Beware & Protect Yourself 02 (Jan 09 - Aug 10)

Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:52 pm

Is Your Fish Color-Finished? By Kelley Herring

If you think eating farmed salmon is a good way to get your protein, think again. Farmed salmon can do you more harm than good. Artificial color is one reason why.

Because wild salmon dine on crustaceans, plankton, and algae, their flesh takes on a beautiful, rich pink-red hue. But farmed salmon - fed toxin-rich fishmeal, corn, soy, and other foods not in their natural diet - have an insipid color that's unappealing to consumers.

So what's a salmon farmer to do? Simply pick a hue!

Using the Hoffman LaRoche Salmofan - a kind of artist's wheel - salmon farmers pick the "perfect shade" (Carophyll Pink) to color-finish their second-rate salmon.

Of course, the dye is derived from petrochemicals. But Hoffman doesn't have a corner on the market. Agricultural behemoth Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and others create coloring agents with methods that include growing red yeast on corn byproducts and gene-cloning utilizing E. coli.

Artificial color is just one of the harmful aspects of farmed salmon. To read more about it, check out my article "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is."

If you haven't made the switch to real fish - wild fish, that is - the time is now. Wild fish is widely available and is surprisingly affordable. Try SuperTarget, Whole Foods, or VitalChoice and start eating real fish today.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby kennynah » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:03 pm

therefore...better to chew on parts of a real tongkat ali then to pop those processed tongkat ali pills...you'll never quite know what they put into those pills....


eat those processed ones, skarly...instead of rising to the occasion, it fails to perform....
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:27 am

Tainted medicine linked to deaths of three patients

A popular gout medicine has been found to have been contaminated with a rare fungus that was linked to the deaths of three Queen Mary Hospital patients over the past year.

In an unscheduled and urgent press conference, the Department of Health warned the public against using the allopurinol product made by a local pharmaceutical company, Europharm Laboratories, after the level of mucorales fungi found in samples exceeded the safety limit by 100 times.

Director of Health Lam Ping-yan said his officers are at the company's production line to try and help to trace the source of the contamination.

The Hospital Authority is trying to trace around 40,000 patients who have been given prescriptions to get them to come in for medicine exchanges starting from Sunday.

The department has also notified the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. It has set up a hotline – 2125-1122 – to handle public enquiries.

Microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung of University of Hong Kong said wooden chopsticks were initially believed to be the source of infection but further investigation shown none of those who died had used the chopsticks.

Yuen said those who have taken the tainted medicine are unlikely to be at risk if they are healthy.

He voiced concern for those with poor immunity systems, especially people who have received bone marrow transplants or leukemia and lymphoma patients. The authority will get in touch with 230 high-risk patients.

Mucorales can cause mucormycosis, which affects people with weakened immune systems.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:44 am

Fears over cancer jab paralysis by Patsy Moy, BeatriceSiu and the DailyMail

Calls are growing for the suspension of cervical cancer vaccinations following reports girls as young as 12 have become paralyzed or suffered convulsions.

According to reports from Britain, as many as 1,300 schoolgirls have experienced adverse reactions including paralysis, nausea, muscle weakness, fever, dizziness and numbness.

The vaccine, Cervarix, has been used in Hong Kong since the end of 2007.

According to British reports, one girl came down with Bell's palsy, which paralyzes the face; another had hemiparesis, which paralyzes or severely weakens half the body; two experienced hypoaesthesia, in which the sufferer loses the sense of touch; and one had Guillain-Barre syndrome, which paralyzes the legs. There were almost 20 cases of blurred vision and one girl was reported to have developed anorexia.

Hong Kong Patients Rights Association chairman Ho Hei-wah said the government should immediately suspend Cervarix vaccinations, but the Department of Health said it had no plan to do so.

The department said it was closely monitoring the situation and had so far received no complaint about the vaccine.

Ho did not agree, saying it would be better to be safe than sorry.

"There is no urgency for anyone to receive the vaccine. Shouldn't the government play safe and suspend the vaccine until it is confirmed to be safe, rather than wait until cases of side effects surface in Hong Kong?" Ho asked.

He also called on the department to take a more proactive role to find out what had happened in Britain.

Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline's Hong Kong office insisted its ongoing clinical trials showed the vaccine carried no serious side effects.

Hong Kong College of Obstetrics and Gynecology spokesman Robert Law Chi-lim said vaccinations against cervical cancer were a personal choice. Parents who were worried by the report could wait for further results of the clinical trials.

"Of the 700,000 girls who received the jab in Britain last year, only 1,300 suffered from side effects and only a few were severe. The number is insignificant and we do not know the medical history of those who suffered severe side effects. So, there are no reasons for undue alarm among parents," Law said.

The vaccine is administered in three doses within six months. Law said those who have received the first dose without side effects should safely receive the remaining two doses.

In Hong Kong, the vaccine costs around HK$3,000 for three doses.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:06 pm

Drug firm four arrested for lying over expiration dates

Four employees of a drug manufacturer have been arrested for allegedly lying about the expiration dates on more than 200 over-the-counter medicines, officials said.

Marching Pharmaceutical has had its license suspended for one month while authorities look into claims the company was selling medicines with expiration dates that went beyond a product's shelf life, a Health Department spokesman said on condition of anonymity, citing internal policy.

Authorities have also ordered the company to recall 216 products _ including dozens of cough syrups and antifungal creams, he said.

The spokesman said the products being recalled are low-risk drugs and that there is no immediate risk to human health.

The four, arrested yesterday, have been released on bail pending further investigation, police spokesman T K Ng said.

Nobody has fallen ill from using the company's products, but the Health Department spokesman said ''some of the documents provided by this company are not consistent, so we've asked police to step in and investigate.''

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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:15 pm

From Health Sciences Institute:-

Antidepressants Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death

If you know a woman who takes antidepressants, pay attention! The Journal of the American College of Cardiology is about to publish a new study that links antidepressants with sudden cardiac death in women.

You'd think those findings would have the mainstream medical community thinking twice about recommending antidepressants…but no.

Instead, the researchers had this to say (according to HealthDay): "The finding doesn't necessarily mean that antidepressant drugs are dangerous."

Which strikes me as ridiculous, because 'sudden cardiac death' sounds very dangerous to me.

Bottom line: Even though this study shows us clearly that antidepressants are especially dangerous for women, it can be just as dangerous to stop taking them cold turkey, so talk to your doctor before you make any changes…but talk to him today!

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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:32 am

From The Standard, HK:-

Melamine alert for microwaves

Utensils containing melamine should not be used in microwave ovens, the Consumer Council warned yesterday. It said melamine and formaldehyde would be released if exposed to temperatures higher than 100 degrees Celsius.

Melamine is a polymer and component of plastic, while formaldehyde is a solvent and preservative used during production.

The council said it has checked 300 melamine products from 20 household goods and chain stores in the past two months, and only 5 percent of samples were properly labeled to warn customers not to use them in microwaves.

International reports show that formaldehyde is carcinogenic to humans, while melamine has caused thousands of children drinking milk powder to develop kidney stones.

Council representative Ron Hui Shu-yuen said steaming fish at 95 degrees Celsius may also release melamine and formaldehyde.

The council advises customers not to use melamine plates or cups to hold acidic or very hot food and drinks for longer than 30 minutes, and to pick plain rather than colorful patterns.

The European Commission directive 2002/72/EC restricts formaldehyde by a specific migration limit of 15 milligrams per kilogram, or 2.5 milligrams per square decimeter, while melamine is 30 milligrams per kilogram or 5 milligrams per square decimeter.

A customs spokesman said regulations on the mainland stipulate the permissible limit of migration of formaldehyde is 30 milligrams per liter.
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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:46 am

From The Standard, HK:-

Contact lens wearers warned

Give your eyes a break by not wearing contact lenses for too long.

That's the advice from the Hong Kong Society of Professional Optometrists who say over-use could lead to problems ranging from dry and sore eyes to even blindness.

In a University of Hong Kong January-February survey, around 70 percent of 530 contact lens wearers aged between 18 and 50 said they had experienced sore eyes, while more than half said their eyes were so dry that the lenses dropped out or moved.

Optometrist society treasurer Jack Wong Hung-wai said wearers could become light phobic, suffer temporary blurred vision or deterioration of eyesight, corneal strain, keratitis and even loss of eyesight.

Additionally, silicon hydrogel contact lenses are incompatible with solutions that contain the preservative biguanide and could lead to serious eye infections.

Society president Rufina Chan Tin-yan said wearers should choose solutions carefully.

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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

Postby winston » Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:12 am

Tokyo nightlife perils bared

The US Embassy in Japan has urged Americans to avoid going to bars in Tokyo's raucous nightlife district of Roppongi due to a surge in reports of drink-spiking incidents there.

The number of reports of Americans being drugged in Roppongi bars has increased significantly, the embassy said.

Victims drink drug-mixed beverages and fall unconscious for several hours. They wake up only to realize their credit cards have been stolen, it said.

Roppongi, home to more than 330 bars and nightclubs, is hugely popular among foreigners.

"If you, nevertheless, choose to participate in Roppongi nightlife, we urge you to remain extra vigilant of your surroundings, and maintain a high level of situational awareness," the statement said.

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Re: Beware & Protect Yourself (Jan 09 - Jun 09)

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