http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Ng+Peng+Hock Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=92872&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet Poverty is no longer a major problem for Asian countries following the dramatic economic development in recent years especially for China and India. Changes in diet coupled with increasingly inactive lifestyles have caused the rate of obesity to go up in several Asian countries. For example, the ris... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=92512&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet Fish is a high-protein low-fat food with a range of health benefits. White-fleshed fish, especially oilier fish is believed to contain substantial quantities of omega-3s or the so called “good” fats. Furthermore, fish does not contain the “bad” fats commonly found in red meat. As such, nutritional s... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=91742&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet Obesity is one of the risk factors for heart disease. In order to avoid developing such disease, many obese people will endeavor to trim their weights. But, not many of them will have the same experience as what a “super-fat” lady have had. A social worker, Janet (not her real name), age 31 has been... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=87373&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet Berberine, traditionally used as an over-the-counter remedy for diarrhea caused by bacterial infection, can lower levels of LDL (bad cholesterol) significantly and works in a different way from statin drugs like Lipitor or Zocor. A group of researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=90113&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet Atherothrombosis is commonly a disease of older adults mainly because of the eventual buildup of deposits and the wear and tear on the blood vessels. This process may be accelerated in people who have uncontrolled risk factors and can also happen to younger adults. Atherothrombosis of the arterial... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=92111&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet Being one of the oldest living tree species, ginkgo trees ranged throughout temperate regions of the world some 50 million years ago. Nevertheless, one species, Ginkgo biloba, native to southeast China, survived the millennia while all others went extinct. Ginkgo has become one of the well-researche... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=89756&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet A neighbor of mine was home after a massive heart attack, caused by a very large, evil blood clot. According to what she understood from her cardiologist, a very large part of her heart was irreversibly damaged, and her life was going to have a change for good. No more smoking. No more red meat and... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=91438&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet We always associate weight with health: if one is over-weight, he or she is always advised or encouraged to lose weight. But when it comes to heart disease, being fit is as important as being thin, according to a report published in 2004 in the Journal of American Medical Association. The study invo... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=89064&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet You will frequently hear statement like “eating too much sugar causes diabetes. Diabetes will be cure if we avoid sweet food.” This is certainly untrue because diabetes is not just a sugar problem, it is an incurable condition! Nevertheless, eating too much sugar will definitely not cause diabetes.... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Ng Peng Hock Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=88673&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet Exercise is definitely good for me but unfortunately, I am so tired at the end of day and I really don’t have time for it! Sound familiar. Lack of time, too tired, and too lazy are commonly used by us as excuses to escape from doing some exercises. But all of us are aware that exercise is part of a...