Mak Fai

High blood pressure can lead to heart attack, stroke, diabetes, kidney failure and other diseases. Sugar may be as big a villain as salt in raising blood pressure. The typical modern diet, packed with both salt and sugar, is worst of all, says Dr Harry G Pruess of Georgetown University Medical School in USA. In animal studies, he finds salt and sugar together boost blood pressure more than...

That rose scent may be concocted from any number of the fragrance industry’s 3,100 stock chemical ingredients. Modern fragrances are chemical concoctions. For perfumes to be affordable, real flower essences are replaced with synthetic fragrances which are loaded with chemicals, many of which are toxic to health. The chemical components in fragrance can be lumped together and labelled only as...

The affinity of cancerous tissue for sugar is well known. Studies have shown that: > Those who consume fizzy drinks and syrup-based (squash) drinks twice or more times a day run a 90% higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those who never consume them. > Women with high blood sugar (hyperglycaemia) are more likely to develop cancers, even if they don't have diabetes. People with...

It is only natural that everything needs time. A plant needs to be seeded, nurtured and grown before the fruits can be picked. An egg needs to be hatched. You cannot smash it and get the chick out. Similarly with people, the person has to be ready before he/she can receive a message. He/she has to have the experience or maturity to get it Like a plant, a person has to be nurtured from a baby to...