NUTRITION DATA

Found yet another amazing site for understanding and keeping track of your nutritional intake. After all, 'it's not what comes out of you but what goes in that makes you', and you are what you eat.

This website is, like other, equipped with a fully searchable nutritional database of western foods and groceries. What makes it amazing is, it tabulates the data in the familiar nutrition label, and also sets up a pyramid to point out where it stands in terms of nutritional composition. It also works backwards - i.e. you decide the sort of composition you'd like to have and it returns the foods that matches your requirement.

I've not found any other site that gives you data on 'Fullness Factor' and Glycemic Index along with it.

Apart from this core service, lots of articles on weight management, glycemic load and other such things are available for reading.

Healthy Living: What You Can Do to Keep Your Health

'Does what I do really affect my health?

Very much so. All of the major causes of death--cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung disease and injury--can be prevented by things you do.'

from FAMILYDOCTOR.ORG

Middle-age tuneup

'It's not too late. The tricks for a long, healthy life — don't smoke, eat right and exercise — are well-known. But putting that into practice often seems so daunting that people don't even try, and by their 50s, many baby boomers figure that the damage has been done anyway. Researchers and doctors increasingly agree, however, that even modest changes in middle age and later can have a dramatic impact on health and longevity — that people over 50 can benefit from what effectively amounts to a tuneup. A recent study funded by the National Institutes of Health, for example, showed that participants, who had a mean age of 51 and were at high risk of developing diabetes, were able to slash their risk by half through modest weight loss and exercise.

Advice here highlights risk factors that often arise in middle age — such as vitamin deficiencies, marital tension, even gum disease — and can have a surprising impact on health. Others are efforts to simplify complex health guidelines — on diet or exercise, for example — into tasks that can be done reflexively, from the two vitamins that nearly every boomer should take to three key weight-bearing exercises that can be done anywhere.'

from DESERTENEWS.COM

Local Food Guide

There's a dearth of tools for Malaysians to reliably plan or assess their dietary intake. Thankfully, Singapore's Health Ministry has a database available for most local dishes and delicacies. Foods are categorised into:
· Rice dishes
· Noodle dishes
· Chicken dishes
· Duck dishes
· Egg dishes
· Beef dishes
· Mutton dishes
· Pork dishes
· Seafood dishes
· Vegetable dishes
· Bean dishes
· Soup dishes
· Breads & buns
· Local Cakes
· Desserts
· Snacks
· Beverages

A good place to start when planning your meals and dietary budget.