health: December 2005

Growth Hormone Linked to Colorectal Cancer

Results of a recent study have uncovered a link between treatment with human growth hormone and colorectal cancer. Dr Anthony J Swerdlow and colleagues at the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK found that higher-than-average numbers of adults who had been treated with the hormone during childhood and early adulthood had died from cancer. Further investigations revealed that the patients also had a significantly greater risk than normal of dying from colorectal cancer or Hodgkin's disease.

EU Scientific Committee Warns of Human Health & Cancer Hazards

EU Scientific Committee Warns of Human Health & Cancer Hazards
of Monsanto's recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH)

Natural balance of endogenous growth hormone from human body is best for health. Extra and external source is harmful at high dose and prolonged period of supplement.

Happy new year 2006.greetings from Kuching,Sarawak.the name sarawak is from local name for Antimony which is a famous product from this area

with natural sunlight...relaxing feature...best to put on music

natural sunlight produce better effect

taken with natural light source from right upper corner...compare with next phto with flash light

90% cities face underground water pollution

The news service said the pollution in north China is more serious than that of the southern regions, and the pollution causes direct economic looses of tens of billion yuan, or billionsof U.S. dollars, every year, not to mention "countless" indirect losses.

In the next 25 years, China's water situation will face enormous pressure under a new round of economic growth. It will bea key period whether China can limit the deterioration of water quality, Zhang was quoted as saying.

Underground water is the source of drinking water for nearly 70 percent of China's population and is the source of some 40 percent of the country's agricultural irrigation

服止痛片过量会造成死亡

华盛顿美联电）发生疼痛时怎么办？大部分人会吃一颗“止痛片”救急，但很多人也许没意识到，止痛片吃多了是有害的。在美国，止痛片中毒事例正逐年增加。

　　以每年有上亿人服用的泰诺止痛片（Tylenol）为例，这种以醋氨酚（Acetaminophen）为活性成分的药物，如果病者服用正确，确实是最安全的止痛药；但是人们只要服用过量，也会造成死亡或损伤肝脏。

　　过量吸收醋氨酚已经成为急性肝衰竭的首要原因。

　　问题是，一些人没有按规定剂量服用，或者不了解有数百种药物、如治疗感冒和咳嗽的Theraflu等，里面都含有醋氨酚成分，结果造成服用过量。

　　瓶装醋氨酚的推荐剂量是成人每天不超过4000毫克，华盛顿大学医学中心的拉森医生警告，最大剂量加一倍，就足以使人死亡。

　　美国食品和药物管理局两年前曾警告，每年有5万6000急诊病人都是醋氨酚服用过量，而拉森及合作者本月出版的调查报告，再次提出了这个问题。

　　过去六年里，研究人员对662名因为急性肝衰竭、在22个移植中心接受治疗的患者进行了追踪，发现其中一半患者发病的原因都与醋氨酚有关。

　　最值得注意的是，这种病人的数目在持续增加。1998年，醋氨酚造成的肝中毒为28%，到2003年时占急性肝衰竭病例的51%

World Malaria Report 2005

107 countries and territories had areas at risk of malaria transmission. Some 3.2 billion people lived in areas at risk of malaria transmission.
An estimated 350–500 million clinical malaria episodes occur annually; most of these are caused by infection with P. falciparum and P. vivax.
Falciparum malaria causes more than 1 million deaths each year.

peaceful garden, happy new year 2006

greetings to Mr. David Khoo

love multiply by three ( not just additional), always in action

2005 Christmas gathering

Christmas gathering 2005,happy sisters leading the group

地球可承受人口的最高极限

到2050年，全球人口数目将从现在的65亿人上升到90亿，然而根据罗马尼亚布加勒斯特工艺大学科学家维奥里尔·巴迪司库博士的研究，90亿的人口远远没有达到地球可以承受的人口极限。巴迪司库博士在下月即将出版的《全球能量问题国际期刊》杂志上宣称，根据他的计算，地球最终可以承受的人口数量，将是现在的20万倍！

近视眼不怕老花？－－眼睛保健误区

近视和老花是两回事，但是，有近视的人，会因为度数的多少而影响到需要或不需要戴眼镜，如果是一两百度的近视，会觉得老花的情况较不严重，甚至只要摘下近视眼镜就可以阅读书报或是看近的东西。

　　但是，近视如果高达六七百度，眼睛老花之后，看远看近都有问题，这时除了近视眼镜之外，还应该再准备一副老花眼镜；如果要在工作和生活上取得方便，或可配一幅渐进式多焦点眼镜，这类眼镜既能看远又能看近

hand made, Kimberley

引发口臭七大因

引起口臭的主要口腔疾病有：

　　一、牙周疾病

　　在病变过程中细菌释放毒素、酶类等破坏牙周组织的同时，也排出一些代谢产物如硫化氢、吲哚和氨类，成为臭味的主要气源。食物嵌塞，牙周袋内食物碎屑、细菌产物及脓性物长期存在也可产生臭味。

　　二、龋齿

　　龋坏严重，食物长期嵌入洞内与细菌代谢产物等混合存在会产生臭味。

　　三、口腔念珠菌病

　　病变区聚集念珠菌菌落、细菌及其代谢产物、食物碎屑、脱落细胞等因感染产生口臭。

　　四、口腔干燥症

　　唾液在口腔中可润滑粘膜、清除微生物，维持口内中性环境，随着年龄增长或疾病因素，唾液流速下降，在细菌分解产物过程中改变pH值，造成碱性环境，使革兰氏阴性菌增加，分解蛋白质，释放、挥发性硫化物，产生臭味。

　　五、口腔溃疡、口腔癌等病

　　继发感染易出现口臭。

　　六、义齿

　　在全口义齿佩戴者中大肠杆菌和肺炎杆菌检出呈明显增高。七、腮腺疾病。某些使唾液分泌减少的疾病，如肿瘤放疗后、化脓性腮腺炎

Danes have much to teach on green power

The Danish economy used to run on coal and oil. In the 1980s and 1990s the Danes switched to natural gas (like the UK) and a lot of wind power (unlike us).

Wind power has a defect: it only generates when there is a breeze, so it's no good for supplying peak electricity just when you need it.

The Danes get around this problem by importing lots of electricity from Sweden and Germany, thereby passing the pollution problem to someone else, as well as quietly making use of Sweden's atomic stations. If the Danes didn't import electricity, they'd have to have more gas plants and so make even more emissions.

As a result, the Danes have pretty well used up their ability to squeeze more cuts in emissions from their electricity generating sector, so their Kyoto target was a nonsense from day one. Except the Danes could not lose face by saying so. The big jump in Danish greenhouse gases has come from the transport sector. Short of getting everyone onto bikes, abandoning holidays in Thailand, or scrapping the entire Danish export trade, the Danes have a difficulty with making any strategic cut in emissions.