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Aside from Krispy Kreme’s usual delighting offerings of confections, check out their daily deal starting March 29. It’s the time of the year again when boys and girls fill up their Easter baskets with goodies. But instead of real eggs, Krispy Kreme came up with these egg-citing limited edition egg-shaped donut treats. Available in chocolate variants of Hershey’s Dark Chocolate, Hershey’s Cookies and Crea, Peanut Butter and Kreme, Snickers classic, Chocolate Custard Filled, Chocolate Kreme Filled, Cinnamon Apple, Caramel Kreme Crunch, Chocolate Iced with Sprinkles and a lot more. It’s just Php 365 per dozen.

My son loves donuts and this is something he can look forward to on Easter Sunday after having our Easter activities.

School is over for some students and getting ready to hit the beach is probably making them busy right now. Aside from shopping for swimsuits, their preparation also includes slimming their bodies through engaging with weight loss regimens and workouts.

For those of you who want to shed off those extra pounds, the trick with regards to food choices is very simple. To help fire your metabolism, try snacking on foods that have just about 200 calories or less but will leave you feeling fuller for a longer time. These snack foods include popcorn, kamote fries, oatmeal, veggie burgers, sugar-free popsicles and apple slices.

Unless it’s not chronic and not accompanied with fever, vomiting and extreme pain, the occasional bout of diarrhea can usually be prevented with just a change in diet and of course personal care precaution. Here are some tips I’ve collected from my internet research and those that I’ve constantly read from parenting books (in connection with preventing viral and bacterial infections on children):

1. Carefully wash hands after using the bathroom and after changing a baby’s diaper.
2. Practice safe food-handling. Always wash the hands before and after handling food.
3. Avoid raw or rare meat and poultry. Always cook them thoroughly to their recommended temperatures.
4. Thoroughly rinse with clean water raw fruits and vegetables that will be consumed.
5. Regularly clean water dispensers and replace your wf2cb water filter periodically.
6. Avoid diarrhea at breakfast by not drinking caffeinated coffee, tea, or soda pop. At lunch, skip the raw fruit or vegetable salad. At dinner, go easy on the fatty foods.

How would you want to be served with artful coffee lattes such as these?

Coffee Latter Art or simply Coffee Art refers to the practice of making artful designs and patterns using espresso and frothed milk in a cup of coffee. It takes a great skill, patience and numerous practices before one can expertly come up with such an art.

More Coffee Art masterpieces can be found at Weirdomatic.

I used to avoid and abhor the sour taste of yogurt. But when my 19 month old son’s pediatrician included this in his dietary intake, my mindset changed because of the following benefits:

* Tolerance to Milk. According to studies, yogurt enhances lactose digestion in individuals with low intestinal levels of lactase which is the enzyme necessary to digest lactose or the milk’s sugar.

* Avoids Cancer. Yogurt improves the enzymes in intestine and liver and helps in the production of white blood cells. These helps fight off cancer (specifically colorectal cancer and possibly breast cancer) and improves one immunity.

* Balances Weight. It makes our digestion functions smoothly and prompts maximum nutrient absorbing.

* Prevents Diarrhea . It kills harmful bacteria in our intestines. A particular strain of bacteria used in yogurt, Lactobacillus strain GG, aids in treatment and prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, traveler’s diarrhea, and acute diarrhea in children.

* Prevents Ulcers. It suppresses the growth of Helicobacter pylori, a known ulcer-inducing bacteria.

* Reduces Cholesterol. Good bacteria in yogurt absorbs the cholesterol in small intestine and also helps in decreasing cholesterol in blood.