A few days ago, my children’s nanny, Ika, passed a beef dish over to the neighbor’s maid, also named Ika, who has not eaten meat in 2 years. Apparently, the family she stays with are very strict vegetarians. They don’t even eat onions and garlic.

Anyways, after she ate the beef, she broke out in rashes! It could only mean one thing. She’s allergic to beef !

Beef is an integral food for Indonesians, just like beef is something Americans eat all the time, like beef steaks and hamburger. So she’s going to have a hard time when she goes back home.

The problem is, she was never aware that she was allergic to beef …. at all. So it’s something good for her to know. Unsuspected allergies can cause multiple problems in the body if it’s not removed from the system. The body will try to fight the allergy, and the cells in the body will remain inflamed when it’s sick. And a sick body can shut down. The body will try to tell us something when it’s sick. You may get stomachaches, or maybe liver problems, maybe headaches, or worse cancer.

A lot of people have allergies, but they are not aware of it. And get surprised when they fall ill.

So listen to your body now. Don’t wait until there’s something seriously wrong before you act.

Jasmin

ps Finally, I got my own domain name. Do you like it? It needs a bit of sprucing, and I’m still learning how to use this sytem, which I admit, I’m not used to. I’m currently in the process of shifting my blog from http://eatrawfoodtoday.blogspot.com/ so, meanwhile, please bear with me. You can still visit my old blog to read the old posts.

A bamboo coffin

Just last week, hubby showed me an interesting article about eco friendly burial methods. Apparently, there’s sustainable bamboo weave coffins which are supposedly better than wooden coffins. Cheaper too. I think it’s absolutely wonderful. In theory it’s great, but think about it, in a lot of cases, families of the deceased may be coerced to buying a very expensive and not environmentally friendly coffin by the “coffin salesman” for fear of looking like cheapo skinflints who can’t be bothered to provide the best for the loved one who have since passed.

Me? I want my healthy, working body parts to be donated to be transplanted into bodies of people in need, like my cornea, heart, or whatever that is in good condition. I have reminded hubby not to donate my body to science and any medical facilities. My dead body is still my temple, and I want it to remain that way LOL. Oh yes, and after the good docs are through harvesting my body, I wish to be cremated and my ashes dumped in to the nearest sea, just like my paternal grandparents. Still not the most eco friendly method, due to the energy needed for the cremation, but this is how I want my Buddhist body to be handled.

Slightly off topic, my granddad passed away when I was 17. After the funeral, my dad put my grandpa’s ashes and bones into a cloth bag. He didn’t close the cloth bag all the way before he dropped the bag into the sea. When I asked why, dad said it’s so that granddad can swim out anytime he wants to. Anyhow, I always thought everything would be burned down to ashes. I mean, that’s what I see on tv, but apparently, not in Malaysia. There was still half a femur bone here, parts of the rib bone there. Grandma passed away a few years back, and yes, they did not fully burn her body down to ashes as well.

Nowadays, there’s all sorts of eco friendly burial products. There’s bio degradable urns. But why urns when a cheap cotton cloth bag will do, since someone’s going to bury the urn anyway. You can’t have a biodegradable urn sitting on top of the living room mantle anyways. It would look nasty as the urn start to bio degrade. There’s also special burial parks that looks exactly like parks with no burial stones to mar the landscape.

However, in my book, the best eco friendly burial is still the muslim burial. They use a simple white shroud to wrap the body, and then they bury the body in the muslim graveyard. Two simple burial stone marks the grave. Flowers and fragrant flower water is sprinkled onto the body and onto the grave. Prayers are made without much fuss and pomp.

A taoist grave.
Read about it at http://foolamak.com/fooie/qing-ming

Hi everyone.

I have obtained a great new domain name, and so I’ve moved my http://eatrawfoodtoday.blogspot.com/ to this place.

I hope to share more information with you guys as always!

Jasmin

I’m pretty much convinced that people’s health are tied to what they eat. Take me for example. I have suffered through fatigue syndrome, gastric problems, menstrual problems through my teens and in my twenties. I just ate and ate, and I ate too much junk at that time. And oh, did I mention that I was overweight, had bad erupting painful acne and had terrible eyesight? All those problems are behind me now.

My blog is about food in general, artificial coloring, preservatives, additives and how the environment affects our health.