Nutrition For Adults

There is compelling evidence to suggest that a healthful diet reduces risk of chronic diseases like coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity and certain forms of cancers. These conditions are the major causes of death in Singapore.

The recent National Nutrition Survey showed that the diet of Singaporeans, as a whole, is generally adequate. However, a main dietary concern of most affluent societies is excessive intakes of energy, fat, cholesterol and sodium. A diet excessive in fatty and salty foods also tends to be proportionately low in dietary fibre and nutrients such as protein, carbohydrate, vitamins A & C and minerals like iron and calcium.

In view of this, modern dietary recommendations focus on ensuring an adequate intake of nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, dietary fibre, vitamins and minerals while moderating others such as dietary fat, cholesterol salt and sugar.

Some Useful Tips
· Enjoy a variety of foods the pyramid way
· Achieve and maintain a normal weight
· Eat a sufficient amount of grains, especially whole grains
· Eat more fruit and vegetables every day
· Choose and prepare foods with less fat, especially saturated fat
· Choose and prepare foods with less salt and sauces
· Choose foods and beverages with less sugar
· If you drink, limit your alcohol intake to not more than 2 standard drinks for women and 3 standard drinks for men per day.

The Healthy Diet Pyramid

Eat a balance of food everyday from the four basic food groups of The Healthy Diet Pyramid: rice and alternatives, meat and alternatives, fruit and vegetables. In general foods eaten daily should come most from the base and least from the tip of the Pyramid. Rice and alternatives (eg noodles, bread, potato) provide the base of our diet and are good sources of carbohydrates and dietary fibre. Eat 5-7 servings a day. Try to have at least one serving from wholegrain products. A serving is 2 slices of bread or 1/2 bowl of rice or 1/2 plate of noodles, or 1 medium-sized potato.

Also take 2 servings of fruit and 2 servings of vegetables, especially those that are deeply or brightly coloured. A serving is 1 small apple or 3/4 cup of cooked green leafy vegetables (eg xiao bai chye, spinach, kangkong) or 3/4 cup cooked non-leafy vegetables (eg ladies fingers, cauliflower, longbeans).

Meat and alternatives (such as fish, milk, cheese, beans, bean products,) are good sources of protein. Eat 2-3 servings a day. Have at least one serving from plant origin. A serving is 1 palm-sized piece of meat/fish/poultry, 2 glasses of milk, 2 slices of cheese, 2 small squares of small beancurd and 3/4 cup cooked lentils/pulses).

Use sugar, salt, fat and other seasonings only in moderation to flavour your food if necessary.
Water is also extremely important; you should be drinking at least 6-8 glasses of fluid (1.5-2.0 litres) a day.

Durian Flavoured Milk

I had too much durian over the weekend and guess what. My EBM is durian flavoured.... hahhahaha

1st day back at work

Man...getting back t work is really tiring. Jadon had his morning feed at 6am, afterwhich i need to drain out the balance. prepare for work. leave the hse at 7am in order to avoid the jam at CTE. ERP has increased. $2.80 x 2 along CTE, lucky we reach CBD before 8am thus save on the $3. wy had breakfast with me till 8.45am. And my work day really start. First day wasn't too bad, just need to get the intern to handover all the outstanding stuff to me. familarise all the work flow and new processors. and that's it! My 1st day back to work.

Oh ya! before I forgot I have gotten my Coach bag from Jeanne... so happy.

Map of Krung Thong Plaze

It's right opposite Pantip Plaza!!! Woohoo~

Bobae Tower Map - near Prince Palace Hotel

Found a new place to shop

Bobae Tower/Market

BOBAE market is well known to be the center of garment wholesale for over 30 years. Today, Bobae Tower revolutionizes the garment wholesale business by having well over 700 shops all under one roof with our- condition and facilities for the customer's convenience making BoBae Tower the biggest garment wholesale center in Thailand. By having over 700 wholesale shops selling best quality garment products at reasonable prices is the reason why you should shop at BoBae Tower. Furthermore, BoBae Tower offers you shipping services to send your cargo worldwide. BoBae Tower is situated in the heart of Bangkok where transportation is the most convenient. For more information, click here


Identification
Official name: Bobae Tower
Emporis Building Number: 187764

Location
Address: Bordering street - Damrongrak Road
Complex: Bobae Complex
Zone: Central Business District
District: Pom Prap Sattru Phai
City: Bangkok
Country: Thailand

Technical Data
Floors (OG): 32

Krung Thong Plaza
http://www.krungthong-plaza.com/newarrival_eng.php

Janine First Contact with Fireworks

Janine First Basketball Game

Janine was exhasted after 30-min of Basketball game with Daddy and Mummy. We head off for breakfast right after the game and Janine can't even walk for any 15-min.. kept asking either of us to carry her instead. Man, she really had a great workout.

My Big Baby

Janine trying to squeeze herself into Jadon's Mamil Gold receiving blanket and be a newborn baby. I called her "Big Baby".

Living the Standards

With the recent blooming in the property market, more people are engaging the property sector. There are more property agents, mortgage consultants, developers, etc. I would like to bring your attention to the mortgage consultants. Their job is to give consumers/home owners independent advice and to help them get the suitable home loan packages without charging them. However, there are some who do not live up to the standards.

They will tell you that they have tie ups/liaise with all banks when they only do with one/two bank(s) and hard sell or tell you that that particular bank(s) is/are the best. Some don't even give advice and just ask the banker(s) to call you. There are also those who give rebates to entice the consumers/home owners to take up the home loan packages with them. Others would liaise with the property agents, pay them the rebates plus referral fees and get more business referrals. Hence, the property agents are turning to mortgage consultants for home loan packages then to the banks directly where they get only the referral fees/less money.

Have you wonder when the banks are paying the property agents and mortgage consultants equal amount of referral fees, how can the mortgage consultants pay the property agents more.

To find out more, please visit www.yifaservices.blogspot.com

Baby Bonus 101

Managing agents for your CDA

For Aug 1, 2008, there will be two managing agents for CDAs. They are OCBC Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. You can choose one of them to open and maintain your CDA.



No minimum sum

There's no minimum deposit required to open and maintain a CDA, and there is no charge even if the amount in the CDA is zero.



Use of CDA

Use the CDA savings to pay for the fees for any of your children who attend the approved institutions registered with MCYS. These include childcare centres, kindergartens and special education schools registered with the MOE, as well as early-intervention programmes registered with the National Council of Social Service.



You can also use it to buy Medishield or Medisave-approved piravate integrated plans for all your children, as well as for medical-related expenses like consultation fees, treatment fees and prescription costs incurred at health care institutions. Withdrawal from a CDA is done through Interbank Giro. To enable you to pay an approved institution, you'll need to fill in an application form for Interbank Giro for your CDA at the approved institution. Some institutions may require you to pay in cash until the Giro process is approved. Please check with them when you submit your Interbank Giro form.

Nets
You can start paying approved institutions from a CDA through Nets from August 2008. Both OCBC Bank and Standard Chartered Bank will issue eachtrustee a CDA card to enable payments through Nets at approved institutions. This CDA card can only be used for payments at approved institutions.

PSEA
In the January of the year that your child turns seven, the remaining balance in his CDA will be transferred to his Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA). If you have not co-saved to enjoy the matching government contribution up the cap in the CDA, you can continue to do so in the PSEA until the eve of your child's 18th birthday. The total matching government contribution is up to $6,000 for the second child, and up to $12,000 each for the third and fourth child. You can use the money in the PSEA to pay for fees for post-secondary education in Singapore, either for your child or his siblings.

Get answer
If you have questions, call the Baby Bonus hot 1800 253-7707, or visit www.babybonus.gov.sg. To find out more about the Post-Secondary Education Account, visit www.moe.gov.sg.

You may log on to www.ocbc.com/babybonus for information on the CDA managed by OCBC Bank.