Lai Cheng

The impact of switching to a low-salt diet can be seen in just one week, and the benefits to health are significant. About 75 per cent of people showed a median drop of 8mmHg (millimetres of mercury) in systolic blood pressure after they switched from a high- to a low-sodium diet for a week, according to a US study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Nov 11....

Detox drinks are said to have natural health benefits. As the name suggests, detoxing aims to help the body rid itself of toxins. The human body has many natural pathways to allow detoxification through liver, sweat, urine, faeces and more. But fast urbanization and exposure to pollutants, heavy metals, preservatives and pesticides has taken the average toxin consumption by human beings to an...

November 25th is observed as Meatless Day worldwide. On this occasion, the Consumers Association of Penang calls on Malaysians to substantially reduce and where possible avoid eating meat for the benefit of our health and environment. In 2022, Malaysians consumed an estimated 50 kilograms of poultry meat per person. This puts Malaysia amongst the top global consumers of poultry meat worldwide....

Smartphone addiction could impair our brain’s ability to retain new information and form new memories, says an article in Down to Earth (18 September 2018). Excessive use of mobile phones can cause memory loss in humans. When cyber security company Kaspersky Lab conducted a survey of 6,000 mobile phone users, it found that 71% of them can’t remember the phone numbers of their children and...

Despite the Attorney General’s view that the Generational Endgame (GEG) provision in the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill 2023 is unconstitutional, the government can still go ahead with the Bill, say lawyers. They say the government is not bound to follow Attorney General Datuk Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh’s view, which sees the age-based prohibition as unconstitutional as...

The call to expedite the anti-smoking Bill has grown in light of the rising trend of teenagers vaping. Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control Council secretary-general Muhammad Sha’ani Abdullah said vape devices are too convenient to be used by the public and called for them to be urgently addressed by passing the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill 2023. “Using a vape device...