Brain damage at High Altitude. Becareful!

For those who goes for high altitude training and comes home feeling strange … well it is because your brain could have been severely damaged.
Well, according to this article,  “Into Thin Air: Mountain Climbing Kills Brain Cells“  The neural cost of high-altitude mountaineering: by R. Douglas Fields, the findings are not too “elevating” either:
“Neurologist [...]

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Check your coffee maker please!

This morning, I told my wife that I would be making gourmet coffee which I had bought from a friend for charity sale.   I had eagerly anticipating to savcur the fine gourmet coffee and started to find where  I had stashed my old coffee maker.  In fact, I have two coffee maker: one using [...]

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Triathlon Swim Is Not So Easy!

Just read that Mr Calvin Lee, 42, the CEO of Deutsche Telekom Asia, died during the swim segment of the Osim Singapore International Triathlon. It is sad to learn that his buddys’ claims that he was a strong swimmer.  But I am not sure if it meant that he had lots of experience swimming in [...]

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Killing Butterflies for all the Wrong Reasons

When Clement, my youngest son, appeared at the doorway, he was holding a squarish clear plastic cover over a styrofoam base.  I was about to go for my evening exercise but stayed on to see what he had been learning for his one-day life sciences course.
Inside the squarish plastic cover were two insects; a large [...]

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AWARE then; BEWARE now. Have pity on the single women of both extreme ends!

I have not been really following the AWARE problem but it seemed to me that we should have some sympathy with both warring parties, i.e the previous “AWARE” and the present “BEWARE” group.
I am not sure how the group of “pro-lesbo” (as termed by the present BEWARE) got conned together in the first place, probably [...]

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So the Japan MRT yellow safety line is further back than ours!!!!

I always get the impression why I write in to traffic police or MRT feedback that we are following the gold standard of other countries like Japan, Europe etc.
I have been harping on why the yellow line is so near the edge which do not allow people who might fall onto the track when they [...]

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More Cardiovascular Disease Risks Testings Needed To Prevent Sudden Cardiovascular Death?

With the recent spate of sudden deaths from those over forties who died while exercising, maybe there should be other form of cardiovascular testing besides the usual cholesterol tests.
I found that taking Vitamin C had been very effective in maintaining capillaries health necessary to bring the vital oxygen to our cellular levels.  It had been [...]

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Acidophilus better than antibiotics to fight drug-resistant bacteria in food poisoning?

Previously when I have diarrhoea, normally after eating food from the hawker centres, I would often be prescribed with anti-biotic from doctors.  Others recommended charcoal tablets or even Poh Chye Yun pills.  To a certain extent, they do work in relieving some of the symptons while the body recover.
However, nowadays, I take prefer [...]

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Coffee, Tea or Me?

Just read about why coffee can make you run faster and that drinking very hot tea can increase risk of throat cancer.
Well, firstly I drink coffee mostly and tea sometimes.  As for coffee, I still vividly remember this super fast cross runner from my alma mater, Saint Joseph Institution whom I met during my recruit [...]

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Metal Railing at MRT Platform to prevent accidental falling

MRT needs interim measures like metal railings on its open platform to prevent accidental fallings as more people jam pack the stations.

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