This week's Mind Your Body

If you're a Straits Times subscriber, you should read "Mind Your Body" supplement from yesterday's paper. There were quite a few interesting read.

How a guy managed to lose 114kg! I am amazed by his story, 贵人 (angels) still come into some people's lives. I guess some people are luckier than the others. I am inspired and would love to eat much healthier after reading his story. I have been having salads/soup/sandwiches for a week, time to reduce more carbo intake.

Then there's an article about Facebook friends and friendship. Somehow I wish my friend would read this! The author categorized the friendship in Facebook into friendship of utility, pleasure and perfect friendship. Somehow I don't see it as simple as he has illustrated. Though he mentioned friends of utility make use of each other, but even in perfect friendship it might happen too. I do agree with him, a virtual connection is nothing comparable to the face-to-face meeting... Is Facebook really helpful or harmful? I guess it depends on how the user uses it, if you use it to stalk your best friend or boyfriend's activity, is that even healthy? I am being on it because I can share my life with friends I don't see often, I enjoy their photos, I love discovering new things and sharing, I use it as a tool for interaction. If you don't like my newsfeed, delete me or hide me. I take no offence, it's your friend list, do what you want with it. Why do some people take it so seriously?

There's also an article on the worries of using Power Plate. It's a vibration device that helps you to lose weight by making your muscles and cells work much harder through the body vibration. I had a trial once, it really makes you sweat, however I feel its too straining for the body, and you might feel dizzy the first time you use the machine. They talk about the possibility of damage to the organs in long-term, which sounds scary! They also said people use it for a period of under 8-9 months have no issues so far but there's no scientific research of the side effects it might impose. They however did test on different group of people on different diet and fitness plan and those on power plate regime did show better results than the rest. So this is pretty ironical. Take the risk or no.