| HEALTH ARTICLES ON LIFESTYLE TRENDS AND ISSUES |
Angel craze hits the Vatican
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Angels are today much associated more with the New Age Movement, which many Catholic and Christians churches frown upon. But a September 1995 report in The Catholic News tells us that “Angel Mania” had hit the Vatican!
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Health promotion at the office
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Fortune Magazine reported in 1996 that more companies are investing in health promotion efforts – because they significant improve the bottom line with lower health costs and higher productivity.
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| Teenage vegetarians |
Newsweek reported in August 1995 that teenagers in the US are turning vegetarian in a big way. Anybody knows if the trend has continued? |
| Warning on mind machines |
Would the Buddha approve of mind machines that induce a meditative state? Well, the US FDA doesn't. It warned that some people could suffer seizures from using them. |
| Green inns are in |
Th Saunders Group in Boston introduced 140 measures to make its chain of hotels more environment friendly. |
| Public breastfeeding |
A number of US states have passed laws exempting breastfeeding in public from public indecency laws, after a highly-publicised case in 1993 where a woman in Florida was harassed for breastfeeding in public. |
| Painful truth about abortion |
A scientific study has confirmed that the fetus in the womb can feel pain. So the researchers now recommend that babies be given painkillers before they are aborted -- ie killed by being torn into bits! Ouch! |
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| ARTICLES ON DIET, LIFESTYLE AND HEALTH |
| Obesity among Malays |
Malays in Singapore suffer from higher rates of obesity and they have been advised to cut down on coconut milk. I wrote this commentary arguing that coconut milk is NOT the problem.
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| Golfers get cancer |
Pesticides, herbicides and fungicides sprayed at golf courses mean that superintendents and regular golfers face higher risks of lung and brain cancer, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
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Researchers in the US and Finland have found a link between high levels of iron and cancer. |
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| HEALTH ARTICLES ABOUT FOOD QUALITY |
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| Organic foods have greater life force |
German researchers have found a way to measure the life force of foods, and they found organic foods to have more vitality.
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| Colouring in tea |
The Penang Consumers Association found the cheap tea sold in coffee shops often contain harmful food colouring... plus tips on how to detect artificial colouring. |
| Bottled mineral water scam |
The Penang Consumers Association found many brands of bottled mineral water to come from polluted industrial estates and oil palm plantations! |
| rBGH / rBST introduced |
The synthetic growth hormone, rBGH or rBST, was introduced by Mosanto in the United States in 1994 despite public protests and reports of cancer risks. All other industrialised countries have banned the hormone. |
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| HEALTH ARTICLES ON MEDICAL SCIENCE AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE |
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| The spider web toxicity test |
New Scientist magazine tells us that Nasa scientists had been using spiders spinning their webs to test the toxicity of drugs. And they found out that caffeine is more toxic than marijuana!
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| Homeopathy for diarrhea |
A study on homeopathy for diarrhea is the first stiudy on homeopathy to appear in a majr US medical journal. |
| Healing power of prayer |
Studies on the healing power of prayer confirms what religious leaders have always taught -- that prayer works! |
| Natural antibiotics |
Garlic and Chinese herbs are among natural remedies found to be effective against antibiotic resistant bacteria. |
