I have also benefitted a lot when I start eating sauerkrut. It helps me to recover from my eating disorder and I lost some weight and fats around my stomach. This is the happiest thing in my life when I can wear my jeans again and feel confident. My digestion improves and I feel good all the time.
This is when I start to study and research on saurkrut through internet and many sources of articles. Basically it can be summarised as 4 major benefits. Immune booster, cancer fighter, digestive aid and flu fighter.
Packed with vitamins and minerals, saurkrut contains phytochemicals which are created during the fermentation process. The more sour it is, the more benefits it gives. This contributes greatly to the first major factor that we are talking about.
Isothiocynates is also produced when glucosinolate that are riched in cabbages are broken down. These are cancer fighting and greatly reduced lung, colon, prostate, liver and breast cancer. It can also heal breast cancer.
Sauerkrut contains the bacteria lactobacilli plantarum. It increases our antibodies and helps us to fight infectious diseases and virus produced in our intestines and stomach. This greatly helps us in our digestion and intestine health. Sauerkrut and its juices helps relieve constipation and are very rich in vitamin C. In returns it gives us a soothing effect on our nervous system.
I pretty much just summarises what I had taken from the net and a lot of it comes from the web site as follows
It is hard to believe that the most nutricious food can actually comes from simple vegetables and such tradditional dishes. There are so many kinds of supplements available on the shelves and most of them are quite expensive. I am happy that I have found a way that I can benefit to myself and all the people around me. I am very positive towards sauerkrut. It has started to grow inside me and it has manifested. It has become a dream and it has become my ambition. People may think that I am crazy. They think that I am wasting my time? They think this product is not worakable? Then I should say that I like doing crazy things. Life is not just about making money or doing something that people deemed workable. Life is not about seeking people to agree with us. To me, life is wonderful and beautiful because we are different and we should be proud that we are different. We should just believe in our difference and follow what we feel it is right.
In my heart, sauerkrut has blossom in my life. It is not just a food or a vegetbale or a dead thing. It is alive. It is a dream and a vision. It is an empire to me. I began to let myself loose. I allow myself to be induced with all the posible ways that I can develop my dream. When I walk pass NTUC supermarket. I see a vision. I see that I had a whole shelf dedicated to me just for putting sauerkrut. I have bottles of 200g, 500g, 1kg and the whole shelf is my sauerkrut. I walk pass the school, the canteen, the office, the void deck, esplanade, the casino and I see people eating sauerkrut. I see cartons and cartons of sauerkrut being packed into containers and exported. I see children, school children,teenagers, young adults, girls and boys, man and woman, grandmother and grandfather eating and enjoying benefits. I see people feeling happy and live longer.
This is when I decided to started POH LIN. It is after the name of my grandmother. Grandma is old and soon she will leave me. There is no way that I can repay her love for me or bring her back alive. But her name will live forever in my heart. She will continue to live in every bodies life. I hope that I am able to establish this empire and business and grandma can live to see my success. It is not going to be easy and there is a lot of work to be done.
God bless your mahmah. Well.....I never get to see my father's pahpah n mahmah as they passed away when papa was in 20 plus and had to take care of step-mahmah's 2 young didi and 2 meimei . Luckily my aunties and uncles are still bonded even though they are catholics. Let me return back to 5 years ago. This was the time when I had finished army. I realised that my parents were getting old and I had a feeling that papa would be the first one to leave. However, I did not chat and laugh with papa as I am very shy person. Speaking about my papa, my eyes are brimmed with tears. Let me continue.........I kept making papa angry and do stupid things which my uncle never do before. One day, papa suddenly stopped smoking for the whole 2 weeks. Cos of that, the nicotine in his body came up and blocked his lung, making him difficult to breathe. Hence he needed to use inhaler to breathe easily. However, I was stubborn and still did not say sorry to him. This had been gone on for 2006 and 2007. The worst has come. Papa went to hospital on 26th October. But I never accompanied him to hospital. Instead I stayed at home to watch tv. My didi and mama accompanied him to hospital. I still unable to overcome my shyness and talked to papa in front of a lot of relatives. Then he went to hospice in novena to stay permanently. Before the fateful day, I jokingly asked papa to read the mini bible before I left for home. But he looked very angry and chased me to go home. Papa was diagnosed as final stage in lung cancer. The fateful moment has come on the World Aids' Day 1st December. I was in church at tampines when my auntie told me papa passed away at 6.30pm Auntie was very upset and burst into tears. But I was still blur until I cried in the car. My didi and I were not beside him. So drama!!!! I cried badly during the ritual and promised him that I would find a job and take care of the family but until now, I could not find a suitable job. I have been quarreling with mama for the next 2 years. Then during the first few months in 2008, MC King Lan Qing Xi and Lydia Sum Shen Dian Xia passed away. When I read newspaper in July, a malaysia female singer, Ah Sang, passed away at the age of 34 as she was diagnosed as breast cancer. If I had the courage and confidence, I would join POH LIN and recommend sauerkraut to papa. Perhaps it would help slow down the cancer growth in his lung and celbrate CNY in 2008. The empire would grow and spread to Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam. MC King and Lydia Sum would live and continue to bring laughters for everyone. Ah Sang could continue in her singing career and heal me with her soothing songs. I am not a Christian but I was told that Jesus lived on earth in 33 days. I should be glad that papa lived for 60 years but each time I asked people how well their parents are, I lacked the courage to talk about papa. I pray that God will bless da sao, ah truc, ah tong, jiayi, ah phuc and ah kieu, everyone in earth have good health after eating sauerkraut. In Jesus name, Amen.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your story about your dad here. It has touched my heart and I am sure many people will read about it soon. Stress and some bad habbits have been taking alot of lifes away everyday. The most painful are the ones that are suffering and awaiting death. We have to be responsible for our health and also the health of people that are close to us. I do not know how many years I have left in my life but for the rest of my life, it is my dream to make it aware to everyone what we are doing and what we can do. I assure you that today your dad may has already left us but this story that you comment here will live forever.
ReplyDeleteMy sister ah kieu tried the sauerkrut. She nevers eat raw vegetables. When she accidentally bite raw vegetables, she will vomit. She see the sauerkrut on the table and she is curious. Knowing that it is raw cabbage she still take a bite. Surprisingly, she does not feel like vomit and she can accept the taste of this raw cabbage totally. She feels happy and good about being able to eat raw vegetables and feel good for the first time.
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