Brain Degeneration

Every single animal which you can probably think of, has a brain. But as far as all the brains in the universe are concerned, the brain which you have, the one existing inside your head, is the most uniquely created brain of all -- The human brain.

From ages ago, people have developed an idea where the usage of brain by human is only approximately 10% of the total brain capacity. But years after that, the bemusing theory has somewhat regarded as a mere myth. As a matter of fact, we are actually using nearly 100% of our brain, just that as the technology is getting more and more advanced, our minds always just focus on the tubes and rely heavily on calculators, thus it impedes us from using 100% of our precious brain. Without proper training of our brain, the individuals would tend to turn out to be a slacker in the long run. See how majestic a brain is to us?

Recently, researchers led by Dr. Paul Thompson, a professor of neurology from University of California has conducted a study on the relationship between the human brain and obesity (over-weight).

As you may already know, obese people holds the BMI value above 30. This group of people, are said to have strong linkage to severe brain degeneration. Previously, obese individuals are only linked closely with diseases which are called metabolic syndromes, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart-related diseases, etc. But this latest evidence has shown that, apart from all that, brain degeneration seems to be the next show-down from obesity.

The study found that the brain tissues in individuals who are over-weight, shows an obvious inclination in reduction in number, particularly in the areas which are important in planning and memory(the frontal and temporal lobes), attention and executive functions (the anterior cingulate gyrus), long-term memory (the hippocampus), and movement (the basal ganglia).

Especially for old folks who are also obese, their situations would be even more severe than those who are relatively younger. A huge percentage of old folks encounter problems in memory and concentration, in other words, many of them have Alzheimer's Disease. If they are also over-weight at the same time, brain degeneration tends to happen even quicker than usual.

OPP ~ Nutrition Care for Hyperlipidemia

In our fast-food era it is harder than ever to strike a healthy balance. Regardless of how you may feel about the current health situation, remember that each and every day you invest to your health with your actions. When you eat, you choose either foods that promote health or ones that don’t. However, people today’s didn’t control their daily diet intake, they just eat whatever good foods and tasty foods, pass over the calories, the fat content, the sugar level as well as the sodium. They didn’t realize that actually they are losing their health day by day. Some of the metabolic syndrome may be develop, such as high cholesterol, high blood glucose and also hyperlipidemia.

In order to give insight to the topic of hyperlipidemia, Mr. Kayvi Ang, a young yet professional nutritionist had delivered a health talk entitled “Nutrition Care for Hyperlipidemia” on 24^th August 2009 (Monday). He clarified that a lot of people always mixed up hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidemia. He explained the differences between these two diseases. Hyperlipidemia is characterized by excess cholesterol and fatty substances in the blood. Hyperlipidemia is a risk factor for heart disease. From the talk, he also clearly stated that trans fat is the most dangerous type of fats, and also gave some examples of food that high in LDL and HDL.

Mr. Lim Hua San, the managing director had brought out a motivation talk after Mr. Kayvi Ang. The title of the talk was “Successful Leader”. He used a lot of stories to highlight the message. He stressed that all leaders must owned a heart or determination to success in their life no matter how hard the path to be. A clever follower will soon to become a leader. Next up, Ms Sunny also advised the audiences to practice some precautions steps in order to prevent the infection of H1N1 viruses, the best way is to consume GT&F products to build up strong base of immune system.

The best health care is just that caring for your own health every day, with awareness, purpose and motivation toward doing better today than yesterday. Living by the basics through to get good food and water especially GT&F, adequate sleep, moderate exercise, social support and a sound body to enjoy can ensure a lifetime of good health naturally.

Fat in the Liver

Does the above picture ring any bells to you? Admit that it does, especially if you are a loyal consumer of GTF Products. These kind of pictures could very possibly be seen in the flyers or something, telling you that obesity has very huge possibilities in having intimate relationship with diabetes.

But obesity indicates the occurrence of diabetes is now considered as an old-school thought. In a very recent study, nutrition researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in st. Louis suggested that one of the common indications of diabetes, ie: the accumulation of fats and excess triglycerides in the belly, does not seem to be a very accurate one, but instead, it just serves as an innocent bystander marker. The latest findings, shows that the true marker got to go to the accumulation of fat in the liver instead of in the belly.

A senior investigator from the group of researchers, Samuel Klein said that visceral fat (fat accumulated in the belly) might closely relates itself with the complications which are familiar to everyone of us, namely diabetes, high blood pressure and any form of heart-related diseases. But at the same time, visceral fats actually link closely with liver fats.

This postulation can also be interpreted in a way that, if a person is obese but does not have high level of fats in the liver, is very much encouraged to lose some weight, even if it is just a small amount of weight, for this small amount of weight could make a big difference to you.

Swimming Aids

As at 21st August 2009, the total number of H1N1-related death cases had reached 68, a number which definitely shocked us all. With a few hundreds of new cases unrevealed each day, people in the nation are becoming more and more worried about the highly contagious disease.

Many such death cases across the country were due to multiple organs failure, particularly organs which relate to respiratory system. Whilst everyone of us thinks that by consuming GT&F Products can rest assure that we'll be maintaining our health in the optimum form, we cannot ignore the importance of active lifestyle too.

Decades ago, the elders and professionals from medical field found that swimming can definitely improve our health, particularly our respiratory system, and it is also considered as one of the best exercises of all.

A recent study which has published in Wiley Interscience has shown that swimming aids in children with asthmatic records. Not only that, swimming also proven that it is able to improve mouth-breathing, snoring, chest deformity, self-confidence and general feelings of disadvantage.

The research was done by dividing 7 to 12 year old children into two groups, where one group underwent a six-week swimming training program while also underwent asthmatic treatment at the same time. Whereas the other group of children did not.

The outcome shows that ALL the children who underwent the swimming program showed significant improvement, almost in all areas, including symptoms, hospitalizations, emergency room visits and school absenteeism.

Researchers postulated that swimming not only does not seem to provoke asthmatic attacks, in the contrary, it actually improve individuals with asthmatic records, increase the lung volume of individuals, develop good breathing patterns, and also helps greatly in shaping general fitness.

OPP~GT&F – Kecantikan dan Kesihatan

Beauty is not only about having a lean and trimmed body. It is also about enhancing the beauty within. Health and beauty cannot be separated from each other. How healthy you are, is reflected in your hair, your nails and your skin. The secrets to pleasant appearance are much more basic. They have to do with a well-balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle, the two most important factors that influence the condition of your appearance. Healthy body with beauty can be yours.

Thus, Puan Masrisa, one of the senior nutritionist of GTF Worldwide company had delivered a health talk entitled “GT&F – Kecantikan dan Kesihatan” in Malay and English version during the OPP night. Good nutrition is the basic building block of healthy yet beauty appearance. She shared with the audiences about the benefits of GT&F® product for our body and appearance. In addition, she also enlightened them for the 6 in 1 super invention of GT&F® product as we will able to find back for inner health and outside beauty through building strong body cells which directly will strengthen each organ and system of our body. As a result, we will able to look good and stay away from harmful bacteria or viruses, especially A (H1N1) viruses.

As the death toll caused by the outbreak of A (H1N1) in Malaysia continues to rise to 67 until yesterday (18^th August 2009). The company is very concern for the hot issue thus Ms Sunny Yong had done a presentation especially for vaccination and medication of A (H1N1) viruses. She explained to the audiences the pros and cons of taking vaccine and antiviral drugs to prevent themselves from getting infection by these scary viruses. To your knowledge, actually there is still do not exist any vaccine that purposely for A (H1N1) viruses and also for antiviral drugs, like Tamiflu®, is not for uninfected people but as a way of treatment for patient infected with A (H1N1) or patient with serious influenza-flu like symptoms. So, we should build up strong base of body immune system with GT&F® product rather than the short cut.

Next up, Mr Kayvi Ang, a professional nutritionist will talk on “Nutrition Care for Hyperlipidemia Disease” and the managing director of GTF Worldwide company, Mr Lim Hua San will give a motivation talk on the coming Monday (24^th August 2009).

Sugar - Cancer Feeder?

As far as you may know, our cells need various nutrients to function normally. By referring to the nutrients over here, of course we are also including the presence of sugar which would be taken up by our body cells in order to produce sufficient energy to our whole body system.

Consuming GT&F Products is one of the best ways to allow blood glucose (sugar), especially those excessive ones, to be absorbed by body cells in order to generate energy. Just imagine how fatal the consequence could be without such glucose-absorbing functionality in our body, a series of diseases and complications could be waiting to reap you off without you actually realizing about their existence.

Since the year of 1923, there's already a postulation saying that sugar plays an important role in feeding tumor cells, and what is more, tumor cells tend to take up way more sugar than any other normal cells in our body. Such phenomenon seems to be quite alarming back then... and also for now.

86 years later, researchers from University of Utah put tremendous efforts in making progress on the topic. Recently, they had successfully published their research in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From their findings, it appears that during the cell growth of normal as well as tumor cells, glucose and glutamine (a type of amino acid) would be involved in the cellular process. These two elements are essential as far as cell growth is concerned.

They suggested that, by suppressing the existence of glutamine in human body, the uptake of glucose also comes to a halt. The head of the research team, Mohan Kaadige, Ph.D focused in the research of a protein in our body, which is called MondoA. This protein, is said to be blocking the expression of a gene which holds the ability to suppress tumor when glutamine is present. Once this gene is blocked by MondoA, cells will be allowed to take up large amount of glucose, and ultimately, tumor growth will be propelled tremendously. Further researches will be done in the near future, perhaps developing a new drug which relates to sugar intake and tumor cells as one of the advanced methods in fighting cancer.

So, does sugar feed tumor cells? Yes, it does. Hence, balance up your blood glucose level by consuming GT&F Products frequently!

Bad News for Coffee Drinkers

If you have been following the articles which are published in this blog site, you would have notice many articles which tell all the good deeds coffee could bring you. But beware, at least after going through this piece of article, as coffee could potentially harm you the other way.

Billboards everywhere in the town start promoting how great coffee is for the fact that it contains large amount of antioxidants, molecules which could prevent or slowing down the process of oxidation of other molecules. In other words, antioxidants play major role especially in anti-aging.

But coffee these days, starts to show the downsides which appear quite worrying. Researchers from Norwegian University Science and Technology (NTNU) underwent a study and published in the Journal of Headache Pain that, coffee actually could cause migraines.

Coffee is previously known to be a stimulant which could provide positive as well as negative consequences to the consumer. Anyhow, things have become a little confusing as recent studies again proved that coffee could potentially cause the emergence of migraines. The frequency of migraine sufferers appear to be 18% higher in those who had high consumption (around 500mg per day) than non-drinkers. In the other way, caffeine is scientifically known as a common ingredient which can relieve pain.

Hence, to drink, or not to drink, thus becomes a major concern among frequent drinkers. But cutting back the intake of caffeine might help because the reason why migraine sufferers who are also happen to be frequent consumer of coffee experience high precipitation of migraine, would probably caused by the high consumption of caffeine, and this also further explains the unawareness of migraine occurrence by non-frequent coffee drinkers.