The All-Natural BugsLock Mosquito Repellent Band

Woohoo, these BugsLock bands came just at the right time for our holiday up North!!  Thank you so much BugsLock Malaysia for sending these awesome pawsome mozzie repellent bands over!!

 

They came in the girls’ favorite colors respectively – pink for Cass, yellow for Sherilyn and orange for Alycia.

But Cass and Sherilyn could not wait until Tuesday to wear it in Penang.  Yesterday they tore off the BugsLock zip lock bag to wear it when we went out for breakfast.  And they came home unscathed by the wrath of the hungry mozzies 🙂

A pink pretty dress to pair with a pink BugsLock band, how matching eh? 😉

Unlike other mozzie repellent bands, BugsLock has very powerful smell of Citronella – a plant that repels mozzies naturally. Citronella works by masking the surrounding scents around you, your home and garden that attract mosquitoes, preventing them from coming too near.

BugsLock is made of 100% natural ingredients. It can be worn on the wrist or ankle.  It can also be hung on belts, bags, strollers and just about anywhere.   BugsLock is effective for 240 hours of usage. When not in use, just put the band back into the BugsLock zip lock package and seal it securely.

The BugsLock band is adjustable, thus can be worn by young kids  and adults of all ages.   It is DEET-free and non-toxic.

Did you know that there are many imitation BugsLock in the market? Although the copycat BugsLock price is cheaper, it is ineffective and even harmful to your health as it may contain chemicals. The authentic BugsLock has certification by Korea Environment & Merchandise Testing Institute to certify that it is safe for humans and free from harmful chemicals. Bugslock is also registered under the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The good news is that Bugslock is very affordable and is  available in Malaysia. At only RM13 per piece (with FREE postage, yay!!), you can get it for everyone in the family!    Protect yourself and your loved ones from the deadly Dengue fever.  Get some BugsLock bands today!  Do check out the BugsLock Malaysia website for further information.

 

 

 

 

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No Excuse To Pop Your Calcium!

Have you ever noticed that, even as adults, we sometimes retreat back to the childhood behavior of making excuses to keep from doing something?  When it comes to taking calcium supplements, it’s tempting to use excuses such as they’re too big or they’re too hard to swallow. You may use the excuse that you don’t have time for a vitamin routine. If you take a minute to visit MyCalsura.com you’ll find that your old excuses for avoiding calcium supplements simply won’t work anymore. As for adding something more to your daily routine, chances are you already drink 8 ounces or more of water each day. If not, drinking a sufficient amount of water is a habit you should establish and stick with.

When all you have to do is add a flavorful tablet to a glass of water and enjoy a delicious, refreshing drink in order to get beneficial soluble calcium, you have no excuse not to get on board with that routine. In addition to the calcium provided in one of these convenient tablets, they also provide Vitamin D, magnesium and Vitamin C. It only takes a minute of your time to open a pack and drop it into the water. You can drink it on your way to work, as refreshment after you exercise or any other time of day that fits into your busy schedule. You really no long have an excuse for not looking out for your health by taking a calcium supplement.

 

 

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Seven Seas Kids Fruit Gummies

In the midst of my very busy week last week, I received a package of goodies!   The goodies for my girls came at the right time, just when I was too busy to remember feeding my girls with vitamins.  To recap, I was too busy packing and moving our stuff to our aunt’s unit as our unit would have to undergo some renovation works.

The package of goodies that I received were 3 bottles of fruit gummies from Seven Seas.  My girls were delighted to see the 3 bottles of fruit gummies which come in 3 different flavors – orange, blackcurrant and strawberry.

My girls quickly helped me to cut up the parcel and then helped themselves to the delicious fruit gummies which tasted very much like regular gummies!  I was worried that the fruit gummies would be loaded with sugar and empty calories but I found out that that  Seven Seas® kids Fruit Gummies has zero preservatives, flavourings, colourings and sugar. It has no added salt, gluten, nuts, hydrogenated fats, yeast and lactose.

I can supplement my daughters’ diet with these yummy guilt-free vitamin treats with total peace of mind now.  It also comes in 3 delish flavours in cutesy fruit shapes.

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Getting my girls to pop and chew their vitamins have never been this easy.  With Seven Seas Fruit Gummies, they help themselves to these sweet treats without any reminder from me!

 
vitamins Irresistibly yummy fruit gummies for kids!

 

Seven Seas Kids Fruit Gummies retail at RM19.50 for a bottle of 30 gummies.   You can get them from most pharmacies.

Seven Seas is now running a Colour & Win Contest for children aged 4 – 10 years old, which ends on 31 July 2014. You can let your child participate by colouring the Seven Seas Gummy Fruity Heroes on the contest form and stand a chance to win a Samsung GALAXY Tab 3 Lite/Kids or other goodies!

For more information about the product and colouring contest, please visit www.sevenseas.com.my

Thank you Seven Seas for the 3 bottles of tasty fruit gummies for my kids. We all love them to bits!  Yup, I am eating them too 🙂

 

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iZest For Better Posture

Did you ever notice that people who have perfect posture not only look confident but also have a nice physique without a flab on the front? I have been observing and noticing this lately. I have several friends who are not slim, yet they do not have a jelly belly. That’s because they have very good posture. They never slouch but carry themselves with great aura when they walk – back straight, shoulders back and tummy in, just like a model would. On the other hand, I have skinny friends who slouch and coincidentally they have a protruding ‘pouch’ in front. So I can only deduce that if you have good posture and tuck your tummy in all the time, naturally you will have a flat tummy even if you are not exactly slim.

One of my daughters has a slight slouch and I have been correcting her posture whenever she slouches unknowingly. I am even thinking of getting her an iZest Posture Vest to correct her posture after reading an advertisement on iZest Posture Vest in The Star’s Fit4Life – HEALTH AT LARGE (Sunday 23 October 2011). The cost for the iZest Posture Vest ain’t very costly. There are vests for kids as well as adults. The video on iZest Posture Vest on You Tube is pretty convincing too. You can have a watch too if you are contemplating getting one for yourself or for your child.

You Tube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRiYwQfU9GA

 

FOR COMPLETE OUTLET LIST AND INFO ON IZEST, PLEASE VISIT WWW.ALLIANCEMEDIC.COM.MY – CLICK ON IZEST ICON

Ad in The Star’s Fit4Life, Health At Large, Sunday, 23 Oct 2011





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Buying Cheap Supplements From Online Pharmacies

I have been waiting for over a week, waiting anxiously for the 7 tubs of supplements that I had purchased to arrive from the U.K. This is the third time I am purchasing these supplements for Baby from this online store in the U.K. These are supplements to support a healthy urinary tract system, so that her urinary tract stays clear of bacteria, in the hope that she will have no more UTI attacks. Baby has been taking these supplements for almost a year now. I stumbled upon this supplement a year ago while surfing the internet in a desperate mean to find something that could prevent those pesky bacteria from attacking Baby’s urinary tract.

These days, online pharmacies that sell cheap supplements are aplenty in the world wide web. I am a regular shopper of supplements from the internet. I find that these online pharmacies carry a wider choice of supplements, as compared to local pharmacies. I used to buy herbs (to treat the PCOS I was suffering from) and whey protein from the internet years ago. During the height of my PCOS disorder (and had unexplained weight gain), I consumed a lot of whey protein, in order to lose weight.   I was on a high protein, low carb diet then.

If you have in mind to buy supplements from the internet, you may want to check out www.healthfoods-uk.com. They are reputable, carry a wide selection of supplements and health products and have been around for almost 30 years.

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One-Stop Shop For All Your Health Needs

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of VitaDigest. All opinions are 100% mine.

I am a pro-vitamins and supplements person. My kitchen cabinets are filled with vitamins and supplements for me, my hubs and kids. My hubs always complains that I spend too much on vitamins and supplements but I always tell him that these supplements are investment for good health.

My mum who has goiter has been popping kelp pills for several years now. Thank God, with the kelp pills, the goiter situation is under control and no surgical intervention is required. The kelp pill that my mum has been taking is no longer available for sale at the organic shop that I used to buy it from. I have gone to many organic shops to enquire but none of them carry kelp pills. My mum’s kelp pills supply is coming to an end and this morning while surfing the internet for kelp pills, I stumbled on VitaDigest.com, an online pharmacy. The kelp pills that my mum has been taking is available at VitaDigest. What surprised me is that a bottle of 300 Norwegian Kelp tablets only cost $4.50, which is way cheaper than what the organic shop here sold to me. Of course the price is not inclusive of shipping fees and even with the inclusion of shipping fees, it is still priced reasonably. I will be placing my order on the kelp pills soon after getting confirmation from my mum.

VitaDigest offers over 13,000 vitamins, supplements and other health products. It is a one-stop shop for your health needs. If you are skeptical about online shopping for vitamins, maybe this will quell your qualms. VitaDigest was awarded INC5000 for 2009 as top 5000 fastest growing company recently.

From now through end February 2010, VitaDigest is offering an exclusive 10% off Coupon with coupon code “izb10jan”. There is also free shipping on all orders over $100, for ground shipping (US only). Do check out VitaDigest if you need to buy any vitamins, supplements, organic formula or other health enhancement products. You’ll be amazed with the range of products they carry!

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‘Healthy’ Instant Noodles

When I was shopping for groceries at Tesco the other day, I came upon instant noodles that are supposedly healthy.  Since my 2 older gals have been pestering me all the time to allow them to eat instant noodles, I bought a pack of Cintan brand MSG-free instant noodles to try.


The noodles are made from wholemeal flour and is supposedly high in protein, high in calcium, has dried carrots and spinach, is cholesterol free, has vitamins and minerals but still high in carbo…. so I am still staving off instant noodles though I quite like them.  I love my instant noodles cooked with some sausages or spam meat (damn nice but damn unhealthy), an egg and some shredded cabbage…. wuah, really yummy… and I’ve not eaten this ever since I went on a low-carbo diet 8 years ago.


My 2 monkeys polished off their bowl of maggie mee (that’s what they call instant noodles) in a jiffy.  Sherilyn who always takes hours to eat her meals walloped her bowl of maggie mee, together with all the eggs and veggie without any problems… without any nagging and threats from me.  How I wish she could eat other food like how she eats instant noodles.

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Infant Drops

Baby C’s appetite seems to have decreased lately.  She used to have a ravenous appetite before her first UTI (urinary tract infection) attack 3 months ago, so ravenous that when she suckles on my boops, she made really loud and embarrasing sounds. She could never get enough of my boops.  But lately, I have to force her to drink my milkie and she has not been gaining much weight over the past 1 month.  At almost 5 months, her weight is only 6.4kg.  Her birth weight was 2.75kg.  I think the antibiotics that she’s taking everyday is the culprit for suppressing her appetite.  Also, a child with Kidney Reflux has poor appetite and poor weight gain 🙁

I was really concerned and asked Dr Indon of SJMC if Baby C is underweight but she told me yesterday that her weight is average and normal.  I then asked her if it’s alright to feed Baby C infant drops to increase her appetite and she said no problem.  I had actually bought the Appeton infant drops with Lysine (Lysine helps to enhance an infant’s appetite) on Sunday but hubby and mil were quite alarmed that I am feeding this to Baby C without first seeking the dr’s go-ahead.  They wanted me to get the green light from Dr Indon.  Now that I’ve gotten the go-ahead, I’ve been feeding Baby C with this infant drop everyday and I think her appetite has increased.  I also fed Sherilyn with this infant drop when she was a few months old until she was 1 year old.

Do you feed your infant with any infant drops or multivitamins?

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Millenium Cactus Juice

I finally bought a pack of E. Excel Millenium Cactus Juice to try from my former classmate, after much pondering.  After hearing all the goodness and praises for this very costly infection-fighting concoction of juices, I decided I want to give it a try – to my 2 older girls (esp. Alycia) who are always down with throat infection. I am also feeding this to Baby C – just a small teaspoon a day as the juice is known to fight off infections.  Hopefully, it can fight off the bugs responsible for causing her urinary tract infection (UTI). 

I don’t know how effective it is in helping Alycia and Sher fight off the bugs that always cause them throat infection but when I had very bad vaginal yeast infection 2 days ago, I took a quarter glass of this juice and the following day, the infection cleared!  Coincidence or a fact, I don’t know.  I have to try a few packs on my 3 kids to be able to see the results. There goes my hard-earned money but oh well, if it can buy good health, I won’t mind a bit.

Anyone taking this too?  Care to share your experience with this juice?

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Flu Outbreaks And Tamiflu

Some time in the year 2006 when there were widespread cases of bird flu in some parts of the world and also in our country, hubby began to panic when there were news that supply for Tamiflu, the antidote for bird flu was running really low worldwide. He quickly went to the pharmacy and bought several boxes of Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) just in case we needed them. The boxes of Tamiflu are still in our fridge and have not expired yet. Well, we may still need them in view of the recent fears over a flu outbreak in Hong Kong which had left a few children dead.

Flu outbreaks can spread very easily from one person to another and from one country to another.  In Hong Kong, a seven-year old boy who died recently after suffering respiratory problems was tested positive for a flu strain known as Influenza A, a virus which was also found in a 21-month old who died last month in Hong Kong.

There are two known strains of the influenza virus – type A and type B and Tamiflu is proven to be effective against both types.  Before the Tamiflu supply runs low again worldwide, it would be advisable that you stock up a few boxes of them at home.  It is now possible to buy Tamiflu online at doctorchemist.co.uk, a UK based healthcare provider.   Before you purchase Tamiflu online, be sure to get the prescription from a registered doctor first.

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Invest In Your Health

Being a health freak, I strongly advocate taking supplements to enhance one’s health and to strengthen the body’s immune system.  I never really bothered about taking good care of my health until I was in my mid twenties when I kept falling ill.  I was easily susceptible to throat infection, flu, heartburn and vaginal yeast infection. I wasn’t watchful of what I ate, never took any supplements, did not exercise and was constantly under stress at work. It was upon the advice of one of my former colleagues that I made a drastic change in my diet. I started to eat fruits on an empty stomach in the morning, made my own fresh fruits and vegetables juices very often and took a good brand of supplements.  Within weeks, I could see improvement in my health. I lost weight, no longer suffered from constipation, complexion improved and did not fall sick so easily.

To have good health and a strong immune system, your body needs sufficient vitamins, minerals, antioxidant and nutrition, apart from getting enough sleep, exercise and frequent detoxification.  However, most of us are always too busy to pop our vitamins. In order to get the right amount of supplement and nutrition for our body, we would need to pop a handful of vitamins and eat lots of fruits and vegetables everyday but how many of us do that everyday?  That is why GBG came out with an easy to consume 10-in-ONE liquid multi-vitamin formula that has all the nutrition that a body needs. It’s a multi-vitamin and mineral with 23 essential vitamins and minerals plus 1,200mg of trace minerals. 10-in-ONE has a delicious fruit punch taste, is sugar-free (which makes it safe for diabetics), has zero net carbs, zero calories and zero trans fats. The benefits of this potent multi-vitamin are:

1. It’s a cardiovascular formula for a healthy heart
2. It’s a super-antioxidant
3. It’s an immune-enhancer
4. It’s an energizer
5. It’s a digestion aid
6. It’s a bone and joint formula
7. It’s an anti-stress formula
8. It’s a vision support formula
9. It’s a memory and mood enhancer

10-in-ONE liquid multi-vitamin from GBG only costs $19.95 per bottle and costs up to 67% cheaper than other major compatible nutritional products.  I would love to try a bottle too and if I am not completely satisfied with the results, this 10-in-ONE multi-vitamin comes with a 60-day “empty bottle” money-back guarantee!  Do give it a try too and see improvement in your health.

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Air Purifier Cum Humidifier

Last week, hubby bought the latest Sharp air purifier cum humidifier.  Alycia has been having colds and throat infections too often and hopefully, with this air purifier placed in the gals’ bedroom, it will help to reduce her nose allergy and colds.

This air purifier has a clean Plasmacluster ion shower mode with humidification, where it acts to remove airborne dust, pollen, mold and allergens from the air.  There is even a water tank built inside the air purifier.  I don’t know how effective this air purifier is but I really hope it will help to reduce Alycia’s allergy and frequent colds.  It better be good coz it cost over RM1,600.

Do you use an air purifier too?  Do you see any improvement in your kids’ health after using it?

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