Category: Health EN

CAP fully supports the move by the Ministry of Health to ban smoking at all eateries. The ban would be in line with Malaysia's commitments under the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and with measures adopted by other countries the world over to curb smoking in public areas. Most importantly, it could literally be a life-saver. In fact in India many...

The Consumers Association of Penang calls on the Ministry of Health to strictly enforce the Food Hygiene Regulations 2009. This is in view of the spate of food poisoning cases that has been occurring in the country.  The latest incident occurred on 24 March 2015 where the Tourism Minister, three state Exco members and 30 senior tourism officials from ASEAN countries suffered severe food...

The Consumers Association of Penang calls on consumers to inculcate good sleeping habit as getting enough sleep is the key to good health. According to a regional survey Malaysians get only 6.4 hours of sleep on average. This leads to a sleep gap of 1.6 hours short of the recommended 8 hours of sleep. Mobile devices and spending time online is one of the leading causes of this sleep deprivation....

November 14 is World Diabetes Day. On this occasion, the Consumers Association of Penang calls on consumers to reduce their sugar intake by as much as 80% to curb diabetes which is increasing at an alarming rate in Malaysia. We are the top country in ASEAN for having the highest number of diabetics and sixth in the Western Pacific region. The prevalence rate of the disease in Malaysia had shot...