Drying Session indeed

"7/1/2014 Tuesday, The squash courts will need many hours of drying.I just hope they will not warp.
As seen, the floor could be in at least 2 inch of water National players will have to hunt for a new training ground. "
National Squash Centre, Bukit Jalil, Malaysia.
Photo credit : Chan Kin Sam
Sources by: Edward Chan

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"Health" Food Imposters

Adapted from the 8-Hour Diet, now available in paperback

Diets often focus on taking stuff off your plate, but that's how you lose out on great flavors, great nutritional benefits, and great weight loss. The problem is, many superfoods often have evil twins—unhealthy foods we like to call "health" food imposters. Look out for these imposters, ones that often sit right beside the healthy version on store shelves!

What’s In Your Green Tea?

Green tea, the perfect health elixir. Could there be a more perfect beverage to help your body? Research has linked its potent antioxidant, epigallocatechin gallate aka EGCG, to body benefits such as reduced risk of stroke, heart disease, cancer and diabetes, and weight loss—all when paired with a healthy lifestyle. But you may look at your choice of green tea differently after hearing the results of an independent lab’s tests of green tea products.

ConsumerLab.com closely examined green tea products and found that some bottle varieties are just a little more than flavored water and the leaves may be contaminated with lead. The lab tests focused on whether the labeled amounts reflected the amounts actually in the teas, and whether there were contaminants in the tea; the amount of caffeine was also examined.

Pass on the Bottled Tea

None of the four green teas selected by ConsumerLab listed the amount of EGCG and it is a good thing because the antioxidant is lacking in these products. The only brand to list an amount, Honest Tea Green Tea with Honey, only contain 62.7% of the 190mg of catechins the 16.9-oz bottle touted. It was the second highest amount with 27.2  of EGCG per 8 oz of the four bottled green teas tested. Harney & Sons Organic Green had the most—46.8 mg and Diet Snapple Green Tea had the least amount—3.5 mg. All of the bottled teas contained some type of sweetener.