Category Archives: Health

Bento Box

Posted on October 25, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

The famous Japanese Bento Box is one alternative to making the lunchbox exciting.

The food prepared in there is healthy too especially for those in the lookout for msm dietary supplements and more healthy food choices.

Here is a video that teaches how to prepare a Bento Box.

Not taking into account the time it takes to prepare a Bento Box, I would love to do this for my school children. BUT! even if I prepare their snacks (those that don’t need cooking) at night before I sleep, it still takes me some time to prepare three lunch boxes considering I wake up at 4am. So that means I wake up around 2am then. Oh my!

I would love to try this one of these days, maybe with practice and preparation, I’d get to master the know-how on making Bento Box 🙂

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Trio Does the Trick

Posted on October 24, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I’ve a little secret.

I’ve started taking these herbal pills being advertised on tv, the ones which say has L carnitine to help burn the fat. It has a caution though that diet and exercise SHOULD be accompanying these, two of which I don’t really have spent some time with. The trio does the trick of losing weight.

In my quest to find the best weight loss supplements I ignored two important factors: diet and exercise. I know, no pain, no gain. In this case, no pain, no weight loss. And for someone like me who is not getting any younger, losing the excess pounds is very hard to achieve.

Unless I go to a “beauty” expert and have these lasered or whatever.

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Massage for Children

Posted on September 21, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

Every night when I tuck the children for bed, they ask me to put lotion on their leg and arms as their “nightly massage”. My younger daughter (who didn’t go to school today because she has a low-grade fever) joked if there is a citronella face cream.

I don’t know where she got the idea, perhaps because she saw me reading the net to see what is the best night cream to use.

I asked her why she asked that and she explained so that the face wouldn’t get bitten by the dreaded dengue mosquito. Yes, we use Citronella Insect Repellent to hopefully keep those mosquitoes away.

Anyway, these nightly massages do not only make our bond stronger, massaging also makes children happy and connected to their loved ones. Plus they get to relax more and enjoy their sleep 🙂

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Out Walking

Posted on September 21, 2010 by greenbucks| Leave a comment

I still see the young-at-heart grandpas passing by our place every morning. Yep, it is their daily routine to do brisk walking, all four or five (sometimes six) of them. I wonder how they are able to do that daily, walking very fast while chatting and laughing. Maybe they take men vitamins or daily fitness regimen is good enough to make them alert and mobile despite their age.

Sometimes I wonder where they live. Sometimes I think of giving names to match their faces. Sometimes, I think about what they do after they take their walks.

If there is one thing I am certain of, is that I may hate to admit it but I think they can out-walk me anytime. Ouch.

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Hula Hoops

Posted on September 17, 2010 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

I have been endlessly wanting to know how to get rid of belly fat the fun way. Ok, excuses, excuses.

I think I may have found what I’m looking for: hula hoops!

Hula hoop fitness routine seems easy to do though I know for clumsy me who can’t make a hula hoop stay on my waist, I would probably be having a hard time keeping it up and moving.

I found videos and read lit on how this hula hooping can make one lose weight and have fun at the same time.

I want to have a Hoopnotica video and “Find myself in the Hoop”!

Hula hooping for fitness videos can be found here.

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