OPP ~ 21st Century Breakthrough Health and Beauty (Product Talk)

In the grips of an economic downturn, consumer’s minds are still focused on eating healthy foods. In general, Malaysians today are becoming more health conscious especially during this critical period when the outbreak of H1N1 infection is getting uncontrolled. People place emphasis on achieving health benefits through making specific food choices and look for food products that incorporate nutritional ingredients that provide specific health benefits. This factor is expected to drive the growth of the natural health market in Malaysia.

Mr. Lim Hua San, the managing director of GTF Company had once again talked on the GT&F® milk powder on 7^th September 2009 (Monday). “Mother Breast Milk " Just the word itself sounds comforting! It was a very first food to human being and is a loving link, given and taken between a mother and a baby. It was the baby only path to survival. It is the best food for human beings. Thus, GT&F® milk powder is a very special formulated GTF supplement as well as emulated mother breast milk product. With GTF in its most primal and natural environment, it is readily absorbed by our body. Long term consumption of GT&F® can replenish the GTF stores and helps to regain lost health.

Next up, Mr. Hugo Lim, the crown manager of GTF Company had presented on GTF New Marketing Plan. By using network marketing, the marketing strategy for the 21st century, GTF has opened the door of opportunity to anyone who has the drive, determination and perseverance to start a business. This plan will help the distributors to outsell their competition and it will ease their path to gain even more profits from the business. Their will be able to plan strategically for every next step and know-how should implement it successfully.

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.

~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

Hypertension & Memory

Metabolic syndrome is known as the combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The risk factors of metabolic syndrome include overweight (obesity), sedentary lifestyle, aging, diabetes mellitus, lipodystrophy and many more. But for now, the true meaning of metabolic syndrome seems to expand further as more and more new researches and studies relate to health are unveiled.

One of the latest studies concerning to one of the metabolic syndromes, is a shocking news which mentioned that people who have high blood pressure records could also possibly encountering a phenomenon where they experience cognitive impairment.

According to the study published in the August 25, 2009, in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology; high blood pressure is linked to people who are over 45 of age. The researchers had conducted a study over approximately 20,000 people whose aged 45 or older, and these people had no history in having a stroke or a mini-stroke.

However, the results showed that 7.6% of the population had cognitive problems, while 9,844 individuals from the population, or 49.6% of them, had high blood pressure.

Researchers suggested that for every 10-point of increment in blood pressure reading (in diastolic pressure), the odds of that person in having cognitive problems are generally 7% higher. Nevertheless, further study and details are required to support such postulation.

Drugs Increase Risk of Heart Failure

Many people, especially those who are not aware of the knowledge of medications, are somehow ignorant about what fatal consequences drugs and medicines prescribed by doctors could relate to ourselves.

In the contrary, perhaps many among us, have already known the possible bad aftermaths which could happen to us should we take in large accumulative amount of medicines into our bodies. And of course, the drugs which we will be discussing about today, are the drugs which described specifically in countering the outburst of one of the deadliest disease ever -- diabetes.

Not long ago, many people had already appeared to be suspicious as far as the drugs of diabetes were concerned. The popular drugs back then, namely rosiglitazone was accepted with open arms as to a certain extent, these drugs proved to be able to control the condition of diabetic patients effectively.

A study which involved these drugs, has been published in BMJ's website. As you may know, BMJ is a global medical publisher. From the studies, researchers had used the prescription records of nearly 40,000 patients whom were 66 years and older, and started to take diabetic drugs from April 2002 to March 2008.

Although the study was used to compare the differences between consuming rosiglitazone and other drugs, but it was just used to compare from the perspective of how far the bad consequences could be unveiled by the drugs. In other words, researchers were just determining which drugs are more deadlier in triggering heart failure among the patients, and which are not as serious. But in a nutshell, the clinical importance of the study revealed that by consuming prescribed drugs which are related in treating diabetes, the occurrence of heart failure is very much possible.

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.