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Lifestyle Sunday: Thousands Showed Up and Walk Under The Rain for Guardian Walkathon 2016

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Thousands of participants showed up in groups and as families for Guardian Walkathon 2016. It is an annual affair for Guardian Malaysia with this year being their 7th year in a row. Many came in special national costumes to mark the country’s Malaysia Day. Everyone showed up with two purpose – to walk for a healthier lifestyle and also for charity, knowing their effort will benefitted hundreds of orphans and needy children. In conjunction with the walkathon, Guardian Malaysia donated RM300,000 in total to 15 homes across the country. Each home received RM20,00 of donations.

Health & Fitness Health & Living Info Nestle

I Take On The Nestlé Omega Plus Heart Health Challenge And This Is What Happened

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Up until today I still laugh at a statement from a random friend one year ago when I started living healthier by eating clean and adopted running into my everyday lifestyle. In the mind of this friend, I take care of myself because of a guy. NO. I take care of myself for myself, not for anyone. You see, when you start to realize how much bad food you have been stuffing down your body and your health deteriorating, you will wake up one day and put up a determination to turn things around before it is too late. You look good for yourself, not for anyone else. Always remember that 😉 . Just as the saying…girls put on makeup for themselves not for a guy. So please, do not lose weight for someone else but do it FOR YOU. Still don’t agree with me? Come, I smack you and give you a long empowering talk on how to love yourself more 😛

Health & Fitness Health & Living Info Nestle

Prevention Is Better Than Cure. Why Heart Disease Should Be Taken Seriously

Heart Disease Can Happen To Anyone
Preventative heart care is not on the top-of-mind for most Malaysian adults. I am shame to admit that I am one of the many Malaysian that has taken heart disease lightly. Heart disease often perceived as an illness that most likely happens to the elderly. Little did I know it can happen to even younger generation too. Now, numerous research was done and proven that Malaysians in their thirties are now more likely to have arteries of a person aged seventy years old due to the unhealthy lifestyles that we chose to live. This lifestyle indirectly are pushing young Malaysians to suffer heart disease at a younger age that what we perceived. I know it better than anyone because I was told that I too have heart disease almost 7 years ago.

Nearly 20 millions Malaysians above the age of 18 years are at risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which may in turn lead to the development of heart disease, based on the 2015 National Health and Morbidity Survey. Did you know that one out of two Malaysians are suffering from high cholesterol? Heart disease can be in several different forms, from heart attack, narrowing of arteries, abnormal heart rhythms, breaking down of the heart valve or heart muscle and degeneration of blood vessels, amongst others. Generally, these are known as cardiovascular heart disease, or CHD.

Event Health & Fitness Health & Living Lifestyle Sunday Ultron

Lifestyle Sunday: My First Ever AcroYoga Session at ULTRON YogaTron

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To be frank, I have never heard of AcroYoga before. I have only recently started a little bit of yoga as cross-training in between my runs but I sort of get the idea of what AcroYoga is based on the name. AcroYoga, as the name suggests is a combination of acrobatics and yoga. It sounds simple but once I saw photos on what it exactly is, I cannot breath.

ULTRON, one of the known sportswear brand here in Malaysia held a Facebook contest a few weeks ago for ULTRON YogaTron with Patrick and Ardiana Nolfo who are the latest ULTRON Athlete, who are also the Founders of The Acro Yoga Centre in Montreux, Switzerland. I was lucky enough to be invited personally by Joanne Kay, Founder & CEO of ULTRON to join the session. I nearly could not make it as none of my friends are into yoga whatmore AcroYoga. Just when I was about to turn down the offer, my friend Kelly from Sunshine Kelly said she is interested to go and be my partner!

Amaze Tea Co Health & Fitness Health & Living Lifestyle Sunday

Amaze Tea Get Physical: There’s Always A First Time and This First Time Was Pretty Darn Good!

Amaze Tea Get Physical
Let’s be frank here. I am not a tea person. I love my coffee. Tea? Well, I am okay with a cup or two once in a while when I am not feeling well but I would prefer to hold a coffee mug. I took the plunge (sacrifice coffee for tea) and invested in SkinnyMint TeaTox. It is one of the tea detox thingamajig that took the world by storm overnight from various skinny model endorsement. You know what? That SkinnyMint review of mine remains the top most read post in Street Love to date because IT DOES NOT WORK FOR ME lol! Fast forward to today, I am much more healthier and fitter to go on any detox program especially another teatox. We have all heard about teatox but have you heard about workout tea? No? Me either!

GM Diet Health & Living

GM Diet: Why I wouldn’t do it again

I first heard about GM Diet roughly two years ago from a Facebook link sharing by a friend. The claims and review sounds promising but after a quick look at the daily meal plan, I decided that I cannot do it.

Two weeks ago, I read a blog post by a friend Gjanawi on how she lost 7kg from a week of GM Diet and two weeks of her own special diet. I downloaded the app based on her blog post to my phone almost instant, took a look at the meal plan thoroughly this time and set my foot down to just do it. I still remember that it was a Wednesday. I had just completed MLMax 1-month plan and I needed to let my body rest for a few days before starting this GM Diet. The target day to start was the coming Monday. That was a week ago. I had completed the full week long of GM Diet with flying colours. No cheating, no giving up (almost!) and I follow the instruction stated strictly. What you’re about to read below would be what GM Diet are all about, my experience and why I would not do it anymore. Before I start, let me make a disclaimer in advance. I am not overweight at all and I’m a small eater. I may lose lesser weight than other people due to this. All I want is to lose weight to the pre-Hyperthyroidism treatment 🙂

GM Diet
This diet plan was named as GM Diet as rumours stated that General Motors Inc developed this plan with both Food and Drug Administration and US Department of Agriculture in order to help keep their employees stay in shape. The same diet plan was also said to be first used in field tests at Johns Hopkins Research Center in 1985. GM Diet is designed with a specific seven-day eating plan to target weight loss of 10 to 17 lbs. in a week, as compared to 1 to 2 lbs. per week on most conventional diets. Now, don’t get too excited with the 10 to 17 lbs yet because not everyone will experience the same result. It is also mentioned on the app that the diet will improve your attitude and emotions due to the cleansing systematic effects. I can tell you that your attitude will definitely change in that seven days due to lack of food intake and craving but after that your attitude towards food changes dramatically as well.