Tuesday, October 21, 2008

SLEEPING WITH LIGHT ON MAY CAUSE CANCER?????

KIDS who sleep with the light on could risk leukemia, parents were warned yesterday.

Scientists have found the body needs darkness to produce a chemical that fights cancer. Even switching the light on for the toilet, staying up late, traveling across time zones, or the light from street lamps can stop enough melatonin being made, they say.

The body needs the chemical to prevent damage to DNA and its absence stops fatty acids reaching tumors and preventing them growing. Texas University Prof Russell Reiter, who led the research, said: 'Once you go to bed you should not even switch the light on for a minute.. 'Your brain immediately recognizes the light as day and melatonin levels drop.'

Rates of childhood leukemia have doubled in the past 40 years.

About 500 youngsters under 15 are diagnosed with the disease each year and around 100 died. A conference on childhood leukemia in London yesterday heard that people were being subjected to more light at night than ever.

This suppressed the production of melatonin, which normally happens between 9pm and 8am.

Past research has shown those most affected, like shift workers, had higher levels of breast cancer.

Blind people, who are not vulnerable to fluctuations of melatonin, have lower rates of cancer, it was found.

Parents are advised to use dim red or yellow bulbs if their youngsters are scared of the dark.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Hayley's "BLOW"!!!!!!!!!

Hee Hee i found this funny :p Hayley can actually do this 2 or 3 months ago. this time i can video it down :)

Saturday, October 18, 2008

FP dinner 2008





Tis flight purser dinner party on 17th oct 2007.
All of us had a great time esp TAble 23!!!!!!


Another video



Yet another game kekekkek

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Another one :P

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THis is FUN!!!!

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Another walking session

Hyaley's been pratising how to stand up by herself 2 days ago and finally yesterday she mastered it !!!!!!!she kept standing and walking by herself at home.Though we brought her down the apartment for walks....i dare not let her walk by herself unless in the clubhouse kiddies room,afraid that she might lost her balance and scratch herself :p

Blankie play

everything is fun for hayley including the bedsheets etc :)
her mission now? PLAY!!!!!!!very HARD!!!!!!!!

Friday, October 10, 2008

BABY CARROTS!!!!!!!!????????

Hi all, I received this email from a friend. I am not sure if it is true or not. So it is up to you to judge. I also included the other side of the story... take a read...


The following is information from a farmer who grows and packages carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc. The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots. Most people probably know this already.

What you may not know and should know is the following: once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots they are dipped in a solution of water and chlorine in order to preserve them (this is the same chlorine used in your pool) since they do not have their skin or natural protective covering, they give them a higher dose of chlorine. You will notice that
once you keep these carrots in your refrigerator for a few days, a white covering will form on the carrots, this is the chlorine which resurfaces.

At what cost do we put our health at risk to have esthetically pleasing vegetables which are practically plastic?

We do hope that this information can be passed on to as many people as possible in the hopes of informing them where these carrots come from and how they are processed. Chlorine is a very well known carcinogen. Please let us make this information available to as many people as possible.

BUT... there is another side of the story, here is the link: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/260034

I also cut and paste below, just in case the link does not work...

In contrast to many e-mails circulating around the Internet, this one is fairly well written, and risks therefore to be taken seriously by a lot of people. However, that does not make it necessarily true. So, what do we have to think about this message?

Are baby carrots really made using larger crooked or deformed carrots? Originally, yes. The baby carrot was invented in 1986 by leading Newhall California carrot producer Mike Yurosek who sought to save at least some of the broken or misshapen carrots that he could not use in his fresh carrot packing line.

In order to make baby carrots, he used an industrial green bean cutter to cut them in pieces of about 5 cm long. He then put them in an industrial potato peeler to peel them and round them a bit. And so, the baby carrot was born.

It is unclear why the author of the e-mail mentions this origin of the baby-cut carrot. Does he or she think that an odd-shaped carrot is bad for one's health in some way? Let's be clear: there is no difference whatsoever in nutritional or health qualities between a perfectly shaped carrot and a crooked or misshaped one.

Now, although baby carrots can be bought, most baby carrots sold in grocery store are also not really baby carrots but normal carrots of the "Imperator" type that have been planted close together to make them long and thin. Once harvested, they are washed, sorted, cut, trimmed, grated, polished and shaped into the small uniform size we find in the grocery store packages.

How can you know if you are buying genuine baby carrots? Easy. Baby carrots are indeed just that: carrots that have been harvested while still very young. Baby-cut carrots are easier to find, and they are the larger carrots that have been shaped into baby carrots.

What about the chlorine? This is true as well. The carrots must be washed with chlorinated water. This water must have a pH (acidity) between 6.0 and 7.0. The concentration of chlorine in the water should be between 100 and 150 ppm (parts per million). The time of contact between the carrots and the chlorinated water should not exceed 5 minutes. This must be removed from the carrots by rinsing with potable water or using a centrifugal drier.

Is this dangerous? No. Chlorination is a well-known and well-tested way to disinfect food products. Our tap water is chlorinated as well. I would nevertheless like to issue a warning. When you disinfect something, that means that you kill the bacteria that are present. Chlorine kills bacteria. It can also kill us, or be very bad for us. The bleach you use to clean and disinfect your toilet, contains chlorine. Do not drink it. This will kill you because it is far more concentrated than we can safely ingest. The chlorine in your tap water and in your baby-carrots, presents no danger whatsoever. It is precisely to make them safe that the carrots are used.

As a side-note, it is interesting to know that the term chlorine is something of a misnomer. Chlorine, in its natural state, is a highly reactive gas that forms compounds with other products. Even is chlorine is added to water, it will react virtually immediately to form compounds such as hypochlorous acid and sodium hypochlorite. These compounds in turn disinfect the water. When we talk about chlorine, and even about free chlorine, these compounds are usually what we are referring to.

What about the white covering? Is that really the chlorine that resurfaces? No. It is simply the carrot drying out. Try it out for yourself. Take a fresh, normal carrot and cut it in half. Wait. The same white covering (which is officially called white blush) will appear on the cut. Baby carrots will show a lot more white blush for a very simple reason: their skin has been removed and therefore, the entire carrot dries out.

Now, what about the "practically plastic" claim? This means nothing. It doesn't even make sense here. My best guess is that the person who wrote the text, either wanted to make it sound even more terrible, or that he or she had heard a rumour about chlorine being an ingredient in plastics (PVC = polyvinyl chloride is a good example). There is absolutely no plastic in baby carrots.

What about the cancer claim? The question is a valid one, especially because we know that there are certain compounds of chlorine that do cause cancer. Does chlorine cause cancer? No. While medical science is not an exact science, and we must always be vigilant, there is at present no evidence whatsoever that chlorine causes cancer or could be a facilitator for cancer. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have not classified chlorine as to its human carcinogenicity. In other words, chlorine is perfectly safe, if it is used appropriately.

The author asks to send her/his "information" to as many people as possible in the hopes of informing them where these carrots come from and how they are processed. Please don't. We all receive more than junk mail and spam than we need, and we are already bombarded with more quackery and pseudoscience than we can handle. Do your friends and contacts a favour, and let them out of it!

In short, there is nothing wrong with baby carrots. They are a food that humans have enjoyed for centuries, probably millennia, chock-full of goodness that we need to keep our bodies functioning.

References:
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Code of Practice for Minimally Processed Ready-to-Eat Vegetables. (15 November 2005)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Guidelines for the Use of Food Additives and/or Processing Aids Intended for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (27 May 2007)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Chemical Residue Sampling Program (23 July 2008)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Compliance list for Chemical Residue 12-2008. (3 September 2008)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Sampling for Laboratory Testing. (11 December 2001)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Traceback Investigation Guidelines For Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. (27 July 2005)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. General Packaging and Labelling Requirements for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables. (April 2006)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Vegetable Inspection Manual for Carrots. (15 September 2008)
Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Canadian Import, Export and Interprovincial Requirements for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. (21 December 2007)
USDA. Factors Affecting Carrot Consumption in the United States. (2007)
ATSDR. ToxFAQs™ for Chlorine. (September 2007)

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Shopping on BEhalf

Hee hee i love to shop and shop for others...dunno why just enjoyed it :)......these are item fr S@L and 2 other big box of exploration station for sharron and K@ye......my helper was puzzled....mdm is surely is a crazy one kekkekekkeke.from sfo~hkg~sin......these items already been around the whole like me hohohohohoohohooh

ME:sayang can u get me 2 BIG plastic bags?
WARTI:oki(she goes searching....actually wanted paper bag but dun hv le )

WARTI:passes those plastic bags to me while i'm trying to flatten those big boxes and squeezing in everything,she tot thoe bags are for covering.

ME:no la !in case they didnt bring any bags mah :)

WARTI:laughs and shakes her head and says~~~~~~MDM~~~~~~~~~

AMitabha everyone :)

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

MACAU again!!!



Another trip to MAcau ,this time with daddy and ah goong.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Missing my baby

Do u feel like i feel?Each time i go flying....i misses hayley(i'm sure its worst for daddy cos he got 2 babies to miss kekkekekkek)
Am in SFO and started viewing those videos posted on this blog......one after another....overwhelmed by tears and contented that i hv such a lovely bb.

MAy all parents love and be responsible enough to give the best too their little ones(not all u know....!!!!!!)

And congrats to BELLE & family~gonna hv a new member soon!!!!!!(k now hayley is not the youngest already hehheheehhe)

AMITABHA