How to Prevent, Control & Cure Diabetes?

Last Friday i was on leave, and had a walk at a QBM in the afternoon. My usual hanging spot will be the bookstore, as i believed in ancient Chinese saying "书中自有黄金屋，书中自有颜如玉" which means somehow like this "A book holds a house of gold; a book holds a face as smooth as jade".

Went through the Popular books of the month whereby Popular member will enjoy 20% discount, there are many books that i intended to have actually. One of them that caught my attention is  "How to Prevent, Control & Cure Diabetes". I would like to have this book as i'm a bit concern of Diabetes, which few of my elder family members did suffer from this long term illness, and to prevent is always better than cure. Statistic showing that ~3% of the Malaysian population is suffer from Diabetes, and half of them might not even realize. One of my intention to start this blog is to create awareness of health conscious.

As most of you know, books at Popular are wrapped most of the times, and i can't really know the contents. So i decided to move to my next favorite bookstore - Boarders, to see if i can have a quick glance on the contents for those books.

No luck to find that book from Boarders, and i actually spend 3 hours at Boarders and eventually i forgot that i would like to buy the book from Popular. I admitted that my memory is a bit lousy sometimes.

And yesterday when i was at QBM again, i went back to Popular trying to look for the book again. Guess what, the book had gone, sold out... Rest of the discounted books were still there, only this book was gone. It told me that Diabetes is really a major concern for Malaysian, and people start to look into it.

Again i'm on leave today while writing this blog, i will be going to Gurney Plaza later, hoping that i can find it in MPH, which is another bookstore. :)

Also, today onwards i'm going to share more on the health info that i know and hope everyone of you will benefit from it.

Poisonous Cosmetic

Read an article regarding poisons found in cosmetic products which declared by the Health Ministry. The affected products are BML HB Lotion, Shana Night Cream, Natasya Gold Herbal Cream, Biotox Whitening Hydro Cream, Yoko Whitening Cream and Sue Beauty Night Treatment Cream.

They contain scheduled poisons such as dexamethasone, hydroquinone and tretinoin which caused various side-effects to consumers and is written that the use of dexamethasone, hydroquinone and tretinoin in cosmetic products were prohibited and could only be used with the advice of health professionals.

 The ministry's Pharmaceutical Services senior director Datuk Eisah A. Rahman said that Tretinoin can cause redness to the skin, peeling, discomfort and sensitivity to sunlight while hydroquinone can cause redness to skin, discomfort, skin discolouration, hypersensitivity and a gradual blue-black darkening of the skin.

"It also inhibits the pigmentation process and this attenuates the ability of the skin to protect our body from harmful UV rays, which can lead to the risk of getting skin cancer." .

Eisah said that dexamethasone, a steroid, when used topically, can cause skin irritation, dry skin, acne, thinning of the skin and increased risk of skin infections.

Prolonged use of topical steroids may result in systemic side effects such as suppression of the adrenal glands, metabolic disturbances and immune response impairment.

She said that anyone who is in possession of the products is advised to immediately cease selling, distributing or using it.

Please help to forward this article to those who you think might be using above mentioned products.