Nutritive Archives - shadowandy

Milk kefir, like the kombucha and water kefir, are loaded with probiotics, enzymes, vitamins and minerals beneficial to the body.

June 2, 2017 Andy

Roichen Cheese Maker – Easily make Kefir Cheese!

I started making milk kefir recently with the objective of making cheese. Yes, making cheese with milk kefir as the ingredient. Some affectionately call it as kefir cheese and it is full of probiotics like the milk kefir, albeit a drier version.

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May 13, 2017 Andy

Atkins diet, Keto diet, Paleo diet

Terms like ‘Keto diet’, ‘Paleo diet’ and ‘Atkins diet’ often pop up in your search results when searching for healthy diets. So what are they? Essentially, they manipulate your food choices in a good way. That is, reducing (or eliminating) the amount of processed food and carbohydrates that you consume. Although they share similarity in terms of being low-carb, ketosis, however, is the science behind the Keto diet while Paleo and Atkins diets might not be ketogenic. Let’s look at keto diet.

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May 5, 2017 Andy

Carbohydrates: Complex vs Simple

I pretty much grew up with carbohydrates (or carbs) being the base of my meals – rice with meats and vegetables as sides, noodles with other ingredients as sides, etc. I enjoy my coffee with brown sugar and having coconut pancakes (mee chiang kueh) once in a while. I know I should have my macronutrients (fat, protein, carbohydrate) in the correct proportion but it didn’t occur to me that they can be further branched into the ‘better’ and ‘bad’ category. For example, saturated versus trans fat, complex versus simple carbohydrate, etc. So lets just look at carbohydrates.

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May 3, 2017 Andy

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting, or IF, is an eating pattern where conscious decision is made to skip certain meals. You are cycling between periods of eating and fasting, and not about what food to eat. The fasting period is at least fourteen (14) hours after the last meal. The effects are weight loss and improved overall health.

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December 21, 2016 Andy

Brewing Kombucha

As usual, December is a lull period. With not much people (around) to hunt me down for answers to miscellaneous questions, leaving me with time to work on my own tasks (at work) and a little spare personal time to explore non-work-related stuffs. This time round, I explored brewing my own Kombucha. Yes, brewing Kombucha.