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It’s the 5th day of CNY, and it’s a quiet one. Was hanging around at home, watching the newly installed ASTRO channels, hehe.

We signed up for ASTRO, just the basic channels in the family package, through the internet few days before CNY, and the installer came and install the system for us on the third day of CNY! Fast!

Normally Chinese don’t like to drill or bang at home during CNY, but we couldn’t stand watching blur TV screens any longer (coz we didn’t have an aerial installed), haha!

And while watching TV, I was munching away on cookies and candies from bottles placed on the coffee table. Imagine all the sugars running in my body now…And tonight, we’ll be having dinner with both our parents.

This means that, I’ll have to workout on the elliptical machine for at least 20 minutes after this. Burn off some calories first before I take in more tonight, haha! I don’t intend to resort to weight loss products like slimquick or QuickTrim to get rid of fat, so I have to work the difficult way.

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A drug rehab program involves a detoxification process, which is very uncomfortable for the patients, as they will get all sorts of withdrawal symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, irritability, insomnia, seizures, schizophrenia, etc. The drug rehab program will help patients to cope with those physical and mental withdrawal symptoms from the drug they regularly used.

Many drug rehab programs also teach patients how to interact in a drug-free environment, change habits related to addiction, and not to associate further with people who use addictive substances. This is to ensure a successful rehab and prevent them from getting back into drug abuse.

Last night I finished baking cookies around midnight! So didn’t get to exercise on my elliptical machine. So today I have to double my exercising time to 30 minutes.

The main purpose of having an elliptical machine at home is so that hubby can exercise any time he wants. He doesn’t need to go to the gym, and we don’t have to struggle to wake up on weekends to go to the park. Also, I read that exercising using an elliptical machine has less impact and is therefore gentler for the knees compared to running on a treadmill. Since I occasionally experience knee pain, I figure having an elliptical machine at home is to my advantage as well.

However, I’m worried that I might eventually have to start taking joint supplements, and visiting websites like www.jointsupplementreviews.net to learn more about supplements for joint health or to relieve joint pain. You see, my left knee gives out a cracking sound whenever I climb the staircase, or bend my knee. Well, not always though, and it doesn’t necessarily hurts. This could be an early sign that I will be developing some form of knee arthritis 10 years down the road.

Jeez, perhaps I have to start researching on this topic to help my knee if I want to remain active and still be able to walk by the time I’m 60!

Not everyone has the habit of taking vitamins or other supplements everyday, despite we all are well aware that we are unlikely to meet our daily nutrient requirements even with the healthiest diet.

If you are pregnant, then it’s even more important to make sure your daily needs are met, for the sake of your health and the health of your growing baby inside you. The vitamins needed while a woman is pregnant is called prenatal vitamins. Prenatal supplements contain numerous vitamins and minerals, and are specially formulated to make up for any nutritional deficiencies in the mother’s diet. Several substances are especially important - folic acid, iron and calcium.

You can easily find information about the recommended prenatal vitamins from books and the internet.

For women who are planning to get pregnant, doctors also usually recommend prenatal vitamins (or more correctly, preconception vitamins). Folic acid is particularly essential even before a woman get pregnant, because it is needed to prevent serious birth defect of the brain and spinal cord. These organs develop very early after conception, and the reserve of folic acid in the mother’s body must be enough as soon as she is conceived.

Whether you like the idea of colon cleansing or not, many people are doing it right now, mainly for health reasons, to get rid of toxins piled up in the body (a process known as detox), so that one can feel healthier, feel more energized, their skin looks better, and probably could also lose a few pounds!

There are quite a number of colon cleansing products in the market. I haven’t really researched any of them coz I personally don’t favor this idea. But if you have come across a colon cleansing product called Colonix, then you might be interested to read this colonix review before you decide if it’s what you’re looking for. Other brands include Colonetix and Cleansonix. Basically these products contain ingredients to help cleanse and purify the colon.

If you don’t like to take tablets and pills, you could also use juice fasting to detox your body. This is a more natural way to detox coz you’ll use fresh vegetables and fruits to prepare your juice beverages. Of course, the downside of this is inconvenience and time consuming.

Ouch! It hurts! Both my left knee joint and my wallet, haha!

Walked for several hours yesterday coz was shopping for clothes. Spent several hundred bucks on a pair of jeans, a skirt, and 5 tops for myself, plus 2 polo t-shirts for hubby. I think I have spent all my clothing budget for the first half of the year. So, no more shopping for clothes in another 6 months, haha!

Oh, and how age is catching up. Felt so exhausted after spending about 5 hours in the shopping mall, and my left knee was aching slightly after walking so much on my heels. I was in One Utama shopping mall, walking to and fro the old and new wings. I thought I would take it as the exercise of the day, but ended up moaning about knee pain.

Now, I can’t help to wonder if it’s time for me to start taking some joint health supplements. Oh, may be I also need some supplements to prevent white hair and hair fall, to sooth fatigue eyes and improve vision, for stronger nails…

Argghhh…. getting old!