Trudeau, whose book has sold more than three million copies after consistently standing out in The New York Times’ bestsellers list,goes on to enumerate more and more maladies, ailments,and diseases that have now become everyday occurrences to a great number of people worldwide in contrast to their low-level popularity decades ago.

He cites, among the more popular ones these days, diabetes, heart disease, multiple scelerosis, lupus, muscular dystrophy, asthma, migraine headaches ,back pain. More people he continues, have acid reflux, ulcers , and stomach problems than ever before.

More kids, he says, have attention deficit and hyperactivity now than ever before. To borrow his words further: More people have insomnia than ever before.More women have menopause problems than ever before.More people have chronic fatigue than ever before. Etcetera,etcetera.

Trudeau’s new book, an updated edition of the original, lists down the natural cures fore more than 50 specific diseases. It is being hailed as a tell-all book in the fast-growing natural medicine sector in the United States whose battlecry to good health is prevention more than the cure.

Trudeau turned to natural medicine following a near-death experience while driving. After days of testing, he was diagnosed by three heart specialists in America as having been born with a deformed heart, a severe mitral valve prolapse. He was told that there was to be no cure for that and that he would have to live with major medical problems because of it for the rest of his life.

Thus began Trudeau’s search and passion for alternative cures to what, by now, have become common diseases where they used to be rare in a previous lifetime. The author’s search for natural medicine has also led to bold exposes on US healthcare industry.

As more and more people throughout the world suffer the effects of a faster consumer driven lifestyle, health advocate like Trudeau find it more important to focus on how to keep oneself healthy and away from doctors prescription forms. The internet has become a melting pot, one big forum of ideas where health enthusiasts update each other on how to keep the doctor away, all in the name of preventive medicine.

One doesn’t have to look far and away to stay healthy, says this new dispatch from an e-mail that has been going around the world. For the benefit of those who are not into the habit of surfing the net either due to inaccessibility or, as in the case of many senior citizens, due to computer-phobia, we are reprinting it here. It is a gentle reminder on how we can stay healthy by engaging in a very simple activity. Juice it.

The article, entitled Healthy Juices, list down several possible combinations of fruit and vegetable to create a juice drink that can make one healthy and strong, away from diseases. You can try these combinations at home.

HEALTHY JUICES

Carrot+Ginger+Apple = boost and cleanses our system.

Apple+Cucumber+Kiwi= To improve Skin complexion

Apple+Cucumber+Celery=  prevents cancer, reduce cholesterol and eliminate stomach upset and headeache.

Pear and Banana= regulates sugar content

Tomato+Carrot+Apple= Improves skin complexion and eliminate bad breath.

Carrot+Apple+Pear+Mango = clears body heat, counteracts toxicity, decreases blood pressure and fights oxidation.

Bitter gourd+Apple+Milk= Avoids bad breath and reduce internal body heat.

Honeydew+Grape+Watermelon+Milk=- Rich in vitamin C + vitamin B12 that increase cell activity ant strengthen body immunity.

Orange+Ginger+Cucumber= improves Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat.

Papaya+Pineapple+Milk= Rich in vitamin C.E, Iron. improves skin complexion and metabolism.

Pineapple+Apple+Watermelon= to dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney.

Banana+Pineapple+Milk= Prevents constipation.

In the interest of protecting public health and welfare, the Bureau of Food and Drugs hereby issues the partial list of milk and milk products tested for the presence of melamine.

Milk and Milk Products Found Negative for Melamine
(as of 03 October 2008)

1. Anchor Lite Milk
2. Anlene High Calcium Low Fat Milk U.H.T (recombined)
3. Bear Brand Instant
4. Chikchok Milk Chocolate
5. Farmland Skim Milk
6. Jinwei Drink
7. Jollycow Pure Fresh Milk
8. Kiddie Soya Milk Egg Delight
9. Lactogen 1 DHA Infant Formula
10. M&M’s Milk Chocolate Candies
11. M&M’s Peanut Chocolate Candies
12. Milk Boy
13. Nestogen 2 DHA Infant Follow-up Formula
14. Nestogen 3 DHA Infant Follow-up Formula
15. Nido 3+ Prebio with DHA
16. Nido Full Cream Milk Powder
17. Nido Junior
18. No-Sugar Chocolate of Isomaltooligosaccharide (Cocoa Butter Substitute)
19. Nutri-Express Milk
20. Pura UHT Fresh Milk
21. Snickers Fresh Roasted in Caramel & Soft Nougat in Thick Milk Chocolate
22. Vitasoy Soya Bean Milk
23. Wahaha Orange
24. Wahaha Yellow
25. Want Want Milk Drink (Red Can)
26. Windmill Skim Milk Powder
27. Yinlu Milk Peanut
28. Yogee Yogurt Flavor Milk Drink

Milk and Milk Products Found Positive for Melamine
(as of 03 October 2008)

1. GreenFood Yili Fresh Milk (in chinese character)
2. Mengniu Drink (in chinese character)

The consumers are advised not to purchase or consume the above mentioned products found positive for melamine.

The Bureau of Food and Drugs shall continously determine whether or not samples of imported milk products collected from the local market contain melamine to ensure the safety supply of food imported from China.

Contaminated Milk courtesy of http://www1.whdh.com

source: www.bfad.gov.ph

For the previous advisory annouced by BFAD regarding all other products that they are testing, you may want to check our previous posts BFAD Advisory September 29, 2008 and you might be interested also with information About Melamine.

These 52 products are not yet BANNED! but still for testing. I’ll be updating this page as soon as BFAD released a new advisory, so bookmark this page now.

1. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Drink Mango Magic
2. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Orange Chill
3. Anchor Wam Frootmilk Strawberry Spin
   

   Contaminated Milk courtesy of http://www1.whdh.com

4. Dutch Lady Pure Milk
5. Farmland Skim Milk
6. Greenfood Yili Pure Milk
7. Jinwei Drink
8. Jollycow Pure fresh Milk
9. Jollycow Slender Lowfat Milk
10. KLIM Instant Full Cream Milk Powder (1.8 Kg)
11. M&M Chocolate brown 40gm
12. Meiji Hokkaido Azuki (red bean ice cream)
13. Meiji Ujikintoki (red bean and green tea frozen confection)
14. Mengniu Original Drink Milk
15. Mengniu Pure Milk
16. Milk Chocolate Bars/China
17. Milk Chocolate Candies/China
18. Milkboy  repacked
19. Milkboy  repacked
20. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
21. Monmilk High Calcium Low Fat Milk
22. Monmilk High Calcium Milk
23. Monmilk Milk Deluxe Pure Milk
24. Monmilk Pure Milk
25. Monmilk Suan Suan Ru Sour Milk Beverage (Mango Flavor)
26. Natural Choice Milk Ice bar
27. Nespray
28. Nestle Carnation Calcium Plus Non Fat Milk Powder (1.6 Kg)
29. Nestle Chocolate flavor Ice Cream Cone
30. Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk
31. Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice Cream Cone
32. Nutri Express Milk
33. Nutri­Express 15 Nutritional elements (blue, red and orange label and cap)
34. Nutri­Express Milk
35. Nutri­Express Milk Green Apple
36. Prime Roast cereals 28gm
37. Pura Fresh Milk
38. Snickers brown 59gm
39. Strawberry Sorbet
40. Trappist Dairy Low Fat yogurt drink
41. Vita Fresh Milk
42. Wahaha Orange
43. Wahaha Yellow
44. Want Want Milk Drink
45. Yili High Calcium 250 ml
46. Yili High Calcium Milk 1L
47. Yili High Calicium Low fat Milk Beverage
48. Yili Lowfat Milk 1L
49. Yili Milk
50. Yili Puremilk  250 ml
51. Yili Puremilk 1L
52. Yinlu Milk Peanut

Taken out from the list: as of 26th September 2008:

1. Anchor Lite Milk
2. Anlene Milk
3. Anmum Materna 180g
4. Anmum Materna Chocolate

Why melamine is being added on milk?

Image courtesy of www.haydenpanettierefans.com

To give the false appearance of a higher level of protein. It is said that 1 liter of milk with melamine and water can produce 4 liters of milk!.

Aside from milk and milk products, are there more food products that contained melamine?

Chinese animal feed with melamine was reported way back in 2007.For the first time in April 2007, the US FDA admitted that melamine had been detected in feed given to animals raised for human consumption within the United States.

In May of the same year, the US Department of Agriculture reported that between 2.5 and 3 million people in the United States had consumed chickens that had consumed feed containing contaminated vegetable protein from China.

Vegetable proteins imported from China, intended for human or animal consumption includes:

• Wheat Gluten
• Rice Gluten
• Rice Protein
• Rice Protein Concentrate
• Corn Gluten
• Corn Gluten Meal
• Corn By-Products
• Soy Protein
• Soy Gluten
• Proteins (includes amino acids and protein hydrosylates)
• Mung Bean Protein

What can you get from Melamine?

• Reproductive damage
• Bladder or kidney stones  which can lead to bladder cancer.

The FDA stated that there is a “distinct possibility” that the food was intentionally contaminated. Imagine a fertilizer being added on your milk? The companies doing this know that they’re adding toxic, much worst, they’re adding it to babies milk formula.

Again, Why melamine is being added on milk?

People do it for the sake of money!

additional source: http://www.answers.com/topic/chinese-protein-export-contamination

Coastal Cleanup Occular Visit c/o Vic Manlapaz

Join the 1st Coke Philippines International Coastal Clean-Up on Sept. 20, 2008 SAT 6AM, and help start a sea change.

The International Coastal Cleanup, organized by The Ocean Conservancy, is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Last year, 378,000 volunteers from 76 countries and 45 states cleared six million pounds of trash from oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected.

This September 20, 2008, Saturday at 6AM, Coca-Cola Philippines invites you, your family & friends to be one with us and thousands of volunteers world-wide in a globally-coordinated event, as we clean up an area of the Manila Bay in San Dionisio, Paranaque located near the Cavite Coastal Road to demonstrate our commitment to clean oceans and waterways.

The event is expected to begin at 6AM in the morning, and will finish before lunch-time.

To join, simply form a team of your friends and group yourselves into a team of FOUR (4) members each.

Among yourselves, please select a Team Leader with whom we can coordinate with and pass on the event-related materials, forms, and other updates.

There is no limit to the number of teams you can form!

Once you have formed your team, please send me a list of your team members complete with cellphone #’s and email addresses.

We would to like to get a headcount for this activity that we may coordinate better with the Ocean Conservancy’s Philippine Coordinating Organization, the International Marinelife Alliance Philippines (IMAP), and the DENR.

Once I receive your list, I will immediately send you a PowerPt Presentation which will provide you and your team more information on what items to bring with you on Sept. 20.

For more information, you can also visit The Ocean Conservancy Website at http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_icc

or contact me at the following :

Victor Z. Manlapaz

Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, Inc.
Project Officer, Environment
Tel.: (02) 866-2582
Fax: (02) 866-2398
Mobile: (0917) 886-6054
Email: victor.manlapaz @ ccbp.com.ph

more pictures courtesy of victor manlapaz:

Coconut Tree of Life

WONDERS NEVER CEASE for the tree of life.

At the 7th National Coconut Festival held from August 7 to 10 at the Megatrade Hall of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City, guests were introduced to new coco health products, both edible and un, much to their amazement and celebration.

New health products that caught the eye of the festival-goers included coco sap beverages, skim milk beverages, gluten-free coconut flour, and fiber-rich low sugar food products.

Last year, in the same coco festival, we were won over by coco sugar, nutritious sugar made from coconut sap, which is supposed to be good for diabetes. Other previous revelations from the annual festival include Virgin Coconut Oil in its many variations, including VCO for massage therapy and well-being. In festivals past, also highlighted were other coco-based invetions like coco fiber geo textiles and coco biodiesel.

Spread out in at least 75 booths at Megatrade Hall B of SM were products and services that summed up the present state of the country’s coconut industry, an industry that employs 23 million Filipinos, 3.4 million of whom are farmers. Nurture 324 million coconut trees planted on 3.1 million hectares.

A few picks from the fair: Coconut dietary fiber and food supplement offered by the Davao-based PTOCOCO Agri Ventures; VCO blended essences, perfume, skin moisturizer, and sunblock that beautifies and relaxes from Coco Zen; all-natural vinegar made from coconut nectar from Lola Conching’s Sorsogon Foods Enterprises; coconut lip balm and VCO shampoo from Quezon’s Best; coco fiber pots and cocopeat bricks from Coco Green; coco ice cream from Coconut House; living room panels, bags, trinklets, and fashion accessories from a shop called Islander.

At the Sorsogon booth, we chanced upon fresh, ice-cold tuba, a drink that I had been pining for and missing for years. Tuba is the sweet nectar of sap or toddy. The toddy transforms into many things under different preparations. It becomes lambanog when distilled, vinegar when fermented, coco honey and coco sugar when cooked. All of these were available in that little booth from Sorsogon, many of whose products, according to Thelma Tolentino of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), have won awards.

The country’s coconut industry has remained a strong pillar of the national economy. According to PCA administrator Oscar G. Garin, the coconut has maintained its position as the top agricultural crop exported in many forms, either as food or non-food classified as traditional or non-traditional, to 130 countries. The country’s coconut industry has an export income of $800 million.

In the years 1979, 1995, and 2007, Garin proudly stated that RP’s coconut exports reached the $1 billion level. The month of August, according to Garin, is traditionally the peak of coconut fruiting season. Which explains why the coconut festival is mounted within the month as a tribute to the versatility of the so-called Tree of Life.

Mounted as centerpiece of the 2008 National Coconut Week, now on its 22nd year, the Coconut Festival had for its theme Kasaganaan at Kaunlaran sa Pinagyamang Niyugan(Sufficiency and Prosperity through Coconut Productivity). The festival was celebrated in the wake of government’s National Coconut Productivity Program, which recently welcomed to the industry nine million seednuts. The seednuts are now taking roots nationwide through PCA’s participatory planting project.

At the same time, Garin announced that productivity of 10 million more coconut trees has been enhanced through a process called Salt Fertilization. The PCA is spearheaing a campaign among farmers to fertilize their coconut farms with two kilos of salt per tree per year for three years to increase yield by at least 25 percent. Salt fertilization is believed to increase thickness of coconut meat and also increase the number of nuts harvested. The procedure is also credited for making coconut trees resitant to drought, pests and diseases.

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Note:Posted with permission from Nestor Cuartero (nescuar@yahoo.com)
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Picture of an hotair balloon

Watch this amazing video and let me know if it’s for real.

Pastillas image from bulacan.gov.ph

Pastillas

Ingredients:

• 2 cups malunggay leaves (freshly boiled)
• 1 cup camote (cooked and mashed)
• 1 cup condensed milk
• 1 tbsp. vanilla (optional)

Procedure:

1. Combine together the above ingredients and cook slowly in medium heat.
2. When almost dry, transfer a butter slab and flatten with rolling pin.
3. Cut into desired sizes.
4. Cool and wrap.

Yield: From 30 to 40 pieces, depending on size

POLUNGGAY(Polvorones de Malunggay)

Ingredients:

Picture from Sasmuan Delicacies

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cup malunggay (pureed)
• 2 cups powdered milk
• 1 1/2 cup butter

Procedure:

1. Toast flour to light brown.
2. Mix sugar and powdered milk.
3. Melt butter/margarine with the pureed malunggay and to the mixture.
4. Mix thoroughly and mold in polvoron molder.
5. Wrap individually in Japanese paper

For Malunggay Noodles, see Dr. Lorma Valera’s Malunggay here

Michael Phelps courtesy of http://www.growthpop.com

Some people are commenting that it’s due to steroids or drugs, others says it’s because of his bizarre-eating lifestyle, while most are saying that Phelps is a mutant and one of the member of X-man team. Does he possessed a special power?  Is he a human dolphin that loves to listen to music before he dives?

Did you know that Phelp’s battled ADHD as a kid?

Read on and find out the “secret”

So what’s the difference between Michael Phelps - an Olympic champion and a mere mortal? Nothing so much really except for some several unique physical characteristics that makes him smashing world record every time he’s in the water.

In an interview of Jim Caple(jimcaple.net), a senior writer for ESPN.com, Michael Phelps reveals on how we, the “mere mortals”, can be Olympic champions too.

Phelps’ revealed that he’s eating a lot of  PIZZA and PASTA. He doesn’t simply eat a lot, but he’s loading his system  six times the amount of calories more than an average human being of the same age! He’s shoveling 12,000 calories a day!

Do you believe that?

The Olympians who is holding the most number of gold medal in a single Olympics, also reveals that he sleeps a lot! He sleeps as much as he can whenever he’s not in the pool breaking worlds’ records.

Very simple isn’t? or is it? What makes Phelps so good aside from eating a lot of carbs from pizza and pasta?

Well, according to his coach Bob Bowman, Phelps has abnormality…Bingo! Does it mean that Phelps is a real-life mutant and genetically-modified?

Sit back and relax as  Phelps’s coach is breaking down his unusual physical characteristics stroke by stroke … Are you ready ?

According to Bow Bowman, Phelps has physical attributes that anatomically makes him perfect for his sport.

1. Phelps’ has abnormally  thin torso  which is longer than his legs, which makes him to drag less in water.
2. His immense wingspan (arms length ) is longer and disproportionate to his height.  The additional 3 inches ( 6 feet 7 inches arms length vs. 6 feet 4 inches height) allows him to cover more space than his competitors
3. He’s got relatively short but powerful legs, again to lower the drag in water.
4. Oh boy, he’s got a natural flippers!… an overwhelming size 14  with a double-jointed ankles, enabling him to thrust through water as if he’s wearing a fins.
5. Phelp’s do break rules in swimming, specially in breaststroke. Don’t get me wrong on this. According to coaches, they drilled their swimmers to breathe every two or three strokes but Phelps breathes every stroke! Bowman said that Phelps has a better rhythm when he breathes every stroke.

And the secret is…?

Aside from his very controversial diet, his unusuall physique, I guess what makes Phelps a winner is his attitude and his big heart.  For an Olympian winner like him, losing motivates him more to get better. I believed when Bowman told The Baltimore Sun that “Phelps is unbelievably kind-hearted”.

source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps, http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=3530989&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines,http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=3526309

This is very timely because some of the readers of EarthNews here at PinayMom.org are requesting about malunggay noodles’ recipe. Dr. Valera’s recipes have been introduced in Metro Manila (Philippines) through the “Malunggay in the City” - which was launched during the 144th birthday of martyred revolutionary hero of Andres Bonifacio (a Filipino hero) in 2007. I’ll be posting the recipes on a series as I get hold with all or some of them  - meaning research and more research.

Based from BioLife January-February 2008 edition, here’s Dr. Lorma Valera’s:

Malunggay Noodles Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 c flour
• 1 c malunggay leaves, dried
• 3/4 c water
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. salt

Procedure:

1. Mix all ingredients.
2. Knead until smooth and elastic.
3. Dust with flour and roll.
4. Extrude or cut.
5. Boil.
6. Rinse and drain.

Note:

1. If you dry after extruding or cutting, it is called “dried miki”.
2. If you fry  after rinsing, it is called “pancit canton”