My new Checker brand track shoes (Sports Shoes) art. No. 12013, Color. Grey/Red, Size 43 bought on 2012-02-28

Re: My new Checker brand track shoes art. No. 12013, Color. Grey/Red, Size 43 bought on 2012-02-28

On 2012-02-28, Tuesday, I bought a new pair Checker brand track shoes art. No. 12013, Color. Grey/Red, Size 43, at $39.90 (less 2% = $39.10) from NTUC Fairprice Xtra at AMK Hub for walking exercise and going out.

Parts of my current pair of pair Checker brand track shoes (bought on 2009-05-27 from the same NTUC Fairprice Xtra ) have loosened and dropping off.

Note: Picture of the new shoes will be uploaded later!

Is A religion (including Christianity) nothing more than a psychological crutch?

Is a religion (including Christianity) nothing more than a psychological crutch that weak-minded people use to make it in a tough life?

I saw the following in paragraph in

http://jasondollar.net/2011/03/religion-is-a-psychological-crutch-for-weak-people/

Quote.

Former professional wrestler and governor of Minnesota Jessie Ventura once remarked, “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak- minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.”

Unquote.

I would explore this topic in days to come.

Super foods listed by Dr. Steven Pratt of the Scripps Clinic

Info source: http://www.lumrix.net/medical/nutrition/superfoods.html


The superfoods are 14 foods, and their "sidekicks," described in Superfoods Rx, by Dr. Steven Pratt of the Scripps Clinic, as being superior sources of phytonutrientsand other nutritional necessities. Most of the foods come with "sidekicks," which are related or supporting foods.
· Beans
o Sidekicks: All beans are Superfoods
· Blueberries
o Sidekicks: Purple grapes, cranberries, boysenberries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, blackberries, cherries
· Broccoli
o Sidekicks: Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, turnips, cauliflower, collards, bok choy, mustard greens, Swiss chard
· Oats
o Super sidekicks: Wheat germ and ground flaxseed
o Sidekicks: Brown rice, barley, wheat, buckwheat, rye, millet, bulgur wheat, amaranth, quinoa, triticale, kamut, yellow corn, wild rice, spelt, couscous
· Oranges
o Sidekicks: Lemons, pink grapefruit, white grapefruit, kumquats, tangerines, limes
· Pumpkin
o Sidekicks: Carrots, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, orange bell peppers
· Wild salmon
o Sidekicks: Alaskan halibut, canned albacore tuna, sardines, herring, trout, sea bass, oysters, clams
· Soy
o Sidekicks: All forms of soy are sidekicks
· Spinach
o Kale, collards, Swiss chard, mustard greens, turnip greens, bok choy, romaine lettuce, orange bell peppers
· Tea
o No sidekicks
· Tomatoes
o Sidekicks: Red watermelon, pink grapefruit, Japanese persimmons, red-fleshed papaya, strawberry guava
· Skinless turkey breast
o Sidekick: Skinless chicken breast
· Walnuts
o Sidekicks: Almonds, pistachios, sesame seeds, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, macadamia nuts, pecans, hazelnuts, cashews
· Yogurt
o Sidekicks: Kefir

In a second book by Dr. Pratt (Superfoods Healthstyle), he added the following foods and spices to his list:

· Apples
o Sidekicks: Pears
· Avocado
o Sidekicks: Asparagus, artichokes, extra virgin olive oil
· Dark chocolate
· Cinnamon
· Extra virgin olive oil
o Sidekicks: Canola oil
· Garlic
o Sidekicks: Scallions, shallots, leeks, onions
· Honey
· Kiwifruit
o Sidekicks: Pineapple, guava
· Onions
o Sidekicks: Garlic, scallions, shallots, leeks, chives
· Pomegranates
o Sidekicks: Plums

External link
· Superfoods RX official website
· The World's Healthiest Foods

Further reading

· SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life by Steven G. Pratt & Kathy Matthews, ISBN 0060535687
· SuperFoods HealthStyle: Proven Strategies for Lifelong Health by Steven G. Pratt & Kathy Matthews, ISBN 0060755474

Nuts and seeds are good for healthier brain

Nuts and seeds are good for healthier brain

According to http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/eat-smart-healthier-brain

Nuts and seeds are 'superfoods'. If you add whole grains to your daily diet, and you will increase your odds of maintaining a healthy brain for the rest of your life.

Nuts and seeds are good sources of vitamin E, says Steven Pratt, MD (author of Superfoods Rx: Fourteen Foods Proven to Change Your Life.) explaining that higher levels of vitamin E correspond with less cognitive decline as you get older.

Add an ounce (28.3495 grams) a day of walnuts, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, filberts, almonds, cashews, peanuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, flax seed, and unhydrogenated nut butters such as peanut butter, almond butter, and tahini.

Raw or roasted doesn't matter, although if you're on a sodium-restricted diet, buy unsalted nuts.

Whole grains for healthier brain

According to http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/eat-smart-healthier-brain


Whole grains are 'superfoods'. If you add whole grains to your daily diet, and you will increase your odds of maintaining a healthy brain for the rest of your life.

Whole grains, such as oatmeal, whole-grain breads, and brown rice can reduce the risk for heart disease. "Every organ in the body is dependent on blood flow," says Steven Pratt, MD, author of Superfoods Rx: Fourteen Foods Proven to Change Your Life.

"If you promote cardiovascular health, you're promoting good flow to the organ system, which includes the brain." While wheat germ is not technically a whole grain, it also goes on Ann Kulze 's "superfoods" list because in addition to fiber, it has vitamin E and some omega-3s.

Ann Kulze suggests 1/2 cup of whole-grain cereal, 1 slice of bread two-thee times day, or 2 tablespoons of wheat germ a day.

Note: Ann Kulze, MD, is the author of Dr. Ann's 10 Step Diet: A Simple Plan for Permanent Weight Loss and Lifelong Vitality

A list of “50 Good Brain Foods' (From 4mind4life.com)

Info Source:
http://4mind4life.com/blog/2008/07/18/brain-foods-list-of-50-good-brain-foods/


A list of “50 Good Brain Foods“:

1. Acai berries
2. Almonds
3. Avocados
4. Bananas
5. Blackberries
6. Blueberries
7. Brewer’s yeast
8. Broccoli
9. Brown rice
10. Brussels sprouts
11. Cantaloupe
12. Cashews
13. Cauliflower
14. Cherries
15. Cheese
16. Chicken
17. Collard greens
18. Cranberries
19. Dark chocolate
20. Eggs
21. Eggplant
22. Fish
23. Flaxseed oil
24. Green Tea
25. Lean beef
26. Legumes
27. Milk
28. Oatmeal
29. Oranges
30. Peanut butter
31. Peas
32. Plums
33. Potatoes
34. Pumpkin seeds
35. Raspberries
36. Red cabbage
37. Red grapes
38. Romaine lettuce
39. Salmon
40. Soybeans
41. Spinach
42. Stabilized rice bran
43. Strawberries
44. Tomatoes
45. Tuna
46. Turkey
47. Walnuts
48. Water
49. Wheat germ
50. Yogurt

Death with Dignity National Center (USA)

About Death with Dignity National Center
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Death with Dignity National Center is a 501(c)3, non-partisan, non-profit organization that has led the legal defense and education of the Oregon Death with Dignity Law for nearly 20 years.

The Death with Dignity Political Action Fund is a distinct and separate 501(c)4 entity responsible for the political defense of the Oregon law and the promotion of death with dignity initiatives in other states.

Our board of directors is comprised of some of the death with dignity movement's most esteemed medical, legal and scholarly experts.

For more Information, please visit http://www.deathwithdignity.org/

Opting for death with dignity (by By Ken Murray )

Feb 24, 2012

By Ken Murray

Background story

For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, doctors tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.

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YEARS ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopaedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could treble a patient's five-year-survival odds - from 5 per cent to 15 per cent - albeit with a poor quality of life.

Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn't spend much on him.

It isn't a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they do not die like the rest of us. What is unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared with most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.

Of course, doctors don't want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to know what all people fear most: dying in pain, and dying alone. They have talked about this with their families. They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen - that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (that's what happens if CPR is done right).

Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call 'futile care' being performed on people. That is when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly: 'Promise me, if you find me like this, that you'll kill me.' They mean it. Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped 'NO CODE' to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo.

To administer medical care that makes people suffer is anguishing. Physicians are trained to gather information without revealing any of their own feelings, but in private, among fellow doctors, they'll vent. 'How can anyone do that to their family members?' they'll ask. I suspect it is one reason physicians have higher rates of alcohol abuse and depression than professionals in most other fields. I know it is one reason I stopped participating in hospital care for the last 10 years of my practice.

How has it come to this - that doctors administer so much care that they wouldn't want for themselves? The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this: patients, doctors, and the system.
To see how patients play a role, imagine a scenario in which someone has lost consciousness and been admitted to an emergency room. As is so often the case, no one has made a plan for this situation, and shocked and scared family members find themselves caught up in a maze of choices. They are overwhelmed. When doctors ask if they want 'everything' done, they answer yes. Then the nightmare begins. Sometimes, a family really means 'do everything', but often they just mean 'do everything that's reasonable'. The problem is that they may not know what is reasonable, nor, in their confusion and sorrow, will they ask about it or hear what a physician may be telling them. For their part, doctors told to do 'everything' will do it, whether it is reasonable or not.

The above scenario is a common one. Feeding into the problem are unrealistic expectations of what doctors can accomplish. Many people think of CPR as a reliable life-saver when, in fact, the results are usually poor. I have had hundreds of people brought to me in the emergency room after getting CPR. Exactly one, a healthy man who'd had no heart troubles (for those who want specifics, he had a 'tension pneumothorax'), walked out of the hospital. If a patient suffers from severe illness, old age, or a terminal disease, the odds of a good outcome from CPR are infinitesimal, while the odds of suffering are overwhelming. Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.

But of course it's not just patients making these things happen. Doctors play an enabling role, too. The trouble is that even doctors who hate to administer futile care must find a way to address the wishes of patients and families. Imagine, once again, the emergency room with those grieving, possibly hysterical, family members. They do not know the doctor. Establishing trust and confidence under such circumstances is a very delicate thing. People are prepared to think the doctor is acting out of base motives, trying to save time, or money, or effort, especially if the doctor is advising against further treatment.

Some doctors are stronger communicators than others, and some doctors are more adamant, but the pressures they all face are similar. When I faced circumstances involving end-of-life choices, I adopted the approach of laying out only the options that I thought were reasonable (as I would in any situation) as early in the process as possible. When patients or families brought up unreasonable choices, I would discuss the issue in layman's terms that portrayed the downsides clearly. If patients or families still insisted on treatments I considered pointless or harmful, I would offer to transfer their care to another doctor or hospital.

Should I have been more forceful at times? I know that some of those transfers still haunt me. One of the patients of whom I was most fond was an attorney from a famous political family. She had severe diabetes and terrible circulation, and, at one point, she developed a painful sore on her foot. Knowing the hazards of hospitals, I did everything I could to keep her from resorting to surgery. Still, she sought out outside experts with whom I had no relationship. Not knowing as much about her as I did, they decided to perform bypass surgery on her chronically clogged blood vessels in both legs. This did not restore her circulation, and the surgical wounds would not heal. Her feet became gangrenous, and she endured bilateral leg amputations. Two weeks later, in the famous medical centre in which all this had occurred, she died.

It is easy to find fault with both doctors and patients in such stories, but in many ways all the parties are simply victims of a larger system that encourages excessive treatment. In some unfortunate cases, doctors use the fee-for-service model to do everything they can, no matter how pointless, to make money. More commonly, though, doctors are fearful of litigation and do whatever they are asked, with little feedback, to avoid getting in trouble.

Even when the right preparations have been made, the system can still swallow people up. One of my patients was a man named Jack, a 78-year-old who had been ill for years and undergone about 15 major surgical procedures. He explained to me that he never, under any circumstances, wanted to be placed on life support machines again. One Saturday, however, Jack suffered a massive stroke and got admitted to the emergency room unconscious, without his wife. Doctors did everything possible to resuscitate him and put him on life support in the ICU. This was Jack's worst nightmare. When I arrived at the hospital and took over Jack's care, I spoke to his wife and to hospital staff, bringing in my office notes with his care preferences. Then I turned off the life support machines and sat with him. He died two hours later.

Even with all his wishes documented, Jack had not died as he had hoped. The system had intervened. One of the nurses, I later found out, even reported my unplugging of Jack to the authorities as a possible homicide. Nothing came of it, of course: Jack's wishes had been spelt out explicitly, and he'd left the paperwork to prove it. But the prospect of a police investigation is terrifying for any physician. I could far more easily have left Jack on life support against his stated wishes, prolonging his life, and his suffering, a few more weeks. I would even have made a little more money, and Medicare would have ended up with an additional US$500,000 (S$629,000) bill. It is no wonder many doctors err on the side of over treatment.

But doctors still don't over-treat themselves. They see the consequences of this constantly. Almost anyone can find a way to die in peace at home, and pain can be managed better than ever. Hospice care, which focuses on providing terminally ill patients with comfort and dignity rather than on futile cures, provides most people with much better final days. Amazingly, studies have found that people placed in hospice care often live longer than people with the same disease who are seeking active cures. I was struck to hear on the radio recently that the famous reporter Tom Wicker had 'died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family'. Such stories are, thankfully, increasingly common.

Several years ago, my older cousin Torch (born at home by the light of a flashlight) had a seizure that turned out to be the result of lung cancer that had gone to his brain. I arranged for him to see various specialists, and we learnt that with aggressive treatment of his condition, including three to five hospital visits a week for chemotherapy, he would live perhaps four months. Ultimately, he decided against any treatment and simply took pills for brain swelling. He moved in with me.

We spent the next eight months doing a bunch of things that he enjoyed, having fun together like we hadn't had in decades. We went to Disneyland, his first time. We hung out at home. Torch was a sports nut, and he was very happy to watch sports and eat my cooking. He even gained a bit of weight, eating his favourite foods rather than hospital foods. He had no serious pain, and he remained high-spirited. One day, he didn't wake up. He spent the next three days in a coma-like sleep and then died. The cost of his medical care for those eight months, for the one drug he was taking, was about US$20.

Torch was no doctor, but he knew he wanted a life of quality, not just quantity. Don't most of us? If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity.

As for me, my physician has my choices. They were easy to make, as they are for most physicians. There will be no heroics, and I will go gentle into that good night. Like my mentor Charlie. Like my cousin Torch. Like my fellow doctors.

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Note: Ken Murray is clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Southern California.

This article first appeared on the blog www.zocalopublicsquare.org

Xanthan gum and its use (including tomato Ketchup of Ayam brand canned Sardines)

Info source: http://zfhy.en.alibaba.com/product/507104866-0/Xanthan_Gum.html

Xanthan gum is one of the most widely used colloids in food industry. It is a high molecular weight polysaccharide with a special molecular structure, produced by fermentation of carbohydrates with Xanthomonas campestris.

Unlike other gums, Xanthan Gum is very stable under a wide range of temperatures and pH. One of the most remarkable properties of xanthan gum is its capability of producing a large increase in the viscosity of a liquid by adding a very small quantity of gum. It could be used as thickener, stabilizer, emulsifier, and suspending agent for numerous applications, covering a broad spectrum and range from the food, pharmaceutical industries to oil drilling.

Only about 10% of a sachet of a typical 3-in-1 coffee is pure coffee powder?

According to http://www.3in1coffee.com/ (Mackessen Group, established in 1988 in Singapore), a simple sachet of 3-in-1 coffee mix recipe includes the following ingredients:

· 2g of instant coffee

· 7-8g of non-dairy creamer

· 9-10g of refines cane sugar

It means only about 10% of a sachet of 3-in-1 coffee is pure coffee powder!

Healthy D.I.Y. 3-in-1 coffee made on 2012-02-23

(Source of picture: http://www.allbestwallpapers.com/coffee_wallpapers.html)

In the morning of 2012-02-23, Thursday, I made a cup of healthy D.I.Y. 3-in-1 coffee with the following:

(a) About 6g of Nescafe Gold rich aroma pure soluble coffee
(b) 1.5 table spoons of ANLENE GOLD 51+YRS HI-CAL LOW FAT MILK POWDER
(c) Two tea spoons of HORORATA Brand liquid honey
(d) About 250 ml of hot water

Verdict: Not bad!

3-in-1 coffee information source (www.3in1coffee.sg ). How much pure coffee is in a sachet of a typical 3-in-1 coffee?

www.3in1coffee.sg (registered by SAINHALL NUTRIHEALTH PTE LTD, www.sainhall.com) is a website which claims to provide information on “All you need to know about 3in1 Coffee.”

According to this website, 3-in-1 coffee mixes usually contain the 3 following key ingredients:

(1) Coffee powder
(2) Sugar
(3) Non-dairy creamer


But in the website, I cannot find any information on how much pure coffee is in a sachet of a typical 3-in-1 coffee.

Can anyone help?

How many percent of a 3-in-1 coffee sachet is pure coffee? Can the pure coffee be 2/18 x 100% = 11.1 % of the 3-in-1 coffee only?

On 18 February 2012 I bought a glass bottle of Nescafe Gold Instant Coffee Rich Aroma 50g (Nett Weight). Servings per package: 25. Serving size: 2g.

The servings per package of a 3-in-1 coffee a certain flying creature brand I bought on 20 February 2012 are also 25 with a Serving size per sachet being 18g.

I wonder how many percent of this 18g in the satchet is pure coffee?

Can the pure coffee be 2/18 x 100% = 11.1 % of the 3-in-1 coffee only?

Can anyone tell me?

I wait for your answer!

Thank you.

Nescafe Gold Instant Coffee Rich Aroma 50g (Nett Weight)

On 18th February 2012 I bought a glass bottle of Nescafe Gold Instant Coffee Rich Aroma 50g (Nett Weight) from small Econ near my home at S$4.20.

* NATURALLY CONTAINS ANTIOXIDANTS*
*Good to know Nescafe Gold is a distinctive blend of Arabica and Robusta beans.

* Ingredients- 100% freeze-dried soluble coffee powder.

++Nutrition Information Typical Values++ ( Per 100 g )

Energy- 272 kcal, Protein- 1 g, Total Fat- 0.2g, Cholesterol- 0 mg, Carbohydrate- 41g, Dietary fibre- 18g, Sodium- 10mg

*1kacl=4.2Kj

Store in cool and dry place.-To maintain freshness of contents, cap should be tightly closed.

Servings per package: 25
Serving size: 2g

The above info source:

http://groupcery.com.sg/nescafe-gold-instant-coffee-rich-aroma-50g.html

Food for thought:

The servings per package of a 3-in-1 coffee a certain flying creature brand I bought on 20th February 2012 are also 25 with a serving size per satchet being 18g. I wonder how many percent of this 18g in the sachet is real/pure coffee? Can the pure coffee be 2/18 x 100% = 11.1 % of the 3-in-1 coffee only? Can anyone tell me? I wait for your answer! Thank you.

A man taking more than 50 tablets or capsules of many types of health supplements daily suffered from a mild stroke

P.C. Kingston is a good friend of my friend Lawrence H.Shaw.

Kingston is a 60- year-old man.

He is very knowledgeable in health matters and health supplements. He is considered a Health Supplements expert among his friends and relatives.

He looked fit (until last week) with well-gown hairs, not a strain of white hair.

For past several years, on daily basis, he has been taking more than 50 tablets or capsules of many types of health supplements he prescribes to himself.

But last week, he suddenly suffered from a mild stroke.

This shocked everybody around him. He is recovering well.

Can you tell me what happened?

A dinner-cum-lecture on vegan lifestyle by Olive Green (Singapore) on every last Sunday of the month

A dinner-cum-lecture on vegan lifestyle by Olive Green (Singapore) on every last Sunday of the month

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According to the report by Natasha Ann Zachariah In the Sunday Times dated 5 Feb 2012, every last Sunday of the month, Olive Green Marketing Pte. Ltd. holds a dinner-cum-lecture at the factory for free to spread the word about the benefits of the vegan lifestyle.

About 50 to 60 people turn up each time. There are often new faces amid family and friends.

Mr Desmond Tan of Olive Green says: 'People come because they want to learn health tips from us and find out how to change their diet as well as ask questions about why certain food is bad for us.'

He quips: 'In the past, people would just turn up during dinner time for the free food and leave after that.'

While it might seem like a lot of work for their beliefs, the Tans are not content with being pamphlet-pushers.

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Olive Green

2 Toh Tuck Link
#05-03, Singapore 596225

Tel: +65 67671301
Fax: +65 67679908
Email: contact@olivegreen.com.sg

http://www.olivegreen.com.sg/

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For the complete report, please visit

http://www.straitstimes.com/Lifestyle/Hot/Story/STIStory_763038.html

Organic vegan breads manufacturer in Singapore (Olive Green Marketing Pte. Ltd.)

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Organic vegan breads manufacturer in Singapore (Olive Green Marketing Pte. Ltd.)

According to a report by Natasha Ann Zachariah in Sunday Times dated 5 Feb 2012, Olive Green Marketing Pte. Ltd.churns out more than 12 different types of organic vegan breads such as sprouted quinoa olive oil buns, wholemeal olive oil bread and banana olive oil bread.

It also sells organic honey and oils such as Salmiana Agave nectar and Hippocrates Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil and uses only distilled water in its cooked food products.

Products are sourced from countries such as New Zealand, the Philippines and Cyprus, which can be expensive. For example, a box of organic cherries from New Zealand costs $45 a kilogram, while ginger from Australia costs $38 a kilogram. The prices of their organic goods are 20 to 30 per cent higher than non-organic produce.

Olive Green

2 Toh Tuck Link
#05-03
Singapore 596225

Tel: +65 67671301
Fax: +65 67679908
Email: contact@olivegreen.com.sg

http://www.olivegreen.com.sg/

For the complete report, please visit

http://www.straitstimes.com/Lifestyle/Hot/Story/STIStory_763038.html

Olive Green (http://www.olivegreen.com.sg/)

Info source: http://www.olivegreen.com.sg/about.php

About Olive Green ( http://www.olivegreen.com.sg/ )

Olive Green is a Singapore based company that develops, manufactures and distributes corn starch based bioplastic, Origo, in the form of disposable tableware, carrier bags and other packaging - CornWare, CornBag, CornPack.

Not only have we refined our technological processes over the years so as to bring forth a product that has the capabilities to address the growing concerns of climate change, we have also created a product that is cost and performance competitive to oil-based plastics and fibers.

Our philosophy is that everyone, as responsible stewards of Earth, should live in harmony with the environment in a sustainable manner. Our aim is to raise environmental conservation awareness through education and by making our products easily accessible so that eco-friendly habits can become part of our daily lives.

Olive Green believes that we can meet the demands of today without having to compromise our earth’s resources if we stay dedicated to the true ideology of sustainability.

Mission

Olive Green is determined to resolve the challenges brought forth by global warming as characterized by mankind’s dependency on petroleum based plastics, so as to create a truly sustainable future through the consistent development and utilization of a range of high quality, revolutionary biological plastics, perpetuated strictly by core values of vocational and constitutional integrity.

Vision

Olive Green is set to take the leadership role in the supply of biological plastics; through the provision of ground breaking research and developments, profitable commercial viabilities, strong partnerships and collaborations and outstanding corporation-client services in Asia.

Vegan family (A Vegan boy and his diet)

Vegan family (A Vegan boy and his diet)

The following is extracted from http://www.straitstimes.com/Lifestyle/Hot/Story/STIStory_763044.html

First published on 5 Feb 2012, Sunday. Reported by Kimberly Spykerman.

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Quek Xufeng is five years old and, rarely for kids these days, he has never tasted a hamburger.

Just like his parents Mr Quek Sio Hua and MADAM HONG MEISHAN, he is a vegan and does not eat anything that is of animal origin. This rules out meat, fish, eggs and milk products, although he does sometimes consume products such as a gelatinous dessert made of sea algae and sugar.

MADAM HONG has not been without her detractors. Her parents did not share her beliefs and felt that Xufeng needed meat in his diet to be healthy. But she insists that he is no less healthier than his peers who eat meat.

The boy eats tofu, nuts and beans for protein and she also feeds him herbal supplements.

Madam Hong also substitutes cow's milk with oat, barley, sesame and brown rice milk. And the bread the family eats is baked by her and contains no milk or butter. She uses olive oil as a substitute.

For the complete report please visit http://www.straitstimes.com/Lifestyle/Hot/Story/STIStory_763044.html

Philips Blender HR2094 --- Do not let the appliance run for more than 3 minutes at a time.

Do not let the appliance Philips Blender HR2094 run for more than 3 minutes at a time.

If you have not finished processing after 3 minutes, switch off the appliance and let it cool down to room temperature before you let it run again.

Info source: The User manual of Philips Blender HR2094 at

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?tmplt=ePlatform%20-%20Philips&scy=GB&slg=ENG&sct=BJ_BLENDERS_SU&cat=JUICERS_AND_BLENDERS_CA&session=20110212071055_161.88.245.134&grp=HOUSEHOLD_PRODUCTS_GR&ctn=HR2094/00&mid=Link_UserManuals&hlt=Link_UserManuals