"Importance of having Breakfast"

Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death. Advice on not to skip breakfast! Healthy living For those who always skip breakfast, you should stop that habit now! You've heard many times that "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Now, recent research confirms that one of the worst practices you can develop may be avoiding breakfast. Why? Because the frequency of heart attack, sudden death, and stroke peaks between 6:00a.m. and noon, with the highest incidence being between 8: 00a.m. and 10:00a.m.What mechanism within the body could account for this significant jump in sudden death in the earlymorning hours? We may have an Answer.Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from bleeding to Death if we get a cut, can clump together inside our arteries due to cholesterol or laque buildup in the artery lining. It is in the morning hours that platelets become the most activated and tend to form these internal blood clots at the greatest frequency.However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning platelet activation that is associated with heart attacks and strokes. Studies performed at Memorial University in St.Johns, Newfoundland found that eating a light, very low-fat breakfast was critical in modifying the morning platelet activation. Subjects in the study consumed either low-fat or fat-free yogurt, orange juice, fruit, and a source of protein coming from yogurt or fat-free milk. So if you skip breakfast, it's important that you change this practice immediately in light of this research. Develop a simple plan to eat cereal, such as oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape juice or orange juice, and perhaps a piece of fruit. This simple plan will keep your platelets from sticking together, keep blood clots from forming, and perhaps head off a potential Heart Attack or stroke. So never ever skip breakfast .

What can Singaporeans expect in 2007?

First of all a very happy new year everyone. Once again as we step into the new year, we aim to put things in perspective and get our lives back in order and promise to abide by our resolutions and the list goes on.

I hope the info that I have given below will help you in planning your year ahead.

• Budget 2007 will be announced sometime in feb.

--details of gst rises might be revealed, together with some assistance packages to ride over the initial rise.
--employers' cpf contribution might be raised in view of NTUC's recommendations. Good news for all employees!
--More details about Workfare bonus. This arrangement might become a recurrent one. Good news again for low income workers

• Singapore is going to take chairmanship of ASEAN.

--This means more meetings and more security around town areas. Aren't we used to this already? So put on your smiles and prepare to welcome back the delegates.
--When I say international meetings, there are really more to come this year, with ICA's General Assembly, etc
--we even have an international furniture fair this year. It will be held at Expo during the first week of march.

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