Saturday, October 18, 2008
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http://www.benettontalk.com/wanted-beauty-aliveYou had just learn about the topic on Eating Disorder
Did you know the 1st model who died from anorexia;
Luisel Ramos, was reported to have adopted a diet of lettuce leaves and Diet Coke for the three months before her death in 2nd August 2006.
Eliana Ramos, Younger sister of Luisel, was also found dead at her grandparent's house in 13th February 2007. The cause of her death, an apparent heart attack, believed to be related to malnutrition, similiar to her sister Luisel.
Take a look at these pictures of models that look like a bag of skeletons
Countries such as Spain has signed an agreement to ban Model with BMI below 18. What influence does all these models has on teenagers nowadays is quite apparent as they tries out on all sorts of ways and diet to lost as much weight in the shortest possible time.
In Singapore, more than
eight in ten want to change the way they look, while six in ten feel bad about themselves because of looks or weight.
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/259641/1/.htmlNow lets take a look at this educational video available at BrainPop
http://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/eatingdisorders/preview.weml Each student can also sign up for trial membership where you can visit nutrition related or other subjects related video. After watching the video, student should do a discussion and post their comments and thoughts with the following as your guides:
1) What do you think school/goverment and media could do to help break the increasing trend of eating disorders?
2) What about their peer influence that is affecting teens very own perspective of themselves?
Labels: Anorexia Nevosa
Monday, October 13, 2008
Just as i was read Online TODAY Newspaper, we have the latest update for Milk related scandal. Taiwan became the latest to find melamine in imported products, detecting the chemical in six milk products made by Nestle, the Swiss food giant, and banning these from sale on Thursday.
South Korea had also banned the import of milk products from New Zealand which were used in baby formula after discovering traces of melamine.
New Zealand's Tatua Cooperative Dairy Co. on Monday stopped exports of the dairy protein lactoferrin, used mainly in baby formula, after tests showed it contained four parts per million of melamine.
Food safety officials are now investigating whether lactoferrin manufactured by Westland Milk products on South Island and Australia's Victoria state dairy company, Tatura, which uses the same process, are being contaminated with melamine by the manufacturing process it uses.
New Zealand Food Safety Authority tests have shown melamine contamination of about 1 part per million in Westland's lactoferrin.
"This trace level may have arisen out of this (company's) specific, unique (manufacturing) process," said NZFSA director of compliance and investigation, Dr. Geoff Allen.
Investigators are waiting for test results on samples sent to New Zealand a week ago, which also may have implications for Victoria's Tatura plant.
Apart from four tests on lactoferrin manufactured by Fonterra, Tatua and Westland, another 112 tests had been conducted on other New Zealand dairy products, Allen said.
Fonterra is a partial owner of China's Sanlu Group, the first of 22 Chinese dairy companies whose products were found to contain high levels of melamine
Lactoferrin is widely use in baby milk powder as it has plays several important roles in human biology.
1) First, lactoferrin is believed to play a role in the uptake and absorption of iron through the intestinal mucosa. It may be the primary or sole source of iron for breast fed infants.
2) Secondly, lactoferrin appears to have antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and immunomodulatory activities.
Lactoferrin is a minor glycoprotein component of whey. It belongs to the iron transporter or transferrin family of glycoproteins. Lactoferrin is also found in exocrime secretions from mammals and is released from neutrophil granules during inflammation. The lactoferrin concentration in bovine (cows) milk is only 0.5% to 1.0% while human breast milk can contain as much as 15% lactoferrin.
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Source:
http://www.manufacturing.net/News-Tainted-Milk-Scandal-Spreads-To-Australia.aspx
TODAY Newspaper
Labels: Food and Nutrition, Health Warning
I'm sure by now, many would have heard of the China-tainted milk related product news that contain melamine. So what is melamine all about???
Melamine an organic base of cyanamide contain
66% of Nitrogen. It is has
fire retardant properties when mixed with resins. Melamine by itself is nontoxic in low doses, but when combines with
cyanuric acids, it can cause
kidney stones due to formation of
insoluble melamine cyanurate.So what is the purpose of adding melamine into milk product???
Apparently, manufactures added Melamine to fool government quality tests after water was added to fraudulently increase the milk's volume, since melamine will cause a false increase in the measurement of protein by increasing the
nitrogen levels in the milk. Officials estimate that about 20 percent of the dairy companies tested in China sell products tainted with melamine.
And as of 30 September 2008, the AVA has detected melamine in two additional products imported from China. Both the products contain milk as an ingredient. This brings the total number of affected products to 10. They are:
1) New Sshma Ows Mallow Dippers-Strawberry Flavour, 
2) Silang - House of Steamed Potato - Potato & Tomato Cracker
3) Yi Li Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yogurt Flavoured Ice Confection;
4) Dutch Lady Strawberry Flavoured Milk;
5) White Rabbit Creamy Candy;
6) Dutch Lady Banana Flavoured Milk;
7) Dutch Lady Honeydew Flavoured Milk;
8) Silang - House of Steamed Potato - Potato Cracker;
9) 徐福记 Puffed Rice Rolls - Butter Corn Flavour; and
10) 徐福记 Puffed Rice Rolls - Cheese Flavour
The Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of melamine as established by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is 0.63 mg/kg body weight. This means that an adult weighing 60 kg or a child weighing 30 kg can ingest 37.8 mg of melamine and 18.9 mg of melamine respectively every day over a lifetime without any appreciable health risk.
AVA has also proudly tell us that how many of that particular food we must eat daily over a lifetime before we will suffer the effect from eating too much melamine. One reason because the amount found in Singapore is far little as compared to those found in china.
Just imagine you once drank so much of those banaba and honeydew milk daily like me, or chew like there is never enough of white rabits sweets during Lectures/Tutorials while we in TP. Oh no... but relax the maximum we usually eat would be about 10-15 of rabbit sweets at maximum. So we won't have kidney stones yet since we have yet to pass 1/3 of my life eating 47 X 25,200 days of sweets( 30 days X 12 Months X 70 Years) !!!
And the best part is, DUTCH Malaysia company actually place a poster at their website http://www.dutchlady.com.my/en/home.asp specifically to differentiate Dutch products found in Singapore and Malaysia, as Manufactures in Malaysia have vouch for their products.
Nevertheless, those china made product has all been recalled and hence it is still safe to buy as long they are not from china. I found a long list from a blog which many people was inform through sms and email too that they should not eat anymore.
Just to be on the safe side, check the following product when buying, which countries are they from:
1. Jinwel Yougoo Susu Fermentasi Rasa Jeruk
2. Jinwel Yougoo Aneka Buah
3. Jinwel Yougoo tanpa Rasa
4. Guozhen susu bubuk full cream
5. Meiji Indoeskrim Gold Monas Rasa Cokelat
6. Meiji Indoeskrim Gold Monas Rasa Vanila
7. Oreo Stick Wafer
8. Oreo Stick Wafer
9. Oreo Cokelat Sandwich Cookies
10. M&M’s Kembang Gula Cokelat Susu
11. M&M’s Cokelat Susu
12. Snicker’s (biskuit-nougat lapis cokelat)
13. Dove Choc Kembang Gula Cokelat
14. Dove Choc
15. Dove Choc
16. Natural Choice Yoghurt Flavoured Ice Bar
17. Yili Bean Club Matcha Red Bean Ice Bar
18. Yili Bean Club Red Bean Ice Bar
19. Yili Prestige Chocliz
20. Yili Chestnut Ice Bar
21. Nestle Dairy Farm UHT Pure Milk
22. Yili High Calcium Low Fat Milk Beverage
23. Yili High Calcium Milk Beverage
24. Yili Pure Milk 205 ml
25. Yili Pure Milk 1 L
26. Dutch Lady Strawberry Flavoured Milk
27. White Rabbit Creamy Candy
28. Yili Choice Dairy Frozen Yoghurt Bar (kembang gula)
Labels: Food and Nutrition, Health Warning
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