百科全说 10-02-01 张悟本老师从“五官看养生”
内容简介: 张悟本先生出生于中医世家，父亲张宝杨同志是党和国家领导人的保健医，6岁开始随父学医，食疗临床经验二十余载。 本期介绍“五官养生法”。
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PROPER WAY TO USE THE MEDICAL CARD
PROPER WAY TO USE THE MEDICAL CARD
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY!!!
In cases of Emergency, a matter of LIFE & DEATH (eg Heart-attack, Strokes, Accidents)
NEVER.... NEVER.. NEVER use a medical card! Why?....
1. In the emergency room, you will be asked to register and make a 'Deposit' BEFORE the patient is TREATED!
2. When you show the medical card; the doctor MUST complete the claim form and fax to the insurance company BEFORE they can treat the patient. The hospital MUST wait until the insurance company Confirms coverage & limit of policy.
3. ALL these procedures may take 1-2 HOURS!! By this time the patient may have lapsed into a coma !!
4. Use your credit card or Cash FIRST. AFTER the patient has been treated & attended by the doctor, then show the admission counter nurse the medical card. She will then liaise with the insurance company directly for the approvals. She will tear the earlier credit card deposit once the insurance company has approved.
5. By now the patient would have been wheeled into the room to rest or to the surgery room for immediate surgery.
Sincerely we pray no one has to go through such an ordeal.
Share this info with your loved ones, your colleague & friends.
How to Lock Your Car and Why?????
I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane, next to the store.
They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation... I quickly chucked the errand I was on, jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars.
Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening....
While travelling, my friend's son stopped at a roadside rest to use the bathroom. When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator, briefcase.....you name it. He called the police and since there were no signs of his car being broken into, the police told him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic -- there is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device...
They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. They know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run.
The police officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car -- that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be you...
When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen.
This is very real.
Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass this note on.
Look how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them -- and bingo, someone has our code and whatever was in our car.
Please share with everyone you know!!!!!
Earlier symptom on H1N1
Subject: FW: Earlier symptom on H1N1
Hi all,
I was just informed by my GM whose her daughter has been down for fever think around 1 week. He took his daughter to Gleneagles Dr. Patrick for check-up. Dr. Patrick has gave him a very useful advice and i just wanted to share it with you guys.
When children has fever, the dr will prescribe the fever medicine to consume either in 4 or 6 hours period. I think all of you guys know very well on this. Normally the fever will go down after taken the medicine, and it will come back after 3 or 6 hours. But if it for H1N1 infectious, the fever will not be going down after taking the medicine and it will consistantly stay at high temperature for hours. And if this condition continous for 48 hrs, then the possibility of H1N1 infectious will be very high. For this case, i mean consistant high fever for 48 hrs, dr will straight away give the patient the H1N1 antiviral treatment, ie Tamiflu treatment for period of 7 days.
Rgds.
H.K.
Cure for H1N1 patient (Real Experience)
Subject: FW: Cure for H1N1 patient (Real Experience)
TO ALL FREINDS
JUST A SMALL BUT MEANINGFUL INFO FM ME TO YOU AND YR FRIENDS...MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF H1N1 SINCE IT PRACTICALLY HIT US LIKE A TIME BOMB.....
My staff was crying herself sick on Tuesday morning...was told that her son was confirmed of H1N1 in his Uni at Kangar, Perlis...worse was that when he was bedridden 2 days the warden didnt even bother to sent to hospital till his dad came fm KL and with his friends assistance brought him to GH Kangar....
No one bothered in the hospital and he was put in the normal ward for another 2 days!!! (imagine the amount of people he has infected!!) .....after 2 days and his eyes were turning yellow and saliva greenish...he was put in quarantined room...
His mom practically fainted just telling me the story.. cant do much cos she does not have enough money to go to the north with the father...
First thing we did was made her call the hospital and insist that they sent him to Sg.Buloh Hospital or any other hospital in KL since they seemed to be more alert and more equipt...they refused of course...so I sent her off to Kangar the same day to solve the problem.
Whilst this was happening, I had a call from one Ustaz who was in town to "help cure" another H1N1 child in Shah Alam....and was told this simple prescription by him.....
EAT MINIMUM 6 GREEN APPLES A DAY AND FRESH ORANGE JUICE
for those with sore throat please blend the apples and keep on taking till your fever disappear and yr symtoms are gone....I cannot explain it but the child in Shah Alam was ok too after taking this tip....
my staff's son was given the apple juice for the whole day on Monday/Tuesday and he was out of the fever yesterday Wednesday... .she called me and was crying on the phone to say that her son was out of ICU and was able to eat normally...all these happened within just 4 days today (thursday 6 august)...
This is just to share with my fellow sisters and brothers and hope this small info could assist others as well, No harm in trying and anything can happen!!!!
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Robert Kuok Hock Nien's notes on the past sixty years
A very good write-up by Robert Kuok which every businessman and politician must read and put into practice.
(On the occasion of Kuok Group’s 60th Anniversary 10 April 2009)
(1) My brothers and I owe our upbringing completely to Mother. She was steeped in Ru-Jiao (儒教) – the teachings of Confucius (孔), Mencius (孟), Laozi (老子) and other Chinese sages. Ru-Jiao teaches the correct behaviour for a human being on his life on earth. Mother gently, and sometimes strongly, drummed into the minds of her three boys the values of honesty, of never cheating, lying, stealing or envying other people their material wealth or physical attributes.
(2) Father died on 25 December 1948 night without leaving a will. Following the Japanese surrender, he had re-registered the firm as a sole proprietorship. We went to court to get an appointment as managers, permitting us to continue to manage Tong Seng & Co. The judge said that, as there were two widows, the firm and the estate should be wound up.
(3) We decide to establish Kuok Brothers Limited. In mid-January 1949, five of us met at a small roundtable in our home in Johore Bahru. Present were my MOTHER, cousin number five HOCK CHIN, cousin number twelve HOCK SENG, my brother HOCK KHEE nicknamed Philip (a.k.a. cousin number seventeen), and myself (a.k.a. cousin number twenty). We sat down and Mother said, “Nien,would you like to start?” I said, “Fine, yes I will start.” To cut the long story short, we got started, and commenced business from a little shop house in Johore Bharu on 1 April 1949.
(4) As a young man, I thought there was no substitute for hard work and thinking up good, honest business plans and, without respite, pushing them along. There will always be business on earth. Be humble; be straight; don't be crooked; don't take advantage of people. To be a successful businessman, I think you really need to brush all your senses every morning, just as you brush your teeth. I coined the phrase “honing your senses” in business: your vision, hearing,sense of smell, touch and taste. All these senses come in very useful.
(5) Mother was the captain of our ship. She saw and sensed everything, but being a wise person she didn't interfere. Yet she was the background influence, the glue that bound the Group together. She taught my cousins and my brothers and me never to be greedy, and that in making money one could practise high morality. She stressed that whenever the firm does well it should make donations to the charities operating in our societies. She always kept us focused on the big picture in business. For example: avoid businesses that bring harm, destruction or grief to people. This includes trades like gambling, drugs, arms sales, loan-sharking and prostitution.
(6) We started as little fish swimming in a bathtub. From there we went to a lake and now we are in the open seas. Today our businesses cover many industries and our operations are worldwide but this would not have been possible without the vision of the founding members, the dedicated contributions and loyalty of our colleagues and employees, and very importantly the strong moral principles espoused by my mother.
(7) When I hire staff I look for honest, hardworking, intelligent people.
When I look candidates in the eye, they must appear very honest to me. I do not look for MBAs or exceptional students. You may hire a brilliant man, summa cum laude, first-class honours, but if his mind is not a fair one or if he has a warped attitude in life, does brilliance really matter?
(8) Among the first employees were Lau Teo Chin (Ee Wor), Kwok Chin Luang (Ee Luang), Othman Samad (Kadir) and an Indian accountant called Joachim who was a devout Roman Catholic and who travelled in every day from Singapore where he lived.
(9) I would like on this special occasion to pay tribute to them and in particular to those who were with us in the early days; many of whom are no longer here. I have already mentioned Lau Teo Chin (Ee Wor) and Kwok Chin Luang (Ee Luang) and Othman Samad (Kadir), there are others like Lean Chye Huat, who is not here today due to failing eyesight, and Yusuf Sharif who passed away in his home country India about one and a half years ago and the late Lee Siew Wah, and others who all gave solid and unstinting support and devotion to the Company. It saddens me that in those early difficult years these pioneers did not enjoy significant and substantial rewards but such is the order of things and a most unfortunate aspect of capitalism.
However through our Group and employee Foundations, today we are able to help their descendants whenever there is a need to.
(10) I have learnt that the success of a company must depend on the unity of all its employees. We are all in the same boat rowing against the current and tide and every able person must pull the oars to move the boat forward. Also, we must relentlessly endeavour to maintain and practice the values of integrity and honesty, and eschew and reject greed and arrogance.
(11) A few words of caution to all businessmen and women. I recall the Chinese saying: shibai nai chenggong zhi mu 失败乃成功之母(failure is the mother of success). But in the last thirty years of my business life, I have to the conclusion that the reverse phrase is even truer of today's world: chenggong nai shibai zhi mu 成功乃失败之母. Success often breeds failure, because it makes you arrogant, complacent and, therefore, lowers your guard.
(12) The way forward for this world is through capitalism. Even China has come to realise it. But it's equally true that capitalism, if allowed to snowball along unchecked, can in many ways become destructive. Capitalism needs to be inspected under a magnifying glass once a day, a super-magnifying glass once a week, and put through the cleaning machine once a month.
In capitalism, man needs elements of ambition and greed to drive him. But where does ambition end and greed take over? That's why I say that capitalism, if left to its own devices, will snowball along, roll down the hill and cause a lot of damage. So a sound capitalist system requires very strongly led, enlightened, wise governments. That means politician-statement willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their people. I don't mean politicians who are there for fame, glory and to line their pockets.
(13) To my mind the two great challenges facing China are the restoration of education in morals and the establishment of a rule of law. You must begin from the root up, imbuing and infusing moral lessons and morality into youth, both at home and from kindergarten and primary school upward through university. Every Chinese needs to accept the principle of rule of law, then you have to train upright judges and lawyers to uphold the legal system.
(14) Wealth should be used for two main purposes. One: for the generation of greater wealth; in other words, you continue to invest, creating prosperity and jobs in the country. Two: part of your wealth should be applied to the betterment of mankind, either by acts of pure philanthropy or by investment in research and development along the frontiers of science, space, health care and so forth.
Tan Sri Robert Kuok Hock Nien (born 6 October 1923, in Johor Baru, Johor), is an influential Malaysian Chinese businessman. According to Forbes his net worth is estimated to be around $10 billion on May 2008, making him the richest person in Southeast Asia. He is media shy and discreet, most of his businesses are privately held by him or his family. Apart from a multitude of enterprises in Malaysia , his companies have investments in many countries throughout Asia .
His business interests range from sugarcane plantations (Perlis Plantations Bhd), sugar refinery, flour milling, animal feed, oil and mining to finance, hotels, properties, trading and freight and publishing.
Beware: Cheque can be tampered by special ink
Just received an email from friend as below.
Subject: Cheques can be tampered by special ink so don't send by post.
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Dear All,
There is an amazing way to steal money now!!
In early Feb 2009, I posted 2 cheques in 2 envelopes supplied by the credit card companies. I deposited the 2 envelopes into a postbox near my condo..
A few days later I was surprised that my account was overdrawn by more than the amount I have issued.
When I checked with the bank, I was told that the two cheques have been cleared but the amount debited was much higher than I had written!!!
I checked with the credit card companies and was told that they have not received the cheques for payment!!!
I suspect that the postman who collected the mails or those handling the mails therafter must have intercepted the two envelopes and must have got links to the bank.
I made a police report and was told that I am not the only one with this problem!! Then I went to the bank to ask for images of the checks and was told it will take a few days to get the information the police require.
I was also told by the bank customer relations officer that the technology is so advance now that there is a liquid which can be applied to the cheques and wipe out what you have written and the crooks will write over my cheques!!!
So please do not post your cheques. Looks like nothing is safe now and do not know who can be trusted these days.
I am waiting to see how my cheques have been altered or ???!!!
It is simply amazing what brains are used for nowadays.
Please tell all your friends and relatives to warn them of the danger.
[This Complainant is from Penang]
Steals banking information
Man steals people's banking information.
After watching this video, you should be able to prevent from it.
Joint Tenancy vs Joint account issue in Malaysia
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Subject: Fw: Joint account issue in Malaysia...Make sure it is Joint Tenancy
To:
Dear Friends,
Just to share with you one recent article i read and shocked me a lot. It happens in west Malaysia, husband and wife and 1 son. Husband pass away due to accident, husband has a RM50k joint saving account with wife, what happen is the wife / like most people think, when husband pass away, she will get the money automatically since it is joint account. But to her surprise, She could not withdraw even a single cent!! Joint saving account is meant for convenience when spouse need it the most, but most people always assume once the other holder dies, another half will get the money automatically which is very wrong.
I would like to share my opinion with all of you, you may take it as educational thoughts or for you to be aware. When one person dies, the other joint holder of the saving account will get the money automatically only if that particular bank practise 'JOINT TENANCY' - this terms means one party die, the other joint party gets money automatically.But unfortunately,not all banks practise JOINT TENANCY, some foreign banks practise and most local banks don't practise, If you want to be sure, just ask your bank is their joint saving account based on JOINT TENANCY, if it is yes, get the black and white.
Can u all imagine, when husband pass away, the wife already has to suffer emotional loss, now suffering the problem of having 'NO MONEY' although it is in a joint account. Because of husband ignorance, now the wife and son pay for it.
Hope the above serves as a help to you.
Stay well.
Liability for stolen credit card capped at RM200
A good reminder ... don't get cheated by the banks!
The Malaysian Insider
Tuesday June 09 2009
Liability for stolen credit card capped at RM200, court rules
By Edward Cheah
KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 – The High Court ruled today that the maximum that can be charged to a credit cardholder who has lost his/her credit card is RM200.
Lawyer Datuk Vijaya Kumar told The Malaysian Insider that Diana Chee Vun Hsia discovered her credit cards missing a day after they were stolen. She then reported it to the issuing banks.
Citibank informed her that RM1,851 had been charged the day it was stolen and that, according to company policy, she was deemed liable for the full amount because she did not report the card stolen within one hour.
She took Citibank to court to challenge this policy late last year.
Today, the High Court found in her favour when it said that, according to Bank Negara guidelines, the maximum that can be charged to the cardholder by credit card companies after a card is stolen is RM200, regardless of any company policies regarding elapsed time or amount.
Justice Datuk Mohamed Apandi Ali said that the Bank Negara guidelines “have the force of law.” – Bernama
About EPF Malaysia
Subject: Fwd: FW: About EPF... .Pls check this out ...
If ONE (1) of our Nominee in the EPF Nominees list deceased, automatically the whole arrangement (EPF Nominees list) is VOID. Meaning if, you only put in One (1) name & unfortunately he/she dies before you – automatically EPF will channel your EPF money to trustee of AMANAH RAYA upon your death.
Thou if, you DO have few names in the EPF Nominees list still - the whole arrangement is VOID & none of the individual balance name in the EPF Nominees list will get their potion & automatically EPF will channel your EPF money to trustee of AMANAH RAYA upon your death.
Piece of advice - if any of the your Nominee in the EPF Nominees list decease, please do immediately approach the nearest EPF counter & present the Death Certificate of the individual & re-instate you NEW / LATEST Nominee in the EPF Nominees list + NEW / LATEST percentage.
If, you & the other party (maybe spouse) involved in the same misfortune (accident / illness) that caused death to both yourself / spouse please, please, please alert your siblings / relatives / parents to immediately approach the nearest EPF counter & share the information within 3 days to AVOID all EPF money to be surrender to trustee of AMANAH RAYA.
Upon surrender to trustee of AMANAH RAYA, your children will have to battle the money thru 3 channels;
Majlis Agama
Pejabat Tanah
Mahkamah
The normal period via above 3 channels usually takes 2-3 years (except if you have inside/tip top connection) at Amanah Raya.
養不起的未來
日本的諷刺明星兼導演北原武不久前又獲得一個電影的國際獎。
幾年前他的母親去世，他回故鄉去奔喪，他一直不喜歡母親，因為她一直不斷向這一個兒子要錢，只要他一個月沒有寄錢回家，母親就打電話給他破口大罵，真是所謂的死要錢， 而且北原武越出名，她索取的錢越多。
回到家之後，他還是忍不住大哭一場，想到他一直在外，沒有好好供養媽媽，雖然是死要錢的媽媽，他還是覺得虧待母親。
等辦完喪事，北原武正要離開家的時候，他的大哥把一個小包袱給了他說：
這是媽媽叫我一定要交給你的。
北原武小心翼翼地打開小包袱看到一本存摺與一封信，存款是用他的名義開戶，存款金額高達數千萬日幣，信中母親寫道：
武兒，在這幾個兒女當中，我最擔憂的就是你，你從小就不喜歡唸書，又亂花錢，對朋友太慷慨，當你說要去東京打拼時，我就很擔心你會變成一個落魄的窮光蛋，因此我每月從不間斷地要你寄錢回家，一方面可以刺激你去賺更多的錢，另一方面也為了替你儲蓄；你給我的錢，我一毛都沒有花，你大哥一家把我養得好好的，你的錢就是你的錢，現在就拿去好好利用吧！
看完了信，北原武哭倒在地上，久久站不起來．．．
王永慶曾經說過一句話：你賺的一塊錢不是你的一塊錢，你存的一塊錢才是你的一塊錢。
現在的經濟景氣越來越差，全世界都進入了二低一高的時代：低成長、低利率、高通膨；不要小看你隨手花掉的小錢：一杯咖啡、一包香煙、一件衣服．．．，
省下它，就有可能改變你的一生，如果你身邊也有存不了錢的朋友，告訴他北原武的故事，你就有可能成為他這輩子的貴人！
養不起的未來 --不是收入太少，而是開銷太大！
Brave Smart Snail
When someone tells you that you can't do something ...
Look around... 
Consider all options... 
Then GO for it!
Use all the things you have...
Be creative! 
In the end, you will succeed and prove them wrong! 
Always remember -
Nothing is impossible, if your heart is willing...
locked your car doors when pumping petrol
Important - Happened in Penang
This is pretty scary, as is (its modus operandi is similar) with the case of Ms Canny Ong.
A friend stopped at a pay-at-the-pump gas station to get gas. When she had filled her gas tank after paying at the pump and about to leave, the attendant inside came over the speaker.
He told her that something happened with her card and that she needed to come inside to pay.
The lady was confused because the transaction was completed and approved.
She told him that and was getting ready to leave but the attendant once again urged her to come in to pay or else.....
She proceeded to go inside and started arguing with the attendant about his threat.
He told her to calm down and to listen carefully:
He told her that while she was pumping gas, he saw a guy had slipped into the back seat of her car and hid on the other side.
He had called the police.
She immediately became scared and looked out there in time to see her car door open and the guy slip out.
The story
The test for the new gang initiation thing which requires one to bring back a woman's body part.
One way they are doing this is crawling into girls/women's cars while the target is pumping gas or at the grocery store at night time. Then, they will cut off the victim's legs/ankles to disable them in order to kidnap them, and later kill and dismember them.
The other method is slipping into unattended cars and kidnapping the women for the same purpose.
Reminder
Please pass this on to other women, young and old alike.
Ladies, be extra careful when going into your parked car at night.
Do not park at lonely or secluded places at any time of the day for the sake of free parking!
If at all possible, don't drive alone at night!
This is real! Kidnapping! Murder! Dismemberment! These are all happening here in Malaysia!!!
The message
1. ALWAYS lock your car doors, even if you're gone for just a second.
2. Check underneath your car when approaching it for re-entry, and check in the back before getting in.
3. Always be aware of your surroundings and other individuals in your general vicinity, particularly at night!
Send this to many girls so your friend will not be the next one!
45 Lessons of Life - Regina Brett
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written..
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good..
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone...
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first pay check.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion, today is special..
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
Message for all mobile phone users
PLEASE PASS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!
Pls be careful...
Subject: VERY Important Msg for all mobile phone users
Don't press #90 or #09
If you receive a phone call on your mobile from any person, saying that, that they're checking your mobile line, and you have to press # 90 or #09 or any other number.End this call immediately without pressing any numbers.
There is a fraud company using a device that once you press #90 or #09 they can access your 'SIM' card and make calls at your expense.
Forward this message to as many friends as you can, to stop it.
This information has been confirmed by both Motorola and Nokia.
There are over 3 Million mobile phones being infected by this virus in all around the world now.
Kidney Cleanser - Barley
Good for Diabetics as well as colon cleansing.....
High in fibre, barley is also a kidney cleanser . Better yet, regular intake of it helps prevent heart disease .
BARLEY water was always a regular drink when we were still living at home. Whenever we had to go for a medical exam that included a urine test, my mum would make us drink barley water a day before it to make sure we got a positive result!
My mother was a wise woman. I later found out from an Australian naturopath that barley is known to be a kidney cleanser, and he happily downed glasses of it at a meal we had in a coffeeshop here.
Barley is good for your intestinal health too. Try to eat the barley grains you find in your drink or sweet broth with fu chook (beancurd skin) and ginkgo nuts.
It's high in fibre which feeds the friendly bacteria in the colon and helps speed up the transit of fecal matter in it. In this way it helps prevent haemorrhoids and colon cancer. The propionic acid and beta glucan from barley's insoluble fibre also help lower cholesterol and prevent the formation of gallstones.
Eating barley regularly is a preventive step against heart disease as, besides the fibre content, it is also high in niacin, a B vitamin good for lowering cholesterol.
Diabetics should eat more barley as the fibre will prevent blood sugar levels from rising too high. It also provides relief from constipation or diarrhoea for those suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Barley is rich in selenium which prevents cancer and relieves symptoms of asthma and arthritis. It is a good source of manganese, copper and phosphorous. Malt sugar comes from sprouted barley which, when fermented, is an ingredient in beer and other alcoholic beverages.
Barley, whose Latin name is Hordeum vulgare, has been cultivated for more than 10,000 years. Since ancient times, barley has been used for healing purposes and has been known to the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Athletes in Greece and Rome in those days were known to eat barley bread to give them strength.
Besides the usual things we do with barley, I enjoy having it in a western soup. The larger pearl barley is used and I love the sticky bite of it.
Here's a recipe for barley soup:-
Barley soup with roasted garlic
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1 cup pearl barley
5 cloves whole garlic, roasted
2 litres chicken stock, steeped from 1 chicken breasts simmered in 3 litres water
2 tbsps vegetable oil
2 large onions, diced
2 carrots, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
150g turkey ham, cut up
1 tsp ground white pepper
1 tsps sea salt or to taste
1 tbsp chopped parsley
Method
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1. Wash barley and soak it in a bowl of water for three hours. Drain.
2. Heat oil in pan & fry onions. Add carrots & celery, then the barley & fry for 3 minutes.
3.. Add chicken stock, pepper & roasted garlic, simmer over low heat for at least 1 hour, or until barley is soft.
4. Add salt to taste and serve the soup garnished with chopped parsley.
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Barley with lime is my favourite drink (No ice and no sugar).
Low Cholesterol Levels Increase Cancer Risk
Low Cholesterol Levels Increase Cancer Risk- American College of Cardiology
For years, I've been telling my patients that the medical establishment' s obsession with lowering cholesterol to prevent heart disease is causing more harm than good.
If your doctor continues to get you worried about your high cholesterol levels, here's a bit of news for you...
In fact, your high cholesterol may be protecting you from cancer.
Today, I'll explain the truth behind the myth of cholesterol, and show you how to achieve heart health naturally.
A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology revealed that driving down cholesterol levels actually increases the risk of cancer.
Researchers at the Tufts University School of Medicine found that among people taking "statin" drugs - like Lipitor and Zocor - there was a higher rate of cancer. Although the link between the drugs and cancer wasn't clear, there was no doubt that drastically low cholesterol levels correlated to cancer risk.
The big drug makers continue to sell the notion that the best way to fight heart disease is to lower LDL levels, the so-called "bad" cholesterol.
Yet 75 percent of people who suffer heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels.
It makes sense that low cholesterol levels are linked to cancer because cholesterol is one of your body's basic building blocks.. You need it to produce testosterone, to build and repair cell membranes, and to preserve your nerve cells through the formation of the protective "sheaths" that cover them.
Starving your body of this critical substance will lead to other health problems. We already know that extremely low cholesterol levels result in muscle weakness, fatigue, depression, decreased sex drive, and "brain fog."
This new research shows that there may be even more deadly consequences.
What really matters is not low "bad" cholesterol, but high levels of HDL, the so-called "good" cholesterol. As long as you have a high HDL count - 75 to 80, for example - it doesn't matter whether your total cholesterol is 150 or 350. A high HDL will always keep your risk of heart disease extremely low.
So why haven't you heard this already? It may be because there's no drug that effectively raises good cholesterol levels. You can only effectively do it naturally.
Consume natural fats. Avoid processed or fast foods containing "trans" fats - these man-made substances were never meant for consumption, and your body doesn't know what to do with them. They wind up clogging your arteries and putting you on the fast track to heart disease.
Instead, get your fat from free-range or grass-fed animals, eggs, nuts, and unprocessed vegetable oils. These are some of the healthiest foods you can eat.. (As with all foods, look for organic or minimally processed options whenever possible.)
The health benefit of these natural fats comes from their balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. Your body needs both but, as with cholesterol, they have to be in balance. Omega-3s are great for your heart. They've been shown to prevent irregular heartbeat, reduce clogging of the arteries, lower blood pressure, and decrease inflammation in body tissues.
If you stick to eating natural fats, you'll automatically get the right ratio of Omega-6 and Omega-3, which is about 2:1. As an added bonus, you'll automatically raise your "good" cholesterol levels and you'll reduce your risk of cancer.
