Easy & Cheap Ways To Health & Beauty

Most of us already know that health and beauty go hand in hand, 

however we sometimes forget to practice a healthy lifestyle or some 

of us find it hard to continue healthy lifestlye because we have no 

time or simply it just takes so much effort and such a hassle.

Yes. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle seem to involve a lot of work, 

cost money and not easy. Such as doing a regular exercise, eat well 

balanced diet, take enough nutritions, sleep enough, no stress ...  

the list can go on.  

If there is a way to maintain health and beauty in an easier way, 

the natural way, cheap and proven to work (well, it works among 

women here), would you like to try?

First, here are the keywords to remember:  

*Collagen, *Black and White Sesame, *Royal jelly

Collagen

Most of us know that it keeps our skin & bones healthy. We also 

know that as we get older collagen level drops, therefore we need

to take special care to maintain collagen in the body to maintain 

skin health and prevent ageing (wrinkles).

Here is an easy to get and cheap food that contains lots of 

collagen: chicken wings, minced pork,　lever (pork), spare 

ribs, prawns and the less commonly available at supermarket 

and may be slightly offensive to some of us, chicken  feet, pork

hand/pettitoes (!) and sharkfin.

Black & White Sesame

Sesame, which contains a lot of vitamin E, is more widely known as a health supple ment than beauty supplement. Also, most people are more familiar with sesame oil 

than sesame powder. There is a limitation intake when it comes to sesame oil because most people are concerned with calories intake. However, in Japan black and white sesame are widely used in various dishes, especially 

Japanese sweets. Check out: "Breakfast With Black Sesame"

Royal Jelly

The common royal jelly you will find are available in tablets and often expensive. The best and reasonable

substitute of royal jelly is actually pure honey.  Honey also contains the benefits similar to that of royal jelly.

Do you know that the use of honey for beauty treatment

was known from long time ago, even during Cleopatra 

era?

Easy to make recipes containing collagen, using black/white sesame

and honey are coming soon.

Feeling Cold? Sore Throat?

Recommended for early symptoms of cold:

1. Grilled spring onion (Welsh onion)

Wash the onion clean and cut into 5-6 cm length.   Heat the grill/oven to 180 degrees and bake the onion until it turns brown evenly on all sides.   Peel the layer that turns brown and eat the cooked onions (inside the brown layer) with soy sauce.   You can eat it as it is or with soy sauce, mayonaisse, according to taste.   Very effective remedy for early symptoms of cough.

2. Grated Ginger and Honey Drink

Wash the ginger clean and grate it to make about 1 tablespoon (1tbsp).   Squeeze the juice of ginger and mix it with 1 tbsp of honey (adjust honey according to taste).   Then pour hot water and stir well.    Drink it warm.  Very effective remedy for those feeling cold in winter or feeling cold with fever.

3. Pear juice (Chinese pear)

Peel pear and grate it or put it in the mixer.   Pour the juice into a pan and heat it until it becomes warm enough to drink.

4. Daikon (Japanese Radish) & Spring onion Soup

Prepare chicken broth.   Cut daikon into smaller pieces that are easy to eat, also cut the spring onion into edible slices.    Boil the vegetables and put seasoning according to taste.   Salt and pepper for plain soup.   Alternatively, you can cook it with miso or soy sauce (in which case do not put salt and pepper inside).

5. Daikon (Japanese Radish) & Honey

Use about 5 cm of daikon, peel first and cut into 7mm cubes or thin slices.    Put the sliced daikon into a jar then pour honey until it covers the top.   Make sure honey is pure 100% honey not one that contains lots of sugar.   Pure honey is more effective.   Put the jar in the fridge for 3-4 hours.

How to drink? Put the mixture (2 tbsp) in a cup of straight tea or you can eat the pickled daikon just like that.   This has proven to work among various people, not just myself.

Not recommended early symptoms of cold:

1. Milk or any other dairy products, especially served cold.

2. Coffee, tea, other drinks that contain caffeine

3. Sweets, such as chocolates, cakes, or other food containing lots of sugar.

Dairy products, caffeine and high level of sugar work negatively when the body is trying to create antibodies to fight the unwanted invaders, bacteria/virus.   The activity of white blood cells is much better when the body is warm, i.e. taking food/drinks that make the body "warm" is better than taking food/drink that make the body "cold".