Don't like the smell in your house?
Before you pay for that can of air freshener make sure that it is a "phthalate-free," product. Product labeled "fragrance" on it most likely contains some form of phthalate, such as, phthatates compounds such as DBP (di-n-butyl phthalate) or DEP (diethyl phthalate), which can easily evaporate into food or the atmosphere to affect your health.
Here is another green option you can try.
Showing posts with label Health Alert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Alert. Show all posts
Friday, 12 October 2012
Friday, 14 October 2011
Waste incinerator can cause...
Waste incinerator can cause pollution? Is that your answer? I have another fact for you which I picked up from Ananda Lee Tan of Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
Eight years ago, Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, guaranteed a $125 million loan to rebuild the city's waste incinerator. Today, with a debt crisis of $300 million, the city finally realised that the U.S. Energy Information Administration is right in its report that burning waste is the most expensive way to generate energy in the US.
Yes, American taxpayers, Harrisburg, your largest U.S. city has been declared bankrupt.
So, wake up citizens of the world, before you start guzzling more energy and creating more waste for your government to consider building one in your country.
Other source of information:
http://www.suntimes.com/business/8183091-420/debt-crippled-harrisburg-pa-files-for-bankruptcy.html
Eight years ago, Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, guaranteed a $125 million loan to rebuild the city's waste incinerator. Today, with a debt crisis of $300 million, the city finally realised that the U.S. Energy Information Administration is right in its report that burning waste is the most expensive way to generate energy in the US.
Yes, American taxpayers, Harrisburg, your largest U.S. city has been declared bankrupt.
So, wake up citizens of the world, before you start guzzling more energy and creating more waste for your government to consider building one in your country.
Other source of information:
http://www.suntimes.com/business/8183091-420/debt-crippled-harrisburg-pa-files-for-bankruptcy.html
Friday, 15 April 2011
Not pregnant? Blame those receipts?
If like me, you have been recycling just any scrap of paper you can get your hands on, note this!
Recycling thermal imaging carbonless paper may not be such a good idea, after all.
If you know that you should avoid drinking from bottles with bisphenol A (BPA) because you have been reading reports that it can cause a number of health problems, including infertility, then watch out for that powdery feeling on any receipts that you get your hands on.
Janet Raloff reported in her article, "Concerned about BPA: Check your receipts," that what you feel is a layer of BPA, manufacturers coat on one side of thermal imaging carbonless papers.
What?!!! That's how most credit card receipts feel when rubbed against your fingers, right? So, stop doing that as she has also reported that a survey of urine samples of pregnant women in USA found that cashiers had the highest amounts of BPA in their bodies.
Janet may have us concerned about what we are recycling but I am sure that it is because of such reports that there are now BPA-free thermal-receipt paper in USA. But when will we see such used in Malaysia?
I guess that depends on how many of you are willing to talk about what you picked up today. Just remember that the BPA tainted paper we recycled could well be made into the packaging our food will be served in.
Recycling thermal imaging carbonless paper may not be such a good idea, after all.
If you know that you should avoid drinking from bottles with bisphenol A (BPA) because you have been reading reports that it can cause a number of health problems, including infertility, then watch out for that powdery feeling on any receipts that you get your hands on.
Janet Raloff reported in her article, "Concerned about BPA: Check your receipts," that what you feel is a layer of BPA, manufacturers coat on one side of thermal imaging carbonless papers.
What?!!! That's how most credit card receipts feel when rubbed against your fingers, right? So, stop doing that as she has also reported that a survey of urine samples of pregnant women in USA found that cashiers had the highest amounts of BPA in their bodies.
Janet may have us concerned about what we are recycling but I am sure that it is because of such reports that there are now BPA-free thermal-receipt paper in USA. But when will we see such used in Malaysia?
I guess that depends on how many of you are willing to talk about what you picked up today. Just remember that the BPA tainted paper we recycled could well be made into the packaging our food will be served in.
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Rice water? Good for diarrhea.
Received an interesting email from a friend and discovered that the excess liquid from cooked rice can be used to cure diarrhea. A search for the recipe lead me to one that you can also use to heal your pets of the same ailment:
Rice Water Recipe to Control Diarrhea
Following is the email message I received which provides a link to support this cure:
With the recent cases on the Gelyang Serai food poisoning out break, I would like to share the info received from a friend. Pls read on, it may be of help...
When someone gets diarrhea, sometimes the solution is so easy, we wonder why anyone has to suffer. The secret is in rice water. This is already known in this region. Ask your maids -- Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Filipina and they would know about it.
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(My mother) knew about it. When Dr Albert Winsemius came to Singapore for a farewell and thank you dinner in his honour, he brought along his wife Aly and his granddaughter, Jolijn. Both women came down with very bad gastroenteritis. They saw the doctor who gave them medication. It was slow to work.
Mother boiled some rice in lots of water and went to their hotel with two 1.5L bottles of rice water. I cringed in shame at the offer of this folk remedy, which seemed so primitive to me. Never heard of this cure before. To my surprise, it worked, and they were even able to go out for dinner the next day. Both were exclaiming how the rice water did the trick of making them well again. Well, lucky it worked, I thought to myself.
I was discussing this some years back with Kim Ng, the ex-matron of KK Hospital. She said, yes, that is what Professor Wong Hock Boon, the notable pediatrician teaches. I was shocked and made some comment how could he? It was common knowledge so what had he to do with it?
Many months later, I regretted laughing at it. Dr Christina Shanta Emmanuel, who is the CEO of...uh, which group I have forgotten. Either National Health Group, or Polyclinics, or whatever.. regarded me
seriously when I brought up the topic like it was good fun. She said that Prof Wong Hock Boon had presented a paper on it at some conference after he had done clinical trials. Then his results were published in the Lancet, the Medical Journal all doctors read. In fact, said Shanta, he was credited for saving the lives of 2 million African babies by this method.
Ah, so! I am impressed.
It is rice water and not rice that does the trick. I have found it effective again and again. You take a handful of rice and boil it in a large saucepan with lots of water. Like three or four large glasses. Then you cool that and drink the water. If you are in a hurry to relieve the ailing person, take the saucepan off the fire and dunk it in a frying pan or basin of cool water with ice cubes if necessary. This gives the patient a chance to drink the rice water sooner and cure himself or herself sooner.
When drinking the rice water, make sure there is lots of it. You have to tell the patient that enough water must go in to line your guts from throat to other end, all 10 to 12 metres of it. If you take rice, it stays in the stomach. If you take broth, some of it may go into the small intestine. But if you take rice water, it will carry rice grains to every inch of your small and large intestine to the end where the problem is.
How does it work? Even Prof Wong Hock Boon doesn't know. Read the attached file. Or go to
http://rehydrate.org/dd/dd06.htm#page2
It is good to pass on the news to everyone you know because the complaint is so common and people suffer unnecessarily. You would be doing your friends a great favour to relieve them of their misery when the occasion arises.
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So the next time someone in your family is down with diarrhea consider boiling porridge and keep the excess water as a cure.
Rice Water Recipe to Control Diarrhea
Following is the email message I received which provides a link to support this cure:
With the recent cases on the Gelyang Serai food poisoning out break, I would like to share the info received from a friend. Pls read on, it may be of help...
When someone gets diarrhea, sometimes the solution is so easy, we wonder why anyone has to suffer. The secret is in rice water. This is already known in this region. Ask your maids -- Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Filipina and they would know about it.
==============================================================================
(My mother) knew about it. When Dr Albert Winsemius came to Singapore for a farewell and thank you dinner in his honour, he brought along his wife Aly and his granddaughter, Jolijn. Both women came down with very bad gastroenteritis. They saw the doctor who gave them medication. It was slow to work.
Mother boiled some rice in lots of water and went to their hotel with two 1.5L bottles of rice water. I cringed in shame at the offer of this folk remedy, which seemed so primitive to me. Never heard of this cure before. To my surprise, it worked, and they were even able to go out for dinner the next day. Both were exclaiming how the rice water did the trick of making them well again. Well, lucky it worked, I thought to myself.
I was discussing this some years back with Kim Ng, the ex-matron of KK Hospital. She said, yes, that is what Professor Wong Hock Boon, the notable pediatrician teaches. I was shocked and made some comment how could he? It was common knowledge so what had he to do with it?
Many months later, I regretted laughing at it. Dr Christina Shanta Emmanuel, who is the CEO of...uh, which group I have forgotten. Either National Health Group, or Polyclinics, or whatever.. regarded me
seriously when I brought up the topic like it was good fun. She said that Prof Wong Hock Boon had presented a paper on it at some conference after he had done clinical trials. Then his results were published in the Lancet, the Medical Journal all doctors read. In fact, said Shanta, he was credited for saving the lives of 2 million African babies by this method.
Ah, so! I am impressed.
It is rice water and not rice that does the trick. I have found it effective again and again. You take a handful of rice and boil it in a large saucepan with lots of water. Like three or four large glasses. Then you cool that and drink the water. If you are in a hurry to relieve the ailing person, take the saucepan off the fire and dunk it in a frying pan or basin of cool water with ice cubes if necessary. This gives the patient a chance to drink the rice water sooner and cure himself or herself sooner.
When drinking the rice water, make sure there is lots of it. You have to tell the patient that enough water must go in to line your guts from throat to other end, all 10 to 12 metres of it. If you take rice, it stays in the stomach. If you take broth, some of it may go into the small intestine. But if you take rice water, it will carry rice grains to every inch of your small and large intestine to the end where the problem is.
How does it work? Even Prof Wong Hock Boon doesn't know. Read the attached file. Or go to
http://rehydrate.org/dd/dd06.htm#page2
It is good to pass on the news to everyone you know because the complaint is so common and people suffer unnecessarily. You would be doing your friends a great favour to relieve them of their misery when the occasion arises.
==========================================================================
So the next time someone in your family is down with diarrhea consider boiling porridge and keep the excess water as a cure.
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Why should we care about the environment?
Why should we care about the environment?
"Environmental quality is one of the key factors in determining whether a child survives the first years of life. A healthy future for our children will be ensured only through safeguarding the environment.” UNEP, UNICEF, and WHO - 2002
Let's do it for the children.
"Environmental quality is one of the key factors in determining whether a child survives the first years of life. A healthy future for our children will be ensured only through safeguarding the environment.” UNEP, UNICEF, and WHO - 2002
Let's do it for the children.
Friday, 10 October 2008
Bottoms? Best to take a peek!
I have been looking at bottoms and have decided that it is best not to go plastic. And if you are thinking that I am talking about plastic surgery, it is obvious that you are not a regular here.
This is what I am talking about. Email alerts against re-using plastic containers.
Only one life to play with. So, go check those plastic ware bottoms before you put any food or drinks served in or on them into your mouth. Health may well be the best reason to reduce usage of plastic on earth.
This is what I am talking about. Email alerts against re-using plastic containers.
Only one life to play with. So, go check those plastic ware bottoms before you put any food or drinks served in or on them into your mouth. Health may well be the best reason to reduce usage of plastic on earth.
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