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Friday, September 29, 2006

 

Leading fast-food chains including McDonald's, Burger King, Chili's..contains dangerous carcinogenic in grilled chicken

Not sure if grilled chicken foldover at McDonald's in Malaysia contains cancer substance, but for sure I won't order that anymore.
In U.S, every sample of grilled chicken products from the seven national chains tested positive for a dangerous carcinogenic compound called PhIP. PhIP is one of a group of carcinogenic compounds called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) that are found in grilled meats. In 2005, the US government officially added HCAs to its list of cancer-causing agents.
Leading fast-food chains including McDonald's, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Chili's, Applebee's, Outback Steakhouse and TGI Friday's.

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

 

Effective method to get rid of pimples and clear up skin

Cut a few small size bitter gourds in half and take seeds out.
Boil bitter gourds with little barley and rock sugar in water for an hour.
Drink continuously for 2 days, you will see your skin on face all clear up.
Cheap and amazingly good method to clear up pimples, bumpy skin.

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Bread is unsafe to consume in Malaysia, that's really shocking news!!

My daughter likes bread so much that bread is her must-have daily diet. Lately Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) tested on variety of bread found to contain excessive amounts of preservative called propionic acid, which is used to prevent growth of molds. Now I can really explain why my daughter constantly shows abnormal behavior without cause.

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Friday, September 15, 2006

 

Bagged Fresh Salad Vegetables Spinach May Contain E. Coli Bacteria

Remember to wash vegetables and soak in salt water before eating.
Recently there is an outbreak of E. Coli throughout the U.S. linked to consumption of bagged fresh spinach.

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

 

Ginger Has Powerful Healing Effects and Can fight Cancer

Ginger has powerful healing effects on common cold, upset stomach and inhibits inflammation.
A recent University of Michigan study showed that when ginger was added to ovarian cancer cells in the laboratory, it caused the cancer to self destruct.
My favorite ginger recipe for dessert is to blend a big piece of ginger with water in blender. Then boil with brown sugar for 5 mins, add frozen sesame balls to boil for another 5 mins.
To fight common cold or cure running nose, boil slices of ginger with brown sugar in water for 5 mins. Drink at least 3 cups per day.

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Sunday, September 10, 2006

 

Korean Pine Nut Extract Can Loss Weight and Curb Appetite

Research showed that Korean pine nut extract is effective in controlling weight gain and appetite. This is really good news for those who prefer natural and safe ingredient for treating obesity.

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Saturday, September 09, 2006

 

Natural Herb Pegaga leaves Has Cooling and Healing Effect For Body and Skin Problems

Pegaga is scientifically named as Centella Asiatica. Commonly found in Asia, especially Malaysia.
Pegaga plant can easily be grown in soil which needs to water frequently or simply grow in water. Indirect sunlight is the best growing condition.
Blend fresh Pegaga leaves into Pegaga juice and mix with lemon juice or honey to drink. It can act as cooling effects for the body, reduce fever and high blood pressure, reduce tension and body fat, improve blood circulation and memory, clear toxins, promote health and slow down ageing process.
You may also mix Pegaga leaves with rice to cook for improving health.
Apply Pegaga paste directly to the skin can promote healing wounds as anti-inflammatory agent and as anti-aging cream.

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Beware of Brown Rice and Black Sticky Rice Coated with Color

Beware of additional color added in brown rice and black glutinous rice which make the rice looks darker and brighter. A simple test to check for any color added is to rinse rice with water. If water turned into ink or brown color, must throw rice away.

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Banned Honey Tested Antibiotic Chloramphenicol

9-Sept-06 The Standard

Six brands of honey have been ordered to be taken off shop shelves after they were found to be contaminated with the banned antibiotic chloramphenicol.
According to the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, five of the brands are produced in the mainland and the other in South Korea.

The move came after the Consumer Council tested 34 samples of honey and found six of them contained minute traces of chloramphenicol.

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Recipe with Natural Ingredients to Get Rid of Your Pimples and Lighten Your Skin

Try this cheap with natural ingredients for your beauty and health.
Boil barley and sweet corn with some sugar in water for 15 mins. Drink it once a week.
This recipe can help to clear pimples on your face and lighten your skin.

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Fish with Highest Levels of Mercury

Below are the names of fish with highest levels of mercury.
Tilefish (Gulf of Mexico), Shark, Swordfish, Mackerel King, Grouper, Tuna.
Symptoms of mercury poisoning are impairment of vision/speech/hearing/walking, numbness in hands/feet/mouth, lack of coordination of movements, skin rashes, memory loss..

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Cosmetics that Contain Phthalates Can Cause Damage to Your Body

Remember to check the ingredients before buying cosmetics, perfume, fragrant, deordorants, hair spray...
Long term exposure can cause damage to liver, kidney, lungs, and reproductive systems.

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Best Homemade Pan Crust Pizza Recipe

Easy to make and comes out really delicious, must try!
Crispy outside, chewy soft inside. Taste exactly like Pizza Hut's pan crust but not as greasy oily. This recipe can make up to 3 large pan pizza.

Get ready your food processor or breadmaker with the bread kneading blade and set to dough making.
- Add warm water 1.5 cups, dry yeast 2 teaspoon, sugar 1 tablespoon into machine to mix until yeast dissolved.
- Shift 4.5 cups bread flour, salt 1 teaspoon, milk 3 tablespoon. Add mixture into machine to knead for 15 mins.
- Add 2 tablespoon vegetable oil on big rounded baking pan.
- Divide dough into 3. Roll each dough into round shape and then put on greased baking pan.
- Covered pan and let dough rise for about 1.5 hours.
- Refrigerate dough for about 2 hours.
(You may keep dough in refrigerator for up to 2 days.)
- Turn oven on to 240c.
- Take out refrigerated dough, add toppings and cheese.
- Bake for 13 mins or until crust turns brown.

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Eating Indian Curry Can Cure Headache and Prevent Colon Cancer

22-Aug-06 Mingpao News

According to an informed source of a British study, eating Indian curry can cure headache which is much better than taking aspirin. It will not get the aspirin's side effects such as internal bleeding and ulcers, and can prevent colon cancer. Curry contains small fennel, tumeric and pepper powder which are rich in salicylic acid. Aspirin's main ingredient is salicylic acid.

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Found Excessive Preservatives in Imported Fish Products From Japan

Shenzhen entry-exit inspection and quarantine agencies tested imported seven fish products from Japan and found excessive preservatives acid content.

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Guangzhou Jusco Sale Dyed Black Sesame

Beware of black sesame dyed with synthetic pigment mainly from coal tar oil for raw materials. It has no nutritional value and is poisonous to our body especially long-term excessive intake.

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Eel From Guangdong Shanghai Contains Excessive Pesticides

24-Aug-06 MingPao News

The Japanese government recently announced that eel comes from Guangdong and Shanghai contains pesticides ingredient that surpass food safety standard. The most serious sample exceeded the allowed figure 21 times, and therefore issues an order for all importing eel industry to have comprehensive inspections.

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Eating Salted Fish Often Can Cause Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Salted fish contains carcinogen N-nitrosdimethylamine (NDMA) which can cause nasopharyngeal cancer on long term consumption.

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Hot Dogs May Cause Genetic Mutations

LiveScience.com
Everyone knows hot dog aren't exactly healthy for you, but in a new study chemists find they may contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one's risk for cancer.
Hot dogs are preserved with sodium nitrite, which can help form chemicals known as N-nitroso compounds, most of which cause cancer in lab animals.
Extracts from hot dogs bought from the supermarket, when mixed with nitrites, resulted in what appeared to be these DNA-mutating compounds. When added to Salmonella bacteria, hot dog extracts treated with nitrites doubled to quadrupled their normal DNA mutation levels. Triggering DNA mutations in the gut might boost the risk for colon cancer, the researchers explained.

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Beware Of Herbal Medicinal Products That Contain Lead And Mercury

18 June 2006 Medical News Today

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) today warned New Yorkers against the use of certain herbal medicine products made in China containing high levels of lead and mercury. While there are .comt specific federal standards about lead and mercury content, the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board recommends that certain food additives contain .com more than 2 parts per million (ppm) of lead and .com more than 1 ppm of mercury.
-- Emperor's Tea Pill (Concentrated) [Tian Huang Bu Xin Wan]
-- Hepatico Extract (Concentrated) [Shu Gan Wan]

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Slimming Pills "Detox Peptide" Banned

Detox Peptide slimming pills contains ingredient Sibutramine which can increase blood pressure and heartbeat.

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Easy Recipe: Tasty Claypot Curry Prawns

Mix seafood curry powder/paste with 1 cup water to boil in claypot.
Add chili powder if prefer spicy.
Ground 1/4 cup dried-shrimps and garlic to cook in claypot for 5 mins, season with salt.
Add in large size prawns, turn off the heat after prawns turned pink.
Serve immediately.

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Beware of Germs and Dirt Accumulated in Shower Head

Periodically soak shower head in bleach water to kill germs accumulated through water supply.

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Low Fat Recipe: Chewy Dark Chocolate Cookies

Preheat oven 350c or 175F.

Put 3oz softened butter and 1/3 cup sugar in mixer, blend until fluffy.
Add 2 eggs, one at a time, blend well.
Mix in 1 tbsp vanilla extract.
Shift 2 cups all-purpose flour, 3/4 cup Milo chocolate powder or cocoa powder, 1/2 teasp salt and 1 teasp baking soda into a bowl. Then mix into mixture.
Mix 6oz of chopped dark baking chocolate into mixture.
Spoon big tablespoons of mixture on greased baking sheet.

Bake for 10 mins.
Approximate 16 cookies. Can last for a week in refrigerator, remember to warm in microwave before eating.

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Plastic Wrap on Food Products Can Cause Allergy

FSA researched on local food products shows that plastic wrap used on ice cream, chocolate, cookies, vegetables and meat products can cause skin allergy and itchiness on skin. Seriousness can cause breathing and heart problems.

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Beware of E. Coli in Water Supply on Flight

For those who have weaker immune system, avoid drinking tea & coffee on airplane.

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Beware of Soy Bean Milk Contains Preservative Benzoic Acid

Some soy bean milk suppliers add Benzonic acid as preservative. Long term consumption can cause liver damage.
Test showed that Laboratory rats died after fed with 0.4g of Benzonic acid.

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Beware of Preserved Veggies in Guangzhou China

According to the Guangzhou media exposition on 5-Aug-2006, Guangzhou's "delicacy preserved veggies" originated from unlicensed workshops. These unlicensed workshops are filthy and stink with overflowed sewage water on ground. Those preserved veggies with mildews on is soaked with industrial poisonous bleach to make it look normal to eat. Daily production of 10 tons inferior preserved veggies is supply to big supermarkets and restaurants locally.
Really scary..

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FDA Warns Against Eating Raw Oysters from Washington State

CBS Aug 1, 2006
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has advised against eating raw oysters harvested in Washington state, citing a recent rash of bacteria-caused illnesses that have sickened people on both coasts.

There have been more than 70 reported cases of vibriosis this year in people who ate oysters in Washington, the highest number since 1997, when 58 cases were reported, Health Department spokesman Tim Church said.

In healthy adults, the bacteria can cause diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, headache, fever and chills. The illness can be fatal to those with chronic liver disease or compromised immune systems, but deaths are rare.

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Beware of Poor Quality Red Beans Coated with Red Color

For those red bean dessert lovers:
If you noticed red beans turn water red immediately after soaking, throw them away. This is due to devious traders coated red color on low graded red beans to make it look fresh and attractive for consumers to buy. Those beans won’t even turn soft after hours of cooking, not to mention added colorants can have potential harm to our body.

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Watermelons Injected with Mercurochrome Hormone in Guangzhou China

Read on news that some watermelons in Guangzhou are injected with mercurochrome hormone to give the melon much fresher look to sell as devious traders' trick. Scary..

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Fruit Juice Safety Warning in Taipei Taiwan

CNA , TAIPEI
Friday, Jul 07, 2006,Page 12

The Consumers' Foundation warned the public yesterday to be extra careful when buying fresh fruit juice in the Taipei area.
The foundation sampled 30 fresh orange juice, watermelon juice and sugarcane juice products in the area in May. Of the juices tested, 27 had germ counts exceeding acceptable levels, two contained Escherichia (E. coli) and eight contained staphylococcus aureus.

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Do Not Use Disposable Chopsticks in Restaurants

Try the following test:

Soak a pair of disposable chopsticks (usually given to you when you buy pack food from a Chinese take-away) for between 3 to 5 minutes inside hot boiling water. Within minutes and right in front of your eyes, you will noticed that some white colouring matter seems to be dissolved into the hot water from the chopsticks.

What is released from the chopsticks is actually a chemical, a bleaching agent. On a campaign promoting healthy care in Singapore recently, Professor Jackson Mathis reminds people not to use disposable chopsticks, as almost the majority of them are
made in or imported from China. He explained that during the manufacturing process of disposable chop-sticks before the actual production itself, all raw materials are already cover-grown with germs that make the wood materials look like they are coated in multiple colours or are covered with poisonous fungus.
The first process itself is already frightening as the manufacturer starts the process by soaking up the wooden raw materials inside a very big container that is filled with a very toxic and highly poisonous chemical.

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Beware of Frozen Green Peas Coated with Green Chemical Color

Sunshine Square supermarket is selling frozen green peas coated with green color addictive. The brand is named G New Zealand Green Peas, distributed by Gulf Food Enterprise at 90-C Lorong Perak, 11600 Penang. Beware not to buy this and remember to tell your family and friends.

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Kim Gary Hong Kong Restaurant at Gurney Plaza Mall Penang

Kim Gary Hong Kong Restaurant serves Hong Kong style western food, located on the same floor as ToyRUs 3rd floor at Gurney Plaza Mall. Main dishes are just okay there, desserts and drinks are better. I suggest you to try french toast, thick toast, milk tea, coffee milk tea..

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Hongkie Kopitiam Restaurant at E-Gate Penang

Hongkie Kopitiam Restaurant at E-Gate is serving western style Hong Kong food. Food is just okay to me. You may find 99 cents food items on their morning breakfast menu, like french toast, toasted bread, nasi lemak, fried noodles, eggs, chicken porridge. It's worth the price to enjoy morning breakfast there during weekdays.

If you are craving for Hong Kong style western food, I would suggest you to go Kim Gary Hong Kong Restaurant on the 3rd floor at Gurney Plaza, same floor as ToysRUs.

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Tao Restaurant at E-Gate Penang

道 Tao Restaurant is U.S chain restaurant, which is quite popular in New York and Las Vegas. It serves Asian style Japanese food, I suppose can classify as fusion food. Food is just okay there, I still prefer typical Japanese style food or else typical Chinese food. Weekends and nites serving sushi buffet. Crowds are there, for sure need to go early.
http://www.taorestaurant.com/

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Subway Sandwich Restaurant Chain is Now in Penang Malaysia

I tried roast beef sandwich, quite disappointed when seeing a few thinly sliced super dry roast beef. Just green veggies was quite fresh. Subway located at ground floor E-Gate, directly across from Tesco. It's in a good location, you can't miss the sign.

There are also a few popular restaurants along the ground floor row E-Gate. Like Tao Restaurant, Hongkie Kopitiam Restaurant, Sushi King, Secret Recipe, Starbucks, FLIX Restaurant & Pub...

Well, now I am waiting for Burger King, Taco Bell in Penang..

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Thursday, September 07, 2006

 

Kings Bay Restaurant at Bayan Bay Penang

京灣 is a newly opened Chinese restaurant at Bayan Bay shop lot, area where is now called Queensbay. They served home cooked Chinese food, quite good. My favorite dessert Lotus paste pancake can also find there, crispy outside and soft inside, yummy!

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