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Oscars 2012: In quotes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17175876

Hollywood has honoured its finest film-makers at the Academy Awards. Here are a selection of the best acceptance speeches and quotes from the red carpet and backstage.

Host, Billy Crystal

"So tonight, enjoy yourselves because nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues."

Michel Hazanavicius to his wife Berenice Bejo when accepting the award for best director

"You inspired the movie and you're the soul of the movie and the positive feeling of the movie. Thank you for being in the movie and in my life".

Michel Hazanavicius thanks another star of The Artist

"I want to thank Uggie the dog. I think he doesn't care. I'm not sure he understands what I say - he's not that good. But, thank you."

Chris Rock, introducing the best animation prize

"I like animation because you can play anything. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man you can play a donkey, or a zebra! I've done animation, and it's the easiest job in the world. They tell me the line, I say it, and then they give me a million dollars!"

Rango director Gore Verbinski as he accepted the award for best animation

"Someone asked me if this film was for kids. It was certainly created by a bunch of grown-ups acting like children."

Meryl Streep after winning the third Oscar of her career for The Iron Lady

"This is such a great honour but the thing that counts the most with me is the friendships and the love and the sheer joy we have shared making movies together."

Supporting actor winner Christopher Plummer, 82, speaks to his statuette

"You're only two years older than me darling, where have you been all my life? I have a confession to make: When I emerged from my mother's womb I was already rehearsing my Academy acceptance speech. Mercifully for you I've forgotten it, but I remember who to thank.

Octavia Spencer in her acceptance speech

"Please wrap up, I'm wrapping up, I'm sorry I'm freaking out. Thank you world!"

Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi on winning the Oscar for best foreign film

"I proudly offer this award to the people of my country, the people who respect all cultures and civilisations and despise hostility and resentment".

Sacha Baron Cohen on the red carpet

"I'm wearing John Galliano but the socks are from K-Mart. As Saddam Hussein once said to me: "Socks are socks - don't waste money"'.

Bret McKenzie, collecting his Oscar for best original song for Man or Muppet

"I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life."

Live action short winner, Northern Ireland's Terry George

"This is my daughter, the producer. I'd like to thank the Academy because now I don't have to wait for her wedding to tell the world how brilliant she is. This film is for the people of Northern Ireland who, after 30 years of war, sat down and made a peace, proving that the Irish are great talkers. This is for us."

The artist - What a charming, heartfelt movie!

Who is that girl?

No talkies, no color,

A pure black and white movie,

Superbly handsome, proud protagonist,

Playful, graceful, lovely rising star,

Marvelous music,

Super smart dog,

A beautifully love, poignant, hilarious story.

That is “The Artist”

But that’s not all.

It is a story of setback, failure and success.

It shows how past glory can be a burden and only change is eternal!

How self-ego, pride and narrow-mindset can break a super star;

And why gratitude, grace and love can salvage failure and even life.

A silent movie can be one of the best movies of the year!

Incredible.

“The Artist” reminds us a quality movie doesn’t have to be a color movie or a blockbuster.

A good movie must depict elegance, beauty and heartfelt emotion; entertaining while inspiring, uplifting.

Picture source:

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/oscar-breakdown-best-original-screenplay-kerbl.php

Growing up parents - my thoughts and reflections

"卓越的种子"教我们:

把知道的东西变成做到的东西

Essential elements of a human being:

Hope, love, confidence, honest, positive mindset, health lifestyle, discipline.

上" 卓越的种子"有感: Our children are our mirrors. If we want them to become what we want, we need to be what we want in the first place. We are growing up with our children - we all need to have
Hope, love, confidence, honest, positive mindset, health lifestyle, discipline.

No one can control your fate, except yourself.

没人可以决定我的命运,除了我自己.

我的命运在于我每天的选择

What Am I?

I am your control panel,

I am your shadow,

Wherever you are,

I am with you.

If you attitude is on the right track,

I lead you to bright side.

Otherwise, lead you to the hell.

I am your habit.

Good habit means health life, productive life and successful life.

I know what you are thinking,

I know what you will be doing,

I control 90% of your internal communication,

I build up your lifestyle, behavior and your image.

Thoughts are things.  What you think becomes what  you will see, no matter if you like it or not.

(Subconscious mind)

I can make you,

But I can also brake you.

I am the main element for you to be a human being,

I am your attitude, appearance and habit.

It is called CHARACTER.

Picture: http://topnews.ae/content/26405-joy-parenting-increases-financial-burden

 

How to love and be loved

A facebook friend posted this link - how to love and be loved.
http://www.getjetso.com/forum/thread-390010-1-1.html

01.每天給自己一段空閒的時間，好好想想。
一個人的沈思，比人的歡愉，更感受幸福的真相。

02.對方發脾氣的時候，記得放鬆自己臉上的線條，用微笑回應他的負面情緒，讓他消消氣。

03.誦讀一首詩、欣賞一幅畫，不只可以改變氣質，也會讓愛情更有味道。

04.在吃飯時，記得：細嚼慢嚥。在戀愛時，記得：用心體會。
生活裡有關品味的精雕細啄，靠的不是金錢，而是時間和真情。

05.記錄生活裡的點點滴滴，然後找一個適當的時刻，
分享彼此的感覺，讓雙方都有機會在平凡中發現感動。

06.為對方付出的時候，除了估量自己給予的能力之外，也要考慮對方承擔的能力，以免過猶不及！

07.欣賞對方的優點、包容對方的缺點，愛得自信外，還要愛的自在，雙方才能長久相處愉快。

08.金錢無缺、性愛滿意；相愛，長長久久。
但別忘了，處理金錢，要正確地理財；性愛滿意，則要充分溝通。

09.試著理出愛情的頭緒，知道自己要的究竟是什麼。
每個人的價值觀不同，毋須羨慕別人、懷疑自己。

10.興致勃勃，是好事，但高興得沖昏頭，就得小心了。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
閉上眼睛、深呼吸，暫停片刻，愛情的路很久，別趕進度。　　　　　　　　　　　

11.男人，常把性當作目的；女人，則把性當作手段。
認清彼此的目的與手段，有關愛的種通常就不會混淆了。

12.潔身自愛，是贏得信賴與尊重的不二法門；自由，專屬於懂得自律的人。

13.保護自己，不一定要攻擊別人。
練習開開心心、客客氣氣地說「不！」，給對方留點顏面。

14.判斷愛情的條件時，懂得過濾及割捨，是一種智慧；你不能什麼都不要，也不能什麼都要。

15.與其到處抱怨情路坎坷，不如多觀察眼前幸福的伴侶，
多和他們接觸，可以從他的經驗中，得到經營愛情的智慧。

16.離開一段感情之後，與其拼命回頭看，不如勇敢向前走。

17.關於愛情，往事已矣，不必太留戀。
儘管失而復得，很可貴；但讓惡夢重複一遍，也很可怕。只要裂痕猶在，破鏡難圓。

18.有時候，認真的投入，只不過是對方實驗的結果，也不必太難過。
愛的代價，是讓自己愈來愈成熟。

19.談戀愛時，不要總是計較自己付出的部分，分手以後，不要老是看到自己失去了什麼。

20.傾聽自己內在的聲音，了解對方真正感受，愛的節奏，要靠雙方共同調整，一起掌握。

21.愛，只是一種感覺，沒有人能為你證明，必須傾聽自己內心的聲音，才能知道它究竟存不存在。

22.經常帶著愉快的笑容，誠心地向心愛的人說：「謝謝！」你充滿友善的鼓勵，將讓他永遠樂意為你付出一切。

23.與其花時間去比較誰付出得多、誰出得少，不如好好經營自己，讓該來的來、該去的去！

24.事先好時間規劃，並且告知關心你的人，對方不會為你擔心，你也不會有後顧之憂。

25.坦然拉受對方付出的好意，並即時表達感激；否則「相敬如賓」很可能會變成「相敬如冰」！

26.別人的意見，姑且聽之，參考就好，相信自己內心真正的判斷，比道聽塗說來得重要。

27.誤會，需要解釋清楚。
猜忌，請適可而止。　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
相愛，是兩個人的事。
不要在戰爭與和平間，做無謂的僵持。

28.經常以客觀的角度，審視自己的言行，總是以寬容的態度，包容對方的缺點。

29.平常就要做一個讓父母親放心、信任的子女，談戀愛時備能得到他們的支持與祝福。

30.從做好每一件小事情開始，累積家人對你的信心，讓他們相信，你的決定，就是幸福的選擇。

31.從自己洗衣、燒飯這些小事情，練習過獨立的生活，對自己的決定負全部的責任。

32.欺騙或隱瞞的動機，常是因為害怕被責備。
當真愛來時，請敢做敢當，光明坦蕩。因為，真正的幸福無人能擋。

33.有任何誤會，都要想辦法溝通清楚；尤其親人之間更不要因為一時的誤會產生心結。

34.多主動表達關心、以具體的行動付出愛心，讓身邊的人都知道你多麼愛他、在乎他。

Life and death - all at your choice

生命每一个关节都是选择

22-2-2012

The Lady - AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta for almost 15 years. Today, she is newly liberated from six years' house arrest in Rangoon, where she was held as a prisoner of conscience, despite an overwhelming victory by her party in May 1990.

I just watched the movie about you - The Lady - a real love story.  I was touched so much and I finally realized how you could overcome the unbelievably long house arrest (almost 15 years) – the  love from your dearest husband, sons and her followers and  courageous people. Now and then she has been relentlessly struggling for her people and country for democracy.
http://www.biography.com/people/daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-9192617
http://collider.com/the-lady-movie-images/66004/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/61546.Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

The movie about AUNG SAN SUU KYI shows how people can be strong and reliant at unbearable conditions if they have faith, love and positive habit.

Quotes of AUNG SAN SUU KYI:

“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.”

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone.”

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”

22-2-2012

FUN v.s. Cancer rate

As Fun Goes Up, Cancer Goes Down »
Lab research at Ohio State shows that having more fun and a richer social life can fight cancer. When researchers induced cancer in mice but then gave them more living space, more toys and running wheels, they found that their tumors shrank a surprising 77 percent. Five percent of these animals that had cancer went into complete remission, showing no evidence of cancer after three weeks in their wonderful new surroundings. More »http://www.easyhealthoptions.com/alternative-medicine/as-fun-goes-up-cancer-goes-down/

Dead end ? Sirivat's Sandwich story

心中有富 --- 司徒永富 (2012年02月03日)

一次的失敗是否代表永遠的失敗呢？這個問題由泰國斯里佛(Sirivat)先生的經歷回答最好不過。十多年前，斯里佛先生本是泰國富甲一方的富翁，他主要的業務是「炒股」和房地產投資。他致富的方法是以高息向銀行借貸，然後開拓高級住宅，賣給有錢人。由於當時經濟蓬勃，斯里佛的生意愈做愈大。

好景不常，一場亞洲金融風暴摧毀了斯里佛的美夢。斯里佛的高級住宅大量滯銷，接著無力還債，唯有申請破產。當時的斯里佛回到家中十分沮喪，他回想說：「我當時相當沮喪，像是一個只能靠醫療儀器維生的重症病患者。」

他的太太當時鼓勵他：「我懂得做三文治，不如我們就去賣三文治吧！」斯里佛就在轉念之間，每日背著食物箱到街上賣三文治。日復一日，直至現在斯里佛依然堅持親自到街上推銷三文治，不同的是他的公司已經做大了，快將上市，建立他的飲食王國。

真人真事往往是最令人感動的。斯里佛先生從負債10億到將成為上市公司主席，他的路一點都不易走，但是他從沒有一刻放棄。我在想，不知何故，上天有時會關閉一道門，但我們不妨向螞蟻學習，拐一個方向，走向另一道門。其實，人們失敗往往不是因為能力有問題，而是贏不了自己，腦筋不能急轉變，便一直失敗下去。是的，最大的敵人是自己！如果你心灰意冷，甚麼都不上心，即使眼前是到機會你也不會珍惜。只有保持長勝的心境，不畏艱難，路總是可以行出來的。

http://www.sirivatsandwich.com/history/history_eng.asp
NAME : MR. SIRIVAT VORAVETVUTHIKUN ( CNBC called me THE SANDWICH MAN )AGE : 61EDUCATION : B.B.A. (FINANCE), UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, TEXAS, USAPAST CAREER : (11 years) MANAGING DIRECTOR, ASIA SECURITIES TRADING CO. LTD.
(PRESENTLY, ASIA PLUS SECURITIES TRADING CO,LTD.); (4 years) CHAIRMAN, TONG GWEEN CO,LTD. (property development)PRESENT CAREER : ADVISOR,' SIRIVAT SANDWICH '

After graduation from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974, I had been working in the finance and securities industry for 16 years as a professional employee. As soon as I left my post as Managing Director in 1990, I started investing in the local stock market for my clients. I was able to make profits for them until our portfolio grew to hundreds of million baht. When the stock market crashed in 1994, I lost all the money. The situation became worse when my multi-million high-end condominium project collasped in 1997--the IMF year.

In April 1997, I started selling sandwiches to earn a living and to pay salaries to my staffs. On the first day, it took 6 1/2 hours to sell all 20 sandwiches and earned just 500 baht. It has been more than 14 years now that I have been selling sandwiches in the streets of Bangkok and have been interviewed by 121 international medias (including CNN, BBC WORLD, CNBC, NHK, AP, NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES) and 262 domestic medias.

Today, not only that I have additional products viz. SUSHI BROWN RICE, THAI CRISPY-RICE SNACK, PITA SANDWICH and THAI HERBAL / FRUIT DRINKS but also I have been invited as special guest speaker to 181 universities, chambers of commerce, private and public organizations in Bangkok and up-country provinces, including many occasions in foreign countries with a total audience of some 126,000 people.The largest audience was 10,000 people at the 9th APLIC Conference on April 15,2007 at Taipei Arena in Taiwan. The never give up speech is “My Story, My Brand—Sirivat Sandwich”. Also, I have begun operating the first Coffee Corner at the BNH Hospital (next to Saint Joseph Convent, Convent Road); the second branch at Bangkok Hospital(New Petchburi Road); the third branch at Central Plaza Chonburi; the fourth branch at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya and providing coffee break service at only Baht 45.- a set under the brand of Coffee Catering.

How habit determines our future -Attention to your daily habit

 

How habit determines our future

The older I am, the deep realization I have on this topic:
What you do something is what you do everything. Your subconscious mind has decided for you habit and direction. Don't worry, our subconscious mind can be adjusted by daily reflection and realignment with our goal if we want.


A wonderful elaboration about the above statement here:

4 Reasons Why Your Habits Determine Your Future

http://simplelifehabits.com/life-habits/4-reasons-why-your-habits-determine-your-future

by Jonathan on Monday, November 28th, 2011 | 

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Have you ever suddenly woke up in life and realized, “How did I get here?” It is so easy to drift in life without even realizing it. Your habits determine your future. It is a universal law that you cannot avoid. It is as strong as gravity in your life. The sum of your present life is wrapped up in your past choices.

Reasons Why Your Habits Determines Your Future

I want to offer you 4 powerful reasons as to why our habits will determine our future. Maybe some of these will connect with you and encourage you to start paying attention to those daily habits in life.
Because we are creatures of habit. Whether we want to admit it or not, we govern our life by habits. In fact, experts tell us that 90% of our daily behavior is based on habits. You have habits for your morning routine, your daily commute, how you pay your bills and what you do with your free time. The sooner we accept that we are in fact creatures of habit, we can begin to identify those habits that are not taking us in the direction that we want to go.
Because you are the sum of your past habits. Your habits determine your future because of the law of sowing and reaping. In fact, the present “you” is a sum of your past choices in life. The most obvious example is if you are overweight. You are overweight because of the past choices you made to eat more and exercise less.
It is painful for us to admit that the responsibility lies with us. We often want to point to our environment, bad luck, and how we were the victim when it comes to the negative things in our life. The sooner you accept responsibility for your life, the sooner things can begin to change for the better.
 

Because your direction (not intention) determines your destination. This is a powerful principle that I first read in the Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley. You can have every intention in the world to accomplish something, but if your daily choices are going in the opposite direction, you will not end up where you want.
If you live in the Midwest and decide to go to the Florida Keys, you do not get there by heading north. It doesn’t matter how well you have packed, how great of a map that you have, heading north doesn’t work. Your intentions in life mean nothing. The actual direction you take (i.e daily choices and habits) determine your destination.
Because you always end up where you put your focus. This is why it is so critical to have a life plan. My life plan paints a clear picture for where I want to go in life. It works like a GPS. The more I review it, the more I have to re-align my actions, thoughts, behaviors, and habits to meet my life goals.
Where do you put your focus? Sure, you can say that you have no real goals for your life, but that isn’t true. What goals you have not set, someone else has set them for you. You are heading somewhere in life, you don’t have a choice.
Are the current habits in your life the right ones to get you where you want to go?

The impact of our friends - A father says...A new graduate's first year working experience

Recently, we have some gatherings with some special friends during the Chinese New year.

http://www.yanidel.com/Pictures/father%20son%20football%20paris%20II%20HR.jpg


The talk of a father about his son's childhood story related to football manner has been lingering in my mind.

His son is a football fan. When he was a kid, he used to complained that no one liked to pass a ball to him when he . The father conformed his son, "If you can catch a ball well, people will give you more chances. The first thing is to be ready to catch the ball - to practice more, to be well prepared. 作好自己的本份,机会自然来.

This exactly resonates to the saying that 机会永远是留给有准备的人.

Another talk with a young man who shared his first-hand experience about his first job and current situations:

A Double E graduate from UST has been just working for one year. Here is his personal feeling about the difference between studying in school and working in the society:

He said, writing program becomes his routine in his R/D job in combination with all he learned from school, not only his electronic knowledge. Every day is new to him,  so fresh and challenging that he need to learn new things quickly and in a massive quantities in a short period.

I can see his job satisfaction from his confident and humble voice, despite his hectic life...

It looks writing program is a life tool as basic and important as the most elementary arithmetic  for the new generation and digital age nowadays.

Every day I can find something new to think about, to enjoy, especially to learn from people around us.

Dead End - really a dead end?

Has anyone watched the talk show last Saturday by Michael Hui - The War of Men and Women. 

 It was charity donation event - Suicide prevention Services 生命热线. My family are fans of Michael.So we had a night of fun and some leanings about life, men and women...

Besides exhilaration and satirisation through the show, I was shocked to realize the divorce rate of HK is No. 2 in the world, only next to New York. Why? And 40% of suicide is related to relationship between men and women.

What first struck me  was -

多沟通,用心聆听,互相包容, 男女间冲突减少,自然能减少烦恼`,身体也会好多了!

If we can view from others' points of view, any arguments or any issues would be much more simple to resolve;  forgiving,  understanding and open-minded attitudes is the key to maintain a happy, sustainable relationship

How to see DEAD END from your point of view? An article in the show magazine caught my imagination. See what Micheal's and the director's view:

發炎 与抗疾病、抗衰老、抗癌症

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「吃錯了，當然會發炎、會生病！」健康話題新知　暢銷健康書作者陳俊旭博士指出，許多人喜歡吃熟食、飲食錯誤百出、生活習慣越來越違反自然……，變得沒辦法該發炎就發炎，讓身體長期處在慢性發炎之下，必然面臨疾病威脅，身心重創。作者引證醫學權的創新研究指出，「心血管疾病的罪魁禍首，不是膽固醇，而是血管發炎了！」這項前所未有的重大發現，開啟了醫學界對於慢性疾病的全新見解。然而對於一般民眾，甚至許多醫學專家和第一線的醫護人員還不知道，其實大多數心肌梗塞、腦中風、老年失智症、糖尿病、肥胖、過敏，甚至可怕的癌症等現代文明病，都和發炎關係密切。
2.顛覆傳統的健康飲食新常識：熟食，竟然和疾病劃上等號？！　　熟食有一個非常致病且致命的壞處，就是會破壞食物裡的抗氧化劑與酵素（攝氏55度以上就破壞）。也就是說，人類飲食的原罪在於熟食，加上偏食和飲食污染，讓很多人體內的抗氧化劑含量少得可憐，況且對抗發炎、擊退疾病的抗氧化營養素，體內絕大都數無法自行製造，必須從食物中取得。作者詳細分析熟食的六大問題，包括：營養素流失、油脂氧化、蛋白質變性、梅納反應、裂解反應，並提供解決熟食困境的飲食法，兼顧「美食」與「健康」。
3.自然醫學第一本對症治療處方全公開，治病不再靠吃藥和打針　　現代文明病，幾乎是慢性發炎失控的不同表現，因此抗發炎療法可說是預防與恢復健康的最根本方法。除此之外，作者針對心肌梗塞、腦中風、失智症、癌症、過敏、男女不孕、過勞等疾病的獨特性，分享自然醫學的疾病觀與治病處方，首次公開他為這些疾病量身訂做的特殊治療方針，分享給深受難病折磨、關心親友健康的人參考，甚至希望帶給醫護人員另一種治病新視野。
4..掌控發炎，天天抗疾病、抗衰老、抗癌症！　　第一招：實施抗發炎飲食。健康餐盤「食物四分法」，掌握生熟食健康比例，能生就不熟、能熟就不爛。第二招：補充抗發炎營養素。維生素C、好二十碳酸、植物生化素，以及祕密武器天然硫辛酸等，保健又救命。第三招：落實抗發炎作息。順應大自然輕鬆過生活；平時勤記體能日記、體溫日記，掌握健康密碼。第四招：貫徹抗發炎運動。首重調心、調息、養氣，天天做，身心健康又強身。

An Example of Alignment

Here is an example of alignment. If we can balance seemingly opposite things and alignment them for the same purpose, that would be the optimising approach to success.

 

性格飲食法

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性格飲食法

 

有強迫症的你
你是﹕愛強迫人、愛鬥咀、有睡眠問題、牢騷王。
宜﹕三文魚、糙米、向日葵籽、去皮火雞、香蕉、花草茶、各種碳水化合物，也可以幫助身體產生更多血清素，改善心情。
忌﹕高蛋白質、咖啡因的食物會令你更加集中，而集中力，你早已具備。


感性的你
你是﹕很容易覺悶、自信心很低、易容緊張，有頭痛及IBS症狀。
宜﹕雞蛋、動物肝臟、核桃、鯖魚、西蘭花是你的首選; 另外戶外活動及香薰油可以幫助你吸收奧米加-3脂肪酸，令你放鬆心情。
忌﹕沒有足夠睡眠及收埋自己唔見朋友、家人是你的大忌。

浮燥的你
你是﹕沒有條理、容易分心、唔肚餓都想食、成日遲到。
宜: 雞、火雞、蛋、魚、貝類、扒、燕麥及綠茶。這可以提高你腦內多巴胺的水平，提升集中力。
忌: 你不宜進食高碳水化合物或高糖的食品，因碳水化合物會加促製造血清素，令你更難集中。

浮燥又有強迫症的你
你是﹕無時無刻都會想著食物。
宜﹕綠茶、食得健康、定時運動、定立目標，要有充足的陽光及新鮮空氣。

容易緊張的你
你: 愛咬指甲、經常頭痛、肌肉緊張、心悸、害羞、在公眾場合覺得不自在。

宜﹕全麥、奶類食品、柑橘類生果、菠茶、杏仁、西芹、奧米加3-6-9及冥想。
忌﹕太多動物蛋白質、酒精、咖啡等都會令你更加容易焦慮及緊張。

防止肥肚腩飲食法

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防止肥肚腩飲食法

1. 雞蛋是你早餐及運動後的良伴。蛋白質防止肌肉破裂，而雞蛋中的維他命B亦可以給你更多能量，做工作或運動都會更起勁。

2. 肉類如雞肉及牛肉富含營養，可以幫你增加肌肉及提升免疫能力。買肉類時記住要選擇較瘦的部份。

3. 魚的脂肪是好脂肪，含有大量的蛋白質，幫你建造肌肉及防止脂肪在腰間積聚。

4. 果仁含有的都是好脂肪。手袋內不防放少少果仁，肚餓的時候吃一隻手咁大的份量，可以幫你對抗飢餓同時防止脂肪流失。其他零食如朱古力、薯片、餅乾都充滿反式脂肪，少吃為妙！

5. 橄欖油比菜油、花生油都健康一點。橄欖油其實幫你身體燒脂和降低膽固醇，對心臟亦有益。一安士的橄欖油已提供你一日90%所需。

6. 大部份的天然豆類如蠶豆，毛豆都富含蛋白質、有益腸臟的纖維及鐵質。將豆煮熟可以令豆類較容易消化，吸收到全部的蛋白質。經過加工的罐頭焗豆多數含高糖份，多吃會增肥。

7. 不想有肥肚腩，就要戒食經過處理的澱粉質，如麵包、意粉、白米。將他們改成未經加工處理的全麥麵包、意粉、紅米及麥片，停止你的身體儲存脂肪。

8. 蔬菜如菠菜、西芹含有豐富的燒脂纖維、維他命及礦物質。纖維可以增加飽肚感，令你對甜食及澱粉質的需求降低。