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Participate in extreme sports at own peril

admin October 15, 2020 0 Comments

On 27 September 2020, a woman broke her back after the rope snapped during a rope swing activity in Kuala Kubu Bharu. This is not the first case involving extreme sports neither will it be the last as long as the authorities are lackadaisical. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked to learn on 11 October 2020 that the Hulu Selangor district council may allow the operator to...

Don’t log off our source of water

admin October 15, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) would like to commend the CEO of Perbadanan Air Pulau Pinang (PBAPP), Dato’ Ir. Jaseni Maidinsa, for the statement he made appealing to the federal government to stop the Kedah state government from allowing logging in the Ulu Muda Forest. He has clearly stated the facts in regards to how logging in the Ulu Muda Forest will negatively affect the...

Penang ferry does it again at the expense of helpless commuters

admin October 14, 2020 0 Comments

The Penang ferry operator should be answerable for the repeated disruption of the ferry services, the latest being 14 October 2020. A ferry load of commuters arrived from Butterworth to Penang Island only to be unable to berth as they were told that the ferry that was supposed to leave was unable to as the ramp at the terminal had malfunctioned. Much to the frustration of many ferry commuters,...

BILL GATES & STEVE JOBS limit screen time for their kids. Do they know better?

admin October 14, 2020 0 Comments

In 2007, Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, implemented a cap on screen time when his daughter started developing an unhealthy attachment to a video game. He also didn't let his kids get cell phones until they turned 14. Steve Jobs, revealed in a 2011 New York Times interview that he prohibited his kids from using the newly-released iPad. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home,"...

LESS is BETTER

admin October 13, 2020 0 Comments

The first 5 years of life is associated with better motor and cognitive development, emotional and social development, cardiometabolic health, bone and skeletal health and reduced risk of injuries. In fact, the time lost from birth through age 5 cannot be made up for in later years. Certain aspects of brain development only occur during certain ages, and a child who misses out on the appropriate...

“GET-OUT-OF-MY-WAY” automobility

admin October 13, 2020 0 Comments

"Car-travel interrupts the taskscapes of others (pedestrians, children going to school, postmen, garbage collectors, farmers, animals and so on), whose daily routines are obstacles to the high-speed traffic cutting mercilessly through slower-moving pathways and dwellings. Junctions, roundabouts, and ramps present moments of carefully scripted inter-car-action during which non-car users of the...

Malaysia needs to do more on disaster risk reduction

admin October 12, 2020 0 Comments

October 13 every year, marks the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), with a call by the UN General Assembly since 1989, for a day to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. This year’s International Day for DRR is focused on governance, with good disaster risk governance measured in lives saved, reduced numbers of disaster-affected people and...

Too Much Salt in Bread

admin October 12, 2020 0 Comments

Bread is the top contributor of dietary sodium in the US and many other countries around the world. This is based new analysis from the World Action on Salt and Health, based at Queen Mary University of London. Researchers analyzed the salt content in 2,000 breads sold in 32 countries and regions. More than a third of the loaves exceeded the maximum salt target for bread set out by the UK. In...

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

admin October 7, 2020 0 Comments

"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...

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