Low Siew Kiang (Sue)

It was viewed that in our rapidly changing and fast paced economic and social
environment, and with growing incidence of degenerative diseases caused by stress, unbalanced nutrition and poor lifestyle habits, busy women professionals and businesswomen are at risk of suffering poor health, if they do not take charge of their health NOW.

The aim of CRER is to extend care and concern for the personal health of working women and family. We try to create awareness through our talks and workshops to educate them on how to eat and live healthily. Workshops were designed to explore ways of cooking creatively for healthy eating, with quick and easy methods and recipes suitable for busy women executives who do not have the time and energy to prepare home-cooked meals for themsleves and their loved ones after a busy day at work.

On 1 June 2006 the 8-part series kick off with the first topic "The What & How of a healthy Meal". The workshop was complimented with a cooking demonstration by Venezia’s true-blue Italian chef, Claudeo, who showed the innovative Italian-Asian fusion recipes.



Examples of some interesting session were :

COOK RIGHT EAT RIGHT SERIES-I

• The What & How of a Healthy Meal
  
• Teach Your Child Health
  
• Little Chefs in Action
  
• Why Diets Don’t Work
  
• Cooking without Trans Fats
  
• How to Eat Healthily at Hawker Stalls
  
• Organic Cooking and Eating in Technicolour
  
• Sharing Recipes
  
• The Mediterranean Diet

COOK RIGHT EAT RIGHT SERES-II

• Empowering your body to handle Fatigue & Depression
  
• Empowering your body to handle Diabetes Type II
  
• Empowering your body FOR JOINT AND BONE HEALTH
  
• Empowering your body for COLON HEALTH
  
• Drinking Wine for Health
  
• Are supplements necessary? How to choose them?
  
• SMART SHOPPER – “tips for buying groceries”
  
• SMART COOKS – “Vegetables”
  
• SMART COOKS – “Poultry & meat”
  
• SMART COOKS – “seafood”
  
• SMART COOKS – “desserts”

• Do steaming to retain nutrients of food.
  
• Use olive oil or sesame oil for stir fry recipes.
  
• Use non-stick frying pan to reduce use of oil.
  
• Do grill, roast or bake instead of deep frying.
  
• Avoid processed and canned foodstuff.
  
• When preparing stock - use chicken bones, fish-bones, beans,barley, melon, pumpkins, nuts etc.. for the sweetness instead of MSG.
  
• Remove skin and fats off meat and poultry.
  
• Use yogurts or skimmed milk for recipes using cream.
  
• Use vinegar, lemon juices, olive oil, mustard for dressing instead of drowning food in butter or vegetable oil or creamy dressings.

• Choose wholegrain or multi grain bread. Avoid soft white bread.
  
• Eat brown rice or basmati rice instead of white fragrant rice.
  
• Eat low fat - consume more healthy fats like omega-3 which is found in fish and olive oil. Avoid trans fats.
  
• Eat different kinds of fruits and vegetables. Where possible eat fresh and leave the skin on fruits and vegetables. We need both soluble and insoluble fibre for our digestive system.
  
• Snacks on unsweetened dried fruits and nuts (raisins, almonds, sunflower seeds) instead of biscuits and cakes.
  
• Avoid food containing white sugar (even artificial sweetener) and white flour.
  
• Reduce salt intake - avoid salted eggs/salted fish/salted vegetables etc...
  
• Take a daily supplement of multivitamins that consist a broad spectrum of all vitamins and minerals to empower your body with all the necessary nutrients required for your body to do maintenance and repair building.
  
• Read the labels. Avoid consume food that have too many chemicals – like preservatives, flavouring, taste enhancer, sweetener etc….
  

A healthy diet will :

• help to reduce your risk of many common degenerative diseases.
  
• give you a higher level of energy.
  
• provide a stronger immune system and reduce common flu/allergy.
  
• improve your ability to cop with stress.

Healthy Tips :

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