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BAGAIMANA GULA MENJEJASKAN KESIHATAN GIGI Gula merupakan salah satu daripada penyebab kerosakan gigi. Walaupun gula (sukrosa) adalah penyebab gigi rosak yang utama, tetapi ini tidak maksud ia merupakan satu-satunya punca. Semua gula boleh digunakan sebagai makanan bagi bakteria di dalam plak pada gigi. Bakteria tersebut mengeluarkan asid yang boleh merosakkan enamel gigi. Oleh itu semua jenis gula menjadi satu masalah di bawah keadaan yang sesuai, sama dengan makanan kanji. Kebiasaannya makanan manis atau makanan berkanji yang akan melekat pada gigi. Ini akan mudah mendatangkan kerosakan gigi. OBESITI Di Malaysia, terdapat enam juta orang dewasa yang mempunyai berat badan berlebihan dan obes. Demikian menurut kajian yang dijalankan oleh Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia, Kaji Selidik Pemakanan Orang Dewasa Malaysia 2003. Selain daripada lemak dan kolesterol, salah satu faktor utama yang menyebabkan obesiti ialah kalori, contohnya kalori daripada gula. Gula pasir itu menambah t...

Crime for not vaccinating your child? Lately the papers are gushing with news about vaccinating children. The deputy health minister says he is planning to make it a crime for not vaccinating one's child. The minister of health disagrees. He prefers educating the parents instead. The Women's Ministry is mulling to prosecute parents who refuse to vaccinate their child. Some radio stations have come into the act too - vilifying parents who refuse to vaccinate their offspring. Statistic have been rolled out to show an increase of cases of measles and deaths from diphtheria - all attributed to a failure to vaccinate. No clear causal links have been established, though. To complicate matters, Indonesia acknowledged that since 2003, fake vaccines have been given to millions of children. This follows a scandal in China involving improperly stored vaccines distributed in 24 provinces since 2010. The United States Supreme Court has determined that vaccines are "una...

PASSIVE SYMPATHY Once upon a time, a poor man had been severely punished by nature. A big flood had washed all his properties away. He was sitting very disappointedly in a corner crying. A passer by came to him and asked him the reason. The wretched man narrated him the whole catastrophe that had happened to his life. He also said, "Now I am left with a poor wife and five half grown children of different ages who have got nothing to eat." He then asked the passer by for some money so that they could get something to eat. The passer by still sharing the sympathy with that poor man, said' "Look friend! I shall be with you in crying as long as you are satisfied. Just don't ask for help! SIMPATI PASIF Pada suatu masa dahulu, seorang lelaki miskin telah dihukum oleh bencana alam. Sebuah banjir besar telah musnahkan kesemua hartanya. Orang miskin itu menjadi sangat kecewa dan duduk menangis di tepi sebuah kawasan. Seorang asing yang sedang melalui kawa...

LITERACY GLASSES One day, an illiterate villager entered an optic store and asked for some glasses. The shopkeeper brought him a few glasses to choose. He tried all of them and said, "That's not I'm looking for. Please bring me some other ones." The shopkeeper brought him some others. He tried them and repeated the same request. This time the shopkeeper puts a lot of glasses on the table and asked him to choose one. The man was still not satisfied. Lots of glasses were there on the table and he could choose none. Finally, the shopkeeper became angry and said, "Just tell me what kind of glasses you want and I'll bring them to you." The man looked at the other glasses on the shelves and said, " I am looking for glasses by which I can read!" CERMIN MATA LITERASI Pada suatu hari, seorang penduduk kampung buta huruf memasuki kedai optik dan meminta beberapa pasang cermin mata. Pemilik kedai itu pun membawakan beberapa pasang cermin mata...

COMMON IGNORANCE Once up a time, an old illiterate asked somebody to write a letter for him. He said, "Please write whatever I am telling you." He then began to explain his life while the writer was busy writing. He talked about himself and some hos problems. After he finished, he turned to the writer and said, "Alright. Now read me all you have written." The man began to read the letter. Little by little the old man, listening to the writer carefully, started crying. The writer looked at him surprisingly and said, "These are what you have already explained. There is nothing more in this letter. Why are crying then?" Still crying hard, the old man said, "I practically knew that I was a poor wretched man, but I didn't know it so clearly as you told me today!" TIDAK PEDULI Pada suatu hari, seorang warga emas buta huruf meminta seseorang menuliskan sepucuk surat untuknya. Dia berkata, "Tulis apa yang saya katakan." Dia...

RICH MAN AND POOR MAN Every morning at eleven o'clock a shiny Rolls Royce drove through Central Park in New York City. Inside the car, sat a driver and his master, a well known millionaire. Each morning the millionaire noticed a poorly dressed sitting on a park bench. The man always sat staring at the hotel in which the millionaire lived. One day, the millionaire was so curious about the man that he ordered his driver to stop the car. He walked to the bench and said to the poor man, "Excuse me, I just want to know why you sit here staring at my hotel every morning." "Sir,' said the man, " I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I will sleep at that hotel." The millionaire had an idea. He said, "Tonight your dream come true. I'll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month." A few days later, the millionaire went by the man's room to see how he w...

THE LEAST I COULD DO Long long ago, an old mother had a son who has disobeyed the then ruler. The ruler was so angry that had sentenced her son to death. The son was supposed to be hanged in the village center in front of all the villagers. On his last night in jail, his mother went to see him for the last time. She talked to him very patiently trying to give him confidence. At the end she said, "Tomorrow morning, I'll go up the old building adjacent to the village square. Just have a look at me up there. If I'm wearing black the soldiers will hang you up. But if I'm wearing white they will not kill you. It means that I have changed the ruler's decision and the ruler is just going to scare the people. You don't need to be worry then." The next day the soldiers took the son to the village center. Lots of onlookers there. The son looked for his mother on the top of the old building. All of a sudden, his mother appeared there wearing white. He theref...