#19 - After All...

First of all,

Happy Birthday to AzwanFahmi

May alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll your dream comes true.

Dan, satu keputusan yang aku takmo buat sebenarnya.

Tapi aku buat juga atas sebab-sebab yang aku sendiri saja yang tahu.

Aku akan stop untuk seketika!

Maksudnya, takkan ada entri di blog ini untuk suatu tempoh masa.

Dan, aku pon takkan menjengah ke blog ni dalam jangkamasa tersebut.

Kepada yang selalu menjengahkan muka ke sini, Terima Kasih Daun Keladi.

Aku bukan stop untuk selamanya tapi untuk seketika cuma.

Assalamualaikum.

#17 - Info Khidmat Masyarakat : Makanan Berasaskan Soya

[Source:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/18/soy-can-damage-your-health.aspx]

If you were to carefully review the thousands of studies published on soy, I strongly believe you would reach the same conclusion as I have—which is, the risks of consuming unfermented soy products FAR outweigh any possible benefits.

Notice I said unfermented soy products.

For centuries, Asian people have been consuming fermented soy products such as natto, tempeh, and soy sauce, and enjoying the health benefits. Fermented soy does not wreak havoc on your body like unfermented soy products do.

Unfortunately, many Americans who are committed to healthy lifestyles have been hoodwinked and manipulated into believing that unfermented and processed soy products like soymilk, soy cheese, soy burgers and soy ice cream are good for them.

How Did Soy Foods Become So Popular?

If it seems like soy foods appeared out of nowhere to be regarded as the “miracle health food” of the 21st Century, it’s because they did.

From 1992 to 2006, soy food sales increased from $300 million to nearly $4 billion, practically overnight, according to the Soyfoods Association of North America. This growth came about due to a massive shift in attitudes about soy. And this shift was no accident—it was the result of a massive investment in advertising by the soy industry that’s been wildly successful.

Soy is indeed big business, very big business.

From 2000 to 2007, U.S. food manufacturers introduced more than 2,700 new soy-based foods, and new soy products continue to appear on your grocer’s shelves.

According to the survey Consumer Attitudes About Nutrition 2008 (by the United Soybean Board):

• As of 2007, 85 percent of consumers perceive soy products as healthful
• 33 percent of Americans eat soy foods or beverages at least once a month
• 70 percent of consumers believe soybean oil is good for them
• 84 percent of consumers agree with the FDA’s claim that consuming 25 grams of soy protein daily reduces your risk of heart disease

This is a tragic case of shrewd marketing and outright lies taking root among the masses with the end result of producing large profits for the soy industry and impaired health for most who have been deceived into using unfermented soy long-term..

As you can see from the extensive list of articles below, there is a large amount of scientific research showing that soy is not the nutritional panacea of the 21^st Century.

The Dark Side of Soy

The vast majority of soy at your local market is not a health food. The exception is fermented soy, which I’ll explain more about later and even worse GMO soy that is contaminated with large pesticide residues as the reason it is GMO is so they can spray the potent toxic herbicide Roundup on them to improve crop production by killing the weeds.

Unlike the Asian culture, where people eat small amounts of whole non-GMO soybean products, western food processors separate the soybean into two golden commodities—protein and oil. And there is nothing natural or safe about these products.

Dr. Kaayla Daniel, author of The Whole Soy Story, points out thousands of studies linking soy to malnutrition, digestive distress, immune-system breakdown, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders and infertility—even cancer and heart disease.

Here is just a sampling of the health effects that have been linked to soy consumption:

• Breast cancer
• Brain damage
• Infant abnormalities
• Thyroid disorders
• Kidney stones
• Immune system impairment
• Severe, potentially fatal food allergies
• Impaired fertility
• Danger during pregnancy and nursing

Soy proponents will argue that soy-based foods (they lump the fermented ones with the unfermented) will protect you from everything from colon, prostate and breast cancer to strokes, osteoporosis, and asthma.

But said enthusiasts never mention the studies that illuminate soy’s downside and all of the dangers posed to your health, which are based on sound research.

Another unfortunate fact is that 80 percent of the world’s soy is used in farm animal feed, which is why soy production is contributing to deforestation. Some soy propagandists have suggested that the solution to this is for all of us to become vegetarians—a reckless recommendation rooted in total ignorance about nutrition—whereas a far better solution is a major overhaul in how farm animals are fed and raised.

What Makes Soy Such a Risky Food to Eat?

Here is a summary of soy’s most glaring problems.

1 - 91 percent of soy grown in the US is genetically modified (GM). The genetic modification is done to impart resistance to the toxic herbicide Roundup. While this is meant to increase farming efficiency and provide you with less expensive soy, the downside is that your soy is loaded with this toxic pesticide. The plants also contain genes from bacteria that produce a protein that has never been part of the human food supply.

GM soy has been linked to an increase in allergies. Disturbingly, the only published human feeding study on GM foods ever conducted verified that the gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of our gut bacteria and continues to function. This means that years after you stop eating GM soy, you may still have a potentially allergenic protein continuously being produced in your intestines.

Even more frightening is the potential for GM soy to cause infertility in future generations, which has been evidenced by recent Russian research.

2 - Soy contains natural toxins known as “anti-nutrients.” - Soy foods contain anti-nutritional factors such as saponins, soyatoxin, phytates, protease inhibitors, oxalates, goitrogens and estrogens. Some of these factors interfere with the enzymes you need to digest protein. While a small amount of anti-nutrients would not likely cause a problem, the amount of soy that many Americans are now eating is extremely high.

3 - Soy contains hemagglutinin. - Hemagglutinin is a clot-promoting substance that causes your red blood cells to clump together. These clumped cells are unable to properly absorb and distribute oxygen to your tissues.

4 - Soy contains goitrogens. - Goitrogens are substances that block the synthesis of thyroid hormones and interfere with iodine metabolism, thereby interfering with your thyroid function.

5 - Soy contains phytates. - Phytates (phytic acid) bind to metal ions, preventing the absorption of certain minerals, including calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc -- all of which are co-factors for optimal biochemistry in your body. This is particularly problematic for vegetarians, because eating meat reduces the mineral-blocking effects of these phytates (so it is helpful—if you do eat soy—to also eat meat).

6 - Soy is loaded with the isoflavones genistein and daidzein. - Isoflavones are a type of phytoestrogen, which is a plant compound resembling human estrogen. These compounds mimic and sometimes block the hormone estrogen, and have been found to have adverse effects on various human tissues. Soy phytoestrogens are known to disrupt endocrine function, may cause infertility, and may promote breast cancer in women.

Drinking even two glasses of soymilk daily for one month provides enough of these compounds to alter your menstrual cycle. Although the FDA regulates estrogen-containing products, no warnings exist on soy.

7 - Soy has toxic levels of aluminum and manganese - Soybeans are processed (by acid washing) in aluminum tanks, which can leach high levels of aluminum into the final soy product.Soy formula has up to 80 times higher manganese than is found in human breast milk.

8 - Soy infant formula puts your baby’s health at risk. - Nearly 20 percent of U.S. infants are now fed soy formula, but the estrogens in soy can irreversibly harm your baby’s sexual development and reproductive health. Infants fed soy formula take in an estimated five birth control pills’ worth of estrogen every day.

Infants fed soy formula have up to 20,000 times the amount of estrogen in circulation as those fed other formulas!

There is also the issue of pesticides and genetic modification.

Soy foods are both heavily sprayed with pesticides and genetically modified (GM). More than 80 percent of the soy grown in the United States is GM. And more than 90 percent of American soy crops are GM.

Since the introduction of GM foods in 1996, we’ve had an upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems in the U.S. population, and animal studies thus far have shown devastating effects from consuming GM soy.

You may want to steer clear of soy products for no other reason than a commitment to avoiding GM foods... unless you wish to be a lab animal for this massive uncontrolled experiment by the biotech industry.

What Soy Products are Good For You?

I want to be clear that I am not opposed to all soy. Soy can be incredibly healthful, but ONLY if it is organic and properly fermented.

After a long fermentation process, the phytate and “anti-nutrient” levels of soybeans are reduced, and their beneficial properties become available to your digestive system.

You may have heard that Japanese people live longer and have lower rates of cancer than Americans because they eat so much soy—but it’s primarily fermented soy that they consume, and it’s always been that way.

Fermented soy products are the only ones I recommend consuming.

These are the primary fermented soy products you’ll find:

• Tempeh a fermented soybean cake with a firm texture and nutty, mushroom-like flavor.
• Miso, a fermented soybean paste with a salty, buttery texture (commonly used in miso soup).
• Natto, fermented soybeans with a sticky texture and strong, cheese-like flavor.
• Soy sauce, which is traditionally made by fermenting soybeans, salt and enzymes; be wary because many varieties on the market today are made artificially using a chemical process.

Please note that tofu is NOT on this list. Tofu is not fermented, so is not among the soy foods I recommend.

Vitamin K2: One of the Major Benefits of Fermented Soy

One of the main benefits of fermented soy, especially natto, is that it is the best food source of vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is essential to preventing osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and diseases of the brain such as dementia, and protecting you from various cancers including prostate, lung, liver cancer and leukemia.

Vitamin K acts synergistically with vitamin D to keep you healthy.

Vitamin K is sometimes referred to as the “forgotten vitamin” because its benefits are often overlooked. It was named after the word “Koagulation,” to reflect its essential role in blood clotting. In fact, the enzyme nattokinase—derived from natto—is safer and more powerful than aspirin in dissolving blood clots, and has been used safely for more than 20 years.

If you enjoy natto or some of the other fermented soy foods, you can get several milligrams of vitamin K2 from them each day (this level far exceeds the amount of vitamin K2 found even in dark green vegetables).

Unfortunately, the health benefits of many of the fermented soy foods fall by the wayside because many Americans do not enjoy their flavor.

If you don’t want to consume natto to get your vitamin K2, the next best thing would be to get use supplemental Vitamin K2 (MK-7). Remember, vitamin K must be taken with a source of fat in order to be absorbed.

I suggest adults consume about 150 mcg of vitamin K2 daily.

Tips for Avoiding Unwanted Soy Foods

For a simple rule of thumb, just remember that unless soy is fermented (tempeh, miso, natto, or traditionally made soy sauce), you’re better off avoiding it.

Soy foods to avoid include:

Tofu

TVP (texturized vegetable protein) or soy protein isolate, which contains a large amount of msg, which you should definitely not consume

• Soybean oil
• Soymilk
• Soy cheese, soy ice cream, soy yogurt
• Soy “meat” (meatless products made of TVP)
• Soy protein
• Edamame
• Soy infant formula

The best way to eliminate non-fermented soy from your diet is to avoid all processed foods and instead purchase whole foods that you prepare yourself.

If you do buy packaged foods, you can check the label to see if it contains soy. The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, which took effect in January 2006, requires that food manufacturers list soy on the label, because it’s one of the top eight food allergens.

So, even if soy is hidden in colors, flavors, or spice blends added to foods, it must be clearly stated on the label.

One other common source of soy is lecithin which is used as a emulsifier in many foods and supplements. Most lecithin in the US is derived from soy but there are some newer products that extract it from organic sunflower. We switched over to the organic sunflower lecithin a few years ago in all of our products.

If you wish to know more about soy, I have provided a list of links below to the many articles I’ve posted over the years on this subject. Remember, the only way to avoid falling victim to shrewd marketing and misinformation is to become knowledgeable about what the research actually says, and this is often different from what is commonly passed around as “fact.”

Kadar Zakat Tahun 2011

Kejap je, kan?
Rasa mcm Ramadhan ni memecut laju plak. Dah hampir nak habis 1/3 yang pertama. Alhamdulillah, syukur ke hadratNya kerana kita dapat capai sehingga ke hari nih.

Entri kali ni juz as an updet je. Saling ingat mengingati berkenaan tanggungjawab kita membayar zakat.

Teringat lagi zaman dolu-dolu waktu bebudak dulu kat kampung, orang kampung biasanya memberikan zakat ni dengan bagi segantang beras kat mereka mereka yang dikira layak menerima. So, kami adik-beradik ni pon start bizi jugak la bertugas sebagai posmen menghantar beras tu kepada mereka-mereka yang berkenaan.

Mula-mula dah dapat list sapa yang akan diberi zakat ni. Kami pon tapau la beras dalam beg plastik segantang untuk tiap satunya, then petang hari Ramadhan yang akhir kami adik-beradik pakat-pakat la hantaq beras tu dengan menaiki gerek ke serata kampung. Meriah juga la, cuma aku ja tak reti nak bercerita macam mana.

Banyak juga ghumah yang kami hantaq dan antara yang wajib ialah ghumah Tok Ngah Timah, tok guru yang ngajar kami ngaji Quran dolu-dolu.

But now, kita bayar zakat dah simple dah, Bayar kat amil yang bertugas, kat ruang legar shopping complex, kat masjid atau surau, kadang-kadang kat ruang legar opis dan banyak lagi lokasi. Aku pon sebelum sebelum salu je gi bayar kat ruang legar KL Sentral, ada amil buka meja kat area depan McDonald tu. Niat nak bayar pon siap ditulis lagi, cuma baca je. Senang dan simple, kan?

Tahun ini punya kadar zakat dah pon ada, so boleh lah kita sama-sama pi bayar zakat pasni. Dan, of coz kadar zakat ni berbeza-beza ikut negeri. Jangan la tanya aku napa, tapi memang bersebab. =)

Bagi sebarang pertanyaan, orang ramai boleh menghubungi talian zakat 1-300-88-5757 atau layari www.zakat.com.my atau www.facebook.com/zakat.my.

Apapon, jom lah kita sama-sama menyelesaikan tanggungjawab yang satu nih.

"Dan dirikanlah kamu akan sembahyang serta keluarkanlah zakat
dan taatlah kepada Rasul supaya kamu beroleh rahmat".
Surah An-Nur (ayat 56)

Info Khidmat Masyarakat - Antara Ubat Mengandungi Unsur BAbi 1

Pagi yang indah untuk memulakan everything.

Juz nak sambung sket pasal lanjutan daripada entri yang lepas berkaitan ubatan yang ada unsur BABI. Lagipon info nih cuma untuk pengetahuan umum kita semua je, apapon terpulang pada tindakan memasing lah. Tak dapek den nak nolong..!

So, antara ubat-ubatan tu ialah:

Kenalog in Orabase - ubat sapu untuk ulser mulut.

Drixoral - tablet selsema.

Clexane - ubat suntik untuk mencairkan darah.

Fraxiparine - ubat suntik untuk mencairkan darah. alternatif kepada 'clexane' dan 'fraxiparine' ini yang halal digunakan ialah 'fondaparinux'.

Imodium Capsule - ubat cirit-birit.

Vaksin jenama Monumune - vaksin untuk meningococcal meningitis (ACYW 135).

Benadryl for the family original - ubat batuk, bersin dan hidung tersumbat.

Botulinum Toxin Type A ( BTXA) - nama glamer dia Botox. guna merawat kekejangan otot leher, penyakit berpeluh yang melampau di ketiak, mata juling dan pengecutan kelopak mata. Fatwa berkaitan boleh di rujuk kpd Muzakarah JK Fatwa Kebangsaan kali ke-73 pada 4-6 Apr 06.

Calciparin - kalsium heparin, untuk penyakit jantung tak stabil, thromboprofilaksis serta mencegah darah beku sewaktu haemodialisis. alternatif, ada produk sama yang dihasilkan oleh syarikat tempatan berasaskn material drpd lembu.

Centrum complete from A-Z - supplement untuk kesihatan. semak label dia sebelum beli.

Clexane, Lovenox - untuk penyakit jantung tak stabil, thromboprofilaksis serta mencegah darah beku sewaktu haemodialisis. Fatwa berkaitan boleh di rujuk kpd Muzakarah JK Fatwa Kebangsaan kali ke-87 pada 23 Jun 09.

Cotazym, Cotazym S-Capsules, Cotazym Forte Tablet - terapi gantian hormon untuk pesakit kurang atau tiada hormon pankreatik disebabkan pembuangan organ pankreas, masalah percernaan atau penyerapan makanan dan masalah jangkitan hati.

Creon 10 000 capsules - terapi gantian hormon untuk pesakit kurang atau tiada hormon pankreatik disebabkan pembuangan organ pankreas, masalah percernaan atau penyerapan makanan dan masalah jangkitan hati.

Curosurf Poractant Alfa - rawatan kepada bayi pra matang yang mengalami penyakit membran hyalin atau sindrom pernafasan bayi.

Edward Porcine Bioprosthesis - injap jantung babi biologi, digunakan dalam rawatan berkaitan injap jantung manusia.

So, cukup dulu la list tu setakat ni, nanti nanti akan disambung lagi.

Info Khidmat Masyarakat - Terminologi Berkaitan Babi n Khinzir

Lately nih life agak bz dan meletihkan. So dah lama tak update laman ni dengan sumtin yang lebih menarik, so hari nih jom kita tengok terminologi berkaitan babi yang baru aku baca tengah malam tadi.

Kenapa aku nak share dengan korang tentang menatang babi nih, nanti korang akan tau sendiri.

Babi atau khinzir ni if dalam Bahasa Malaysia kita rasanya semua orang faham apa menda kejadah tu, very straight forward la. No need to explain pon sebab orang kita bila menyumpah seranah pon selalu sangat keluar nama menatang nih. Tapi bila dalam Bahasa Inggeris, dorang ni ada term-term yang lebih spesifik untuk merujuk sesuatu yang berkaitan atau bersumberkan kepada menatang babi nih, jadi kekeliruan mungkin terjadi bila kita tak amik tau.

In fact, waktu kat Milan suatu tika dulu, kitorang nyaris termakan atau memang ada yang dah termakan dah biskut jari yang ada kandungan minyak haiwan (tak betulnya sebab haiwan tu tak disembelih) walaupun kitorang dah berjaga-jaga dengan list menda menda ingredients dalam makanan yang berasaskan haiwan nih.

Straight to the point, antara terminologi yang merujuk kepada sesuatu yang bersumberkan atau berasaskan menatang babi ni ialah:

PORK - biasanya digunakan untuk merujuk kepada daging babi dalam masakan.

SWINE - digunakan untuk menunjukkan kumpulan spesis menatang babi ni lah.

PIG - yang ni korang semua tau kot. Term yang menunjukkan seekor babi, anak babi yang kurang drpd 50 kg.

HOG - babi dewasa, melebihi 50 kg.

PORCINE - term yang digunakan untuk merujuk sesuatu yang bersumberkan atau berasaskan babi. terminologi ni kebiasaannya digunakan dalam bidang perubatan.

BOAR - babi liar.

SOW - babi betina dewasa.

LARD - lemak babi yang biasa digunakan sebagai sabun atau minyak masak.

BACON - terminologi yang juga digunakan kepada daging babi salai. tapi term ni jugak digunakan kepada daging salai yang lain selain daripada babi.

HAM - daging bahagian peha babi yang telah disalai.

Tu semua adalah terminologi yang aku nak share n bagitau korang semua. Sebabnya dalam banyak-banyak term tu, term PORCINE lah yang selalu kita miss look sebab ianya digunakan sebagai ubat-ubatan.

Dari Abu Darda r.a, Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda:

"Sesungguhnya Allah telah menurunkan penyakit dan penawar, dan Dia telah menjadikan bagi tiap-tiap penyakit itu penawar, maka kamu semua berubatlah dan janganlah kamu semua berubat dengan (perkara-perkara) yang haram."

Mungkin korang pernah tengok kat label vitamin atau ubat-ubatan yang ada tertulis;

'This product contain substance from porcine.'

atau,

'The source of gelatin capsule is porcine.'

Sebagai contoh, korang boleh tengok-tengok kat sini camna tag tu boleh dikenal pasti. KLIK!

Sebabnya yang perlu diingati ialah kebanyakan ubat-ubatan bukannya dibuat dari Malaysia atau Negara-Negara Islam dan menatang babi ni sebenarnya digunakan secara meluas dalam bidang perubatan dan kajian bioperubatan penyakit manusia kerana menatang ni dianggap sesuai dari segi anatomi dan fisiologi.

So, be careful dengan ubat-ubatan, supplement atau vitamin yang korang gunakan.

Actually apa yang aku nak share ni bukan nak burukkan sesapa pon atau bertujuan tak baik, tetapi juz as an info untuk aku dan korang semua.