Smokers Please Stay Away From Me!!

Cigarettes no longer is a strange for teenagers nowadays.A lot of efford had done by the goverment to reduce the smokers, but it seems like unavailing. The most recent efford that done by the goverment are display a terrible picture about the effect of smoking on each pack of cigarettes. The harmful content in cigarettes was included in our secondary science subjects so it is no longer a fresh topics to discuss in here. Let's us talk about the chemicals released from the cigarettes which will affect the people around who expose to the cigarettes smoke(second hand smokers/passive smokers).There are 3 major types of gases which will released by cigarettes.

i)Hydrogen Cyanide
-colourless,poisonous gas
- breathing in small amount will causes headache, dizziness, weakness
- whilst breathing in large amount may cause death

ii)Carbon monoxide
-result of inclomplete burning of carbon fuels
-CO will compete with Oxygen to bind with haemoglobin which lower the concentration of oxygen in the blood.
-It may also cause loss of consciousness and death

iii)Formaldehyde
-colorless, flammable gas with a strong odor
-causes irritition of nose, eye and throat when breathing in.
-It may cause cancer (carcinogen)

So that, we should always stay away from the smokers to avoid become the victims of secondhand smokes.
sources:http://quitsmoking.about.com/

What Chemicals Are Added To Water Before It Reach To Us?

Almost 70% of the earth is covered by water and almost 70% of human are fluids (water).Water is the necessity for all livings in order to survive .Beforetime, mans have to take the pails to the wellspring or river to take water. Nowadays we can easily get the water by turning the tap of water. Water actually is being artificially treated such as kills the bacteria and removal of undesirable substances from water before it reach customer’s tap. Let discover the chemicals that are added to water…

i)Potassium Permanganet
-remove the minerals from water
-improve the taste of water

ii)Alum
-coagulate the fine particles to larger particles that can be removed by filtration.

iii)Lime
-neutralize the pH of water

iv)Chlorine
-improve quality of water
-protect the water from contamination
*Most important chemical that added in terms of public health

v)Polyphosphate
-prevents the corrosion of water lines

vi)Fluoride
-reduce the tooth decay in children

Water are vastly being polluted nowadays.Man put a lot of efford on it in order to maintain the water quality...
sources:www.greensboro-nc.gov

An Ancient Culture Of China- CHINESE TEA

(I would like to share a photo which take from the "HangZhou dragonwell tea")

Tea was considered an elixir in ancient China.Tea has become a part of chinese culture nowadays.Almost all chinese around the world are like to drink chinese tea when they are having their meals. But most of us would not know what are actually ingredients content of the chinese tea.In fact, most of the ingredients of chinese tea have a lot of benifits to our health.

below here are some of the ingredients that can be found in chinese tea:

i) Caffeine
-It has stimulating property and removes mental fatigue.

ii)Tea fibre (from leaf's cell wall)
-prevents the penetration of hydrolyzing enzymes in human body.

iii)Carbohydrates (eg.glucose, fructose, sucrose)

-improve the flavour of the tea

iv)Amino acids(eg. Aspartic, glutamic)
-for aroma of tea.

v)Lipids and fatty acids

vi)Organic acids
-improve quality of tea.

According to research, tea contains more than 300 chemical substances.By drinking tea it can improve our immune system, lowering our blood chorestrol,prevent tooth decay,freshen breath, prevent arteriosclerosis(hearth stuck) and etc....

sources:www.fmltea.com

PS: I ALREADY IMPROVED BOTH OF MY PREVIOUS POSTS....THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS.

Discover the harmful ingredient in SOFT DRINKS...(improved)

Since i'm young, i was told by my parents that do not drink the soft drink so much. Even until now, im a adult, they still will nagging me if i drink the soft drink in front of them. Im only allow to do so during the festival season (eg Chinese New Year,...) or having meals in fast food restaurant(eg MCD, Pizza...) . But untill now i'm still not really clear about the ingredients of the soft drink .So let discover what actually contain in the soft drinks....

Below here are some of the ingredients of soft drinks...
i)Sugar
-A can of costdrink contain approximately 15 teaspoon of sugar.
-Which give more sugar than you need for your body.

ii)Artificial Sweetenees
-Enhance the taste of soft drinks
-cause a numerous adverse side-effects for human.

iii)Caffeine
-enhance the soda flavour
-stimulate the nervous system and the increases heart rate.

iv)Acids-
-increase the pH of your blood
-causes inflammation, headaches, aggravates diabetes and many other diseases.

v)Carbon dioxide-
- injecting carbon dioxide into the water under pressure
-As we know CO2 is the waste product produce by human but why we still want to taking it by drinking soft drink?

vi)Preservatives
-preserve the colour of soft drink
-may causes coma

vii)Artificial flavorings and colorings
-cause allergic reactions.

viii)Sodium
-as an stablizing agent
-will cause high blood pressure.

There are no even one ingredient that is benifit to us, so why we still drinking soft drink? Try to imagine what will happen to you in future if you are keep on drinking the soft drink. So stop drinking it by now and take to the healty lifestyle.
sources:http://www.juicing-for-health.com/harmful-soft-drinks.html

SAY "NO" TO PLASTIC BAG...(IMPROVED)

Nowadays, human become more and more concern in enviromental health. In fact, due to the industrialization that arise throughout the world since 18 century, it actually causes a great enviromental impact to the next generation.There are many factors which causes the "earth sick". As a example -Plastics. Plastic is the most common things that we can easily find anyways nowdays.

What is plastic actually?

Most of the plastics are made from petroleum, except a few experimental resins derived from corn and other organic substances.Plastics are polymers, which consist of monomers linked together by chemical bonds. Due to the plastics molecular structure it can be processed to variety form.


Why Plastic was chosen as a most commonly packing materials nowaday?

because of Cost of production, light weighted,strenght,easy process of manufacture and easy available.So that the plastics become very common usage as packing materials now day..


The problems was arised when peoples dispose the plastics.

People now tend to be more irresponsible to themselves with their enviroment. Nowdays, People like to dispose their plastic bags in most convenience way. We can see that our surrounding enviroment is full of garbages and most of it are plastics bags. As what we know plastics are inorganic materials and are not biodegradable underground. Some of the people like to dispose their plastics bags to liver which causes the aquatic lifes death.

So we are encourage to reduce using of plastics,

i)Try to use the recycle bag when we going to shopping or market.

ii)Dispose the plastics in the correct way (eg.recycle bin (orange colour)).

sources:http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/comcom/plasticbags.htm