Khasiat budu

Budu yang berasal dari negeri sebelah pantai timur Malaysia ini mendapat perhatian dan menjadi kajian para ahli pemakanan berkhasiat Jepun, Amerika Syarikat, Australia, New Zealand dan Jerman. Penemuan baru-baru ini membuktikan kandungan budu memiliki glutathione sebagai bahan antioksidan, mengeluarkan sisa toxic dan meningkatkan daya tahan tubuh (immune) yang dapat memerangi pelbagai penyakit merbahaya dan menghalang kanser.

Kenyataan ini bagaikan satu kejutan bagi golongan yang selama ini memperlekehkan kewujudan budu yang dianggap makan "kuno".

Budu didapati berpotensi untuk melawan radikal bebas dan dipercayai mampu menghalang proses penuaan dan mencegah terjadinya penyakit degeneratif seperti aterosklerosis, koroner jantung, penyakit kencing manis, kanser dan selainnya pada peringkat lebih awal. Kajian mendalam juga mendapati budu turut mengandungi zat antibakteria penyebab cirit (diarrhoea), penurunan kolestrol darah, pencegah penyakit jantung dan hipertensi.

Budu memiliki zat gizi yang lebih mudah dicerna, diserap dan dimanfaatkan oleh tubuh berbanding jenis protein yang lain. Khasiat budu yang diproses dari ikan bilis yang diperam terbukti mampu mengatasi masalah kanak-kanak yang menderita penyakit diarrhoea kronik akibat kurang zat pada tubuh. Dengan pengambilan budu sebagai makanan sampingan, ia mampu menggalakkan pertumbuhan berat badan bagi golongan yang menderita penyakit diarrhoea kronik ini serta menyembuhkannya dalam waktu singkat.

Ia juga dapat mempertingkatkan IQ kepada sesiapa yang memakannya, kerana iamerangsangkan sel-sel otak dan akan memperkukuhkan ikatan di antara neuron-neuron serta menguatkan neuron-neuron yang lemah. Pemakanan budu turut bertindak membantutkan pertumbuhan bakteria raffinosa dan stokiosa, penyebab utama gejala flatulensi dan masalah kembung perut bagi kanak-kanak dan orang dewasa. 2 kelompok vitamin yang terdapat pada budu iaitu, vitamin larut air (vitamin B kompleks) dan vitamin larut lemak (vitamin A, D, E dan K).
Budu merupakan sumber vitamin B yang paling banyak menyumbang kepada pecahan lain seperti vitamin B1 (thiamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), asid pantotenat, asid niasin, vitamin B6 dan vitamin B12 (sianokobalamin). Secara saintifik, budu merupakan penyumbang utama vitamin B12 yang dihasilkan oleh bakteria klebsiella pneumoniae dan Citrobacter frundiin - yang mana vitamin B12 ini tidak dimiliki dari mana-mana sumber makanan laut, ikan-ikan dan daging-daging lain. vitamin B12 ini perlu untuk pembentukan sel darah merah, di mana kekurangan vitaman ini mengakibatkan terjadinya penyakit anemia perisiosa (pucat), sakit perut dan berat badan menurun.

Kadar vitamin B12 dalam budu adalah di antara 1.5 sehingga 6.3 mikrogram per 100 gram bagi setiap satu hidangan atau 2 sudu besar. Jumlah ini jauh lebih cukup untuk keperluan badan manusia dalam sehari. Dengan adanya vitamin B12 para pengamal diet (jaga badan) tidak perlu lagi merasa khuatir akan kekurangan vitamin B12 di dalam badan.
Selain pembekal kepada protein yang tinggi, ia turut mengandungi mineral makro dan mikro dalam jumlah yang cukup. Jumlah mineral zat besi, kalsium dan magnesium adalah sebanyak 9, 39, 2, 87 dan 8.05 mg bagi setiap 100 gram budu. Budu juga mengandungi zat antioksidan dalam bentuk isoflavon.

Seperti halnya vitamin C, vitamin E dan karotenoid, isoflavon juga merupakan antioksidan yang sangat diperlukan oleh tubuh untuk menghentikan reaksi pembentukan radikal bebas. Radikal bebas merupakan atom atau molekul yang mempunyai satu atau lebih elektron yang tidak berpasangan, sehingga menjadi sangat aktif hingga menyebabkan ketumbuhan tumor, kanser, penuaan dan kematian sel. Radikal bebas didapati berpunca dari makan seharian yang dimakan dan juga dari reaksi yang terjadi di dalam tubuh. Adanya antioksidan di dalam budu akan mencegah pembentukan radikal bebas tersebut.

Kebiasaannya di dalam apa jua jenis ikan terdapat 3 jenis isoflavon unsur antioksidan iaitu daidzein, glisitein dan genistien. Pada budu, di samping 2 jenis unsur ini, terdapat juga antioksidan faktor 11 (6, 7, 4 trihidroksi isoflavon) yang mempunyai sifat antioksidan paling kuat dibandingkan isoflavon dalam ikan-ikan lain.
Penelitian yang dilakukan di Universiti North Carolina, Amerika Syarikat menemukan bahawa unsur genestein dan phytoestrogen yang terdapat pada budu terbukti dapat mencegah penyakit kanser, proses penuaan dan barah payu dara.

Penyakit jantung koroner (PJK) merupakan salah satu bentuk kelainan pembuluh darah koroner akibat penumpuan lemak di dalam dinding pembuluh darah iaitu satu keadaan yang disebut aterosklerosis. Ini mungkin disebabkan oleh faktor usia, pemakanan, jantina dan keturunan. Manakala faktor dimodifikasi adalah peningkatan kadar lipida darah (hiperkolestrolemia), hipertensi, obesiti, stress dan kurang aktiviti lasak. Pemakanan budu yang mempunyai sifat hipokolesterolemik (menurunkan lemak darah) seperti kandungan protein, serta makanan, niasin, vitamin E, karotenoid dan kalsium. Satu ujikaji rambang yang dijalankan, mendapati pengambilan budu sebanyak 150 gm sehari selama 2 minggu dapat menurunkan kadar kolestrol ke tahap luar dari jangkaan.
Selain dari sumber protein yang berkualiti tinggi, budu turut dikenali sebagai sumber serat (dietary fiber) yang baik. Kandungan serat di dalam budu mampu mencapai di antara 8 hingga 10% bagi setiap 100 gm. Ia menyumbangkan kepada 30% dari jumlah serat yang dianjurkan oleh National Cancer Research.

Berbanding serat di dalam ikan-ikan atau sumber protein lain, serat pada budu lebih mudah untuk dicernakan, kerana ia telah disepara cerana oleh bakteria. Dari apa yang dinyatakan ini jelas sekali bahawa khasiat serta kebaikan sepiring budu yang dimakan bersama hidangan nasi pagi, tengahari dan malam melampau jangkauan yang anda fikirkan. Budu seumpama cecair pelbagai vitamin yang memenuhi segala keperluan untuk tubuh badan.


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Some dangers about Facebook

I cannot vouch for the authenticity of this article. Nevertheless it is worthwhile being aware of this.

For those on Facebook

- Very important message, please read

It's a good reminder even though we may know (or not) all this about Facebook. One other good practice is about Instant Personalization:

• The New Face Book Privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" goes into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-Facebook websites & it is automatically set to "Enabled".
  
• Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Apps & Websites > Instant Personalization >edit settings & uncheck "Enable". BTW If your friends don't do this, they will be sharing info about you as well. Please copy and repost

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON FACE BOOK - BEWARE! Please spare a few minutes to read this...It’s an eye opener. "The information people give out on Facebook, when linked up with other information freely available on the internet, is an absolute ­goldmine for criminals," the Daily Mail quoted Michael Fraser, a reformed burglar who presents the BBC's 'Beat The Burglar' programme, as saying. "One year, you might have a party and give out your address. A while later, you might tell everyone that it is your 30th birthday. "So, if you've accepted me as a friend of a friend, I know your name, your address and your birth date. "From that, I can go to 192.com or192.com usa and on there I can find out what you do for a living, how much your home is worth - and whether you're likely to be worth burgling. "I might have already made up my mind because you've posted party ­pictures on Facebook and I can see what kind of valuables you have in the house - and which rooms they're in. Then you go and tell your Facebook friends how much you're looking forward to going on holiday next Tuesday. "I can go on to Google Street View and see actual photographs of your home. I can see if you have a burglar alarm, or whether there are any bushes in the garden to hide in. And I can see all the alleyways I can escape down. And, of course, I know you won't be at home. "Once you accept a stranger into your Facebook account, they can begin what we call social ­engineering - ­delicately asking questions to build up information about you,' said Jason Hart, ­senior vice ­president of ­CRYPTOCard Network Security. "And that can cause havoc. Let's say they got your email address, then they could go to your email account pretending to be you and saying you have ­forgotten your password. "Once they have that secret ­information, the email account will let them in. And once they are in there, they can find lots of sensitive information, such as your Amazon and eBay account history. "They can then go to those sites pretending to be you and saying you have lost your passwords, and guess what happens then? "Those sites send the passwords to your email account - the one that they have already conned their way into. "Crooks who do this usually use the credit card details you have stored there to buy online gift vouchers that can be traded on the internet. It is a form of instant ­currency. "Even worse, if you have a PayPalaccount and have credit in it, your so-called friend could clean it out. "Effectively, they have become an electronic version of you, they can change all your passwords and begin stealing from you.

The world is a dangerous place not because of people who do evil, but because of good people who look on and do nothing about it.
-- Albert Einstein

New airline to fly in April

PC Air, a�newly formed carrier in Thailand, is set to take to the skies in April.

And the bigger news seemed to be that it has hired six transgender people as flight attendants to promote equal opportunities for the '3rd sex' in Southeast Asia. Over 100 transsexual people applied for the positions, and the airline's boss says that more are expected to be hired. The carrier is also hiring non-transsexuals.

Thailand has one of the biggest populations of 'kathoey' in the world. This term refers to a male-to-female transgender person, or an effeminate gay male. The figure comes as doctors in the country have come up with cheap and fast sex change techniques for people who are willing to go under the knife.

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However, transsexuals weren't the only people hired in flight attendant positions for the company. President Peter Chan says that he believes these people can have several careers and not just in the entertainment industry. Many of them have dreams to be flight attendants, he continued, and he's made those dreams come true. Society has changed, evolved, he explained, and he is a pioneer that is sure other organizations will follow his idea. It isn't mandatory that applicants go through a sex change to be considered for the job, he noted. The important thing, he added, is that they have the necessary language skills and can give good service.

One of the few transgender applicants they chose is 23-year-old�Thanyarat 'Film' Jiraphatpakorn, who won the Miss Tiffany beauty pageant in 2007. She is ecstatic to have the job, saying that she thought that they would just take applications without actually recruiting anyone, because this has happened before.�

The transgender staff will wear a special gold '3rd sex' name tag to help other PC Air staff and travelers identify their gender.�

Emergency rule in Bangkok ends

On Wednesday, 22 December 2010, the Royal Thai Government ended the Emergency Decree that has been in effect for Bangkok and surrounding provinces since the May 2010 political protests. The government ended the decree as the political situation in Thailand is stable and normal.

The Emergency Decree was declared to give authorities greater flexibility in responding to the political protests that took place in Thailand during May. It remained in effect in the areas around Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, to expedite investigations into the political demonstrations as well as limit political gatherings. Authorities will now use the Internal Security Act to ensure the political situation in Thailand remains calm. Political gatherings are permitted as long as they are peaceful and remain within government guidelines.

Even while in effect, the Emergency Decree had no impact whatsoever on visitors to the country. The number of visitor arrivals to Thailand has remained robust and on target throughout most of 2010. As of the end of November 2010, visitor arrivals to Thailand reached 14.039 million, an increase of 12.63% compared to the same period of 2009.

Given the stability of the situation in Thailand and that the country remains a favourite destination for international visitors, the Tourism Authority of Thailand encourages travellers to visit the country to join in activities such as the 2011 New Year Countdown & Festive Celebrations that will take place around the country.

Tourism: Satun, Kedah to work together

Kedah and Satun, a province in southern Thailand, agreed to collaborate in tourism programmes to attract more tourists to this part of the region. Kedah Tourism, Domestic Trade, Consumer Affairs, Indian Community and Estate Workers Committee chairman M. Manikumar said the collaboration was meant for designing, transforming and revolutionising the entire tourism industry towards a new paradigm.

"We hope the existence of a new platform, namely the Kedah-Satun Joint Cooperation Committee, since early this year to organise various tourism programmes could bring in more tourists to Langkawi Island and the main land of Kedah through the Satun-Langkawi gateway." Manikar was speaking at the launching of the Satun-Langkawi Paramotor Challenge 2010, here Friday.

There are 22 participants from Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore in the Satun-Langkawi Paramotor Challenge 2010 which started today in Satun.

Among the exciting events involving the participants are the Paramotor Show, Flour Bombing Competition, Sport Landing Competition and Flying Show before flying in their paramotor over a distance of 15 kilometres. Manikumar said the event was initiated through the Kedah-Satun Joint Cooperation Committee.

He added that the state government would consider making the Satun-Langkawi Paramotor Challenge an annual event to boost tourism in Kedah.

40 WINNERS IN THE FIRST THAILAND BOUTIQUE HOTELS AWARDS 2010

Forty distinctive small hotels from all over Thailand have won the first Thailand Boutique Hotels Awards 2010 organised by the Krungthai Card Public Company Limited (KTC) in collaboration with the Krungthep Turakij newspaper with the support of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and MasterCard.

Designed to highlight the creativity and diversity of new products in the Thai travel and tourism industry, the awards were conferred at a colourful ceremony at the King Power Duty-Free Complex in Bangkok on November 22, 2010.

Congratulating the award winners, TAT Governor Suraphon Svetasreni said, “These awards are an excellent way to give small, independent hotels nationwide the opportunity to gain more recognition among consumers, and boost their business in an era of intense competition.”

More than 100 applications were received for the awards which were open to hotels of between 4 to 50 rooms The judging panel, chaired by former TAT Governor Mrs Phornsiri Manoharn, comprised individuals from different professions, including hoteliers, designers, and architects.

Mr Staporn Sirisinha, Senior Executive Vice President — Travel and Leisure Marketing Department, of Krungthai Card Public Company Limited, said, “All of those who were involved in the project wanted to find ways to reward the tremendous creativity of the many Thai entrepreneurs who have developed such wonderful properties all over Thailand but have a hard time competing with major hotels, especially when recovering from the recent political crisis in Thailand.”

“We were very pleased to have the support of the Krungthep Turakij newspaper (part of the Nation Multimedia Group Public Company Limited), TAT and MasterCard.”

Ms Duangkamol Chotana, Editor, Krungthep Turakij, said “Boutique hotels are an up and coming trend in Thailand. They are consistent with the changing lifestyle of today’s travellers who seek a different experience in their holiday plans. Boutique accommodation offers these travellers the chance to enjoy the unique and creative personality and services they look for.

“Unfortunately, most boutique hotels are small or medium enterprises with limited capital and marketing expertise. It is indeed difficult for them to compete with major operators. That is why we devised this programme to help identify the best boutique hotels in different categories. It will effectively boost the morale of these smaller hotels and introduce them to partners who are capable of fortifying their marketing efforts and promotional campaigns.”

The judges evaluated entries from all five regions of Thailand: Northern, Northeastern, Central, Eastern, and Southern regions, in six categories: 1) Architecture, 2) Renovation and Modification, 3) Nature and Environment, 4) Culture, 5) Total Experience, and, 6) Community Travelling.

There were two Awards — Excellence and Outstanding — for all categories except for Community Travelling for which there was only one Outstanding Award. Additionally, there were five Excellence Awards, one for each region.

Free Sakineh

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Over 900,000 of us sent messages and made calls to key government officials after learning of her imminent execution. But now we're at an impasse and have to give Iran a way out of this dilemma. The next step towards freeing Sakineh is to fund international experts to strengthen her legal defense and work with officials in Iran to resolve this shameful situation. Ifthousands of us donate we can hire an elite team of advocates, keep campaigning to free Sakinehand work on behalf of others facing brutal injustice. Click on the link below to support Sakineh:

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Iran has tried everything to keep Sakineh in jail.They accused her of adultery and sentenced her to stoning despite the fact that the alleged adultery took place after her husband’s death. They sentenced her to death for the murder of her husband even though she had already been acquitted, and another man convicted and sentenced for the murder. They even arrested her son and lawyer and forced the rest of the legal team into exile. After massive international pressure, Iranian officials must be desperate for a face-saving way out of this mess..

And now, for the first time, there is dissent within Iran from Conservative forces about the treatment of Sakineh and the way her case has been handled by the Iranian government. Some are calling for her acquittal of all charges.

A team of diplomatic and legal experts could build on this dissent and work within Iran to secure Sakineh's release. Our call, 900,000 voices strong, in combination with pressure from inside Iran for Sakineh's release is the best chance we have to save Sakineh. Now is the moment to give whatever we can to end her brutal persecution:

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In the campaign against the death penalty worldwide, Sakineh's survival is an important beacon of hope. We have shown unprecedented support for her through an explosive petition, strategic ads in Iranian-allied countries and a flood of messages to world leaders generating an international outcry. Join us in this next step towards freeing Sakineh, ending stoning, and eliminating the death penalty across the globe.