Have you heard of that? It is like the latest fad because of the increase of liver cancer. I hear it on the news, I see it in the papers and I see it online. Everyone is talking about liver cleansing, liver detox and liver health.

Liver actually is such an important organs that rules our general health. Our skin gets clearer and without those splotchy patches if we have clean liver. We are more active and a lot more healthy. So, if you haven’t heard of liver cleanse, you may want to know about it now.

Don’t let that poor organ in your body overworked as it has to filter out all the toxins in our body. Take good care of it, will you?

Tags: liver cleanse, liver detox, liver health

For the last few days and nights, I have been rushing around. It was one long session with my dentist and I need to return to see her a few more times. I wish she is a he and good looking. But nope, we have some communication breakdown and I got so nervous, I felt like dying the other day because she need to stuff some cold clay into my throat to make the mould for my crown.

On top of that, I stayed up late these few nights because I was too busy body with the latest Malaysia election results. Well, it is like a big gamble, wanting to know who win, who lose.

Now, I am so beat up, I will need energy pills or a few days of sleeping to recover.

I am terribly fanatic about what I eat lately as this time of the year is the best time to detox. I started vegetarian fasting for the season of Lent and it is to last 40 days. I have so far completed 16 day of vegetarian diet and I must say I notice a huge difference in my skin. My bowel movement too improve a lot.

The other thing is when I am taking trouble to eat only vegetarian meals, I will tend to eat more fruits and vegetables to fill me up. I get hungry really fast without meats so I stuff myself with fruits and nuts. I also increase my food supplements and currently I am taking Milk Thistle which is suppose to be good for liver cleansing.

My friend also told me about Biotivia products and I listened to her and ordered some and am waiting for it. My friend said grape seed extract is good for us and she should know. I ordered the Biospan as it is good for anti-ageing and is suppose to make us more active and reduce the sugar cravings. Oh how I hate sugar cravings! I normally get that just before my period and I cannot live without chocolates.

As I have been getting flu a lot, I also asked for Bioflu which will boost my immune system. When I get my shipment of Biotivia, I will tell you more about it!

Last year, I wrote an article about female circumcision and it draws different reactions from people. I know that some of my Muslim friends do adopt female circumcision due to religious requirement. However, the female babies are circumcised by medical doctor in a hygienic environment. It is not a total mutilation like the female circumcision carried out in Africa. Those are grossly torturous.

I personally will not question why some religious faith require their female babies to have female circumcision. Therefore, I think when some parties take the issue and tear it apart by using examples of female genital mutilation, it is rather low. They are different but I shall not explain it. I just want to point out the difference between female circumcision and female genital mutilation.

There are various sites which I will not link because they contain gross videos and I will certainly not subject myself to view it. I hope everyone will read and understand before using the few cases against a whole faith. I believe the procedure that my Muslim friends adopt are either the Type 1 or Type II described in Wikipedia :

Type I

The WHO defines Type I female genital mutilation as the removal or splitting of the clitoral hood, termed “hoodectomy” (or “clitorodotomy”), with or without excision of the clitoris, see Diagram 1B. The clitoral hood is homologous to the foreskin of the penis which is removed during circumcision.

[edit] Type II

The WHO’s definition of Type II FGC is the “excision of the clitoris with partial or total excision of the labia minora.”[1] This type of FGC is also called khafd, meaning reduction in Arabic.

Come to think of it, if we look at the amount of interest on vaginoplasty and plastic surgery to reduce the size of the labia, the modern, Western culture aren’t too far different, isn’t it? They too have this fascination to cut and stitch their own vaginas.

So? What can we say?

This is one of the questions my friends asked when I tell them that I am fasting for 40 days. As a Catholic, we are called to fast on every Fridays during the season of Lent, i.e. starting on Ash Wedesday which is this February 7th 2008 and ending on Good Friday. i told them that I don’t go on the vegetarian fasting to lose weight so I never check my weight. I do it not so much due to the faith side but rather, to allow my body to rest without digesting all those fatty foods, meats and seafoods.

They cannot believe that I don’t lose weight. Well, when I am on vegetarian fasting, I make sure that I still take proteins, i.e. eggs and milk plus soy products. This way, I don’t lose muscles as going on vegetarian diet can cause us to lose our muscles if we are not careful.

That’s why I told my friends to go over to sites which have quick weight loss diet plans and read for themselves how to lose weight. We should cut down our meals drastically nor eat only certain groups of foods. They can read from Weight Loss Diet Help website which compares leading diet plans and weight loss programs such as Medifast, Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers and more. It also lists discount coupons and promotions for these programs, so you can save when you join.

For example, they have the 25% off Weight Watchers Online coupon that will expire on Jan 31 and those who are keen to start a diet, should grab the coupon now. While reading through the site, I found a page title Easy Tips to Lose One Pound a Week and am now wondering if I should incorporate some weight loss efforts while I am on the vegetarian fasting.

I am going to start my vegetarian fasting in a couple of week’s time. I did it not so much for the faith but rather the overall feeling of unloading all those toxins in my body.

Normally, I will go on 40 days of vegetarian diet and I can feel and see the differences on my skin after that regime. It is not easy and frankly, I do feel like quitting it when I see some juicy steak or yummy seafoods.

The only thing that kept me going are those fake meats and fake seafoods. My brain tells me I am still eating meats and I feel so much better. The above is a plate of fake chicken meat or rather soy made as satay. It does look good, right?

The stupid internet connection has been so darn slow. In fact, many people complaint that they cannot even access because their broadband totally died on them. So, I can count myself lucky that I don’t need to squat at some coffee joint to find a line.

This is extremely stressful because I have so many reminders to complete my assignments. How to do them when the line keep cutting off? Sometimes, when I hit the publish button the line went dead and my post went missing. If those goes on any further, I am going to need a life insurance quote because my blood pressure is rising.

I read that they are going to repair some undersea connection by tomorrow. I hope they do.