Tzu Chi Quality Food Products

This video has finally cleared my doubts as to how the nuns of the Jing Si Dharma lineage of Master Cheng Yen could practise and uphold the principle of "No work no meal" since their very humble beginning. Master Cheng Yen is the founder of Tzu Chi Organization. Master Cheng Yen and her nuns uphold the vow of "No work no meal" principle, meaning they do not rely on donations for their livelihood. They work to produce products for sale, and they use their sales proceeds to maintain their livelihood. 

This video also convinced me that Tzu Chi's food products are worth purchasing and consuming. For me these are the four reasons. First, they are produced with the most stringent hygienic standards with the best natural quality ingredients. Second, they are produced with love. Third, I contribute to support the welfare of the nuns, a most wholesome charitable act. Fourth, they are value for money.

Alkaline Water Controversy

I have written an article on ionized alkaline water to share my personal experience on this subject.  You can read it by clicking this link : http://goodguy.hubpages.com/hub/Is-Alkaline-Water-Or-Ionized-Water-Effective.

In this post I wish to "copy&paste" two write-ups by two opposing experts on the subject of alkalinity in our body.  The first writer insists that whatever goes into our stomach will be turned to acidic before passing through the intestine, which means that it is useless to drink alkaline water which will be turned into acidic.  The other write-up explains how our body will become less acidic when we drink alkaline water.

Whatever the experts may say, my opinion is that the most important factor is whether the ionized alkaline water really works on people who have taken it.  The best place to look for this is from personal testimonies from people you know who have benefited from taking this alkaline.  My elder sister and my wife have benefited from drinking the ionized alkaline water.  So my two sisters and I have installed the water ionizer appliance.  My wife's sister and a cousin have also followed suit.

Ok, below are the two "copy&paste" write-ups.

Acid/Alkaline Theory of Disease Is Nonsense
by Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

Have you seen advertisements for products such as coral calcium or alkaline water that are supposed to neutralize acid in your bloodstream?

Taking calcium or drinking alkaline water does not affect blood acidity. Anyone who tells you that certain foods or supplements make your stomach or blood acidic does not understand nutrition.

You should not believe that it matters whether foods are acidic or alkaline, because no foods change the acidity of anything in your body except your urine. Your stomach is so acidic that no food can change its acidity.

Citrus fruits, vinegar, and vitamins such as ascorbic acid or folic acid do not change the acidity of your stomach or your bloodstream. An entire bottle of calcium pills or antacids would not change the acidity of your stomach for more than a few minutes.

All foods that leave your stomach are acidic. Then they enter your intestines where secretions from your pancreas neutralize the stomach acids. So no matter what you eat, the food in stomach is acidic and the food in the intestines is alkaline.

Dietary modification cannot change the acidity of any part of your body except your urine. Your bloodstream and organs control acidity in a very narrow range. Anything that changed acidity in your body would make you very sick and could even kill you.

Promoters of these products claim that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline environment and that is true, but neither can any of the other cells in your body.

All chemical reactions in your body are started by chemicals called enzymes. For example, if you convert chemical A to chemical B and release energy, enzymes must start these reactions.

All enzymes function in a very narrow range of acidity. (The degree of acidity or alkalinity is expressed as "pH."). If your blood changes its acidity or alkalinity for any reason, it is quickly changed back to the normal pH or these enzymes would not function and the necessary chemical reactions would not proceed in your body.

For example, when you hold your breath, carbon dioxide accumulates in your bloodstream very rapidly and your blood turns acidic, and you will become uncomfortable or even pass out.

This forces you to start breathing again immediately, and the pH returns to normal. If your kidneys are damaged and cannot regulate the acidity of your bloodstream, chemical reactions stop, poisons accumulate in your bloodstream, and you can die.

Certain foods can leave end-products called ash that can make your urine acid or alkaline, but urine is the only body fluid that can have its acidity changed by food or supplements.

ALKALINE-ASH FOODS include fresh fruit and raw vegetables. ACID-ASH FOODS include ALL ANIMAL PRODUCTS, whole grains, beans and other seeds. These foods can change the acidity of your urine, but that's irrelevant since your urine is contained in your bladder and does not affect the pH of any other part of your body.

When you take in more protein than your body needs, your body cannot store it, so the excess amino acids are converted to organic acids that would acidify your blood.

But your blood never becomes acidic because as soon as the proteins are converted to organic acids, calcium leaves your bones to neutralize the acid and prevent any change in pH. Because of this, many scientists think that taking in too much protein may weaken bones to cause osteoporosis.

Cranberries have been shown to help prevent recurrent urinary tract infections, but not because of their acidity. They contain chemicals that prevent bacteria from sticking to urinary tract cells.

Taking calcium supplements or drinking alkaline water will not change the pH of your blood. If you hear someone say that your body is too acidic and you should use their product to make it more alkaline, you would be wise not to believe anything else the person tells you.

A healthy lifestyle
─ exercise and rest, diet, etc ─ YES !

And now the answer to the above opinion

Alkaline Water and Stomach Acid

Among the people who question the validity of alkaline water, the biggest question is, "What happens to the alkaline water once it reaches the stomach, which is highly acidic?" People who have some knowledge of the human body, including medical doctors, ask this question. Let me answer that question once and for all to erase any doubts about the health benefits of alkaline water.

In order to digest food and kill the kinds of bacteria and viruses that come with the food, the inside of our stomach is acidic. The stomach pH value is maintained at around 4. When we eat food and drink water, especially alkaline water, the pH value inside the stomach goes up. When this happens, there is a feedback mechanism in our stomach to detect this and commands the stomach wall to secrete more hydrochloric acid into the stomach to bring the pH value back to 4. So the stomach becomes acidic again. When we drink more alkaline water, more hydrochloric acid is secreted to maintain the stomach pH value. It seems like a losing battle.

However, when you understand how the stomach wall makes hydrochloric acid, your concerns will disappear. A pathologist friend of mine gave me the following explanation. There is no hydrochloric acid pouch in our body. If there were, it would burn a hole in our body. The cells in our stomach wall must produce it on an instantly-as-needed basis. The ingredients in the stomach cell that make hydrochloric acid (HCl) are carbon dioxide (CO₂), water (H₂O), and sodium chloride (NaCl) or potassium chloride (KCl).

NaCl + H₂O + CO₂ = HCl + NaHCO₃, or
KCl + H₂O + CO₂ = HCl + KHCO₃

As we can see, the byproduct of making hydrochloric acid is sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) or potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3), which goes into blood stream. These bicarbonates are the alkaline buffers that neutralize excess acids in the blood; they dissolve solid acid wastes into liquid form. As they neutralize the solid acidic wastes, extra carbon dioxide is released, which is discharged through the lungs. As our body gets old, these alkaline buffers get low; this phenomenon is called acidosis. This is a natural occurrence as our body accumulates more acidic waste products. There is, therefore, a relationship between the aging process and the accumulation of acids.

By looking at the pH value of the stomach alone, it seems that alkaline water never reaches the body. But when you look at the whole body, there is a net gain of alkalinity as we drink alkaline water. Our body cells are slightly alkaline. In order for them to produce acid, they must also produce alkaline, and vice versa; just as a water ionizer cannot produce alkaline water without producing acid water, since tap water is almost neutral.

When the stomach pH value gets higher than 4, the stomach knows what to do to lower it. However, if the pH value goes below 4, for any reason, the stomach doesn't know what to do. That's why we take Alka-Seltzer, which is alkaline, to relieve acidic stomach gas pain. In this case, hydrochloric acid is not produced by the stomach wall, therefore, no alkaline buffer is being added to the blood stream.

Let me give you another example of a body organ that produces acid in order to produce alkaline. After the food in the stomach is digested, it must come out to the small intestine. The food at this point is so acidic that it will damage the intestine wall. In order to avoid this problem, the pancreas makes alkaline juice (known as pancreatic juice). This juice is sodium bicarbonate, and is mixed with the acidic food coming out of the stomach. From the above formulae, in order to produce bicarbonates, the pancreas must make hydrochloric acid, which goes into our blood stream.

We experience sleepiness after a big meal (not during the meal or while the food is being digested in the stomach), when the digested food is coming out of the stomach; that's the time when hydrochloric acid goes into our blood. Hydrochloric acid is the main ingredient in antihistamines that causes drowsiness.

Alkaline or acid produced by the body must have an equal and opposite acid or alkaline produced by the body; therefore, there is no net gain. However, alkaline supplied from outside the body, like drinking alkaline water, results in a net gain of alkalinity in our body. 

About The Writer

Sang Whang is an engineer, scientist and inventor with many U.S. patents. His fields of expertise span many different areas such as data communication devices (modem), electronic filters, chemistry, water, cornea measuring devices, multi-focal soft contact lenses, etc. An improvement and maintenance of his own health caused him to investigate the phenomenon and led him to the discovery of his theory of Reverse Aging.  He wrote the best selling book “Reverse Aging” in 1990 which has since been translated to Spanish, Polish, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.

How to have healthy teeth and gum

Want to have healthy teeth and gum?  

Just follow this easy and cheap method.  

Please go to this link to find out more.

 http://goodguy.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Have-Healthy-Teeth-And-Gum

I cry for you, Malaysia! Professor Swee Tan

I cry for you Malaysia!






And you can read HERE:

How to cure tennis elbow

Tennis elbow is a very painful problem.  It hinders your physical ability, especially lifting things.  There are commercial gadgets which you can buy to help alleviate the pain. 

Actually you don't need to pay anything to cure your tennis elbow.  I found this out when I had tennis elbow many months ago.  I did a few sets of wrist stretching and twisting exercises for many weeks.  And one day the pain just disappeared.

If you wish to learn more on how I did it, please CLICK HERE:

Moringa the miracle tree

Do the above "drumsticks" look familiar?  They are Moringa pods or kalor, or commonly known as "drumsticks"..  You will find them in Indian and Malay curries.  Apparently these Moringa pods and leaves have great medicinal properties and contain lots of essential vitamins and minerals, more than the conventional fruits and veges.  The trees are right at our doorsteps and many of us are surprisingly ignorant of their great nutritional and medicinal values.

If you are interested to know more, please read my article HERE:

(Moringa tree by the roadside)

Do you wish to live a long, healthy and happy life?

Do you wish to live a long, healthy and happy life?  Sure want!  Then you have to diligently follow four key rules in your lifestyle. They are :

1. Maintaining proper nutritious diet.

2. Maintaining regular physical exercise in whatever form.

3. Assurance of family/group support.

4. Maintaining the inner peace of mind.

By the way, those who live long, healthy and happy lives are usually located in remote mountainous regions, far away from the polluted cities. 

You can read more about researches done on this subject by CLICKING HERE:

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ANNOUNCEMENT:

Hey! Today my blog views surpass the 100,000th mark!!

Cancer : This must not happen to you.

(CT Chang inside the compound of the Gerson Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico)

Today I like to introduce an internet friend to you.  His name is CT Chang, and he has cancer.  Chang has defied the doctor's 6-month "death sentence" when the doctor first diagnosed him to have cancer of the kidneys. He is now on his 23rd month after hearing the doctor's opinion.  This is from his blog profile:

"An accountant by training but now in forced retirement due to stage 4 kidney cancer. Given less than 6 months to live in September 2009 and no cure by my doctors, I was determined to change my destiny. I like travelling to off beaten tracks because you experience and see life as part the journey, not at its destination."

Today Chang has sort of written an introduction of what his blog is all about.  I feel deeply that I shall pass his life-saving message to all of you.  Who knows, someone you know may benefit from this message. 

Having said that, my sincere wish is that none of you will need this information. 

Please take good care of your health in the confines of these two cardinal principles :

1. Maintain excellent physical health.

2. Maintain a peaceful and contented mind.

So we need to live a wholesome lifestyle by following these three guidelines: 

1. Eat healthy food in order to supply proper nutrition to the body.

2. Regular exercise, to keep the body fit.

3. Stay relaxed, and be contented, in order to have a peaceful mind.

With this wholesome lifestyle, our mind and body will be in harmony, our immune system will be in excellent condition.  We will enjoy a healthy body and a peaceful mind.

Ok before you go to the link to CT Chang's blog, enjoy this youtube video:

(If no picture please click the screen)

This is the link to CT Chang's blog: CLICK HERE:
Read Chang's latest health update as at 6 Augsut 2011: CLICK HERE: & HERE

Longevitology : How to live a long healthy life

I am sure you want to live a long and healthy life.  Some people are just lucky.  They don't have to do anything and yet they live a long healthy life.  However, we can take positive steps to reach our goal.  Regular excercise, healthy nutrition, and maintaining a relaxed lifestyle are ways to improve our chances to stay healthy and live a long life.

Apparently, there is one area which many do not know.  And it is for this that we need to learn from the experts.  It is believed that apart from blood circulation, there is an invisible life-energy circulating the body as well.  The Chinese called this qi, and the Indian, prana.  This qi is harnessed through various points in the body.  These points are called Chakras in Sanskrit, or simply acupoints.  The technique is to activate these points to effectively harness the universal life-energy, and circulate it throughout the body, rejuvenating every organ and cell, thereby strengthening our immune system to fight off sickness. 

Interested to know more?  Then just CLICK HERE:

Canned bamboo shoots from China : Beware!

used bamboo chopsticks



cut into smaller pieces







dip into strong rice liquors for many days







add little bit herb flavour




add little bit Natribicarbonate (whatever this is)



add little bit sugar



add little bit soy sauce



add water and boil 



keep in a container for a few weeks










They become "bamboo shoots" when all liquid is absorbed by the chopsticks




Wallah! "Bamboo shoots"!!

Completed pan fried chicken with "bamboo shoots" !!





Remember they came from used chop sticks!

Beware when you buy foodstuffs from China !!

How to stop smoking effectively

This post is dedicated to "bow", one of my few remaining regular readers.  I am assuming that he is a smoker as shown by his avatar.  I hope "bow" does not take offence to this post.  Otherwise I will lose a regular reader, and perhaps a scolding from him too! I mean well.

Smoking is an unhealthy habit.  It invites diseases to cause harm to your body, even death!  Why take the risk when you have better option?   If anyone is interested to read my article on "How to stop smoking effectively" please CLICKHERE:

There is still hope for cancer patient

[CT Chang at the Gerson Alternative Cancer Treatment Center in Mexico]

The word "CANCER" immediately brings shivers down your spine.  Nowadays cancer is so common.  It must be the negative changes in lifestyle and the environment.

I wish you will never need this, but this piece of information may help you save lives from those whom you may know who are suffering from cancer. The message is that there are other effective alternative cancer treatments available, although these are never supported by the Medical Organizations, some even being suppressed and outlawed, for reasons better known to themselves.

Below is the link to a blog written by a stage 4 kidney and lund cancer suvivor to help others as well. He was given only 6 months to live 2 years ago. I feel that those suffering from cancer should be given a chance to read his daily journal entries about his research in the internet and his personal experiences on how he is still alive today. Mr CT Chang is his name. He is indeed an amazing survivor.

Please forward this link to all your contacts for the benefit of all.

This is the link to his personal blog :

http://upekah.blogspot.com/

Sabah Snake Grass cures many types of cancer

Sabah Snake Grass cures many types of cancer!  Some people are lucky.  When the doctors only gave them a few months to live, out of sheer desperation, they found a "miracle cure" and are alive today.  It is said that chemotherapy is poisoning; radiation is burning; and surgery is cutting.  With these descriptions, can the body that is already sick survive these sorts of "medical" treatments?  The doctors true to their professional "ethics" will swear by their grandmothers' graves that these poisoning, burning and cutting are the only methods to treat cancer.  If you were to probe into their inner conscience, you may like to ask them if ever they got cancer, would they go for these burning, poisoning and cutting? 

Enough said.  There is this viral email floating around about the effectiveness of the Sabah Snake Grass in curing many types of cancer.  I have written an article in my Hubpages.  If you are interested to find out more information especially on readers' comments and supply locations, please CLICK HERE:

I strongly recommend that you read this "journalistic account" by a surviving cancer patient Mr. CT Chang. This was what Mr CT Chang wrote in his blog:

" When the doctor first told me that I had untreatable stage 4 kidney cancer and sent me home, I did not know how to respond. Shocked was too mild of a word.....


Given less than 6 months to live in September 2009 and no cure by my doctors, I was determined to change my destiny."

To read his blog please CLICK HERE:

Tibicos mushroom or kefir drink.

Have you heard of tibicos mushroom or kefir?  It is a cultured probiotic drink that enhances the body system giving vitality and health to the person.  Tibicos mushroom drink contains essential vitamins and minerals plus good bacteria.  It cures a lot of ailments.

My special recipe is easy and convenient to follow.  However, you would need the main ingredient, that is the tibicos mushroom or kefir grains.  Hope you can get them in due course.  First, please read my article, and then go from there.   It is believed to be the best antioxidant-probiotic drink ever available!

To read please CLICK HERE:

Stomach massage can make you more shapely!

If you want to have a flatter stomach, this is it.  The easy stomach massage. You need only to spend 2 minutes each time, twice a day.  That's all.  A flatter stomach is just a bonus for this massage.  The real benefit is in your health.  

Interested? Please go to my article at Hubpages :  CLICK HERE  

Fresh fruit juices for a change

Chinese New Year and feasting go together.  By now you may have put on some extra kilogrammes, plus tons of cholesterol!  Apart from that, the energy spent on driving around and visiting friends and relatives may have taken its toll on your health.  You need to rejunevate.  Apart from relaxing and exercising, which are not that easy this time of the year, you can drink some healthy fruit juices.  Best is you do it yourself.  I never trust the hawkers or the kopitiams. Instead of drinking the pure juices with the vitamins, you may end up drinking contaminated water!  

You are invited to read my article HERE:

Self-healing

This is my first blog for 2011.  I have spent quite a considerable time researching on this topic of self-healing.  That is why it took me so long to release my first blog for the year. 

This special self-healing posture is the brainchild of one Taiwanese by the name of Xiao Hongchi. The name of this self-healing posture is called "La-jin" or stretching the ligaments.  It is so simple that you can learn it in one minute just by looking at the above picture.  No need for me to describe in words.

Believe me, it works.  I believe, if it works for me, it should also work for you. I have only done this posture twice, and I can feel the positive results.   For quite some time I have been feeling lethargic, and each time I got up after bending down, I would experience black-out feeling.  Today I don't have this problem anymore!  And I don't feel tired as well.  Usually at all times I felt sleepy.  Last night I had a late night, I slept past 1.30am and got up 7.30am this morning.  Now no problem! 

I feel like a Superman now.  Before I was "Autaman".  In our dialect "auta" means "bluff" or generally to mean "useless"! 

The best part of this is, it is 100% natural, meaning, without having to take any herb.  That is why it is called "Self-healing".  And it is absolutely FREE.  So I am not selling you any thing.  I believe that all good things must be shared FREE. The only problem is that some of you would still not take it for FREE, but rather to pay through the nose for some fancy stuff that commercial companies swear by their grandmothers' graves that their products are the best, and can send you to the Seventh heaven with 711 virgins waiting to serve you day and night!

So now the ball is at your feet, kick it by clicking HERE:

Hope you benefit just like I did. 

Benefits of eating sweet potatoes

The other day I was writing about eating papaya.  Now take a look at the humble sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes used to be very cheap during my childhood days.  Sweet potatoes were so cheap that they were called the poor man's food.  But not anymore.  Today sweet potatoes are considered one of the super foods packed with powerful cancer-preventive nutrients.  One of the most powerful antioxidant, called  anthocyanin is found in the purple sweet potatoes. 

Want to know more?  Please go to my Hubpages article by CLICKING HERE.