HOW IS GREEN FOOD GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?

 

Nature has bestowed us with variety of colours in foods. So we need to acknowledge the variety. You cannot have all the nutrition through green foods. In fact there are different phytonutrient in different fruits and vegetables. Better go for rainbow coloured vegetables.

Green vegetables has many health benefits

Green vegetables :- palak,methi, broccoli,spinach, lettuce etc

*Highly nutritious, contains mineral,iron, calcium and vitamins (C and K)

*contains good carbohydrates which is healthy

*Good for weight loss

*Reduces blood sugar

*Improves the vision and also skin health

*Boosts up the immunity

It is recommended that adding green vegetables in your meal is good for health.

Meanwhile, what you eat is really important. Because you become what you eat. Clean your body. Eat clean. Feel better.

Benefits of healthy foods:-

• Rich in all necessary macronutrients like carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
• Full of vitamins and minerals.
• No weight gain if you eat within ur required calories.
• Cleaner and sharper you.

Examples of healthy foods:- whole grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, nuts and milk. Cook at home. Use less of frying, more of baking and steaming. Eat more of whole foods rather than processed.

Unhealthy foods are full of oils, sugar and refined flours like maida. Unhealthy foods are:-

• High in calories, specifically fats and refined carbohydrates.
• Spikes our glucose levels and interfere with insulin.
• Make you overweight leading to cardiovascular problems.

Eating healthy is always beneficial.

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Wee: MCA-UMNO seat negotiations didn’t end on positive note; MCA will determine next course of action

 

IN response to the remarks made today (Oct 27) by Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi that the UMNO-MCA negotiation went well, I would like to confirm the details and provide further clarification:

At around 11 pm last night (Oct 26), at the direction of the UMNO president, BN secretary-general YB Senator Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir and Melaka Chief Minister Datuk Seri Ab Rauf Yusoh met with me and another MCA leader at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur to discuss matters relating to the Melaka state election.

MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong

The meeting concluded at around 1 am today (Oct 27).

Yes, the meeting took place in a calm and cordial atmosphere without any arguments. MCA clearly conveyed our dissatisfaction with the seat allocation for the Melaka state election.

MCA has always been a party that believes in presenting facts, reasoning things out and engaging in civil discourse. Whenever differences arise, we seek to resolve them through consultation and dialogue.

As for Zahid’s description of the outcome as “positive”, I believe we are still some distance from achieving that objective.

It would be premature to describe the outcome as positive at this stage. Both sides need to continue their discussions, and I hope we can make a breakthrough within the next day or two.

Any decision on MCA’s next course of action and its final position regarding the Melaka state election will be deliberated and decided collectively by the party’s central leadership. 

Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong is MCA president and Ayer Hitam MP. He was also a cabinet minister holding the transport portfolio in the previous administration.

The views expressed are solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of  MMKtT

-  Focus Malaysia.

When will Malaysians vote for GE16? Here are the two most likely election periods next year

 

MANY Malaysians know that the 16th General Election (16GE) will be held next year. The bigger question is when it will be held, since the election dates are not fixed like in the United States.

Former deputy minister and political analyst, Dr Ong Kian Ming predicted that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would likely want to wait after the SEA Games

The 34th SEA Games would be held from Sept 18  to 29,2027.

The former DAP lawmaker pointed out that Malaysia’s outstanding performance can provide a favourable feel-good factor to dissolve the Dewan Rakyat.

Ideally, post-August would be a good period for general elections. However since the SEA Games is in September 2027, Anwar would very likely wait until after the SEA Games.

By comparison, Ong highlighted that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak failed to capitalise on Malaysia’s outstanding performance in the 29th SEA Games held in 2017. Najib’s decision cost him his election.

Ong is a co-host of Are We OK? podcast along with another popular podcaster Peter Yong. Both spoke in the 109th episode of the show.

Yong, better known as Mr Money, predicted that the government is currently considering the Hari Raya Aidilfitri period to call for the polls.

Aidilfitri is most likely to take place in March 2027

Yong predicted March 2027 as people would have felt the benefits of Budget 2027 by that period.

Ong agreed with Yong because the longer one waits, the more things can go wrong.

“But then again, Prime Minister Anwar’s thinking is that he wants to be in power for as long as possible.

Ong who quit the DAP on Malaysia’s Independence Day in August predicted the two state polls – Johor and Negeri Sembilan accurately. Both the elections saw the Anwar – led coalition – Pakatan Harapan defeated. –  Focus Malaysia

Filthy toilets in Kelantan – even at mosques – baffling as Islam places deep emphasis on hygiene

 

ASIDE from murky, teh tarik to kopi-O coloured pipe water, filthy public toilet condition in Kelantan has provoked the ire of a fashion and interior-obsessed traveller to the state.

This has led to Threader Hana Mansor (@hanamansor) concluding that the PAS-ruled state is “a city with no proper planning and no clean toilets”.

“Most toilets smell the same maybe due to the air boring (tubewell water) emitting soil-like smell,” the self-proclaimed business owner and mother of two beautiful boys penned in a post which garnered 6.4K likes, 843 comments, 621 re-posts and 657 shares at the time of writing.

“Not a single toilet is dry and clean whether it’s a market or an eatery. Even toilets at eateries are unclean. Just compare it a little with the public toilets in Cyberjaya which are in much better state.”

Interestingly, a number of Kelantanese concurred with the observation of the seasoned IT security sales professional – a testament that her revelation is not to shame Kelantan which is deemed the epicentre of PAS power base from a political stand-point.

“I’m a Kelantanese who was born and raised outside and just moved to KB (state capital Kota Bahru) in the past 10 years. I agree. Water is one thing but the reality here is that most people don’t know how to maintain cleanliness,” testified a woman KB-based medical practitioner.

“Look at public places, there’s trash everywhere. Perhaps better for you to just stop at the mosque next time. Insya’Allah the toilet there is clean.”

This was when some commenters cautioned that similar filthy condition prevails at toilets in most mosques with sights of “clogged excrement”.

“True. Mosque toilets are similarly dirty. Sometimes their doors are broken LOL. There’re a few clean ones such as those at the Masjid Buluh in Gua Musang,” quipped one seemingly regular traveller to Kelantan.

I don’t even bother to step foot into toilets at R&R faucitis along the expressways. Once the car door is open, one can already smell the stench from afar hahahaha.

When I travel, I’ll choose Petron toilets. So far, Petron toilets are the cleanest compared to other gas stations.

‘Isn’t cleanliness half of faith?’

This was when a Kelantanese admitted that her state folks “are stubborn and would easily snap at criticism levelled at them”.

“That’s why the state is slow to progress because it leaders don’t know how to accept criticism and initiate changes,” she jibed.

The topic of hygiene prompted one seemingly avid traveller “to theorise that the more Islamic the state is, the dirtier it is”.

“Kelantan, Arab, Middle East countries (same goes to Bangladesh) … Maybe Islam is only for solat (prayer) with little emphasis on cleanliness,” commented one nadiah najib (@nadiahnajib). “This maybe controversial but majority are like this.”

“I kind of agree with your statement. And most of Muslim dominated areas in the UK, Europe and US are indeed dirty, slump and labelled as ghetto … hmm,” attested another.

“You can only see these slump places if you walk alone into an area where tourist buses won’t be passing by.”

This somehow jives with the remark of one commenter who claimed that her father “has given up on toilets in Kelantan”.

“So finally, we’ve to stop by the mosque or surau. If the toilet at the mosque or surau is dirty, at least my father would take the initiative to clean them first before using them,” she quipped.

“That’s one thing to wait for him, hahaha but isn’t cleanliness half of faith?”

The eye-opener observation from the poster has somehow fuelled frustration of a local who attributed the root cause to “residents themselves as well as the state government who’re reluctant to embrace change or have no initiative to do so till development is slow, especially on the public infrastructure front”.

Last but not least, a commenter has pleaded to the Kelantan Menteri Besar to address the state’s public toilet woes.

“For starters, you can visit the Tasek Raja bus station toilet in Pasir Mas which luckily I didn’t bring my boss there. Otherwise, I would definitely have been given a tongue lashing.” 

 - Focus Malaysia

Kerajaan cari jalan tuntut ganti rugi jerebu rentas sempadan

 Menteri Arthur Joseph Kurup berkata mekanisme pampasan perlu diteliti kerana perjanjian Asean sedia ada tidak memperuntukkan tuntutan ganti rugi antara negara.

Kajian menyeluruh mengenai kerugian ekonomi akibat jerebu penting sebagai asas untuk menentukan tindakan susulan.

KUALA LUMPUR:

Kerajaan terbuka meneliti mekanisme undang-undang antarabangsa bagi membolehkan tuntutan pampasan dan ganti rugi akibat jerebu rentas sempadan dipertimbangkan.

Menteri Sumber Asli dan Kelestarian Alam, Arthur Joseph Kurup, berkata perjanjian Asean mengenai pencemaran jerebu rentas sempadan ketika ini tidak menyediakan mekanisme khusus untuk tuntutan pampasan antara negara.

“Bagaimanapun, kerajaan terbuka untuk meneliti kesesuaian mekanisme perundangan lain yang tertakluk kepada asas undang-undang di peringkat antarabangsa,” katanya ketika menggulung perbahasan Belanjawan 2027 bagi kementeriannya di Dewan Rakyat.

Beliau berkata, kajian menyeluruh mengenai kerugian ekonomi akibat jerebu, termasuk kesan terhadap kesihatan awam, produktiviti dan aktiviti ekonomi, penting sebagai asas untuk menentukan tindakan susulan.

Pada 15 Okt lalu, Ahli Parlimen Bagan, Lim Guan Eng, mencadangkan Malaysia bekerjasama dengan Singapura, Filipina dan Indonesia untuk menubuhkan petugas khas Asean secara tetap bagi menangani kebakaran hutan dan lahan.

Lim berkata, pasukan penyelamat yang bersiap siaga sepanjang tahun diperlukan supaya tindakan dapat diambil segera apabila kebakaran berlaku.

Beliau mendakwa, kawasan terjejas akibat kebakaran hutan dan lahan di Indonesia tahun ini mencecah 300,000 hektar, 70% lebih luas berbanding 2023.

Sementara itu, Arthur berkata cadangan bantuan kewangan kepada rakyat terjejas, khususnya pekerja gig, serta penubuhan tabung bencana jerebu memerlukan penelitian lanjut bersama kementerian dan agensi berkaitan.

Katanya, penelitian itu perlu mengambil kira bantuan sedia ada, keperluan rakyat terjejas dan implikasi kewangan kepada kerajaan.

Menurutnya, kerajaan akan terus memperkukuh kerjasama penguatkuasaan melalui saluran dua hala dan Asean, selain memastikan pihak yang terbukti menyebabkan pencemaran dikenakan tindakan mengikut undang-undang.

“Kerajaan terus meneliti mekanisme bersesuaian untuk memperkukuh prinsip kebertanggungjawaban pencemar dan melindungi kepentingan rakyat terjejas,” katanya. - FMT