In Europe and other west countries, the people usually eat cereal in the morning. In Indonesia, chicken rice porridge becomes best breakfast choice. Why? First, for Indonesian, there is no eating without rice. Even they have eaten bread, for Indonesian it did not feel that the have ate. Rice porridge has rice composition.

Two, morning is rush hour for us, so we have to hurry. Porridge cuisine easy to eat and used up. So, what ideal cuisine for you?

Beside could find anywhere and cheap, aloe Vera have a lot of usefulness, especially for our health. This plant is known as hair growth medicine, can protect us against degenerative disease and infection.
Aloe Vera called medical plant or master healing plant. This plant seems like cactus. The leaf is pointed shape, with serration in the border. Inside the leaf, you’ll find clearly meat.Aloe Vera is included in Liliaceae family. Aloe means bitter compound which have light. The sap is bitter but can use as skin diseases. A publication at American Podiatric Medical Association showed us that aloe Vera gel which smeared or and drunk it to the testing animal could immediately cure injury. A publication in Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology showed that aloe can cure injury after surgical operation. Aloe gel also can cure acne 72 hours faster than other acne cream without aloe, and many other usefulness of skin care.
Other benefit of aloe Vera such as can be primary material for diet drinking, nutrient source, and antioxidant.
Right now, there are a lot of food products which have aloe as primary material, such as nata de aloe, aloe jar, etc. So, inspire your daily menus with aloe Vera products to increase our health.

Article source: Kompas, written by Prof. DR. Made Astawan, food and nutrient expert.

Meat contains high fat (bad fat) and also high cholesterol. So if we eat a meat (from animal) and do not watch our healthy, we have high percentage to get illness. Try to combine our meat food with fish. Because, fish contains omega-3 oil that good for our body and our body more strong against the thing that causing disease.

Inside omega-3 oil, there are EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosa hexaenoic acid). Those two essence have healthy characteristic, because beside blocked the process of fat carat (aterasclerosis), those essence can also reduce cholesterol and triglycerides degree in bold.

Consume 2 piece of fish in a day is enough to keep our body healthier. Or we can buy omega-3 oil capsule which complementally with omega-6 and omega-9. All of that keep the body healthier.
For people who have potentiality to get coroner heart, and stroke, fish oil clearly help against those diseases that decrease our quality of live. Consume sea fish oil or omega-3 prepared is the easy and cheap way to keep away diseases from us. Japanese people consume about 1 ons of fish in a day, and they free from diseases threat, same as Eskimo who have small percentage to get coroner heart and stroke diseases.

Source: Kompas, written by Dr. Handrawan Nadesul, edited and translated by reog.

Do you know petai? Petai is Indonesia name for three and or beans with pungent odor, widely eaten raw and cooked. A Latin name is Parkia speciosa. So, what is call in your country??
In Indonesia’s villages, petai becomefavorite food as side dish, because the beans is very delicious. The leaf also boiled for meals. Those beans often added while cooking vegetables, or may be meat dish. But, some people do not fond to eat this bean, because its odor is pungent and causing mouth odor, so bad aroma……
But, behind that bad smell, petai (the bean and leaf) have special healthy function. The beans are known as liver (hepatalgia), nefritis, worm (antelmintik), and diabetes medicine. The leaf could use for yellow disease medicine.
The more important of this food raw, petai contains rich of antioxidants, so it can protect us against free radical such as Hydrogen peroxide, super oxide anion, and hydroxyls the air which we whiff. Petai have super oxide cleaning activity more than 70% (source: Medicinal Plants: Quality Herbal Products for Healthy Living (1999), Vimala S).
So, it is your choices now, consume petai which causing bad smell in mouth, but become healthier, or do not consume, but miss one of healthy food?? :) Don’t worry; there are still a lot of food raw which contains of rich antioxidants, such as young cashew leaf (Anacardium occidentale) and Solanum tarvum (in Indonesia called takokak).
This article’s source : KOMPAS. Translated and edited by reog.

Want our emotion more controlled? Want feel confident doing a presentation? Or want our sex passion stronger and flame? All of that depend on food which eaten. The foods that have eaten can influence our mind and our feeling….our mood! Do not believe yet? Did you ever realize that our tired feeling and piqued feeling suddenly disappear when we finished our cup of warm tea? Chocolate or teas are few sample of food which influences our mood.
Food substance from food and drink that we consume can influence concentrate chemical substance in nerve substance, that is serotonin and dopamin-norepinefrin, which finally affect a nerve function.
Serotonin related with thinking and calm behaviors, such as comfort, relax optimist, etc. Dopamin-norepinefrin related with mind and active behavior, such as alert, prepared, reactive, happy, etc.
Green food, beans, and fresh fruit can increase serotonin content inside body. Meats and high-fat food can increase dopamin-norepinefrin content.
Increasing memory
Sea fish, like tuna and salmon are good to consume because content a compound that increasing studying and memory process in long and short term.
Ginko biloba, carrot, tomato, blueberry, spinach, lettuce, cauliflower, and beans (sunflower bean and peanut) also suggested to consume in order to chase away easy-forget disease.

Passion increasing
Beside stamina more ideal, food also can make you and your couple easier to get climax and satisfied when having sex/making love.
Oyster, banana, alpukat, asperges, carrot, almond, mango, strawberry, chocolate, heart, are kind of foods which believed in effectively to increase libido.
Beside to be eaten, you can use several kinds of food to ‘crowded’ making love ceremony, such as chocolate, ice, ice cream, or honey. Smear it to sensitive part of your body, then ask him/her to ‘taste’ using his/her tongue before enter to ‘primary menu’ :).
Handled a bad mood
To chase away a bad mood, increasing consume food which content serotonin, such as vegetables and fruits. When we get stress, don’t consume high-fat food and high-sugar, because those food only disappear a stress in a moment, the next is your stress is worse. Don’t consume fried food too.
In stress condition, body produces kartisol hormone which drained your mineral and B vitamin inside body. This means, a protection of brain cell lower and body immune weak.
This article source is from KOMPAS, written by (An),translated in English and edited by reog.