Stay Slim Like My Wife

Whenever my wife bumps into her former high school students, the first thing that going to pop-up from their mouths is "you look the same as you were twenty years ago. What is your secret?"

I got to confess to you people, her former students were right. My wife and I have been married for almost twenty years and we have four grown up children. What makes most of my wife's former students and her long lost friends wondering is about her appearance.

She has not change much since I first met her. I got to admit that she looks younger than her actual age; slim and maintains the same weight. Her secrets........

• don't take unnecessary food in between meals
• watch up you eating habit. Don't miss your breakfast, lunch and dinner
• supplement your daily diet with raw naturally-grown herbs

Talking about the herbs, we grow varieties of herbal plants at the back yard of our house. And one of my wife's favorite herbal plants is pegaga.

Pegaga is a small polymorphous, creeping plant belongs to the family of Apiaceae. Largely found in most part of warmer regions, especially in Asia and South America. Its common name is pennyworth and its scientific name is Centella asiatic.

Pegaga is consumed as vegetable and eaten raw as a salad leaf. For many generations, this creepy plant has been used as a medicinal herb and traditional medicine to cure and heal certain illness.

Dried and crushed pegaga is used for the treatment of leprosy, bronchitis, asthma and to heal wound. People in the Indian continent regard this plant as a potent brain tonic because its ability to improve all aspects of mental functioning in especially in treating senile dacay and loss of memory. To those who wish to look young, consider taking raw pegaga as your favorite salad because it is believed that this plant combat ageing and thus maintains your youthfulness.

Today, pegaga has been widely used as the main ingredient in the production of herbal-based products, supplementary foods and cosmetics. They are available in most drug stores, pharmacies and also online markets.

Being fat may not be your faults

To those of you who are too concern with your weight, please consider the following findings. Obesity experts have discovered that there's more to staying slim than eating less or doing exercice. Your chances of being obese may increase if:

• you have an older mother. Kids with old moms have a greater chance to be fat as their mothers getting older
• you live too close to heavy industrial areas. Industrial pollutants could find their way up the food chain and thus affect metabolism and activate dormant baby fat cells
• you work in air-conditioning offices. The cool temperature saves calories the body would normally use to keep its temperature down
• you were born underweight. Underweight babies who undergo rapid weight catch-up are likely to store food rather than burn it off.