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Monthly Archives: April 2008

A Tale of 2 Boys

One is crazy over pizza …  

Reversing the metabolic syndrome

Read this interesting interview of Dr. Ray Strand, a specialist in nutritional medicine. He authored a number of best sellers, i.e. What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (a highly recommended read), Healthy for Life, Preventing Diabetes, Death by Prescription, etc. See his list here. 
After you read the interview below, please also [...]

Turun Padang

USJ18 & USJ13 are neighbours. We are both separated by a longkang (drain) and there is no through road between our 2 neighbourhoods.
The residents of USJ18 wants to erect a perimeter fencing in our own neighbourhood. After a year of ding-dongs, we finally managed to obtain an approval from MPSJ. We could have proceeded but being good neighbours, we informed USJ13 [...]

Annie’s Song


Malaysia Inflation Rate Rises to Highest in 13 Months

Bloomberg.com, 23 April 2008
Malaysia Inflation Rate Rises to Highest in 13 Months (Update1)
By Stephanie Phang
April 23 (Bloomberg) — Malaysia’s inflation accelerated to a 13-month high in March on rising food and transport costs, making it harder for the central bank to cut interest rates to spur economic growth.
Consumer prices increased 2.8 percent from a year [...]

Nutritionists defend starfruit

Sheesh … who do I listen to now? The consultant nephrologist or the nutritionists? 

New Straits Times, 24 April 2008
Nutritionists defend starfruit 
KUALA LUMPUR: Nutritionists have jumped to the defence of the starfruit.

They were unanimous in challenging a medical expert’s opinion that the fruit was dangerous to renal failure patients because of the presence of a neurotoxin and [...]

Feed the cells

 A healthy diet, he says, is no guarantee for health as cells in our body are affected by a toxic environment.

New Straits Times, 22 April 2008 
Feed The Cells
Destroying free radicals implicated in degenerative diseases via antioxidants is the sure-fire way to being hale and hearty, according to a microbiologist in cellular health. KASMIAH MUSTAPHA finds [...]

What a farker!

Taipan USJ10. Lunch time just outside Hong Leong Bank, yesterday. See how this idiot farks, oops … parks his car? As if the road belongs to his grandfather. Another angle here. 

Big car, small brain. God is great!

My ADUN

My ADUN makes the news again.

The star fruit isn’t a star fruit afterall

“Star fruits contain a neurotoxin, which is not present in other fruits, affecting the brain and nerves. In healthy persons, the kidneys filter it out. In kidney patients, it cannot be removed and worsens their condition,” he said.
The Star, 22 April 2008
Star fruit can be toxic for kidney patients 
KUALA LUMPUR: All it takes is one [...]