- DOH warns public vs spoiled ‘halo-halo’, summer coo| Leave a Comment
That tall glass of the Filipinos’ favorite crushed-ice dessert known as halo-halo may look inviting in the searing summer heat, but it can be potentially deadly as well.
Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral cautioned the public to make sure the halo-halo and similar summer snack items are prepared cleanly, according to a report on dwIZ radio.
Cabral said [...]
- Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya| Leave a Comment
MIAMI (AFP) – Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.
University of Florida researcher Nam Dang and colleagues in Japan, in a report published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, documented papaya’s anticancer effect [...]


