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It’s summer (as if you didn’t know)! And with summer come the summer diseases, among other summer woes.

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Of course, the unappetizing news about double dead meat being sold on the market gave us a horrible shudder or two.

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A flatoxin in pistachios? Are you nuts? In a nutshell, this is how pistachios — those expensive nuts with greenish kernels that our dear thoughtful relatives abroad bother to send us by the bushels via balikbayan box — may get contaminated by aflatoxin: The pistachio shell is enclosed in a protective hull.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 16162 [Title] => Eat, drink and be wary [Summary] =>

A looong time ago, there was just one kind of water — the one that you drank straight from the tap or faucet. No fuss, no muss; no fear, no tears. Life was pure and so much simpler then.

[DatePublished] => 2007-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133915 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 393756 [Title] => Food safety on the road [Summary] => So, we’re all going on a summer holiday (no more working for a week or two/Fun and laughter on our summer holiday/No more worries for me or you, to borrow some lines from a Cliff Richard song — Cliff who? you ask. Never mind. Forget it).
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237491 [Title] => Nuggets of wisdom about chicken virus [Summary] => Go ahead, enjoy your Chicken Joy, McChicken, Kentucky fried chicken, Popeye’s chicken, Kenny Rogers’ roast chicken, Bacolod chicken inasal or Max fried chicken (among many other chicken delights offered in local chicken houses that have mushroomed all over). Thankfully, we’re bird flu-free (the current concern is if the avian influenza H5NI crossbreeds with a human flu, the result could be a human epidemic of deadly monstrous proportions).
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203379 [Title] => Good news from Hong Kong about SARS [Summary] => Yes, you’re not about to hear (or read) the end of it. It’s become a household name, in the same way that Colgate is. It may well be today’s most dreaded acronym. Of course, we’re talking about SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which the whole world is talking about. But today, we’re sharing some good news about SARS via this e-mail we received from a reader.

Dear Consumerline,

[DatePublished] => 2003-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 186444 [Title] => Beefing about unsafe corned beef product [Summary] => A distressed housewife sends us this SOS:

Dear Consumerline:


I am writing to you as a last resort to appeal for assistance and to share a harrowing incident my family was involved in a few months ago.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) ) )
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It’s summer (as if you didn’t know)! And with summer come the summer diseases, among other summer woes.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 726129 [Title] => Eating safely in a risky world [Summary] =>

Of course, the unappetizing news about double dead meat being sold on the market gave us a horrible shudder or two.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5632/lif1thumbhr.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 455478 [Title] => Playing it safe in a risky world [Summary] =>

A flatoxin in pistachios? Are you nuts? In a nutshell, this is how pistachios — those expensive nuts with greenish kernels that our dear thoughtful relatives abroad bother to send us by the bushels via balikbayan box — may get contaminated by aflatoxin: The pistachio shell is enclosed in a protective hull.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 16162 [Title] => Eat, drink and be wary [Summary] =>

A looong time ago, there was just one kind of water — the one that you drank straight from the tap or faucet. No fuss, no muss; no fear, no tears. Life was pure and so much simpler then.

[DatePublished] => 2007-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133915 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 393756 [Title] => Food safety on the road [Summary] => So, we’re all going on a summer holiday (no more working for a week or two/Fun and laughter on our summer holiday/No more worries for me or you, to borrow some lines from a Cliff Richard song — Cliff who? you ask. Never mind. Forget it).
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237491 [Title] => Nuggets of wisdom about chicken virus [Summary] => Go ahead, enjoy your Chicken Joy, McChicken, Kentucky fried chicken, Popeye’s chicken, Kenny Rogers’ roast chicken, Bacolod chicken inasal or Max fried chicken (among many other chicken delights offered in local chicken houses that have mushroomed all over). Thankfully, we’re bird flu-free (the current concern is if the avian influenza H5NI crossbreeds with a human flu, the result could be a human epidemic of deadly monstrous proportions).
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203379 [Title] => Good news from Hong Kong about SARS [Summary] => Yes, you’re not about to hear (or read) the end of it. It’s become a household name, in the same way that Colgate is. It may well be today’s most dreaded acronym. Of course, we’re talking about SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which the whole world is talking about. But today, we’re sharing some good news about SARS via this e-mail we received from a reader.

Dear Consumerline,

[DatePublished] => 2003-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 186444 [Title] => Beefing about unsafe corned beef product [Summary] => A distressed housewife sends us this SOS:

Dear Consumerline:


I am writing to you as a last resort to appeal for assistance and to share a harrowing incident my family was involved in a few months ago.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133914 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096607 [AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) ) )
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