Hepatitis Hazard

There is still very little awareness of the high risk of death from hepatitis B and C in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Hospital director Datuk Dr Zaininah Mohd Zain said recently.

“Most people are afraid of AIDS, but hepatitis B and C are more contagious than the virus that causes AIDS,” she said, when launching a programme to mark World Hepatitis Day 2011 at the hospital here.

Hepatitis B & C can cause liver cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer.

Zaininah said that about 5% of the population or 1.4 million people in Malaysia are infected with hepatitis B, and 2% with the hepatitis C viruses respectively,

Worldwide, more than 500 million people were estimated to be infected with the viruses, she said.

She said the viruses were spread through the sharing of needles, sex with an infected partner, and from infected mother to baby, among other ways.

Zaininah urged people with a risk of being infected to undergo free blood screening for hepatitis B and C at government hospitals.

As of now, there is vaccine only for hepatitis B, and babies have been immunized with it since 1989, she said.

不生病之真法之十：营养与健康之四“蛋白质与酸毒”

老一辈的人说虾最毒。虾是一种蛋白质含量非常高的食物，也是营养学家认为的高营养食物，那么“虾”是高营养还是毒呢？

十年前，英国有家杂志社曾经报道一则真人真事。有位年轻女性，颇有几分姿色，当她嫁给了一位有钱的丈夫后，对丈夫十分体贴，照顾得无微不至，每天都供给丈夫最好吃、最有营养的食物，三餐尽是山珍海味、大鱼大肉。

煎、煮、炒、炸，烹调得香醇可口，她的丈夫每天大饱口福，吃得不亦乐乎，几乎认为三生有幸才能娶到如此美貌又贤慧的好太太。也许这位有钱人高兴得太早，因为他享受没几年这种人间天堂的生活，却因脑溢血而去世了。因此这位女性无形中成为这位有钱人的法定继承人，而获得了全部的财产。接着这位女性又如法炮制，连续嫁给了几位有钱人，结果这几位有钱人也都在短短的数年中就远离人寰了。这位女性终于成为英国的大富婆。当时有位律师深深觉得有诈，经过一段时间的明察暗访，证实这位女性是利用高蛋白食物来毒害她的丈夫们，可是依法无据，因为法律上无次条文，因而无法起诉。

这个故事可说是高蛋白食物能使人慢慢致死的真实写照。但这只是用来唤醒世人，莫再沉迷于“高蛋白是人体的最佳营养”的这种不正确的观念而已，谨请各位不可仿效，否则恶有恶报，多行不义必自毙。

1992年7月中旬在北京的一次培训中，有一位学员，是北京南园农场的一位主治医师，她听了这个真实故事后立即站起来说：“老师，在一、两个月前于某健康报上曾经报道一则新闻，内容是：目前国内已发现有许多孕妇于怀孕中大量吃鸡蛋，而导致婴儿一出生后都成为瞎子，当时我无法理解，我现在已知道了，这也就是蛋白质中毒的现象。”当时我笑了一笑说：“完全正确”。

为什么大量摄取蛋白质将导致中毒或死亡呢？这实在令人难以相信，因为这种说法不仅推翻现代营养学家们的理论，而且完全对立。凡事虽是是非非，但事实胜于雄辩，以及时间可以证明一切，唯有真理才能永恒。今真相未明，还是让我们一起来打破沙锅问到底吧！

一般所谓的毒，大多属于强酸，譬如硫酸、盐酸、硝酸、砒霜、农药及种种化学品都属于强酸，强酸中有的可以腐蚀人体肌肤，有的可麻醉神经或使神经死亡而致死人。蛇毒也是一种强烈的酸毒，所以人被毒蛇咬伤后极易致死，可是猫、狗不怕蛇咬，因为猫、狗属于强碱的体质，其唾液的PH值约在十左右，当蛇毒的强酸进入猫、狗的体内将马上被强碱所中和，所以毒蛇伤不了猫和狗。毒蛇的毒液可令人致死，而这些毒液、强酸又从何而来呢？

不生病之真法之九：营养与健康之三“话说食物中毒”

现代工商社会里，食物中毒事件屡见不鲜。1991年10月，台北有家海鲜餐厅发生一件高达150多人的食物中毒事件，虽然台湾许多大专院校时常发生集体食物中毒事件，可是于一般餐厅、饭店中尚未有此记录。食物中毒的现象是上吐下泻不停，患者觉得浑身无劲，由于中毒人数太多，使这些患者分送到各大医院。

台湾卫生署对此事件相当重视，因此出动了大批人马，费尽心思，力求寻找出一点蛛丝马迹，以解开食物中毒之谜。台湾卫生署官员们每位都是现代医学或营养学的专家或博士。由于现代医学是一专门研究细菌的一种医学，因此这些专家、博士们也都全心全力的在细菌方面大下功夫，折腾了半个多月后，仍然毫无下文，最后只好声明：“某某餐厅的海鲜食物中含有少量的大肠菌。”而草草了之。

请问：“大肠菌是食物中毒的元凶祸首吗？”我想现代医学专家们也都心中有数，或许是大肠菌不会说话，也因而不反驳。近十多年来，台湾卫生单位每年几乎都到各学校、机关等，做饮水机水质的抽样检查，每次的抽查中都发现了大量的大肠菌。各地卫生所也经常到各餐饮店去做卫生检查，大多数餐馆、小吃店里的餐具也都带有大量的大肠菌。1992年10月中旬，台湾卫生署对市面上所有厂牌的矿泉水做抽样检查，其中有许多厂牌的矿泉水中也含有大量的大肠菌。假如大肠菌是食物中毒的元凶祸首时，而大肠菌却到处充满人间，那么人人岂不是天天都将食物中毒呢？

到底为什么会引起食物中毒？不知各位是否听过老一辈的人说：“虾最毒”。又是头疼时间，真有如台湾宜兰特产 – 金枣膏（真糟糕）：所有动物、海鲜类以虾的蛋白质含量最高，也就是现代营养学家认为最有益人类生命的物质说是最毒，莫非年纪大而导致神智不清，或是愈老愈回去呢？因为这两种论调是完全相对立的，岂不叫人丈二金刚摸不着头绪呢？那么到底又是谁是谁非呢？

为了此事，我曾经请教了许多人，各位现在不妨也先斟酌一下，到底那种说法才正确呢？通常一般人在这种情况下，都将赞同专家们的看法，因为所谓的专家毕竟受过高等教育，学富五车，而且其言论必将深具科学依据。可是却令我出乎意料之外，大多数人仍赞同老一辈人的说法，因为老年人的经验是在漫长的岁月中经过无数的失败、挫折，甚至是血泪的教训等亲身体验的智慧结晶，这种智慧并非科学或学历所能取代的，因此我们经常听到一句话：“不听老人言吃亏在眼前”。

俗语说：“姜还是老的辣”。还有老兵不死、老谋深算、老马识途等，都是用来形容老年人的智慧与经验。因此我想藉此建议各位，尽可能多吸收老年人的智慧和经验，将可使您的人生旅途上少走许多冤枉路，闲话少说，还是言归正传吧！为什么会引起食物中毒？请继续看下去吧！

各宗教对素食的观点

中国國父遺教中有一段以素食治好胃疾的病者自述；孙中山說：『夫豆腐者，實植物中之肉料也．此物有肉料之功. 而無肉料之毒。』

或許大家在知道了孙先生也是素食者後會有一些疑問：孙先生是基督教徒，他怎麼可能吃素呢？不錯！今天所謂的基督教徒大部分都不吃素，可是原始的基督教及其他的宗教對素食又是怎樣的一個看法呢？以下我們就一一的來探討：

一、基督教：最早之基督教是素食的！在舊約聖經中記載得很清楚：天主說：「看，全地面上結種子的各種蔬菜，在果內含有種子的各種果樹，我都給你們作食物。」「至於地上的各種野獸、天空中的各種飛鳥，在地上爬行有生魂的各種動物，我把一切青草給牠們作食物。」「但凡有生命帶血的食物，你們不可吃。我一定會追討害你們生命的血債；向一切野獸追討，也向人追討；向每一個人我將追討他兄弟的靈魂。」（創世紀第九章第4 、5 節）


二、佛教，印度教等：這些發源於印度的教派是提倡素食最力的團體．釋迦牟尼佛在涅槃經中回答迦葉菩薩為什麼如來不允許人吃肉時說：“吃肉的人，斷大慈悲種子……佛接著又说，我從現在開始制定凡是佛的弟子，一概不准吃任何的眾生肉”。因為佛嚴格制定佛子一定要吃素，所以常會讓人有只要是教人吃素便是佛教徒的印象。
「人無法不傷害生物而得到肉食的，一個傷害有知覺生物的人，將永遠得不到天佑。所以避開肉食吧！」（印度教規）


三、回教：在古蘭經中記載：禁吃死的動物血及肉。而且在每年的齋戒期及到麥加朝聖的期間也嚴禁殺生，就是地上的一隻小螞蟻也不能傷害。
可蘭經六章145節：「對於食者禁止食的，依你所得到的啟示，不外是自死的，外溢的血，或豬肉—因為那是不潔—或是臨宰時未誦安拉之名而違法的。」


四、道教：一般人一聽到道教，便會有殺三牲以祭天的印象；但是事實上並不是如此，其實所謂殺牲祭神是屬於南傳的正一教派；正一教的修行者可以吃葷和結婚，但是北傳的道教—全真教派則仍嚴格的遵守著素食和終身獨身不娶的戒律；這和一般人所瞭解的道教實在有相當大的差異。
道教玄門大論中的齋法大略有九種：一者粗食，二者蔬食，三者節食，四者服精，五者服芽，六者服光，七者服氣，八者服元氣，九者胎食。所謂粗食，是指吃麻麥，蔬食是指吃蔬菜水果，節食指吃半飽，這些戒規都是以素食為內容。


五、一貫道：在臺灣擁有數百萬信徒的天道也鼓勵其信徒茹素戒，據說全省百分之八十以上的素食餐廳都是天道信眾所開設，由此也可以知道天道信徒吃素者頗多！

從上述五個宗教的基本教義來看，他們都是主張素食的｜就是連今天已經吃葷的南傳道教和基督教也是一樣從素食蛻變而來。所以我們可以肯定的說持善戒殺是各個宗教的共同教理，因此不管您相信什麼宗教，還是素食來得比較好！


六、其他：
人吃野獸肉，將會變成他自己的墳墓。我告訴你們實話，那殺人者，將殺了自己，那殺生吃肉者，就是吃死人的肉。」（猶太教和平福音）
「食肉者啊！你是魔鬼，不是人。不要和食肉者為伍，和他一起也會損害對上帝的侍奉。朋友們，相信我！食魚食肉縱酒的人們終必被根除，有如肥田中的野草被摘除，丟進暗谷深處。所有血身同屬一軀，不論是飛鳥、鹿、牛。食肉之人將瞪著眼直墮地獄。」

中華民族是一個講仁愛的民族，而造字之初，不是憑空想像，而是有一定之根據。『肉』字是由內和人組成；就是說這一些我們吃的眾生肉內有人的存在，可見傳統中國是不鼓勵人吃肉的，因而才會如此造字。 由以上說明可知，各教對飲食之戒律或說法，都有一個共同點，就是肉類不潔淨。

为什么要吃素？

現代人無論生活富裕與否，飲食習慣都和以往大不相同，不但吃肉的人越來越多，也越來越講究烹飪技巧、注重口腹之慾，於是許多病症就這樣吃出來了。現在隨著人們健康意識的抬頭，素食也漸漸成了養生風尚，並且不退流行。其實，除了為健康而加入素食行列，因宗教、環保而吃素者更佔素食人口的大宗。無論是為何而吃素，大家必然都領受到素食的種種好處： 

植物性食物無毒素：　　　　
素食都是植物的花、莖、葉、果、實、仁等，這些都是吸收陽光、空氣、水、土中的營養成分成長的。當我們吃入了這些通過大自然供養的食物， 身體內的血液便可以保持鹼性，提高人體的免疫能力，這是因為呈鹼性的血液會有更好的循環帶氧功能，可以有效供應身體各器官的養分。反觀動物性食物，動物自身會產生很多的病毒和細菌，同時又因為活動性大，使得攝入環境污染源的機率也相對的大，且動物在被屠殺的過程中並沒有把這些有害物質排出體外，這些食物最終被吃入肚中，久而久之就會造成慢性疾病，如：血管阻塞、血液循環不良、中風、心臟病…等。

人类肠道结构适合吃素：
以腸道的結構分析，肉食動物的小腸短、大腸直而平滑；素食動物的小腸長、大腸也長；雜食動物的腸子比肉食者長，但比素食者短，根據腸道結構來分析，人是較適合吃素的，因為大腸的長度長且重疊。肉食動物的腸道短的原因是因為肉類的纖維少， 在消化後的殘渣滯留在腸道容易產生毒素，增加肝臟的負擔，不足的纖維質更會造成便秘的問題。素食者以五穀類為主食，穀類中除了澱粉、糖份外，還含有很高的蛋白質和有益脂肪等成分。每天配搭足夠的蔬果，身體所需的各種物質都可以被補充，更可以有效的預防各種疾病。



肉食会引发各类疾病：
肉食會引發各類疾病：一些常見的中老年人疾病，如：高膽固醇、血管硬化、高尿酸等問題，都和肉食密切相關，高膽固醇會造成動脈硬化、心臟病、高血壓等問題。 
素食環保且經濟

素食环保且经济：
素食其實是一種環保且合乎經濟效應的飲食方式。因為飼養動物需要大量的飼料，也需砍伐大量樹木以提高飼養空間，如果人類直接素食，就不會在飼養動物上浪費食物。同時以環保的角度來看，植物不會像動物一樣，排出那麼多排泄物污染環境。 



素食者体质比肉食者好：
因為很多蔬果所含的植化物都是人體所需而肉類無法供應的。植化物含有很高的抗氧化效能，能夠讓人體的免疫系統有效運作，延緩人體各器官的老化速度。素食可以讓人體的血液粘度降低，提高血液循環的通暢度。反觀動物界，素食動物的體力都是優異的，最壯的動物和最有耐力的動物都是素食的。

素食者比较苗条：
這是因為體內累積的脂肪較少的緣故。



素食可以远离寄生虫：
吃素可以減少被寄生蟲寄生的機率，因為許多寄生蟲都是通過肉類寄生在人體。
人類腸道結構適合吃素：

Burnt Coconut Water Can Cure Diseases

I have been living in Malaysia for so many years and only until now I realised that the coconut can be burnt on wood and to be drunk when it is still hot. Last week a friend of mine invited me to have a trial.

The stall selling burnt coconut is located at a wooden hut beside old Masai Road, between Plentong and Bandar Seri Alam, Johor.

This is the stall selling burnt coconut water. The business here is quite good with customers come in and out.

The green coconuts were burned on steel drum with burning wood underneath

This was the burnt coconut I enjoyed for the first time in my life.

How is it? Look good and taste good? It still tastes like coconut, but with burning smell. Not bad, I really enjoyed it and I sweated like being steamed in the sauna.

The Malay owner has written on the wooden wall that this burnt coconut can cure quite a number of diseases, for example diabetes, high blood pressure, fewer and headache. I asked the woman owner whether it can really cure diabetes and high blood pressure. She replied that in order to cure the diseases, one has to drink everyday and only drink the coconut water without taking the coconut "meat". Beside curing the said diseases, the burnt coconut water can also cleanse our blood to remove toxin from our blood vessel.

I was made known that these burnt coconuts can also be found in Selangor and East Coast. Want to have a trial? You could most probably love it! My friend had come for a few times as his toothache was reducing after having burnt coconut water. It is not that expensive, it only costs RM3.00, which is only 50 sen extra over fresh coconut.

琉璃光：去除开心的障碍

要去除开心的障碍，首先必须忏悔过去所做伤人伤己的行为。

原谅自己和他人

忏悔完之后，我们应该把心里的担子放下，要原谅自己也原谅他人。

由忍辱转化嗔恨

嗔恨是开心的最大障碍。忍辱并不是指压制住怒气，而是利用修心的方法去改变心的盲目反应。从宇宙的定律上讲，嗔恨心只会伤害我们自己，因为发出去的终究会回到我们身上。

由布施转化吝啬

要开心就要会给、会布施，特别是给需要我们帮助的人，“助人为快乐之本”，当我们慷慨解囊帮助别人时，心情一定很愉快。

由感恩转化傲慢

俗语说“知足常乐”，但当傲慢心占优势时，人会变得怨天尤人，不知足也就不开心了。感恩则能改变傲慢与不知足。

由随喜转化嫉妒

看到他人成功就眼红，是最不开心、也是最伤感情的事。对治“眼红症”的最好方法是随喜。随喜就是看到他人成功、做好事时，跟着高兴。

由平等心转化贪爱

平等心就是去除强烈的好恶心，平常人对自己家人好友总是非常关心、疼爱。其实只要把心打开，能见面的就是有缘人。

Lapis Lazuli Light: Removing the obstruction to open-heartedness

First, one must REPENT PAST HARMFUL ACTIONS TO OTHERS AND ONESELF.

FORGIVE ONESELF AND OTHERS

After repentance, then we should let go the burden, forgive oneself and others.

TRANSFORM ANGER AND HATRED WITH PATIENCE

Anger and hatred are the major obstructions to open-heartedness. To transform them with patience does not mean repressing the emotions. From the perspective of the law of the universe, hatred can only harm us. Whatever is sent out comes back to us eventually.

TRANSFORM MISERLINESS WITH GENEROSITY

To be happy and open-hearted, one has to give, especially to those that need us. “Helping others is the source of happiness”,when we are generously helping other, we will be very happy.

TRANSFORM ARROGANCE WITH GRATITUDE

There is a common saying:”Contentment keeps one happy”. But when arrogance dominates, then one is dissatisfied and blames God and others. Discontentment brings unhappiness. Gratitude can change arrogance and discontentment.

TRANSFORM JEALOUSY WITH REJOICING

To get the red eye when we see the success of others makes us most unhappy. The best treatment for “red-eye disease” is rejoicing, feeling happy for others’ success and good deeds.

TRANSFORM ATTACHMENT WITH EQUANIMITY

“Equanimity” means to eliminate strong feelings of like and dislike. Ordinarily we love and happy with our own family and good friends. If we separate from them then we become very unhappy. Actually with an open heart we meet “families” everywhere, then we are happy all the time. To meet is to have connection.

Sugar and obesity

For years, dietary experts blamed fat as the root of obesity.  Millions of people diligently reduced their fat intake, but they were still fat.  Researchers then began to realise that many people who were taking fat out of their diets were replacing it with sugar — for example, cookies that were free of fats but loaded in sugar and calories.

“The problem is that with sugar, you’re getting a very large number of calories with a comparatively small volume of food. And we know that calories do count.

“A tablespoon of sugar, for example, contains between 50 and 60 calories but very little else from the standpoint of nutritional content,” says Dr Robert Keith, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System nutritionist in the US.

Many studies have now linked sugar to overweight and obesity, including childhood obesity. 

·        A recent study published in Pediatrics and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the US, concludes that childhood obesity epidemic is fueled by consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, now increasingly a large part of children’s and teens’ diets.  (Source: Medical News Today, 3 June 2008)

·       In Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, Greg Crister writes: “In 2001 researchers from the Department of Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston tracked 548 ethnically diverse Massachusetts schoolchildren (average age 11) for 19 months, looking at the association between their weight at the beginning of the period, intake of carbonated drinks, and weight at the end of the period.

·        The results were revealing: 57% increased their intake of carbonated drinks over the 19-month period. The calories of just 1 extra soft drink a day gave the child a 60% greater chance of becoming obese. (Source: The Ecologist, November 2003)

·        In 1999, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a revealing graph, which indicated the growth rates of new food products (mainly fructose-laden convenience foods, snacks and sweets) and of the US average Body Mass Index over the previous 35 years.  The 2 growth rates were practically identical. (Source: The Ecologist, November 2003)

In spite of such findings, the sugar industry continues vehemently to deny any link between sugar and obesity, hounding those who dare to suggest otherwise.  “Many of the experts we spoke to refused to be quoted, fearing further pressure from the industry,” says The Ecologist (November 2003).

“British Sugar’s website even goes as far as to claim: ‘Of the various foods and drinks available in the shops, sugar has been shown to be less likely to encourage overeating than some others, especially fat-containing foods.  Surveys have shown that people who eat more than the average amount of sugar tend to be slimmer than those who eat less.’”

How Sugar Causes Obesity

The body works to maintain a certain level of blood sugar (glucose) in the blood at all times.  Sugary foods and drinks increase the amount of sugar in the blood.  The more processed the food, and the more refined and simply constructed the sugar, the quicker it is absorbed into the blood.

As blood sugar levels rise, the pancreas releases the hormone insulin, which works to remove the sugar from the blood into the body’s cells.  Once sugar leaves the blood it will either be used straight away to provide energy, be converted to glycogen for later use as a source of energy, or stored as fat.

Simply put, as the amount of sugar in the blood increases, there is less need to use it to provide energy and more of the sugar is converted into fat.

How many affected:

Around 400 million people worldwide are obese today.  This includes 20 million children under age 5 (WHO, 2007). In Malaysia, 48% of men and 62% of women are fat (2006).

(Source: CAP)

Lapis Lazuli Light: Salt Bath Can Cleanse Aura 盐水澡，清气场

Salt water can cleanse the aura or energy field. The energy field can be polluted by coming into contact with a sick or distressed person. Natural sea salt or rock salt is the best. Dissolve one cup of salt in a tub of water. Be careful that the water is not to be too hot. Soak for 15 minutes. One can also soak when there is emotional distress. Apple cider vinegar has a similar effect. Just pour one cup of apple cider vinegar into a tub of hot water will do.

盐水有清洗气场的作用。经常接触病人或心情不好的人，气场会受到污染。这时可泡个盐水澡，用自然海盐或矿盐都可以。用一杯左右的盐溶入澡盆水中，泡十五分钟，注意水的温度不要太高。遇到情绪波动很大时也可以如法泡澡。苹果醋也有相似的效果，一杯苹果醋加入一澡盆水中即可。