it is better to use wet paper towels.
Baby wipes are not the only product to contain MI.
Cosmetic giant Johnson & Johnson says it is so concerned, it is taking the chemical out of its best-selling Piz Buin sun cream and other products.
Molton Brown is doing the same and big brands such as Nivea, L’Oreal, Clarins and Sanctuary are under pressure to take action as doctors say adverse reactions to the chemical have reached ‘epidemic proportions’.
Skin experts say manufacturers should urgently remove the chemical from products that are left on the skin. It can cause rashes, lumps, blisters, itchy eyes and facial swelling.
In one case, a woman’s head and face swelled up so much that doctors feared she would have trouble breathing without urgent treatment.
In another, a British holidaymaker’s skin became so inflamed that she spent two days in a Spanish hospital and needed steroids and antihistamines to calm the allergic reaction.
MI is a preservative designed to extend shelf life, and has no useful properties for users of the products.
Experts say the scale of the allergic reactions to the chemical, which has been used increasingly since 2005, is alarming.
Dermatologists expect an allergic reaction to a cosmetic product of one or two per cent, but clinics say the rate for MI has been more than 10 per cent.
Leading dermatologist Dr Ian White, from St Thomas’ Hospital in London, said: ‘The frequency of reactions to MI is unprecedented in my experience.
'We’ve never seen anything quite like it. Contact allergy to this permitted preservative is now of epidemic proportions. Immediate action needs to be taken by industry.’

Reference source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2538668/The-horrific-damage-BABY-WIPES-childrens-skin-Chemical-wipes-cause-itchy-red-rash.html

In fact, many products contain chemicals that have not been fully tested for safety. Scientists do not know the effects of long term exposure to many of these chemicals on the human body.

We usually think that the safety of the things that we apply on our skin may not be as important as that of the food we eat. This is not true. In fact, we should take more note on what we apply on our skin. Why?
The food we eat goes through the stomach in which gastric acids help to kill the germ. However, the substances we breath in or absorbed thru the skin GO DIRECTLY into the BLOODSTREAM. The thinner the skin, the less effective it is at keeping out substances that cause irritation. Elderly people and young children have thinner and more sensitive skin. Substances of molecular weight of 400 and below penetrate more easily into skin and could have serious effects if harmful.

Many toxic chemicals accumulate in human fat tissue. Residual toxins present in the mother are passed to the child in her milk during breastfeeding. The fact that small children lack detoxification enzymes in the liver makes this even worse.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released the results of a two-year study that found up to 232 different industrial chemicals in the cord blood of 10 babies who were exposed to the substance while still in the womb.

This study tested for chemicals found in nearly every American household. The findings represented the first reported detections in American newborns for 21 contaminants. Among them are Bisphenol A (BPA), Tetrabromobisphenol A(TBBPA), Perflurobutanoic acid (PFBA, or C4) which are linked to cancer, birth defects, infertility and so on.

Just to share, I choose to use E.Excel Elemente baby series for my baby as I know the products have gone thru the toxicity tests under MSDS test requirements. So far it has been good for my 2 month old baby. :)

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Immune System - the Best Doctor in the world!!

Do you know that 99% of the illnesses and diseases are caused due to malfunctioning immune system? How well we understand our immune system which is the invisible army in our body?

Let's look inside our immune system which consists of the following immune organs:

 1) Bone Marrow (Soldier Factory)

- Create red blood cells and white blood cells. White blood cells are our immune cells

- Every second, about 8 million blood cells die and the same number are regenerated here...

2) Thymus (Training Ground)

- Assign T-Cells (immune cells) their duties in fighting diseases

- Secretes immune-regulating hormones

3) Lymph Nodes (Battlegrounds)

- Little pickets of battlegrounds with billions of white blood cells

- Swollen lymph nodes are a good indication that you have an infection and your immune system is hard at work

- Filter lymph fluid which carries away waste products like viruses and bacteria

4) Spleen (Blood Filter)

- Filter blood by removing dead blood cells and engulfed viruses and bateria

5) Tonsils (Throat Guard)

- Maintain constant vigilance against invaders to the body thru nose and mouth

6) Appendix (Immune Assistant)

- Act like a traffic coordinator, direct white blood cells' movement to other parts of body

- Protect digestive tract

7) Peyer's Patches (Intestinal Guards)

- React invaders in the intestines

The Science of Nutritional Immunology tells us that:

• The BEST DOCTOR in the world is our own immune system.
• When our immune system is functioning properly, it can help us to carry out 3 very important functions: Defense, Cleansing & Repair
• Nutrition plays important role to nourish the immune system so that it can function well

Below are some important immune cells that carry out different functions in our body:

1. B-Cells (doing defense function)

 

 - Fight invaders by producing antibodies specific to those invaders

- Antibodies are our enemy-seeking missiles that track and lock onto assigned invaders such as bacteria and viruses before triggering immne responses to destroy them

- Some B cells can become "memory" cells. If the same invader attacks again, the memory B cells will identify and dispatch specific antibodies to defeat it.

2. Natural Killer (NK) Cells (doing defense function)

- Cancer Cell (in the middle) is surrounded by Natural Killer Cells (the white color snow ball) which are the lethal snipers who shoot holes into invaders.

3. Macrophage (doing Cleansing function)

  

- This is a macrophage (Enemy Eater) - the garbage man of our body is ingesting foreign particles which have entered our body

- Look, the macrophage is trying to grab a particle using its tentacle

- Now, the macrophage opens its mouth and engulfs E.Coli Bacteria

4. Red Platlet (doing Repair function)

- Our blood platelets which perform repair task in our body.

Some websites which share the info about immune system:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/immune-system.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system


Our immune system is an amazing piece of work! At any given second, it calls upon a complex ad concerted effort from countless different immune battalions, working ceaselessly to protect us not only from invaders but also from our own internal cells, which can mutate and become cancerous.
Without immune system, a simple dust in the air would kill us!

Longevity Herbs (KUMAZASA & ASHITABA)

1. KUMAZASA - CLEANSING BAMBOO

Originating from Japan, is a versatile species of bamboo. it is said that Kumazasa leaves are a bear's first meal after hibernation. Bears eat large amounts of food before hibernation. During hibernation, which lasts around 6-7 months, waste from digestion circulates in their bodies through their blood. By eating Kumazasa, bears purify and detoxify their blood after hibernation.

The Japanese wrap food such as raw fish with Kumazasa leaves to prevent spoilage and impart their fragrance to contents. Kumazasa's ability to preserve food is attributed to volatile oils of the leaves.

Studies have shown that Kumazasa has a cleansing effect on the blood, which is useful for lowering blood pressure. 

• Its polysaccharides can reduce excess cholesterol in blood vessels to help them regain vitality and elasticity, protecting against atherosclerosis. 

• Its lignin also has cleansing effects on the liver, enhancing its filtering function.

• Bamfolin, a polysaccharide in Kumazasa, has anti-cancer properties. It helps to strengthen cell walls, so that cells' absorption of nutrients and detoxification are smoother. 

• Kumazasa extract is excellent for promoting wound healing and has anti-bacterial and anti-viral effects.

2. ASHITABA - THE AMAZING LONGEVITY HERB

Do you know there is a plant with such strong life force that if you pluck a leaf today, a new one will sprout tomorrow? 

This amazing plant is Ashitaba and it is native to Japan's Hachijo Island. During the Edo period, Hachijo Island was used as a place of exile for convicts. Despite hard labor and poor diets, the convicts lived long lives. Their unlikely longevity was attributed to the continual consumption of Ashitaba that they foraged for.

Scientists have discovered many good components in ASHITABA: 

• Flavanoids: Luteolin-7-glucoside and isoquercitrin are among the different flavonoids present in Ashitaba. Flavonoids have been linked to a reduced risk of cancer, heart diseases, asthma and stroke.

• Coumarins: These are antioxidants with anti-cancer properties.

• ChlorophylII: It stimulates the production of red blood cells. It is also excellent for cleansing the blood and liver, and promotes the growth of "friendly" intestinal bacteria.

• Chalcones: Ashitaba sap is very precious as only a few milligrams can be collected from the cross section of the stem. The sap is made up of mostly chalcones, which have been linked to many of Ashitaba's health promoting benefits.

• Anti-allergy

• Regulate Blood glucose level

• Bone formation and bone mass

• Anti-viral

• Nervous system - promote production of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), prevent Alzheimer's disease and peripheral neuropathy

• Reduce Visceral Fat (abdominal fat which is very difficult to reduce) for more efficient weight management

• Wound healing

As a convenience, 

ORCHESTRA is wholesome plant food product which consists of both Kumazasa and Ashitaba plant.

It's one of my daily favourite drinks.

How my girl taking the Orchestra? =D


Her favourite drink and it's also many kids & adults' favourite drink!! =) 


Best Regards, 
Joselyne
Nutritional Immunology Consultant
+65-9090 9942

Testimonial from my friend - on his mother after taking Orchestra



My friend bought 2 boxes of Orchestra and let his mom to take. See below for his mom's feedback on Orchestra. 

I am currently taking Orchestra too - there are 8 flavors all together! Love strawberry, Peach and Peppermint flavors!

Orchestra is made of 2 Japanese plants which are well-known for longevity - Kumazasa and Ashitaba.

You can read more about the ingredients of Orchestra also from the below entry:
http://eehealthyfastfood.blogspot.sg/2013/08/longevity-herbs-kumazasa-ashitaba.html

E.Excel Testimonial from senior citizen, Ms Wong

Healthy Fast Food from E.Excel has benefited Ms Wong who is 86 years old now!

"Thank you E.Excel, I still enjoy mobility despite my age."