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I didn’t mean to scare you off, as I just want you to think awhile, whether the drinkable water is really free from any micropollutant!

We’re living in the world, which is surrounding with many polluted chemicals, such as pesticides, cleaning agents, plastics and much more. All these chemical are always find their way sneaking into the natural water resources.

Based on the latest studies, there are more than 800 products have been recognized as the micropollutants in the water resources. Most of the micropollutants are released into the environment, especially in rainwater runoff!




Believe it or not, up to 80 percent of the supply water in third world countries are highly polluted with many chemicals substances. The World Health Organization (WHO) had tried they very best, which they’ve made a standard guide for the wastewater treatment plants.

However, many people have no choice, but have to drink the highly polluted water, especially in the developing countries.

Hence, we should appreciate and thanks to our government, for providing such a clean and safe to drink tap water!
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In most of the time, people didn’t seem to care too much about the air pollution. Some of them even thought that it’s necessary, as it’s one of the ways to bring a country to wellness!

Well, maybe this new study is going to shed some light to the people and rise up their awareness about air pollution! According to the new study, which is published in the August 2009 edition of Pediatrics, the researchers have discovered that there’s a strong relationship between the increased urban air pollution and decreased IQ amongst children.

In the report, they’ve listed out that the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is the main cause of why many children in the urban area have a lower IQ than those who living in Suburban or rural area!


PAHs are the chemicals released into the air, due to the burning of non-renewable resources.
A series of tests have been carried out in New York City, Washington D.C. and Harlem. The result is quite shocking, as 140 out of 249 children who took the tests have been exposed to the high PAH in a very long period, were found to have 4.31 - 4.67 fewer IQ than those who have a low level exposure to the PAHs!

Don’t be panicked, as there’s a solution for this problem. All you have to do is practice a healthy lifestyle, such as drink green tea daily; choose the foods that free from any GMO stuffs and exercise regularly. By performing these methods on your children, they’ll be safe from the ravage of PAHs!
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Alzheimer’s disease, or it normally known as “Dementia”, has been recognized as one of the main killing diseases in 21st century. When you’re getting the Alzheimer’s disease, your memory is rapidly decrement day after day, until you’re finally forgot everything, including your loved ones, your name, your job and even your life!

However, there’s a good news from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where a group of researchers have discovered a compound named “NIC5-15”. It can be used to stabilize cognitive performance in patients.



According to the early experiment outcomes, the NIC5-15 is a safe and effective natural compound, which has no side effect on the Alzheimer’s disease patient. The reason why NIC5-15 is used, as it has a waxy substance that accumulates between brain cells and impacts cognitive function!

In U.S.A., there are more than 10 million Americans who being affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Maybe, this new and natural compound can help to slow down the memory losing process!
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In the past, when you’re undergoing the heart surgery, you might have a higher chance of having “Table Death”. However, this has became the past, as the success rate of heart related diseases have been improving a lot, especially in these few years.

Based on the latest statistic from the UK, the study shown that there are moe elderly high-risk patients were being treated right now and have a better surviving rate.

PS: For those who have Haemophobia (Fear of blood), please don't view this picture. If you still insist to look on it, then watch it at your own risk!



Below here is the statistic, which is based on analysis of more than 400,000 operations by the UK’s Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery:

• Coronary artery bypass surgery alone:
2001: 2.3%
2008: 1.5%

• All coronary artery bypass surgery:
2001: 2.6%
2008: 1.7%

• Heart valve surgery alone:
2001: 5.2%
2008: 3.5%

• Combined valve and coronary artery bypass surgery:
2001: 8.3%
2008: 6.1%

Believe it or not, one in five coronary artery bypass patients are basically over 75-year-old, and they’re having a higher rate of surviving, after the surgery!

An applaud to all the cardiac surgeons, as you all have made a huge improvement over the past seven years!
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just proposed a new suggestion, which they want all the U.S. nitrogen dioxide to be adjusted into an hour NO2 standard.

They pointed out that this method would help to reduce the respiratory illnesses amongst the public.



Lisa P.Jackson, the EPA Administrator mentioned that they have done many research about the effect of NO2 to the human beings. They discovered that if a person is exposed with high concentration NO2 for more than an hour, he/she might have the chance of getting assorted respiratory illnesses, such as asthma, lung cancer and so on.

By the continuously efforts from EPA, the annual NO2 concentrations across the U.S. have been slightly decreased from the 53 parts per billion (ppb) in 1971 to 15 ppb in 2009! Honestly, it’s a very good achievement.

PS: Picture thanks to ecu.edu.
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Every person wants to have a youth looking eyes, as it makes them become more confident in front of the public. In this case, some people won’t care to waste over hundreds or thousands of dollars purchase the eye wrinkles cream.

Unlike the past, nowadays skin researchers using DNA microarrays to measure the expression of thousands of genes in skin.

P&G, one of the world’s famous skin care companies, have done numerous experiments about the skin-aging problem. They discovered that in the older skin, they found a decrease in the expression of genes associated with inflammation! They assumed that the immune system might play an important role in skin-aging.



Beside of P&G, the famous cosmetics company, L’Oreal also mentions that they have identified the differences the self-recovery of old and young skin respond to physical damage. They pointed out that younger skin took only six hours to react with the physical damage, while the older skin have to take up to 30 hours to identify the problem!

The investigation is still carry on. However, the researchers claim that they’re one step closer now into the skin-aging problem. Maybe, they will find the ultimate solution for preventing the skin-aging in the near future…

Note: Picture thanks to rnnu.
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AIDS and cancers are the two biggest uncured diseases who always threatening human race in present days. However, these two diseases might become a history, as the Malaysian researchers claimed to discover the antidotes!

The anti-HIV drug is given name as “Calanolide”, is derived from the Bintangor or Calophyllum tree is under the final stages of development.

Rainforest have always being considered as the “green germ”, as many traditional medicines have been found inside the rainforests. However, the sadness thing is the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia rainforests have been quickly wiped out more than 120,000 square miles in the past decade! If this situation continues, then our hope on finding the cure for the uncured diseases might turn into bubble!

According to Tan Sri Dr. George Chan, the Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia, the Calonide A samples have been sent to the National Cancer Institute of United States for testing purpose.

By the launching of Calonide A, more HIV and cancer patients might be able to have a normal healthy life afterward…
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It isn’t a joke, as this news has been verified by the National Health Board of Denmark on June 30, 2009. The Tamiflu isn’t longer effective to against the pandemic Swine Flu (H1N1).

It might sound a little bit shock, but it’s already happened on one Danish’s female who caught Swine Flu. She had been advised by the doctors to take the Tamiflu to prevent her from getting sick. However, it seen that she still have the developed symptoms, even though she had taken the Tamiflu!

After it, she changed her prescription medicine, from Tamiflu to Relenza. Well, this time, she’s fully recover from the Swine Flu.

David Reddy, the head of the pandemic taskforce at Swiss Company Roche has been interviewed about his opinion on this case. He mentioned that this is a very normal condition from the scientific point of view. Maybe 1 out of 100,000 people will have this situation as the Danish’s female patient did!

Hence, it’s nothing to be afraid about…
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The Swine Flu cases have been spreading like bushfire, as it claimed to infect over one million U.S. citizens in the near future.

Lyn Finelli, a flu surveillance official is the one who made the prediction, that approximately one million U.S. citizens might be infected by Swine Flu in the next couple of months!

For your information, the seasonal flu is always sickening more than 30 million Americans each year.

According to the trustable data, the United States’ government has been spending over millions of dollars to create the seasonal flu vaccines each year. Now, they need to add up the budget, as they need to make up the vaccine for treating the Swine Flu!
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It’s Time to Relax Our Stress Mind

October 10th 2009 04:15
We’re all living in the world that full with stress and tension every day. Honestly, stress is a ferocious monster, as they’re trying their best to crush and crumble our mind with its invisible force!

That’s why, the number of the stress/tension related mentally illness is spiking high, especially in the past few decades.

I knew that different types of people have their own unique ways to relax themselves from the stress. Some prefer the extreme outdoor activities, while other might choose to have their own personal space and time.

To me, I always think that spa is one of the best methods to relax our stress. For those who haven’t tried spa treatment before, you should give it a try. Honestly, Pirom spa is one of my favorite spa methods, as it firmly combined the natural ingredients that exfoliate the cellulite and older skin from our body. Plus, the aromatic Thanakha body scrub is helping us to refresh and rejuvenate our tension mind too!



If you’re not interested on the spa treatments, maybe the massage & reflexology is going to draw your attention. For your information, the main purpose of reflexology is not only reducing the stress/tension away, but it helps to improve your blood circulation and normalize your body’s homeostasis! Believe it or not, most of the cancer patients use the reflexology method to avoid their tumor’s situation from worsening.

Remember, stress is much like the poison in the mindset, the sooner you overcome it face to face, then the better the chance you’ve a better and healthy quality life!

PS: Picture thanks to steadyhealth.
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Cancer is become one of the biggest threat to human race since million years ago. The truth is, cancer is not only affected our life, but it causes a serious threat to wildlife too!

I assumed you all have been witnessed the pain and suffer of the Tasmanian devils, as the contagious devil facial tumor disease will become the main cause to drive the species to extinction! This horrible tumor that formed around the Tasmanian devils’ mouth are making them suffering with a lot of pain and finally die of starvation (Poor child…)



Denise McAloose, the chief pathologist for the WCS’s global health programme said that there are many unknown numbers of wildlife species might be threatened by cancer. That’s why, they must speed up the observation and collect as many specimens as possible to help the animals free from the cancer’s suffering!
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Most of us didn’t realize that we’re blessed to live on this beautiful yet wonderful world. Have a good look on your surroundings, you might find that there are many amazing vegetables and fruits, which are incredibly good for your health!

Until now, there are many vegetables and fruits have been known effective for the anti aging problem, including apples, oranges, all types of berries and much more. According to the result from the researchers, one of the reasons why the vegetables/fruits are good for anti aging, as it contains many antioxidants. In addition, antioxidants are not only good for slowing down aging process, but it helps to against the heart related diseases as well.

As usual, I have a quick search on the internet during my lunch hour. Guess what! I discovered a brand new fruit that I haven’t heard before and I would like to share it with you here.

The fruit called Cupuacu, which is a tropical rainforest tree fruit. It’s one of the most common fruits at the Amazon basin. Oh, now I remembered that one of my friends, Olivia who is the Amazon rainforest researcher told me that there is a fruit named Cupuacu, which is having a shape like the Cacao.



She described that the white pulp of the Cupuacu is having a unique fragrant smell. Beside that, it contains many antioxidants, including theacrine that able to reduce the aging process. Furthermore, Cupuacu also good for expelling the free radicals, stimulate new skin and strengthen our stamina!

I was pleased to know the benefit of the Cuapucu fruit, that’s why I would like to share this amazing tropical fruit with all of you here. Hopefully, you will share this information with your family or friends as well!

Note: Photo thanks to lakenormanwellness.
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Beware of the Rare FMD Disease!

October 6th 2009 16:22
I have a three-year-old nephew, Christopher who is a very cute little boy. He’s a very active during the daytime. However, his parents need to keep their eyes on him, as he’s been diagnosed with a very strange disease named, “Fibromuscular dysplasia” (FMD).

Honestly, Christopher’s parents didn’t know about it at the very beginning, until he’d been verified by the doctor on last two weeks!

Basically, FMD is a rare disease that cause narrowing all the arteries, including the arteries in the kidneys, the carotid arteries and the abdomen’s arteries. Once a person is affecting with FMD, he/she might be having the risk of getting hypertension, strokes, heart attacks or arterial swelling. If the problem is becoming very critical, then death is awaiting the patient in the end!

According to the experts, this disease is only affected 5 out of 100 people. If a FMD patient wants to have a surgery, then the ACE inhibitors would be his/her only choice.
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What’s Your Breakfast Grades?

October 4th 2009 04:20
Breakfast (Honestly, did anyone know why it’s pronounced “Breakfirst”, as it supposed to be “Breakfast”? This question has been bothering for a very long time…!) is to be known as the most important meal of the day, and everyone should take it before they’re heading to work/school!

However, many people seems to be neglected the breakfast, where they’re mostly skipped it for many reasons, such as wake up late, don’t have time, hate to eat breakfast and blah, blah, blah…

Honestly, they didn’t know the fact that those people who don’t love to have breakfast might have higher risk of getting gastrointestinal related cancers than those who practicing it everyday!

Oh, you’re deciding to eat breakfast, after reading the article? Well done, my friend. However, before you’re starting to do it, there are several things that you should know about it!

Did you know that breakfast have its label/grade like brands too? Let me show you, what is the different of grade “A” breakfast from the grade “B”, “C” and “D”!

Grade A breakfast: It must contain oatmeal, wholegrain breads, skim milk, pine nuts and orange juice.

Grade B breakfast: It mostly contain breakfast bar, breakfast shake or pancake with maple syrup!

Grade C breakfast: Sugary cereal, pastry or fast food sandwich.

Grade D breakfast: These are mostly junk or unhealthy foods, such as Pizza, McDonald, Fried Chicken, casserole and other (You named it!)

So, based on the above breakfast, what’s your breakfast mostly fallen into? Is it the healthy style, “Grade A” or the self-destruct style, “Grade D”?

You make your own decision…
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