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Awareness for your Everyday Life Towards Healthy Living
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Urinalysis Test
Urinalysis performs to analyze the urine physical color and appearance, microscopic appearance, and chemical appearance. Your physician may require having urinalysis to diagnose certain disease such as urinary tract infection or kidney infection, diabetes mellitus, and high blood pressure and evaluate the causes of kidney failure.
Urine sample is collected from patient in order to perform [...]
Tahong or Mussels Recipe (Tinolang Tahong)
One of the favorite menus here in the Philippines is mussels or tahong. Aside from being very nutritious and delicious, it is less expensive. It provides vitamin B and C, amino acids, omega 3 fatty acids, iron, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium and zinc.
My brother in law gives us tahong for free during our visit, that’s [...]
My Simple Chicken Tomato Sauce Recipe
I cannot decide what to cook this day. I found tomato sauce in my kitchen and a chicken in our refrigerator plus carrot so I end up preparing a simple chicken tomato sauce. This recipe is also called chicken apritada, just add red and green bell pepper. Tomato sauce is contain lycopene which act as [...]
Kid Constipation
One of the very common problems among kids is constipation. Your child is constipated when he or she has trouble or difficulty having bowel movement or when the stools or poop are hard, dry and large. Also, he or she is constipated when your child has fewer than three bowel movements in a week.
The number [...]
Health Benefits of Jackfruit
Here in the Philippines, jackfruit is called langka in tagalog. I decided to write the health benefits of jackfruits since we have a plenty of trees of jackfruit in our backyard. My mother always cook ripe jackfruit in syrup by simmer it in water and sugar over the medium heat for about 10 minutes.
Eating langka [...]
Colon Cancer Causes and Symptoms
It was last year when former President Corazon Aquino detected that she had colon cancer. She will undergo operation as part of her treatment for colon cancer this coming Monday. The family asks for prayers for the successful operation.
By the way, colon cancer is uncontrolled growth of the cells that line inside of the colon [...]
Swine Flu Virus
Last night, I heard the news about the spreading of a new and different strain of swine flu virus. A strain of swine flu is suspected to be the killer of dozen of people in Mexico. Swine flu is caused by type A influenza viruses among pigs. It regularly happened in pigs but human infection [...]
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
I have a friend who was married five years ago but up to now they have no children. My friend found out that she has polycystic ovary syndrome.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a health problem which affects woman’s menstrual cycle as well as the ability to have children, heart, hormones and blood vessels. A woman [...]
Pork Dinuguan (Pork Blood Stew)
Pork dinuguan is also one of the familiar menus here in the Philippines. It is often serve with puto or steam rice. It a meat simmered with spicy gravy of pig blood with chili and vinegar.
Ingredients:
1/2 kilo pork belly, cut into small cubes
1/8 pork liver, diced
2 cups of pig’s blood (frozen)
1 head garlic, minced and [...]
Congenital Heart Disease
After 20 years of battling heart disease, my husband’s nephew passed away yesterday. His nephew was born with heart defects. CHD or congenital heart defect is a heart problem which is present at birth that caused by improper development of the heart during fetal development. There is no known reason for the heart to form [...]
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