【純粹分享】：MyKuali Prawn Mee

那天逛超級市場，發現這個 MyKuali 除了有 white curry以外，還新推出了這個 prawn mee。

買了一包回來試試看，結果有驚喜噢！

不錯吃！不錯吃！味道鮮。

而且我想如果自己加一些蝦子和雞蛋，簡直就是一碗風味十足的蝦面！

【純粹分享】：人工添加劑，你知道多少？

在很久很久以前，我也是一個不會要去看食物標簽的人。
每次做 groceries shopping 的時候，想買什麽，就買什麽。廣告說這個好，就以爲真的好，看到的時候，就會買那個牌子。（所以你說，廣告的影響力是多麽大？！）

自從認識了生物治療，就開始學會每次要買什麽食物前，一定要檢查食物標簽，務必要了解清楚裏頭的成份。
統統什麽 artificial coloring，artificial flavoring，natural food coloring，natural flavor，corn syrup，fructose 等等，都是病起的根源，都是傷害我們身體健康的禍根。
普通孩子如果吃糖分過高比如糖果、蛋糕、冰淇淋等等會導致過動，特殊兒童也一樣，還會外加幾項比如浮躁、專注力無法集中、愛對立等等令父母頭疼的問題。

所以如果我說，很多果汁、果醬、汽水、口香糖，甚至到一些名聲大振的品牌如 M&M， Skittles，McDonald's，Kellogg's 或者Kraft's 等等中的某些食物都含有不好的成份，你相信嗎？
還有，如果我說，我們每天的食物裏，大量的色素和添加劑都是由石油（對！是石油，Petroleum）提煉而成，你相信嗎？

這些食物添加各種人造色素，人造香料，目的就是要把食物弄得吸引無比，好讓我們這些無辜的消費者購買。人造色素和人造香料一般都會有 Artificial Coloring No. 3 或者其他什麽等級，千萬別天真以爲等級是好壞的劃分，它們都是一樣的。至於什麽 natural food coloring 或者 natural flavor，絕對都不是天然的。

或許現在你會想，如果這些物質有害，爲什麽還可以在市場上售賣？
原因很簡單，衛生部或者其他衛生組織很少會去關注這些問題，尤其是對小朋友吃後造成的影響。也就是爲什麽在馬來西亞，人民嚴重缺乏該項知識。有關部門也嚴重性的沒有特別去提供相當的知識或者取締違反的食物製造商。

所以，我們一定也要把自己變得聰明一些，小心注意每一樣我們隨意放進口中的食物。

坦白說，我是非常小心翼翼，尤其是現在懷孕了，很多東西我都不吃。
認識我的人都知道我是無辣不歡，可是卻大大的 tone down 很多。
色素、香料等等，我一概不吃。所以連看到我最愛的 Cheetos Flammin' Hot Crunchy 我都沒有買。只是偶爾嘴饞，我會喝一點利賓納 （Ribena）。吃薯片，我都在吃 gluten free的，或者 Lays Original。目前爲止，家公還是完全沒有避嫌的在公司裏抽煙，已經跟他說過了，依然故我，那我就唯有當著他的面把口罩戴上。你察覺也好，沒看到也罷。雖不知道弟弟會不會跟哥哥一樣，但是為了我自己和孩子，我就盡量做好為人母可以做的事。在此與大家共勉之。

【純粹分享】：我們都很幸福

香港地小人多是衆所周知的事。
白鴿籠、籠民，這些稱號對我來説一點都不陌生。一般看著港劇長大的70、80輩都會知道。
也曾經聼朋友形容過香港人的家是何等的簡陋和狹窄，香港的朋友也說過他睡的單人床其實是比我們一般的單人床更小一些。而我們在電視劇裏看到的香港人的家是算比較上等的人，而一般港民的日常生活和簡陋的住所真的令人無法想像！
不過我從來沒有想過是這樣的一個情況......

* 所有照片來自dailymail.co.uk

坦白說，第一張照片是最令我震撼的！
一家人就是在這種什麽東西都曡高高，裝滿滿的情況下生活。吃東西、做功課、睡覺全都在一個不大於一間普通廁所的狹小空間裏。好的，一人獨處一個空間；不好的，一家幾口全擠在同一個空間裏。看了也令人覺得一陣心酸。

馬來西亞雖然也有類似這樣的組屋十七樓。但是比起香港的，我想還是大巫見小巫。
不得不說，馬來西亞的人民仍是非常幸運和幸福的。

【純粹分享】：再談自閉症

自閉症，以前是一千人裏，有一或者兩人。

現在是，一千人裏，有二十人。

曾經有人說是基因的問題，很多人起了爭論。

坦白說，其實我也好不認同！

有句話説，"It's the genetic that loaded the gun, but environment to pull the trigger."

我們生活的環境，母體受外界的影響，我們吃的食物，統統都息息相關。

比方説，自閉小朋友通常都有重金屬的問題。

那，這些金屬是從那裏開始進入他們的身體？

答案是，母體。

在媽媽懷孕期間，重金屬已經開始注入小朋友的體内。

出世后的第一年，寶寶的身體免疫力，神經細胞統統都還不成熟時，含有重金屬高的各種疫苗一而再的進入他們體内。

再來就是母體所攝入的食物。我們的環境衛生大受影響，海洋被荼毒，農民爲了賺多一點錢，耕種和飼養方法不再像以往那樣純淨，長肉劑、農藥、肥料統統不如以往。所以我們的食物，很多都隱藏著毒素和有害物質。

而且小朋友每每生病時，醫生開的藥方，一定會包括抗生素。這個也是最關鍵性的問題。

抗生素，很多父母都誤以爲它是幫忙殺死生病孩子體内的害菌的良品。其實不然。

無疑，很多父母因爲不要孩子受苦，就乾脆給抗生素，效果顯著，很快就看到小朋友大病痊愈。

沒錯，它的確會殺死害菌，可是很多人殊不知它會一併把孩子體内的良菌一起殺掉。

然後你會，或許不會發覺，小朋友的身體狀況愈來愈差，抵抗力愈來愈低。

所以這就是爲什麽自閉小朋友也通常都有腸胃和害菌的問題。也是我們稱之爲的GI DISTRESS。

GI DISTRESS 和 AUTISM 同樣是息息相關的。

簡單來説，你要奮抗自閉症，就一定要先控制好腸胃問題。

如果小朋友的腸胃一天沒有復原，你一再砸大錢買最好的保健品，再請最好的治療師，都會是徒然的。因爲只要我們能控制和治療腸胃的問題，小朋友的免疫系統和大腦才能得以正常的運作。

那，如何抗戰GI DISTRESS？

很抱歉我不是專家，不過很願意分享我所知道的。

首先，你必須做無麩質 (gluten free)、無奶制品 (casein free)，在某些情況，小朋友更需要無蛋 (egg free)、無玉蜀黍 (corn free)、無豆類 (soy free) 的飲食療法。

之後，謝絕一切糖分高的零食，比如糖果如水流一般的進入小朋友的身體。因爲這些是害菌的食物。我們必須切斷它們一切的食物來源。而同時，也必須進行體内刹菌。這個，我都在用天然的oregano oil。

之後，就可以開始補給。

可以用蘆薈汁 (aloe vera juice) 來修補腸胃内層長期以來所受到的各種傷害和破損。

再來就是給以良菌 (Probiotics)以增加小朋友體内的抵抗力。

當然，身為父母，我們必須充備辨別那些保健食品適合我們的小朋友的能力。

簡單的來説，一般市售的，都不適合。

對，是不適合！

爲什麽我這麽說，因爲它們要不就是品質不好（商家認爲是最好），要不就是不足以補給特別小朋友的日常需要。

那天看到有父母推薦某個牌子的 gluten free 產品。

由於在馬來西亞，gluten free 產品的選擇真的很少。所以當年我看到該產品時，也如同蜜蜂看到了蜜糖，像看到聖品一樣，為之眼前一亮。

可是當日子久了，知識多了之後，就發覺該產品的製作成分，當中有一項並不適合我的孩子。而且這個產品的糖分也很高。

之後，我又看到一位排期要父母等大概半年以上的本地評估醫生，建議父母使用一種魚油。

其實魚油是小朋友自閉復原路上，最基本的保健品，也是很重要的一種。

爲什麽呢？

因爲魚含有水銀。所以父母首先一定要確定給以的魚油務必是要純淨的，也是我們所謂的 distilled fish oil。

以前，我也用過該牌子，也是以爲自己找到便宜好康。因爲適合特別小孩的魚油實在是太貴了。那些費用真的可以導致你債臺高築。可是後來我才發現，它所含的 DHA 和 EPA 根本就不足夠。而且再相比真正適合特別小孩的魚油，其實該牌子更加昂貴。

錯中學，學中錯。

希望父母們，在無論誰人介紹的情況下，務必要事先做好功課和研究。

上網搜查知識，讀一讀相關的分析和資料，看該產品是否真的適合自己的小朋友。最重要也要測查該產品的品質和對小朋友的幫助。也所以爲什麽每次給兒子新的保健品時，我會自己先試一試葯。讓自己先感覺一下吃下這個保健品會有什麽樣的感覺和反應。

每個小朋友的體質和潛在問題都不一樣，千萬不要人云亦云，適合其他特別小孩的保健品，不一定也適合自己的孩子，這點非常重要！切記。

在此與大家共勉之。

【老大的事】：自閉症，不可怕

我坐在電器店裏，等著老公結帳。

看見有一個少年笑嘻嘻的走過來。心想，這小孩真開心噢。

我一直觀察著他，他獨自在店裏走來走去，不時用水瓶敲打自己，然後又突然間去拍打別人的肩膀。那個友族先生楞了一下。當下，我知道他是星星的孩子。

我在店裏很久，看見他沒有父母或家人陪伴。

突然有一個婦女手抱著小孩，緊張兮兮的趕叫女兒走快點，之後我看著她一臉厭惡，再聽到她跟先生指指點點的說著那個特殊少年。她心裡害怕，我知道。可是請你不要用奇怪的眼光去看待和判斷這些小朋友。他們不需要你的憐憫，更不需要你的有色眼鏡。也請你體諒一下他們的父母！尊重，please!

作為一名陌生人，本身應該加深對自閉症的認識，體諒和支持自閉症兒童的家長和家人所面對的困難與挑戰。同時，也必須學習接納和尊重自閉人士，不要歧視或捉弄他們。這是身為公眾人士的我們，最起碼可以做到的。

我想了一下，一股沖動，雞婆的要尋找少年的父母，想跟他們說，“Uncle Auntie ，你們的孩子不是怪小孩，不是傻瓜，他只是很特別，他還是有機會的，只要得到特別的教導和訓練。” 可是那個少年在店裏尋獲不得，應該是在我看管兒子的當兒走了。

我不是要為自閉孩童平凡的女俠，只是以一個家有特別小孩的母親為出發點，將心比心。

自閉症小孩，一點都不可怕，一點都不奇怪。他們只是缺乏進行正常語言表達和社交活動的能力，還有會常做一些刻板和重複性的動作和行為。很可悲的說，自閉症也被稱作為孤獨症。因為他們是一群被關在孤獨世界裡，需要家人和旁人特別幫助來尋找出路的小朋友。

他們並沒有要刻意去傷害任何人的意圖。

那天我一直不斷反思Sandra說的話，“你們看我奇怪，我看你們全都一樣才奇怪呢！”

曾幾何時，我也一直在竭盡所能的要把我的兒子變成和別的小朋友一樣。但是後來我想，如果上天賜給我一個特別的小孩，為什麼我要迫不及待的要把他改變成和別人一樣？他的特別之處，我應該要加倍欣賞，然後從以引導。天生我材必有用，或許將來他在學業方面會不理想而不能成為大企業家，或許他沒有學音樂的天分成為鋼琴家，或許他沒有敏捷的身手可以成為運動家，但是我必須相信我的兒子一定會有屬於他自己的一片天地！

現在坐在雪糕店，和我那也是特別的兒子吃著雪糕。

這份感恩，這種幸福，這種幸運，會一直存留在心裏，不會散去。

【純粹分享】：45 Uses For Lemons

Saw this on Facebook the other day and think it's worth sharing around.

Most people are familiar with the traditional uses for lemons to soothe sore throats and add some citrus flavor to our foods.

 However the diversity of applications for lemons far exceeds general knowledge and once you read the following list, you'll likely want to stock at least a few lemons in your kitchen 24-7.

1. Freshen the Fridge

Remove refrigerator odors with ease. Dab lemon juice on a cotton ball or sponge and leave it in the fridge for several hours. Make sure to toss out any malodorous items that might be causing the bad smell.

2. High Blood Pressure

Lemon contains potassium which controls high blood pressure and reduces the effect of nausea and dizziness.

3. Prevent Cauliflower From Turning Brown

Cauliflower tend to turn brown with even the slightest cooking. You can make sure the white vegetables stay white by squeezing a teaspoon of fresh lemon juice on them before heating.

4. Mental Health

Lemon water can also prep up your mood and relieve you from depression and stress. Long distance walkers and world travelers as well as explorers look upon the lemon as a Godsend. When fatigue begins, a lemon is sucked through a hole in the top. Quick acting medicine it is, giving almost unbelievable refreshments.

5. Refresh Cutting Boards

No wonder your kitchen cutting board smells! After all, you use it to chop onions, crush garlic, and prepare fish. To get rid of the smell and help sanitize the cutting board, rub it all over with the cut side of half a lemon or wash it in undiluted juice straight from the bottle.

6. Respiratory Problems

Lemon water can reduce phlegm; and can also help you breathe properly and aids a person suffering with asthma.

7. Treating Arthritis and Rheumatism

Lemon is a diuretic - assists in the production of urine which helps you to reduce inflammation by flushing out toxins and bacteria while also giving you relief from arthritis and rheumatism.

8. Prevents Kidney Stones

Regular consumption of the refreshing drink -- or even lemon juice mixed with water -- may increase the production of urinary citrate, a chemical in the urine that prevents the formation of crystals that may build up into kidney stones.

9. Keep Insects Out of the Kitchen

You don’t need insecticides or ant traps to ant-proof your kitchen. Just give it the lemon treatment. First squirt some lemon juice on door thresholds and windowsills. Then squeeze lemon juice into any holes or cracks where the ants are getting in. Finally, scatter small slices of lemon peel around the outdoor entrance. The ants will get the message that they aren’t welcome. Lemons are also effective against roaches and fleas: Simply mix the juice of 4 lemons (along with the rinds) with 1/2 gallon (2 liters) water and wash your floors with it; then watch the fleas and roaches flee. They hate the smell.

10. Anti-Aging

Lemon water reduces the production of free radicals which are responsible for aging skin and skin damage. Lemon water is calorie free and an antioxidant.

11. Fruit and Vegetable Wash

You never know what kind of pesticides or dirt may be lurking on the skin of your favorite fruits and vegetables. Slice your lemon and squeeze out one tablespoon of lemon juice into your spray bottle. The lemon juice is a natural disinfectant and will leave your fruits and vegetables smelling nice too.

12. Treat Infections

Lemon water can fight throat infections thanks to its antibacterial property. If salt water does not work for you, try lime and water for gargling.

13. Deodorize Your Garbage

If your garbage is beginning to smell yucky, here’s an easy way to deodorize it: Save leftover lemon and orange peels and toss them at the base under the bag. To keep it smelling fresh, repeat once every couple of weeks.

14. Keep Guacamole Green

You’ve been making guacamole all day long for the big party, and you don’t want it to turn brown on top before the guests arrive. The solution: Sprinkle a liberal amount of fresh lemon juice over it and it will stay fresh and green. The flavor of the lemon juice is a natural complement to the avocados in the guacamole. Make the fruit salad hours in advance too. Just squeeze some lemon juice onto the apple slices, and they’ll stay snowy white.

15. Purges The Blood

We consume a lot of junk food or food with a lot of preservatives and artificial flavours. This builds up a lot of toxins in the blood and body but daily consumption of lemon water helps to purify the blood.

16. Make Soggy Lettuce Crisp

Don’t toss that soggy lettuce into the garbage. With the help of a little lemon juice you can toss it in a salad instead. Add the juice of half a lemon to a bowl of cold water. Then put the soggy lettuce in it and refrigerate for 1 hour. Make sure to dry the leaves completely before putting them into salads or sandwiches.

17. Oral Health

Lemon juice also stops bleeding gums and reduces toothaches

18. Lighten Age Spots

Why buy expensive creams when you’ve got lemon juice? To lighten liver spots or freckles, try applying lemon juice directly to the area. Let it sit for 15 minutes and then rinse your skin clean. It’s a safe and effective skin-lightening agent.

19. Create Blonde Highlights

For salon-worthy highlights, add 1/4 cup lemon juice to 3/4 cup water and rinse your hair with the mixture. Then, sit in the sun until your hair dries. To maximize the effect, repeat once daily for up to a week.

20. Make a Room Scent/Humidifier

Freshen and moisturize the air in your home on dry winter days. Make your own room scent that also doubles as a humidifier. If you have a wood-burning stove, place an enameled cast-iron pot or bowl on top, fill with water, and add lemon (and/or orange) peels, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and apple skins. No wood-burning stove? Use your stovetop instead and just simmer the water periodically.

21. Clean and Whiten Nails

Pamper your hands without a manicurist. Add the juice of 1/2 lemon to 1 cup warm water and soak your fingertips in the mixture for 5 minutes. After pushing back the cuticles, rub some lemon peel back and forth against the nail.

22. Cleanse Your Face

Zap zits naturally by dabbing lemon juice on blackheads to draw them out during the day. You can also wash your face with lemon juice for a natural cleanse and exfoliation. Your skin should improve after several days of treatment. Lemon water is also a cooling agent, best way to beat the heat.

23. Freshen Your Breath

Make an impromptu mouthwash by rinsing with lemon juice straight from the bottle. Swallow for longer-lasting fresh breath. The citric acid in the juice alters the pH level in your mouth, killing bacteria that causes bad breath. Rinse after a few minutes because long-term exposure to the acid in lemons can harm tooth enamel.

24. Treat Flaky Dandruff

If itchy, scaly dandruff has you scratching your head, relief may be no farther away than your refrigerator. Just massage two tablespoons lemon juice into your scalp and rinse with water. Then stir one teaspoon lemon juice into one cup water and rinse your hair with it. Repeat daily until your dandruff disappears.

25. Get Rid of Tough Stains on Marble

You probably think of marble as stone, but it is really petrified calcium (also known as old seashells). That explains why it is so porous and easily stained and damaged. Those stains can be hard to remove. If washing won’t remove a stubborn stain, try this: Cut a lemon in half, dip the exposed flesh into some table salt, and rub it vigorously on the stain. But do this only as a last resort; acid can damage marble. Rinse well. Use These Lemons To Clean - Easy and Effective

26. Remove Berry Stains

It sure was fun to pick your own berries, but now your fingers are stained with berry juice that won’t come off no matter how much you scrub with soap and water. Try washing your hands with undiluted lemon juice, then wait a few minutes and wash with warm, soapy water. Repeat until your hands are stain-free.

27. Soften Dry, Scaly Elbows

Itchy elbows are bad enough, but they look terrible too. For better looking (and feeling) elbows, mix baking soda and lemon juice to make an abrasive paste, then rub it into your elbows for a soothing, smoothing, and exfoliating treatment. Rinse your extremities in a mixture of equal parts lemon juice and water, then massage with olive oil and dab dry with a soft cloth.

28. Headaches

Lemon juice with a few teaspoons of hot tea added is the treatment of a sophisticated New York bartender, for those who suffer with hangover headaches--and from headaches due to many other causes. He converts his customers to this regime, and weans them away from drug remedies completely.

29. Chills and Fevers

Chills and fevers may be due to a variety of causes; never the less the lemon is always a helpful remedy. Spanish physicians regard it as an infallible friend.

30. Diptheria

Skip the vaccine for this disease. Lemon Juice Treatment still proves as one of the most powerful antiseptics and the strong digestive qualities of the fruit are admired around the world. With the juice every hour or two, and at the same time, 1/2 to 1 tsp. should be swallowed. This cuts loose the false membrane in the throat and permits it to come out.

31. Vaginal Hygiene

Diluted lemon juice makes a safe and sane method of vaginal hygiene. Though it is a powerful antiseptic it is nevertheless free from irritating drugs in douches and suppositories.

32. Forget The Moth Balls

A charming French custom to keep closets free from moths is to take ripe lemons and stick them with cloves all over the skin. The heavily studded lemons slowly dry with their cloves, leaving a marvelous odor throughout the closets and rooms.

33. Stomach Health

Digestive problems are the most common ailments but warm water and lime juice is the solution to most digestive problems. Lemon juice helps to purify the blood, reduces your chances of indigestion, constipation, eliminates toxins from the body, adds digestion and reduces phlegm.

34. Disinfect Cuts and Scrapes

Stop bleeding and disinfect minor cuts and scraps by pouring a few drops of lemon juice directly on the cut. You can also apply the juice with a cotton ball and hold firmly in place for one minute.

35. Soothe Poison Ivy Rash

You won’t need an ocean of calamine lotion the next time poison ivy comes a-creeping. Just apply lemon juice directly to the affected area to soothe itching and alleviate the rash.

36. Remove Warts

You’ve tried countless remedies to banish warts and nothing seems to work. Next time, apply a dab of lemon juice directly to the wart using a cotton swab. Repeat for several days until the acids in the lemon juice dissolve the wart completely.

37. Bleach Delicate Fabrics

Avoid additional bleach stains by swapping ordinary household chlorine bleach with lemon juice, which is milder but no less effective. Soak your delicates in a mixture of lemon juice and baking soda for at least half an hour before washing.

38. Clean Tarnished Brass and Polish Chrome

Say good-bye to tarnish on brass, copper, or stainless steel. Make a paste of lemon juice and salt (or substitute baking soda or cream of tartar for the salt) and coat the affected area. Let it stay on for 5 minutes. Then wash in warm water, rinse, and polish dry. Use the same mixture to clean metal kitchen sinks too. Apply the paste, scrub gently, and rinse. Get rid of mineral deposits and polish chrome faucets and other tarnished chrome. Simply rub lemon rind over the chrome and watch it shine! Rinse well and dry with a soft cloth.

39. Replace Your Dry Cleaner

Ditch the expensive dry-cleaning bills (and harsh chemicals) with this homegrown trick. Simply scrub the stained area on shirts and blouses with equal parts lemon juice and water. Your “pits” will be good as new, and smell nice too.

40. Boost Laundry Detergent

For more powerful cleaning action, pour 1 cup lemon juice into the washer during the wash cycle. The natural bleaching action of the juice will zap stains and remove rust and mineral discolorations from cotton T-shirts and briefs and will leave your clothes smelling fresh. Your clothes will turn out brighter and also come out smelling lemon-fresh.

41. Rid Clothes of Mildew

Have you ever unpacked clothes you stored all winter and discovered some are stained with mildew? To get rid of it, make a paste of lemon juice and salt and rub it on the affected area, then dry the clothes in sunlight. Repeat the process until the stain is gone.

42. Eliminate Fireplace Odor

There’s nothing cozier on a cold winter night than a warm fire burning in the fireplace — unless the fire happens to smell horrible. Next time you have a fire that sends a stench into the room, try throwing a few lemon peels into the flames. Or simply burn some lemon peels along with your firewood as a preventive measure.

43. Neutralize Cat-Box Odor

You don’t have to use an aerosol spray to neutralize foul-smelling cat-box odors or freshen the air in your bathroom. Just cut a couple of lemons in half. Then place them, cut side up, in a dish in the room, and the air will soon smell lemon-fresh.

44. Deodorize a Humidifier

When your humidifier starts to smell funky, deodorize it with ease: Just pour 3 or 4 teaspoons lemon juice into the water. It will not only remove the off odor but will replace it with a lemon-fresh fragrance. Repeat every couple of weeks to keep the odor from returning.

45. Reduce Asthma Symptoms

In addition to a general detoxifying diet, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice before each meal, and before retiring can reduce asthma symptoms.