It Isn't A Matter Of If, It Is A Matter Of When... (But I Love My Ais Kacang!)
...that’s what a cardiologist recently told me about the possibility of my arteries getting clogged. From what I understand, us South Asian men have a tendency to have narrow blood vessels. On top of that, heart disease and diabetes run in my family.
So on a recent trip to the hospital, the fast-talking, joke-cracking cardiologist told me that I could only hope for delaying the inevitable. While his job is to scare me, it is hard not to believe him. So I asked him for a daily regimen to delay the onset of heart disease by twenty years.
This is what he had to say:
1. No junk food. Period.
2. 8 Glasses of water per day
3. Walk at least 3 miles per day
4. Eat at least 4 fruits and vegetables each day
5. No eating after 6 PM
But I love my Peanut And Corn Ais Kacang! See my in-another-world-expression (not to be confused with the constipated expression).
While I think this is do-able where I live in the US, my month-long stint in Singapore has me craving healthy food. Hawker stalls abound here with convenient, cheap food. The only problem is that it consists of 100% Fried Crap. Anyone know of healthy, reasonably priced food places near the Clementi MRT stop in Singapore?
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Ayu at 20 July 09 :: #
yes. buy fruits from the local shop. and eat only that mUAHAHhahAHAHahah :o)
shaking head i’m not jealous you’re in SEA...i’m not jealous at all shaking head
mm at 29 July 09 :: #
oh goodness i find asian food a LOT healthier than western food, and im a singaporean who’s stuck in the west.
okay anyway. yes. clementi, im not so sure about. there are a couple of really really good cheap halal restaurants near bukit gombak mrt – alif restaurant, habib and al-kafe. and there are ALWAYS fruit shops around. there are definitely a few in clementi. try local fruit. it’s the season for mangosteens, rambutans and durians now. where have you been living, my friend??