2020 – Page 10 – Consumers Association Penang

Sugar is the Prime Cause of the Heart Disease Epidemic. Not fat

admin October 9, 2020 0 Comments

Sugar is a prime cause of heart attacks by changing the behaviour of the blood platelets, causing them to stick to the blood vessel wall. It can cause high blood pressure (which plays an important role in heart health), arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart palpitations, and ischaemic heart disease (which results in poor blood supply to the heart). > In the late 1960s, John...

What Competition Does

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"At every quarterly examination a gold medal was given to the best writer. When the first medal was offered, it produced rather a general contention than an emulation and diffused a spirit of envy, jealousy, and discord through the whole school; boys who were bosom friends before became fierce contentious rivals, and when the prize was adjudged became implacable enemies. Those who were...

Not Moving Our Bodies Is Dangerous

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Physical inactivity substantially increases our weight. Automobility helps us in PHYSICAL INACTIVITY. The graph clearly shows that countries that use more petrol produce citizens that have higher body weight. Physical inactivity and being overweight increase our risks of heart diseases, stroke, cancer, diabetes and many other ailments. We are designed to move and not remain idle. We should walk...

Need To Halt Wildlife Killings On Roads

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The increasing number of wildlife killed on our roads is an issue that Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) finds it increasingly difficult to ignore. The latest incident involved two tapirs while crossing the road. The first case happened in Terengganu where the tapir after being hit by a car stumbled into a nearby forest in an injured condition. Injured wildlife often suffers long painful...

Non Food in Baby Food

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CALCIUM carbonate is another non-food ingredient commonly found in processed baby foods (eg: in rusks, rice with milk, beef with vegetables and mixed fruits). It is actually another name for pure chalk. Calcium carbonate is useful to manufacturers as it helps mixtures run smoothly, and not develop lumps or cakes. It can also be used as a colouring agent, making food appear whiter. Calcium...

CAP launches guidebook: “Managing Pests in Home Gardens”

admin October 3, 2020 0 Comments

GREEN ACTION WEEK 2020 The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) today launched a guidebook titled “Managing Pests in Home Gardens” in conjunction with the annual Green Action Week. This 20-page full-coloured book is available in four languages i.e. Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil. During the COVID19 pandemic and lockdown, many households had resorted to start growing vegetables in their...

Industrial Solvent in Strawberry Flavour

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BENZYL ACETATE is one of the chemicals used. It is also used in apple, apricot and pear flavours. It can be found in jams, biscuits, cereals, cereal products, and alcoholic beverages. It is used INDUSTRIALLY as a solvent in plastics and resin, cellulose acetate, nitrate, oils, lacquers, polishes and inks. A number of previous studies show that this flavouring lead to pain in neck, headache and...

Action is Most Important

admin October 1, 2020 0 Comments

The smallest action has far greater power than the most profound thought. Fill your days with action and you’ll fill your life with richness — and others’ lives with joy. VINCENT Van Gogh was not always an artist. In fact, he wanted to be a church pastor and was even sent to the Belgian mining community of Borinage in 1879. He discovered that the miners there endured deplorable working...

SAM welcomes efforts to accelerate climate action through the financial sector

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Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) welcomes the efforts of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and the Securities Commission (SC) in accelerating climate action through the financial sector, via the Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) established to spearhead this. We laud the efforts of both BNM and the SC in taking the lead in accelerating climate action in the private sector, by ensuring that domestic...

CAP submits memorandum calling for ban on the sale of glyphosate-based herbicides

admin September 30, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) submitted a memorandum to the Ministry of Agriculture & Food Industries and the Pesticides Board on 25 September 2020 urging for a ban on glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides because of its toxic effects on human health, animals and the environment. Glyphosate, categorised as a probable human carcinogen, is increasingly associated with...

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