If you care about your dog health and you want them to live the longest, healthiest life possible, it is critical that you know what you should and what you should not be feeding to them. Dogs have different metabolism compared to humans and feeding them with foods that we enjoy can be very fatal.

Here are some of the common food items that should not be given to your dogs, as they have been found to be either directly or indirectly “toxic” to them:

It’s summer…it’s hot….it’s time for Halo-Halo! yahoo!

We Filipinos have alot of delicacies right? We love our ever favorite Adobo and Kare-kare..Yum yum. But every summer, we always have one thing in our mind, our best dessert, Halo-Halo.

3 of 5 Watermelons that we bought

Few days ago my brother was craving so bad to watermelon. Just this Saturday when he was so deeply depressed to have eat watermelon. So we ended up riding on a bike and bought 5 watermelons!

We ate 3 of them while putting the rest on the fridge ’cause they are really good to be eaten when they’re cold. I not a huge fan of watermelons but i do like to eat them. Just a coincidence, i guess, that night i was reading a magazine and i stumbled on a page saying that watermelons are good source of lycopene. Lycopene which according to wikipedia is the most powerful carotenoid quencher of singlet oxygen^[1], being 100 times more efficient in the singlet-oxygen quenching action than Vitamin E, which in turn has 125 times the quenching action of glutathione (water soluble). 

I never knew that fact then. So i searched it over the internet and found this interesting fact about watermelons.

A one-cup serving of watermelon will provide around 48 Calories. Watermelon is an excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin A, with one serving containing 14.59 mg of vitamin C and 556.32 IU of vitamin A. Watermelon also provides significant amounts of vitamin B6 and vitamin B1, as well as the minerals potassium and magnesium. Pink watermelon is also a source of the potent carotenoid antioxidant, lycopene. The amino acid citrulline was first extracted from watermelon and analysed.^[5] Watermelons contain a significant amount of citrulline and after consumption of several kg an elevated concentration is measured in the blood plasma, this could be mistaken for citrullinaemia or other urea cycle disorder.

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Had fun eating watermelons outside our house with my brother. ^_^

Source: Wikipedia

New year couldn’t be as happy when not shared with friends and of course with family. This year, though we are not that complete, still we manage to celebrate it as happy as it is. Foods are everywhere, i guess, that’s the reason why many people are having problem with their weights. Haha! Me? Well, I can see my tummy getting bigger… ^_^

I celebrated new year with my family beside me. We watched TV while waiting for the count down to 2008. About an hour to go, i went to the kitchen and arranged the table for foods. We didn’t have a lot of foods to share though. I think we had like 8 or 9 different kinds of foods.

When 12 mid night came, i could hear fireworks/firecrackers and been hearing them everywhere! We all have smiles on our faces as we hope for a happy, safe and prosperous new year to live. Another year, another lives for all of us!

Happy New Year everyone! ^_^

Foods..foods…foods

Having fun of fireworks…with my cousin.. ^_^