Category: Health EN

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, British author CAP Guide: Bicycle Is Best. Available here:

Documents show Johnson & Johnson was aware since the late 1950s that the talc used in Johnson’s Baby Powder sometimes contained asbestos, known to cause health issues including cancer and mesothelioma. Although Johnson & Johnson announced it will stop selling its talc-based powder in U.S and Canada, it will continue selling it to women across the world. TAKE ACTION NOW. Tell Johnson...

IN the bottle before you is a pill, a marvel of modern medicine that will regulate gene transcription throughout your body, helping prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and 12 kinds of cancer; plus gallstones and diverticulitis. Expect the pill to improve your strength and balance as well as your blood lipid profile. Your bones will become stronger. You’ll grow new capillaries in...

  Many studies have proven that bicycles are faster than cars in the modern grid-locked cities. It's even much faster when combined with good public transport. In New York, transportation by bike+public transport is faster than transportation by car for over 90% of trips under 5 kilometers in distance. And in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, bike usage is going up again. It has doubled in...

Tobacco-related cancers constitute the highest burden among all types of the disease in India. As many as 27 per cent of cancer cases were caused due to tobacco consumption, according to a new report released by the National Cancer Registry of India (NCRI) on August 18, 2020. The cancers of the lungs, mouth, stomach and oesophagus were the most common among males. Cancers of the breast and...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the government not to entertain any suggestion to reduce tobacco taxes. The authorities must remember that Malaysia is a party to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), ratifying it in 2005. As such Malaysia should abide by WHO FCTC Article 6 which requires the countries to “implement the simplest and...

A new study has found that teenagers and young adults who smoke or vape have a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 Led by researchers from Stanford University in California, US, the study was published last Tuesday, 11 August, in the Journal of Adolescent Health. They found that teens and young adults who vape are five times more likely to become infected by the coronavirus than those who do...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is appalled by the news that the Penang state was going to allow medical tourism once more despite the increase in Covid-19 cases in Penang and the emergence of various Covid-19clusters in our neighbouring states. It was reported that an Air Asia flight arrived last week, bringing medical tourists from Medan, Indonesia to Penang for treatment. This...

You are using a 2,871-lb (average weight of car) machine to carry a 200-lb man. Is that not ridiculous? The bigger the car, the more ridiculous. "Man on a bicycle can go 3 or 4 times faster than the pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy in the process. He carries 1 gram of his weight over 1 km of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match...