Category: Food EN

French fries routinely carry over 7.5 times more sodium than fresh ones (ie potato). A canned tomato juice drink contains almost 6 times more sodium when compared to a tomato. Meats prepared at fast-food joints (namely fried chicken) can have 3 times as much sodium as fresh meat. Too much sodium is bad for our health. It is known to cause strokes, high blood pressure, heart problems, kidney...

EYES: Should be bulging out of the socket and should not be cloudy, bloodshot and sunken. GILLS: Should be bright red and not slimy or dark. SCALES: Should be firmly attached to the skin. GUT: Should be firmly attached to the bone and not discoloured. BODY: Should have a firm, elastic texture when poked. SKIN: Should be bright and glossy with a luminous, wet sheen and not dull and dry. SMELL:...

MANY people take the orange for its Vitamin C. But did you know that there is a local fruit which may just be the perfect substitute for the orange? It’s none other than the pomelo, a round fruit with a rough skin which is pale green or yellow in colour. Known as limau bali to the Malays, the pomelo contains about 45 mg of Vitamin C per 100 g edible portion, which is more than the amount...

FOOD and/or chemical allergies can create emotional, behavioural and mental symptoms such as panic attacks, compulsive behaviour, depression, psychotic episodes, or hallucinations. They can also contribute to many less severe mental and emotional symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, inability to concentrate, or feelings of being in a mental “fog”. Brain allergy, or ecological mental...

POISON is understood as “any substance applied to the body, ingested, or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease” (1957 medical research definition used in the works of Dr William Coda Martin — now a geriatrician, associated with Coler Memorial Hospital in New York). The dictionary definition of poison is “to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert” (William...