More women throughout the world are becoming smokers as tobacco companies continue to target them through advertisements. Ahead of World No Tobacco Day 2010, GlaxoSmithKline has launched a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Assessment Test (CAT) questionnaire.

COPD is a disease of the lungs facing difficulty to breathe. The symptoms experienced by people with COPD, such as ongoing cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, and chest tightness, can restrict them from performing simple daily activities. The CAT is a new questionnaire designed for people with COPD to measure the impact of COPD on a person’s life, and how this changes over time. The CAT is very simple to administer, and aims to help clinicians manage a patient’s COPD better.

You can take your CAT by online at HERE to check what level is your COPD. Following are the themes of World No Tobacco Day for each year since 1989:

• 2009 – Tobacco health warnings
• 2008 – Tobacco-free youth
• 2007 – Smoke free inside
• 2006 – Tobacco: deadly in any form or disguise
• 2005 – Health professionals against tobacco
• 2004 – Tobacco and poverty, a vicious circle
• 2003 – Tobacco free film, tobacco free fashion
• 2002 – Tobacco free sports
• 2001 – Second-hand smoke kills
• 2000 – Tobacco kills, don’t be duped
• 1999 – Leave the pack behind
• 1998 – Growing up without tobacco
• 1997 – United for a tobacco free world
• 1996 – Sport and art without tobacco: play it tobacco free
• 1995 – Tobacco costs more than you think
• 1994 – Media and tobacco: get the message across
• 1993 – Health services: our windows to a tobacco free world
• 1992 – Tobacco free workplaces: safer and healthier
• 1991 – Public places and transport: better be tobacco free
• 1990 – Childhood and youth without tobacco: growing up without tobacco
• 1989 – Initial observance

High blood pressure is the biggest single cause of death worldwide through strokes, heart attacks and kidney diseases. Hypertension has been on the rise in Malaysia over the past 10 years and now affects an estimated 4.8 million Malaysians. About 43% of Malaysians over the age of 30 suffer from the chronic disease, an increase from the 33% recorded in 1996.

Normally a healthy people have a good blood pressure of less than or equal to 120/80 mmHg. You may have high blood pressure if it is more than: 140/90 mmHg (when measured in a clinic), 135/85 mmHg (when measured at home) or 130/80 mmHg (if you have diabetes or kidney disease). In order to achieve a healthy lifestyle of lower high blood pressure, you may follow a few guides as the following:

1. Be physically active. Try walking, biking, or swimming for 30 to 60 minutes on most days.
2. Eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables, lowfat dairy and foods low in fat. Avoid fast foods.
3. Eat less salt in your diet.
4. If you drink, do not have more than two alcoholic drinks each day.
5. Keep your body weight within a healthy range.
6. Quit smoking. Lifestyle change can be as effective as drugs in some cases.

You may get more details of hypertension at HERE.

Recurring themes over the years focus on preventing cancer and raising the quality of life for cancer patients. This year’s theme, “Cancer can be prevented too”, focusses on how the risk of developing cancer can significantly be reduced through simple measures related to tobacco use, alcohol consumption, sun exposure, healthy weight and protection against cancer-causing infections.

The Charter of Paris chose 4th FEB each year as World Cancer Day and UICC initiated the World Cancer Campaign in 2005 in response to the Charter of Paris of 2000. Since 2006, UICC has coordinated World Cancer Day activities, supported by members, partners, WHO and other international bodies.

There are different symbols that are used to help promote the fight against different types of cancers. For example, the pink ribbon is a global symbol of breast cancer awareness, while the orange ribbon is associated with child cancer awareness.

You may check out at HERE or HERE for more information.

KRR celebrate RED on 13 Jan 2010 – marking it a significant day by giving out a *complimentary Kenny’s Quarter Meal with purchase of a Kenny’s Quarter Meal for those who visit KRR restaurants with any element of the colour red (you could have red lipstick, red cap, red shirt or red head band). It will be a day that people can mark on their calendar to remind them to take the opportunity to eat healthy!

Come to Kenny Rogers ROASTERS restaurant nearest to you and enjoy this gift of health!

More details: Kenny Roger

These are the 12 reasons according to CNNGO:

1. We’re one great big Garden City - It was the mission of Singapore government to integrate the environment with urban development and soften the effects of a concrete jungle. When you are in Singapore, you will see trees and plants along every road and parks.
2. Waste not, want not – Singaporeans are taught to save every drop of water. The country only import half the population’s water from the Malaysia government and conserves almost all rainfall and water reserves to produce water for industrial usage and also drinking.
3. Drive up, plug in, power on – Many motor vehicles and cars in Singapore start using electric motor. Until now, electric power is still the most viable and cleanest green energy source to drive vehicles.
4. Electric cars are so yesterday – Not only the private cars, the public transport (like cabs) in Singapore use kind of hybrid engine (petrol + electric power for small vehicles or diesel + electric power) to drive their transport.
5. The big evil master plan to save the Earth – Singapore has a big plan to save the earth – Singapore Green Plan 2012 – which looks at six main areas: Clean Air & Climate Change, Water, Waste Management, Public Health, Conserving Nature, and International Environmental Relations.
6. We’re getting paid to go green – Singaporeans are getting paid for go green. The government subsides some of the thing if you choose to be green, for example buying a electric car.
7. The longest green campaign. Ever. – The Clean and Green Singapore (CGS) campaign has been around for about two decades now and it’s one of the longest in Singapore.
8. Get them while they’re young – Green Singapore 2050 (GS2050), a place where youngster voice their concerns to environmental issues and suggest solutions to them.
9. Of mega parks and super trees – Parks, parks, and parks around the city.
10. “Way to stay cool, good looking” – Buildings are design to be green and environmentally conscious.
11. The most glam eco advocates around – Green Kampung and Green Drinks Singapore are the community that make things happening in Singapore
12. We all want to do save the world – Most Singaporeans are willing in involving making the work greener.

Read more at CNNGO.

1. Image is rotating

2. Adult and Children mindset
Research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario and children will see nine dolphins.

This is a test to determine if you already have a corrupted mind.  If it is hard for you to find the dolphins within six seconds, your mind is indeed corrupted.

3. Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

4. Purple dot will turn green
a. Concentrate on the cross in the middle, after a while you will notice that this moving purple dot will turn green!
b. Look at the cross a bit longer and you‘ll notice that all dots except the green one will disappear.

Follow the instruction below.
1) Stare at the 4 little dots on the middle of the picture for 30 seconds.
2) then look at a wall near you.
3) a bright spot will appear.
4) twinkle a few times and you‘ll see a figure.
5) What do you see? Or even WHO do you see?

Hope you are enjoy it.

What the sleep scientists say that:

• recognition memory for faces is unaffected by sleep loss. A person who has not slept for as much as 35 hours can perform as well as someone who is not sleep deprived.
• the area of the brain that controls temporal memory can be affected by prolonged sleep loss and/or ageing. So a healthy 65 year old who sleeps normally would be able to perform this test similarly to a 20 year old who has gone without sleep for 36 hours.

The test consists of three parts:

1. You’ll be shown 12 photos in the first part
2. You’ll be shown another 12 photos in the second part
3. You’ll be shown 48 photos in the third part and asked if you saw them in the first part, the second part – or never saw them at all

When you have finished the third part, your results will be given to you.

Here is my result:

Start you Test Now?

The flying condom

feelings

An incident of a mobile phone explosion inside a vehicle cabin was reported in Saudi Arabia lately. Mobile phone units were left inside the car compartment while the vehicle was parked in an open area. One of the phones had its power “on”. It was close to midday. Reportedly after an hour in the park, one of the mobile phones exploded.

What Went Wrong?
Obviously the mobile phone’s battery is the only component as the legitimate source of stored energy. The solar heat obviously pressurized the car’s closed cabin. What triggers the explosion could be the overheated battery caused by extremely high temperature magnified by the windshield (glass) and the sealed (unventilated) vehicle cabin.

Shattered car windshield as a result of the explosion

Shattered car windshield as a result of the explosion

Effects of the explosion

Remains of phone gadget Figure

Evidence of rupture and heavy melting due to intense temperature

Car compartment damages and mobile phone units were destroyed

Better not to leave mobile phones in car compartment especially when the vehicle is exposed to direct sunlight for a prolonged period.

Preserved egg [皮蛋]
When manufacturer preserved eggs, often increases the quota, if we eat frequently, can cause of poisoning. At the same time, calcareous could drain in the body.

Strong-smelling fermented bean curd [臭豆腐]
The strong-smelling fermented beancurd in the fermentation process, extremely easily by the microbial contamination, simultaneously can volatilize the massive salt base nitrogen.

Monosodium glutamate [味精]
Each person absorbs the quantity every day to the monosodium glutamate, take does not surpass six male grams as the principle, eat much is harmful and unhealthy.

Spinach [菠菜]
The spinach nutrition is rich, but because includes the oxalic acid, sends in food the precious element zinc and the calcium union, but is discharged in vitro, but causes the human body zinc and calcium lacking. (Man lacks zinc, can be unable to gain ground cultivates the behavior, terror!) As well as hydrogen sulfide and so on; These all are the corrupt matter which the protein decomposes, is
harmful to the human body.

Pig Liver [猪肝]
A kilogram of pig liver contains the cholesterol to reach as high as above 400 milligrams, but a person if absorbs the sterol, can cause the arteriosclerosis.

Barbecue meat[烤肉]
Barbecue in smokes roasts in the process, can produce like ‘the benzene’ and so on the deleterious substance, is induces the cancer the factor.

Pickles [腌菜]
If manufactures does not get the knack of, contains the carcinogen, and contains the nitric acid amine, can cause of sick with long time eats.

Cruller [油条]
In the cruller potassium alum, is contains the aluminum the inorganic substance, may not frequently edible.

Hope this will contribute some general knowledge to your dictionary.