Category: HEALTH

Santol seeds grows in intestine?

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When I was young I love to eat santol especially with salt on top.  The always precaution my mother will tell me is to never swallow the seed. Anyway, swallowing it is almost impossible for me, as most of us know, santol seeds are large and it is difficult to swallow especially if you are a small child.  

When I ask why it should not be swallowed my mother would tell me that it would not be digested and will lodge in my intestine and grow.

Today as an adult (sometimes) I do believe it is just a myth. There is no way a seed could grow inside a human body. But until recently,  I am having second thought especially hearing about the news that a man was operated and found out that  a fir tree have grown on its lungs. Whether a freak of nature or what ever ,  I would stay away from swallowing santol seeds. 

Oxygen in can

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 A few years back, maybe around 10 years ago, I wrote an essay about how would our future would be if we continue to pollute our surrounding. I thing I remembered most is when I said that time would come that our air is so polluted that clean oxygen would be available in bottles.

To my surprise, air in can is now a reality.  I don’t believe that our air is that polluted that it warrants a need for this product. As per advertisement, the product is more of medicinal in purpose rather than necessity.

TOGA weight loss procedure

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Who doesn’t want a body like Angelina Jolie or Hugh Jackman?

For an obese like me (yes, I admit) , these is almost an impossible dream.

I love to eat and for me it’s a crime to say no to a delicious meal.

There is a lot of people who don’t have food to eat, so why should I shy away with this blessing?

I don’t want to exercise.

I live in a tropical country, by just standing still could break you some sweat.

I hate incision and I don’t want to be cut open and have a gastric bypass surgery.

Diet pills? Well, i’m afraid of the side effects…decreased libido.

Well, that narrows my choice of weigh loss procedure to……. NONE.

Until recently, there is another choice to be… TOGA (transoral gastroplasty)

The procedure doesn’t need an incision.

They will pass the instrument through your mouth and staple within your stomach to make it much smaller.

Once the upper part is smaller when you eat it will give you a sense of fullness that will lead to less food intake.

End result is gradual weight reduction.

The procedure still not approved but in a few years for sure this will be the “IT’ in weigh loss procedure.

Treatment for enlarged Prostrate

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Research have shown that people who takes Propecia a hair loss treatment drug is also benefiting from its effect on the prostrate gland. An enlarged Prostrate seems to regress to its normal size, hence, it also help in detecting prostrate tumor.