Posts tagged ‘Nutrition’

Most of our kitchen homes have MSG. It is as important as salt especially in cooking Asian foods. Monosodium glutamate or MSG is a food additive and is used to enhance the flavor of foods. MSG is also used in preserving processed foods like sausages, bacon, ham, instant noodles, and cheese to name a few. [...]

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As early as the first trimester of pregnancy, a mother-to-be starts to look for different foods she may have wanted to eat. Chocolates, green mangoes, smoothies, pastries and others are usually the object of cravings. Yes, you are pregnant and you need to double the calories you are having each day. But it does not [...]

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The mother’s extra love and care for herself does not stop after she gave birth to her little angel. But some mothers tend to forget that she has still special roles to fulfill after pregnancy and that is breastfeeding. Basically, breastfeeding mothers have more or less the same needs during the time when she was [...]

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