Dr Dicky Ng

A report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition gives the latest on the link between cow’s milk and type 1 diabetes. Researchers have long known that type 1 diabetes occurs when white blood cells attack the pancreas and kill off the insulin-producing cells. The question is, what triggers this deadly autoimmune reaction? Is it a virus? Perhaps some kind of bacterium? Many have pointed a finger of blame at cow’s milk. After all, people who were formula-fed as infants are much more likely to develop type 1 diabetes, compared with their breast-fed counterparts. A major international study, called the Trial to Reduce Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the Genetically at Risk (TRIGR) study, aims to nail down the role of cow’s milk in diabetes risk. The research team encouraged a group of women to breastfeed. Those who then transitioned their infants to baby formula were given a specially prepared formula in which proteins were broken up, so that no intact cow’s milk pro...

_____________ Diabetes Mellitus Profile Of The Diagnosed There are more than 1.2 million people in Malaysia who have diabetes. Diabetes is actually a general term for a number of separate but related disorders. These disorders fall into two main categories: type 1 , which usually occurs during childhood or adolescence, and type 2 , the most common form of the disease, usually occurring after age 30. What is type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes? Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes is a disease which results from the body's failure to produce insulin -- the hormone that "unlocks" the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. This is most often the result of an autoimmune process in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Since glucose cannot enter the cells, it builds up in the blood and the body's cells literally starve to death. People with type 1 diabetes must take daily insulin...

What Is Hypertension?  Hypertension, is the medical term for High blood pressure (HBP) .  It is a serious condition that can lead to ischaemic heart disease (also called coronary heart/artery disease), heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, and other health problems.  "Blood pressure" is the force of blood pressing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood. If this pressure rises and stays high over time, it can damage the body in many ways.  HOW COMMON? In 3rd Malaysian National Health Survey, 42% o fadult older than 30 years old have hypertension. The condition itself usually has no symptoms. You can have it for years without feeling sick or any other abnormality.  During this time, the high blood pressure can damage the heart, blood vessels, kidneys, and other parts of your body. Knowing your blood pressure numbers is important, even when you're feeling fine. If your blood pressure is normal, you can work with your heal...

Tobacco is a big business.  Each day, while many smokers try to reduce or stop.  Unfortunately, many youngsters start experimenting this enslaving habit.       So, why do people start smoking? Curiousity Peer influence Fashion etc Email me drdickyng.wellness@gmail.com and share your opinion. And, why do people continue to smoke? Inability to stop Relieve stress Social Habit associated with many essential parts of life, ie after meal, initiating bowel movement etc Help to focus, think and solve problems Others Do smokers desire to quit? Yes, >90% of the smokers I meet express their desire to stop, but find it difficult.  In fact, most of them have tried. Click here to find out what happen to some famous smokers. If you are searching for help to attain freedom from Tobacco, you can contact Breathe Free Seminar Organiser for group support plus education on the process of breaking free. Check out the program outline here . ____...

Analyse smoking pattern.  Reflect and examine the reasons for current smoking.  A smoking diary for 3 -4 days will help to clarify this, if one needs pointers.  Smoking diary is a record of the time and situation of each cigarette lit up in that day.  And at the end of the day, find a quiet time when one can reflect on the record and give a reason for each stick smoked.  it might be early morning, feeling the urge; have to initiate the bowel movement; post meal urge; feeling stress; feeling bored; feeling happy; friends lite up; etc Once the reasons for smoking are known, decide which reasons are pretty strong and difficult to deal with.  Start developing strategies to deal with those tough areas Do trial run of the strategies on occasion; you might need to do some more research, if you do not have enough from my website Once you gain confidence of handling small successes, you are ready for the full quit to ACHIEVE FRESH BREATH. SET A Special date in ...

Sharing 1 I used to smoke 1 pack a day for the past 10 years plus and now after the 3 months treatment with champix I am smoke free.Over the years I had tried many times to quit smoking with a lot of different methods but was not successful but Champix seems to help me quit with less effort.Well let me start at the beginning of my treatment.The first few days when I took champix somehow or rather I seem to have had more than a pack a day maybe thinking that I will quit smoking.Anyway it took me around day 10 or 11 to totally stop smoking.The only reason that made me stop was the taste of the cigarette not only there was no rewarding feeling but it tasted different and very bad. In the first 2 weeks of treatment I had experienced slight nausea,dizziness and vivid dreams.The nausea feeling for me was mild and transient and also was the dizziness it was bearable cause I was still able to drive to work and so on. The vivid dreams (sometimes nice) I had experience more than 2 months. I see...

Bad breath:   This is a common, embarassing problem. Hope you don't have it. If you do, try these remedies out. They are harmless, and cheap, little or no side effects. Mouth is a good habitation for many bacteria . Certain bacteria (gram positive- called for the way they stain)  which feast on starches and sugar are the ones that cause dental cavities.  When gram negative bacteria eat, the by product is the release of airborne compounds that causes bad breath. The smell they produce depends on what they feed on. A menu of sulfur-containing molecules produces methyl mercaptan, which smells like rotten cabbage. Tryptophan, an amino acid, produces indole and skatole, which is the same compound that gives feces their characteristic odor. Short chain carboxylic acid molecules are rendered into isovaleric acid, which smells like sweaty socks. The bacteria most likely to make these stincks prefer anaerobic or oxygen free conditions. For the same reason, you may have bad br...

By Allan R. Handysides and Peter N. Landless Addictions and at-risk behaviors obviously impact our health very negatively. What is the best way to educate our youth in order to prevent these behaviors?  You ask a vitally important question. We often think that education and information are the main pillars of prevention. Information and facts are important, but they are not enough. If education or the understanding of the dangers of tobacco use was enough of a deterrent, warning signs and notices on cigarette boxes would be sufficient to stop people from smoking. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Warning labels are very necessary, and some countries are placing warnings of the dangers of drinking alcohol during pregnancy on bottles of alcoholic beverages. There should be more of this. Sociologists and psychologists, however, have found that even life-threatening events such as heart attacks or the diagnosis of cancer are not sufficient to produce changes in health behaviors...

Dr Dicky Ng Teik Kee Addiction: An unhealthy relationship between a person and a mind altering substance or experience that renders the person unable to quit a  disease of extreme. Preoccupation to the point of avoiding reality or sidestep the challenges and responsibilities of everyday life Chemical dependencies: alcoholism, drugs, tobacco. Nonchemical dependencies: Process or activity addictions ie gambling, working, netsurfing, sex, eating ~-----------------------------------------------------------~ Characteristics -The impulse to ignore the problem and hope that it will go away -Rationalization : creating logical explanations to explain one’s behavior. -Preoccupation with the activity and a drivenness to engage in it. In contrast, moderation and integration into real life mark a behavior as healthy -Addicts are secretive about their activity and deceptive when discovered. The tendency to make a single substance, person or process one’s sole source of mean...

This episode opens some windows on the world of addiction, whether this addiction is with gambling, drug taking or other behaviours. There is dialogue with some who describe its nature, others who have battled to escape its grasp, and a counsellor who helps in the ongoing struggle with it. A - Addiction According to one dictionary definition, to be addicted is to give oneself over to something as a habit or pursuit, or to devote oneself habitually to something. I love my addiction. I’ve got to have it. Compulsion is always associated with addictive behaviour. Being a compulsive gambler we are very manipulative. We are con-artists. 1.    What is addiction? Do you think that the descriptions of addiction by the various personalities in the video reveal the essence of what addiction is? 2.    Is there a difference between passion for something, and addiction to it? 3.    How do you think addiction takes charge of people despite their good resolution...