汽車的空調----必讀！！

以下是一个广泛流传的电邮信息！
“怪不得比起從前，有越來越多鄉親死於癌症，在我們都還不清楚癌症是從哪兒來之際，有個實例顯示出許多癌症都是意外發生的。嗯，許多人早上第一件事和晚上最後一件事都是待在汽車裡，一周7天。當我讀到這個，感到又難過又愧疚。請盡可能地把這訊息傳給大家，希望還來得及做些改變。
進入車內不要馬上打開空調，先打開車窗通風幾分鐘，才打開空調。
以下是原因：
根據研究，汽車的儀表板。沙發。空氣濾清器會釋放“苯”，產生毒素而致癌。
（致癌物質——花一點時間去觀察你的車里的塑膠製品高溫時產生的氣味。）
除了致癌之外，”苯“還會侵蝕我們的骨骼，造成貧血和降低白血球數量。長期曝露其中會導致白血病，大大增加罹癌的風險，也可能導致流產。
苯”每平方英尺的可接受水平為50毫克。若停車在室內又窗戶緊閉，則產生400-800毫克的“苯”。
若停在戶外大太陽下溫度超過 60 ℉ ( 15.5 ℃ )，“苯”就上升至2000-4000毫克，超出允許量的40倍！
人們只要進入車內而又車窗緊閉，將會無法避免快速連續地吸入過量的毒素。
“苯”是那種會影響你的腎臟和肝臟的毒素，更糟糕的是，你的身體想把這種有毒物質排擠出去是極度困難的。
所以朋友們，進入汽車之前，請把你車子的門窗打開，給點時間讓車內的空氣--致命的東西排出。

Impact of Climate Change To Vegetables in Hulu Yam

Over the year, we had talks a lot on the impact of climate change towards vegetable production but very few people can understand what we means.

In May 2010, the hot weather plus heavy rain in the afternoon had damage most of the leafy vegetable in Hulu Yam, product reduce by more than 50%. It struck the market so much that most leafy vegetable wholesalers can not reach their supply, some even faced big financial difficulties in the month, retail price of leafy vegetable shot up to RM4.00-5.00/kg from RM2.00/kg due to shortages.

Vegetables don’t grow on that particular month is because all the vegetables had been heated by very hot sun light, and the soil is hot too. When it rain in the afternoon, the rain water is heated by the hot soil and “cooked” the vegetables. Most vegetables can not adapt to the rapid weather changes and “rotten”.

We later found out this similar weather situation also struck the cabbages of Cameron Highlands, the green chili of Perak and the red chili of Jahor, we belief more crops should had been affected.

We later visited a farm in Senai, saw 110 acres of red chili in bad shape with very low production but no disease found.

In principles “greater concentrations of CO2 generally result in higher photosynthesis rates and may also reduce water losses from plants. Photosynthesis is enhanced when additional carbon is available for assimilation and so crop yields generally rise”.

But it doesn’t apply to the crops in the month of May 2010 in Malaysia, it had over the limit of crop’s growth habit.

The impact of climate warming had changed our strategy to build the green house for organic and sustainable farming. Mr Choo Kok Hing, the Managing Director of Hulu Yam Fresh Sdn Bhd, suggested fixing ventilation system to reduce heat in the house, we estimate the temperature inside the green house is above 5 °C higher than outside.

Electricity supply must be connected for the system to works, hence we had to delay the project

(wrote on 6/08/2010)

图瓦卢没有蔬菜的病难

位于南太平洋的图瓦卢群岛（Tuvalu），分布在夏威夷与澳大利亚之间130万平方公里的赤道海域上，是世界人口第二少的国家（仅次于梵蒂冈）。

该国陆地遭遇大灾之后，唯一的种植区被淹没，农业生产困难，几乎100％的食物都要依靠进口。加上贫困，使当地居民健康状况极为糟糕。

食品可以通过货轮运到图瓦卢，从斐济的苏瓦到这里需要3~5天，但这里地处赤道附近，常年高温，所以蔬菜不可能通过货轮运进来，只能通过空运，但空运费用都要好几十美元一公斤，当地人消费不起，连很容易变质的蔬菜也极为珍贵。

因此无论大小餐馆，全是纯肉类食品——烧鸡饭就只有烧鸡和米饭、咖喱牛肉也只有咖喱和牛肉，连一根青菜都没有。长期以肉类作为主食而没有青菜，导致居民太过肥胖，常常发生心肌梗塞，很多人都是猝死的。凡是超过30岁的男女，几乎都是“肥胖症”患者，轻的有100公斤、重的超过200公斤。当地人由于长期缺乏蔬菜调节营养，在三、四十岁的时普遍患上脂肪肝、高血压、高血脂、心脏病等疾病，平均寿命不到50岁。

（根据图瓦卢官方资料，年龄达或超过65岁者，只有 5.1%，参考http://www.tuvaluislands.com/about.htm）

http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E5%9B%BE%E7%93%A6%E5%8D%A2

http://yxk.cn.yahoo.com/articles/20091202/1bt9_3.html

第一个气候暖化的受害国

由于地势极低，温室效应造成的海平面上升对图瓦卢造成非常严重的威胁。从1993年迄2009年的16年间，图瓦卢的海平面总共上升了9.12厘米，按照 这个数字推算，50年之后，海平面将上升37.6厘米，这意味着图瓦卢至少将有60％的国土彻底沉入海中。海平面上升已经迫使不少居民从2002年起搬迁到新西兰。图瓦卢将成为世界上第一个因气候灾难举国搬迁的国家。

氮素营养过高毛病多

专家都认为，蔬菜氮素营养过高，对身体会造成危害，除了会产生致癌的亚硝酸胺，破坏肝肾功能，也会提高尿酸浓度，尤其是肉食多的人，更加要注意氮营养的平衡。

人体所缺乏的营养，需要通过食物来补充。理想的蔬菜具有较高的维生素、矿物质和纤维素，根茎完整健全，颜色为翠绿而不是深绿色。

如果土壤氮肥太高，会影响其他元素的合成，使蔬菜营养不均衡。因此为了要使蔬菜外表看来更加美（深绿色）和长大，不断施放氮素肥料，除了会对消费人的身体不利，也会破坏土壤的活力，这是得不偿失的。

以目前普遍食肉多，垃圾食物和油炸食物多的社会，蛋白质吸收量只会高而不会偏低。高度吸收氮素和蛋白质营养，不仅会造成维生素B、镁和钙质缺乏，也会导致慢性胰化酶缺乏症。如果尿酸盐堆积在血液过多，就会增加血液浓度，贮积在关节引起痛风症，同时需要从骨部挪出钙质平衡氮质，而引起骨质疏松症。

蔬菜是调节身体酸碱度的最理想食物，因此必须调整氮肥施用，避免消费人利用蔬菜调节身体时再中氮毒。

Warmest Cheer from Dr. Sultan Ismail

Picture: Dr Sultan Ismail (2nd from right).

“Congratulations to Hulu Yam farmers from

Sultan Ismail, India”

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:46 AM, http://huluyamfresh.blogspot.com/ wrote:

Hulu Yam Fresh S/B Natural Farming Project is successful

Please log to www.erfindia.org for earth's sake

Also read: http://www.erfindia.org/waste_resource.asp

Earthworms feed on organic waste, consuming two to five times their body weight. They use a relatively small amount of their intake for their growth and excrete the mucus coated undigested matter as vermicasts. Vermicasts consist of organic matter that has undergone physical and chemical breakdown through the activity of the muscular gizzard that grinds the material. The nutrients present in the vermicasts are readily soluble in water for uptake by plants. Vermicast is a rich source of macro and micronutrients, vitamins, enzymes, antibiotics, growth hormones and microflora.

Vermicompost refers to organic manure produced by earthworms. It is a mixture of worm castings (faecal excretions), organic material including humus, live earthworms, their cocoons and other organisms. Vermicomposting is an appropriate cost effective and efficient recycling technique for the disposal of non-toxic solid and liquid organic wastes.

UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet

Wednesday 2 June 2010 18.09 BST

A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today.

As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.

The panel, which drew on numerous studies including the Millennium ecosystem assessment, cites the following pressures on the environment as priorities for governments around the world: climate change, habitat change, wasteful use of nitrogen and phosphorus in fertilisers, over-exploitation of fisheries, forests and other resources, invasive species, unsafe drinking water and sanitation, lead exposure, urban air pollution and occupational exposure to particulate matter.

Agriculture, particularly meat and dairy products, accounts for 70% of global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use and 19% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, says the report, which has been launched to coincide with UN World Environment day on Saturday.

More:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/26/palm-oil-initiative-carbon-emissions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink

聯合國的報告指出，我們必須減少食用動物性產品。才能讓世界免於遭受氣候變遷的嚴重衝擊。

根據聯合國今天發表的報告：為了拯救世界免於飢荒、能源耗竭及氣候變遷的險惡衝擊，全球改採純素飲食( vegan)至關重要。

聯合國環境規劃署( UNPE)永續資源管理跨國專家委員會發表報告：全球人口預估將於2050年達到91億，而西方大量食用肉品跟奶製品的飲食方式，無法讓地球永續生存。

這項報告表示：“人口增加帶來越來越多的肉品消費，而農牧業對環境帶來的衝擊，預料將大幅地增加。不像石化燃料，農牧業不容易有替代方案：人都得吃東西。所以，如果要減輕農牧業對環境帶來的衝擊，唯一可行的辦法，只有靠全世界大規模的飲食改變，不吃動物產品。”

愛德格‧赫衛區教授是這份報告的主筆，他表示：生產動物性產品對環境造成的傷害，比生產建築材料，像砂子、水泥、塑膠跟金屬等都來的大。生產生質燃料以及穀物餵養動物，跟燃燒石化燃料一樣危害劇烈。

聯合國報告的這項建議，也呼應了去年史登爵士所提出的忠告，史登爵士是前英國工黨的氣候變遷經濟顧問。他呼籲大家蔬食是對地球比較友善的飲食，聯合國跨政府氣候變遷小組的主席，帕卓理博士也大聲疾呼，要採行一週一素來抑制排碳。

更多：http://www.meatfree.org.tw/node/240

http://www.meatfree.org.tw/node/178#comment-92

Conserve Nature, Protect Life, Preserve Health

Save Our Planet

As reported by a UK based research centre, every 1°rise in global temperature would further endanger the existence of mankind. Global warming will result in more powerful super storm, hurricane, forest fire and massive floods. The rapid retreat of glaciers at Greenland’s coastline and in the Arctic would raise the sea level that might drown some of the coastal areas.

According to various statistics and scientific evidences, switching to vegetarian diet is one of the most effective ways to save our planet. The famous British economist, Lord Nicholas Stern, urged all human beings to give up eating meat as a means to reduce emission of greenhouse gases.

Environmental studies proved that our food choice is the most important factor affecting our planet. Going vegetarian would help reduce pollution of the environment and allow our planet to recover from its damage.

• In America, some 80% top soil loss is attributed to livestock rearing;
• 20 vegetarians can live off the land require by one meat eater.

Its Is Easy To Be a Vegetarian

You might not have tried a vegetarian diet, or may be you are already a vegetarian but are shy to talk about it. Some people take vegetarian meals on Chinese New Year day or new moon and full moon days, while some people are adding more fruits and vegetables in their daily diet. All this, can be said as taking a first step in shifting to vegetarian diet.

Taking fruits daily help to relax your body. Try to begin your meals with vegetables and you will discover their natural sweetness. Adjust your sense of taste, you will find that vegetable are real tasty, and it makes you healthier too. Ideally, you should eat vegetables and fruits free from agricultural chemicals or from farm you are trusted. What can be more enjoyable than consuming a bowl of vegetables grown by your own self? You will sure enjoy it true flavour.