Nutritionists' Choice Cookbook Volume 1

READING TIME!!!

One of my favourite books is Nutritionists' Choice Cookbook volume 1. It has over 60 recipes for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. The main part which I like it most is that, apart having different recipes inside, it also contains information about complementary feeding for babies or in a simpler way, introduction of solid food for babies. It has 2 languages inside, which are Malay and English.

Nutritionists' Choice Cookbook Volume 1

Two languages found inside- Malay & English

I noticed that many 1st time mothers do not know when and how to start solid food for their babies. This book teaches you how to do it and it provides various different Malaysian recipes for the food preparation.

Interesting topic on children's nutrition

This cookbook is useful for 1st time mothers, for mothers who already started to crack their head to think of different recipes to cook for their kids, and even for nanny who takes care of small kids. This books provide various recipes meant for different age groups, ranging from 6 months old baby until preschooler.

Tips on Children's nutrition 

This book is all colour printing. It has colourful and attractive illustration all over the books. Like it so much!

Colourful & attractive illustration 

For those who wants this, you are welcome to contact me. I still have a few copy of this book with me.

慈济社教中心 之 师生回校日 Tzu Chi Continuing Education Center

上个星期六义务到 PJ 慈济社教中心帮忙。他们举办师生回校日，恭喜PJ 慈济社教中心已经满一周年了！生日快乐！想想我也好像出了不少力，我至少也参加了几项社教中心的课程嘛！哈哈！（说得脸不红，气不喘地）

I have been helping out in Tzu Chi Continuing Education Center last Saturday when they celebrated their 1st year anniversary. Happy Birthday to Tzu Chi Continuing Education Center!!! Well, I personally joined a few courses in this center before. The most recent one is Guzheng.

各种课程的示范和体验
Agenda for that day

素食示范
Vegetarian Cooking Demonstration

剪纸示范
Paper Art

中国结
Chinese Knot

茶道
Tea Ceremony

陶艺
Pottery Art

手工皂
MP Soap Making

粘土
Resin Clay

 当天活动还不少，办了课程体验和示范，最重要的是我之前的古筝老师也带了学生表演了几首华乐，听得我感动极了，没办法，就是对华乐无法抗拒。有看见一位印度同胞在后面吹笛子吗？他也是我老师的学生，吹得好好哦！

A lot of activities and demonstrations have been organised. My Guzheng teacher also brought his students and performed Chinese traditional music. I  cannot resist if there is any Chinese traditional music !!! Saw an Indian gentleman behind there? He is my teacher's student as well. He was performing with a flute, playing very very well.

华乐表演
Chinese Traditional Music Performance

吉他表演
Guitar performance

 当天还重遇我的粘土老师，说实在还真不好意思，因为本人对手工艺术还真没有天分及耐心，我当初只报名了短期课程，体验后觉得并不适合，就放弃了，转投古筝怀抱。下面那位就是我的古筝老师啦，很年轻，对不对？

I met my resin clay teacher that day as well. So sorry to inform that I don't really into this art, may be I'm not suitable for it. It is very difficult for me to sit down and do things quietly. Hehe.. I gave up the course after tried out the short course. After that, I took Guzheng class, the photo below is my guzheng teacher, looks very young, isn't he?

古筝老师- 苏忠杨
My Guzheng teacher (the one holding mic)

如果有兴趣参与慈济社教中心的课程，欢迎游览慈济社教中心，里面有许多有趣的课程，大家一起支持社教中心吧！

If there is anyone interested in any courses above, welcome to have a look in Tzu Chi Continuing Education Center, there are many other interesting courses and I believe there will be one that you are looking for.

Walnut!!!

Yay, my first time seeing walnut with its shell. I like walnut very much, it is one of my favourite nuts. These walnuts are offered by my buddy, and these are brought from China by her friend. It is always full with excitement to open up something covered (well, this is what I feel when I tried to open it). 

Walnut, they look cute, isn't it?

The shell is very hard, however, it is not very difficult to open up the shell. Make sure that you are aiming on the central line so that you manage to open it into half. When open it up, you will see the walnut inside, I found a little bit difficult to take it out in full shape, coz it seems intact with shell itself.

Walnut tastes good and one of reasons that I like walnut is because of its high nutritional values. Walnut is high in unsaturated fatty acids which it is the so called good fats for the body. It helps to lower down the bad fats in the body. (well, this is not a nutrition lecture, right?haha...)

Enjoy taking walnut!!!

Disaster for dietitian!

Chinese New year holiday is just over, and I gained 1.5kg within that one whole week. Isn't it a disaster?

I admitted that I have poor control of my diet during CNY, but who don't have this problem during festive season? Hehe...

I went for training in gym, trying to shake off some of the kilos that I gained during CNY. Well, it is always very important for a dietitian to control body weight.

Let's get moving, everyone!

My brunch today

My friend brought me to take pan mee at Serdang as my brunch today. The taste is not bad. I ordered the herbal pan mee 药材板面. This is the photo of my brunch today.

饮食治疗师 与 营养师

饮食治疗师和营养师是两个不同的行业。

在马来西亚，饮食治疗师通常就业于医院。饮食治疗师，顾名思义就是专攻于治疗饮食问题的一门专业。

如果你在医院看医生，医生会针对你的病情，配一些药给你拿回去服用。那饮食治疗师和医生差不多一样，饮食治疗师会针对医生对你的看诊以及病况，配食物和餐单给你，让你能调整饮食，加快病情的康复。

简单来说，医生开药单，饮食治疗师开餐单！吃药固然重要，但现今普遍的疾病都是些慢性疾病 （例如糖尿病，高血压，高胆固醇），病人需要好好控制饮食才能真正有效地控制病情。

当医生负责为病人看诊时，那饮食治疗师就负责病人的饮食，教育并指导真确的饮食习惯，让病人们能够减低所谓的三高（高血糖，高血压和高胆固醇），以及三高带来的各种疾病例如心脏病，中风等等。

饮食治疗师也会针对病人的各种饮食问题，然后加以改善。如果您吃多了，当然需要控制食量，那如果您没有胃口或面对饮食不均衡的问题，饮食治疗师会配些营养健康食品来补充病人的身体需求。

饮食治疗师拥有饮食治疗临床训练，通常就业于医院，体育学校等等。而营养师通常就业于纤体公司，营养健康食品公司，营养研究室，食品工厂等等，两者大不同喔！简单来讲，饮食治疗师看病人，而营养师则看健康的人。

对于在选择科系的学生们，要好好把这两个不同的专业分清楚。如果你喜欢饮食治疗临床经验，可以接受在医院工作，那你可以选择饮食治疗课程。如果不喜欢，那你大可选择营养学。两者出路也还蛮广的，随大家喜欢吧！

如有疑问，欢迎留言，大家一块讨论讨论。。

MyPyramid from USDA

Dietitian vs Nutritionist

Dietitian and nutritionist are different professions.

For those from Malaysia, you will only see dietitian in hospital. Dietitians are those who are trained to give diet education and counseling regarding diet control for those who are diseased.

For example, patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, high cholesterol will be referred by doctors to see dietitian in diet clinic. Diet education will be given to patients so that their diet will be able to controlled as a supplementary treatment for the disease itself apart from seeing doctor and taking medicine.

Dietitians will see patients mainly with chronic disease as those diseases are closely related to diet and nutrition. Dietitians provide education on diet control, or may be I should say dietitians incharge of everything related to diet.

Dietitians see patients with malnutrition, either undernutrition or overnutrition. For those who are not eating well, dietitians provides tips and solutions in order to increase intake and improve patients' intake. This includes providing oral supplements or plan for tube feeding regime for those who feed through tube.

While for those who suffered from overnutrition, education is given on how to control intake, how to reduce weight and provide information of foods that should be avoid for certain health problems.

Dietitian normally treats patients but nutritionist works with healthy population. Therefore you can find a lot of nutritionists out there working in various sectors such as slimming centre, nutrition company, lab, food production company, factory, so on and so forth.

However, most dietitians work in hospital, of course there are also dietitians who leave the medical line and join for sales. But I wondering whether they are still recognised as dietitian after leaving medical line.

Hope this helps to clarify the difference of dietitian and nutritionist. For students out there, be careful when choosing course since dietitian is different with nutritionist. If you like diet & nutrition and are more interested in treating patients in clinical setting, then dietetics will suit you more. If you do not like clinical setting, or working in hospital setting, I believe nutrition course is better for you.

Welcome to contact me for any inquiry.

饮食治疗师来咯！

大家好，新开的部落格，是一个让我抒发感情，分享感受的地方...我是一名饮食治疗师，目前在一间医院上班。

记得以前也曾经开过一个部落格，但过后都不了了之，一方面是没有时间写，另一方面是没有恒心吧！

希望新的一年，新的冲劲，这次可以努力的写下去...继续分享故事给大家听.。

无论如何，决定了就应该做到... 希望大家祝福我咯！！！

在此先注明，我有空才会写双语噢，并不会每一篇博文都会有双语！！

Hello, Dietitian's here. My brand new blog!

First, let me say a few words for myself.

Welcome back to Blogosphere!!! I am back!!!

I am back after leaving my old blog for quite some years, feeling bad and guilty as I left it blank and empty after using only for a while. But no worry, since I plan to write a new one now and I will try to commit to it. Hehe..

Introduction for myself : Hi, just call me KL. I am currently working as dietitian in one of the hospital in Malaysia. I will share my life and story with dietetics and how it affect my life in this blog. Hope you guys like it. Stay tune!!!

Disclaimer : I shall put my blog in multi language, hope it will not cause confusion.