I realized that the previous write up on summary from Dr. Blaylock about MSG is too long for some people to finish reading it. Here’s the simple conclusion I made from the article, to enable easier guidelines for everyone:
1. MSG can cause obesity, diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux in mild effect.
2. MSG can cause serious problem such as sudden cardiac death, destroy nervous system, dementia and brain atrophy.
3. MSG can be camouflaged in other names such as yeast extract/enzymes, soy protein isolates, hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extract, soy broth, that are found in many vegetarian health foods as well as infant and toddlers foods.
4. Soy Infant formula contains unhealthy fluoride level, manganese level and glutamate levels. Mothers of vegetarian/lactose intolerant-babies, please be extra careful when choosing soy infant formula. Breastfeeding is the best!!
5. Glutamate from natural food, when consumed as whole food (not extracted) is harmless.
6. Most of the local restaurants add MSG in their cuisine. If any restaurants said “free of MSG” it only means they didn’t put in there themselves. This is due to many sources/flavoring they buy are with unknown ingredients.
7. Aspartame is linked to lymphoma and leukemia related cancer.
8. Aspartame is DNA damaging and make cancer grow very rapidly
Please make an effort to avoid taking food with MSG and aspartame for our own health sake. Natural whole food is the best and home cuisine is the best!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Bring on the learning revolution!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
每週證嚴法師說故事 - 石頭與軟玉
雖然眼、耳、鼻、舌、身等五根，易與塵境相合而造惡業；但五根也有增上力量，善加運用，就能為自我生命創造出價值。
一名年輕比丘跟隨師父修行，常問師父：人生的價值為何？一日，師父拿出一顆石頭，要他拿到市集讓人出價。
某甲出價兩元，某乙看見說可做秤錘，出價十元；翌日比丘再到市集，多人圍觀讚歎石頭很美，當場有人出一千元高價，旁邊的人馬上出更高價錢競爭……最後，竟然喊到十萬元！
比丘不解，回去向師父報告。師父藉此機緣開示：「任何東西都有價值，包括石頭在內，端看如何運用。人生價值的高低，也不在於外在眼光，而在於我們給自己的評價——要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。」
多年前，一位居士送一顆方形的蛇紋石來花蓮；因精舍簡陋無處置放，就擱在大殿外的草坪。一位泰國法師來到精舍參訪，看到這塊「軟玉」，讚歎好美！遂以此致贈法師，他十分歡喜，說要帶回泰國雕成一尊玉佛。
人生的價值在於自我創造，這塊「軟玉」若一直閒置，永遠只是一塊石頭；雕成佛像讓人敬奉，價值就能發揮。
若根塵和意識糾纏、貪戀，模糊了判斷，會糟蹋自己內在最有價值的佛性。生命的價值可以擴大、可以加深，端看自我能否時時多用心！
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喜歡這一句：要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。
上人有句靜思語：不要小看自己，因爲人有無限可能。也許東方人的教育關係，我發現，當我們問一個人他有什麽長處時，普遍上，大家都比較容易說出自己的很多缺點，而數不出自己的優點。謙虛、縮小自己是美德，但是，往往在這樣的教育下，我們忘了自己的價值而沒有好好發揮良能。
願人人都是自身珠寶商，發現自己的寶藏，發揮無限的良能，服務和奉獻人群。
一名年輕比丘跟隨師父修行，常問師父：人生的價值為何？一日，師父拿出一顆石頭，要他拿到市集讓人出價。
某甲出價兩元，某乙看見說可做秤錘，出價十元；翌日比丘再到市集，多人圍觀讚歎石頭很美，當場有人出一千元高價，旁邊的人馬上出更高價錢競爭……最後，竟然喊到十萬元！
比丘不解，回去向師父報告。師父藉此機緣開示：「任何東西都有價值，包括石頭在內，端看如何運用。人生價值的高低，也不在於外在眼光，而在於我們給自己的評價——要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。」
多年前，一位居士送一顆方形的蛇紋石來花蓮；因精舍簡陋無處置放，就擱在大殿外的草坪。一位泰國法師來到精舍參訪，看到這塊「軟玉」，讚歎好美！遂以此致贈法師，他十分歡喜，說要帶回泰國雕成一尊玉佛。
人生的價值在於自我創造，這塊「軟玉」若一直閒置，永遠只是一塊石頭；雕成佛像讓人敬奉，價值就能發揮。
若根塵和意識糾纏、貪戀，模糊了判斷，會糟蹋自己內在最有價值的佛性。生命的價值可以擴大、可以加深，端看自我能否時時多用心！
======================================
喜歡這一句：要具備珠寶商的眼光，發現自身寶藏，創造人生價值。
上人有句靜思語：不要小看自己，因爲人有無限可能。也許東方人的教育關係，我發現，當我們問一個人他有什麽長處時，普遍上，大家都比較容易說出自己的很多缺點，而數不出自己的優點。謙虛、縮小自己是美德，但是，往往在這樣的教育下，我們忘了自己的價值而沒有好好發揮良能。
願人人都是自身珠寶商，發現自己的寶藏，發揮無限的良能，服務和奉獻人群。
Monday, June 21, 2010
Noni Fruit Juice - Is it really good for us?
I accidentally came across some articles and comments about noni juice last week and 2 days later, I received an email from a well-hearted friend sharing an article on the benefit of drinking noni fruits. It leads me to writing this...
Below are some of the websites that talked about Noni and commented that it is not as good as it claimed...
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/blog/?p=52
http://www.livescience.com/health/061017_bad_juice.html
http://noni.worldwidewarning.net/index.php
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4883.asp
It seems that the actual 'real' noni juice is very horrible tasting and the Tahitian only eat it for medical purposes. The juice is prepared by putting these weird-smelling noni fruits in a jar and let them ferment for several days before collecting the fermented juice. The smell is equalized to the smell of liquid that formed at the bottom of a trash container!! However, it is made palatable by adding a lot of sugar and unknown stuffs and sell it with very high price with claims of great values to justify for the price.
I have heard of noni juice since many years ago from friends and relatives. However, I was never paying any attention to it and never have a taste on it before. Anyhow, with so many claims that it is good for health, for years, I thought it is a good product for health until recently. Learning nutrition and in the path of looking for a natural way to achieve healthy living, this leads me to open my eyes to many products selling in the market to distinguish the bad from the bundles.
I personally do not have any experience with Noni Juice. Just would like to provide more information for everyone as reference. With so many scam and false information out there, we really need to choose carefully and wisely before spending our hard-earned money on things that might not benefit us, or could even cause harm to us.
Below are some of the websites that talked about Noni and commented that it is not as good as it claimed...
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/blog/?p=52
http://www.livescience.com/health/061017_bad_juice.html
http://noni.worldwidewarning.net/index.php
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4883.asp
It seems that the actual 'real' noni juice is very horrible tasting and the Tahitian only eat it for medical purposes. The juice is prepared by putting these weird-smelling noni fruits in a jar and let them ferment for several days before collecting the fermented juice. The smell is equalized to the smell of liquid that formed at the bottom of a trash container!! However, it is made palatable by adding a lot of sugar and unknown stuffs and sell it with very high price with claims of great values to justify for the price.
I have heard of noni juice since many years ago from friends and relatives. However, I was never paying any attention to it and never have a taste on it before. Anyhow, with so many claims that it is good for health, for years, I thought it is a good product for health until recently. Learning nutrition and in the path of looking for a natural way to achieve healthy living, this leads me to open my eyes to many products selling in the market to distinguish the bad from the bundles.
I personally do not have any experience with Noni Juice. Just would like to provide more information for everyone as reference. With so many scam and false information out there, we really need to choose carefully and wisely before spending our hard-earned money on things that might not benefit us, or could even cause harm to us.
Friday, June 18, 2010
How does MSG and Aspartame Affect our Health
MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a common name that most people familiar of. It is known that adding some MSG in the food during cooking can make the dish so much more delicious, and I suspect almost all foods that we buy from any restaurants and hawker stalls are MSG-added. The advertisements said it enhances the taste of the dishes while providing us amino acids that are needed by our body. Is it really so? Is it really harmless to our health?
Monosodium Glutamate is a sodium salt naturally occurring from non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid. However, the sodium salt is nothing but natural to our body when it is ingested in this form.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that many uses as substitute of sugar in health products and diet foods. I have even seen many candies in the market that are using aspartame now a days instead of sugar, which is happily ingested by kids in daily basis, and 3-in-1 coffee that is very commonly consumed by working class and students.
I was reading the interview of Dr. Blaylock with Mike Adams [2] on the topics about MSG and Aspartame and I think many might be interested in the information revealed by him. Below are the extract from his sharing:
MSG:
1. When cancer cells were exposed to MSG, they become more mobile and that enhances metastasis or spread --> started moving through tissues
2. If a person has low level magnesium in his body, ingesting MSG will cause the level of glutamate in the blood rise as high as 20 to 40-fold and he is prone to sudden cardiac death. Other milder effects are diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux.
3. Many food manufacturers substitute MSG with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extracts, soy broth, that are actually also source of glutamate. Some were even found in infant and toddlers foods.
4. Glutamate destroys nervous system
5. Early observation with exitotoxicity of glutamate is obesity. MSG-exposed animals is found to prefer carbohydrates and sugar-rich foods.
6. Yeast extracts, soy extracts and soy protein isolates, which are found in lots of vegetarian health foods, contain high levels of glutamate.
7. In a 25-year study done, people who consumed the most soy products were followed for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their brain. It is found that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia (癡呆） and brain atrophy (shrinking brain that might bring to decrease in functionally of the brain).
8. In natural food (such as tomatoes), all types of glutamate are bound in amino acids grouping and we absorb it slowly as combined amino acids that is broken down in the liver where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal with.
9. When we hydrolyze these proteins or use yeast extract/enzymes to break down these proteins into free released amino acids, they are no longer natural. When they enter our GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids and cause the glutamate level in the blood goes up significantly. Our body and blood brain barrier is not constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate.
10. Magnesium can block glutamate receptor and naturally reduces toxicity. Antioxidant is powerful at inhibiting excitotoxicity. Combination of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.
11. Usually restaurants buy their sauces in bulk with no ingredients listed. "Free of MSG" means they didn't put in there themselves.
12. Infant formula: concern about fluoride level, manganese level and the glutamate levels in the soy infant formulas.
13. we are all exposed to toxins in the modern living -- mercury, aluminum, pesticides, herbicides that produce brain damage through an excitotoxic mechanism. When we add MSG to the foods, we tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we see this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and Parkinson's.
Aspartame:
1. When animals being fed with aspartame throughout their lives and let them die a natural death, a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia is found. This is the same effect as exposure to the same doses of formaldehyde (classified by WHO in June 1994 as a known human carcinogen associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia [1])
2. If you just drink a single diet cola today or sweeten something with NutraSweet (a brand of aspartame), you are accumulating damage everyday. Eventually you are going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer. Then the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. --> Aspartame causes cancer, and making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Advice from Dr. Blaylock:
We need to abstain from all these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient and neither is MSG. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products. The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce changes in the brain that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. It is found it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
References:
[1]Wikipedia - formaldehyde
[2] The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins, An Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing.
Monosodium Glutamate is a sodium salt naturally occurring from non-essential amino acid, glutamic acid. However, the sodium salt is nothing but natural to our body when it is ingested in this form.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that many uses as substitute of sugar in health products and diet foods. I have even seen many candies in the market that are using aspartame now a days instead of sugar, which is happily ingested by kids in daily basis, and 3-in-1 coffee that is very commonly consumed by working class and students.
I was reading the interview of Dr. Blaylock with Mike Adams [2] on the topics about MSG and Aspartame and I think many might be interested in the information revealed by him. Below are the extract from his sharing:
MSG:
1. When cancer cells were exposed to MSG, they become more mobile and that enhances metastasis or spread --> started moving through tissues
2. If a person has low level magnesium in his body, ingesting MSG will cause the level of glutamate in the blood rise as high as 20 to 40-fold and he is prone to sudden cardiac death. Other milder effects are diarrhea, upset stomach, irritable bowel or reflux.
3. Many food manufacturers substitute MSG with hydrolyzed protein and caseinate, soy extracts, soy broth, that are actually also source of glutamate. Some were even found in infant and toddlers foods.
4. Glutamate destroys nervous system
5. Early observation with exitotoxicity of glutamate is obesity. MSG-exposed animals is found to prefer carbohydrates and sugar-rich foods.
6. Yeast extracts, soy extracts and soy protein isolates, which are found in lots of vegetarian health foods, contain high levels of glutamate.
7. In a 25-year study done, people who consumed the most soy products were followed for 25 years and did serial CT scans of their brain. It is found that the people who consumed the most soybean products had the greatest incidence of dementia (癡呆） and brain atrophy (shrinking brain that might bring to decrease in functionally of the brain).
8. In natural food (such as tomatoes), all types of glutamate are bound in amino acids grouping and we absorb it slowly as combined amino acids that is broken down in the liver where it's released in very low concentrations that the body can deal with.
9. When we hydrolyze these proteins or use yeast extract/enzymes to break down these proteins into free released amino acids, they are no longer natural. When they enter our GI tract, they are absorbed as free amino acids and cause the glutamate level in the blood goes up significantly. Our body and blood brain barrier is not constructed to handle such high levels of glutamate.
10. Magnesium can block glutamate receptor and naturally reduces toxicity. Antioxidant is powerful at inhibiting excitotoxicity. Combination of B vitamins also block excitotoxicity.
11. Usually restaurants buy their sauces in bulk with no ingredients listed. "Free of MSG" means they didn't put in there themselves.
12. Infant formula: concern about fluoride level, manganese level and the glutamate levels in the soy infant formulas.
13. we are all exposed to toxins in the modern living -- mercury, aluminum, pesticides, herbicides that produce brain damage through an excitotoxic mechanism. When we add MSG to the foods, we tremendously accelerate this toxicity. That's why we see this explosion in neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's and autism and Parkinson's.
Aspartame:
1. When animals being fed with aspartame throughout their lives and let them die a natural death, a dramatic and statistically significant increase in the related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia is found. This is the same effect as exposure to the same doses of formaldehyde (classified by WHO in June 1994 as a known human carcinogen associated with nasal sinus cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, and possibly with leukemia [1])
2. If you just drink a single diet cola today or sweeten something with NutraSweet (a brand of aspartame), you are accumulating damage everyday. Eventually you are going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer. Then the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. --> Aspartame causes cancer, and making the cancer multiply very rapidly.
Advice from Dr. Blaylock:
We need to abstain from all these things. Aspartame is not a necessary nutrient and neither is MSG. If you want to avoid obesity, metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, and if you don't want to make your cancer more aggressive, then you need to stay away from these products. The damage affects pregnant women, unborn babies and newborns. It can produce changes in the brain that are irreversible, depending on when it is stopped. It is found it reprograms the wiring of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, so it doesn't function normally. These children are abnormal for the rest of their lives in terms of their physiological function.
References:
[1]Wikipedia - formaldehyde
[2] The Truth About Aspartame, MSG and Excitotoxins, An Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock with Mike Adams, Truth Publishing.
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