Category: Health EN

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...

Andrew Prentice of the MRC Clinical Centre in Cambridge studied FOOD ENERGY INTAKE and PHYSICAL ACTIVITY in UK between 1960 and 1995 when the population was fast gaining weight. He found that during that period, average per capita food ENERGY INTAKE FELL by 20%. But obesity shot up! He found that SLOTH could make us fatter. He found that CAR OWNERSHIP grew during that period, from 3 in 10...

CAP Guide: Bicycle Is Best. Available here: https://consumer.org.my/product/bicycle-is-best/

By curiosity, discovery and self realization. That is how children learn best and they will never forget from this self-learning process. Not from schools which do not encourage any of these traits.

High blood pressure can lead to heart attack, stroke, diabetes, kidney failure and other diseases. Sugar may be as big a villain as salt in raising blood pressure. The typical modern diet, packed with both salt and sugar, is worst of all, says Dr Harry G Pruess of Georgetown University Medical School in USA. In animal studies, he finds salt and sugar together boost blood pressure more than...

That rose scent may be concocted from any number of the fragrance industry’s 3,100 stock chemical ingredients. Modern fragrances are chemical concoctions. For perfumes to be affordable, real flower essences are replaced with synthetic fragrances which are loaded with chemicals, many of which are toxic to health. The chemical components in fragrance can be lumped together and labelled only as...