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NURTURE YOUR CHILD’S STRENGTHS

Lai Cheng May 28, 2024 0 Comments
Children learn what they live and live what they learn. Inspire values in your child by example. Showing – not just telling – instils positive, true values in children that they will carry with them throughout their lives. Your parenting wisdom will draw out your child’s immense inner resources. That’s the message in this classic poem by Dorothy Law Nolte (a parent educator, family...
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Microplastics are in human testicles. It’s still not clear how they got there.

Lai Cheng May 28, 2024 0 Comments
People eat, drink, and breathe in tiny pieces of plastics — but what they do inside the body is still unknown. No human organ is safe from microplastic contamination, it seems — not even the testicles. Researchers at the University of Mexico recently tested 70 samples of testicular tissue — 47 from dogs and 23 from humans — and found microplastics in every single one. The...
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WHY YOU SHOULDN’T KEEP YOUR WALLET IN YOUR BACK POCKET

Lai Cheng May 28, 2024 0 Comments
Do you keep, and sit with your wallet in the back pocket? If so, beware. Doing this compresses the skin, muscles and nerves on one side of the buttocks, reducing circulation around the affected area and your legs. This can lead to a condition called sciatica – symptomised by numbness, tingling and/or shooting, and electric-shock like pain down the sciatic nerve. What happens when you sit on...
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COMPOSTING IS AN ECO-FRIENDLY SOLUTION

Lai Cheng May 27, 2024 0 Comments
Composting is the easiest, least expensive, and most scalable treatment option for organic waste. Composting = recovery of discarded materials, reduced landfill & incinerator waste + pollution, reduced surface & groundwater contamination, reduced soil erosion, and improved soil structure. Better waste systems = 70% cost cut per tonne. Source: GAIA US & Canada  
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CAP: Halt the sale of spices from India

Lai Cheng May 24, 2024 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls upon the Health Ministry to immediately ban the sale of two brands of spices from India (Everest and MDH) which were found to contain ethylene oxide a cancer-causing agent. The two affected brands of spices are widely available in Malaysia, especially on e-commerce platforms. The affected brands of spices are exported to many regions including...
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A Good Wisdom Story

Lai Cheng May 24, 2024 0 Comments
GANDHI’S SHOES As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train started moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first shoe. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did that, Gandhi replied, “The poor man who finds...
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Cancer victims sue Johnson & Johnson over ‘fraudulent’ bankruptcies

Lai Cheng May 24, 2024 0 Comments
The victims accuse the healthcare company of using a shell company’s bankruptcy to resolve lawsuits. NEW YORK: A group of cancer victims sued Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday, accusing the healthcare company of committing fraud through repeated and continued efforts to use a shell company’s bankruptcy to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its talc products contained asbestos...
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PROTECT CHILDREN FROM E-CIGARETTES

Lai Cheng May 23, 2024 0 Comments
When e-cigarettes are designed to look like school supplies or taste like candy, it’s obvious that the tobacco industry is directly targeting young people. The industry targets youth for a lifetime of profits, creating a new wave of addiction. Children are using e-cigarettes at rates higher than adults in all regions and globally an estimated 37 million youths aged 13-15 years use tobacco....
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