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CONSUMERLINE 
Rx: High-quality healthcare at lower cost
by Ching M. Alano - January 22, 2008 - 12:00am
Picture this: People getting healed even before they get sick. Patients being seen by their doctors without leaving home. And life-saving medical decisions being made on the spot because all the information you need...
Rx for the top illnesses among Pinoys
by Ching M. Alano - January 15, 2008 - 12:00am
Don’t breathe now, but according to the official 2005 Field Health Services and Information System report of the Department of Health, respiratory diseases top the list of 10 leading illnesses plaguing the...
Miniaturized products, voice-activated appliances, superfoods, and other consumer trends in 2008
by Ching M. Alano - January 1, 2008 - 12:00am
Wristwatch-size phones (a watch-and-wear phone so you never have to lose your phone again — about time, don’t you think?) and handheld wireless computers (that go anywhere you go).  Ordering food...
Surviving Christmas
by Ching M. Alano - December 25, 2007 - 12:00am
So, what gift(s) did you find under your Christmas tree? Oh, you don’t have a Christmas tree? That’s perfectly okay; we don’t have one, too. But we do have a belen, which has always taken center...
Don’t panic! Avoid angst-causing foods
by Ching M. Alano - December 18, 2007 - 12:00am
Holiday binging: You’d better watch out
by Ching M. Alano - December 4, 2007 - 12:00am
Tis the season to eat, drink, and be merry — or to be wary, as health experts are likely to remind all holiday merrymakers. Surely, Christmas is always a convenient excuse to pig out, what with all the parties...
The anti-cancer diet
by Ching M. Alano - November 20, 2007 - 12:00am
Yes, there’s a diet that protects against the modern scourge (which they say is the price we pay for life’s excesses) that is cancer.
Recycling ideas you can recycle
by Ching M. Alano - November 13, 2007 - 12:00am
The green movement must really be making a headway. These days, some “green-minded” shoppers are bringing their green bags whenever they do their groceries. Well, they just “green...
The truth about plastics
by Ching M. Alano - November 6, 2007 - 12:00am
The truth is, there’s no escaping plastics. We drink water from plastic bottles. We cook with plastics. We eat food from plastics. We’re even surrounded by people who are “plastic” —...
Cool tips on anger management
by Ching M. Alano - October 30, 2007 - 12:00am
In the next three days, all roads lead to the cemeteries/memorial parks/columbaria as the living remember their dearly departed. And as the observance of All Saints’/All Souls’ Day (which some people...
Read our lips: Your lipstick may contain lead
by Ching M. Alano - October 23, 2007 - 12:00am
Still fresh in our minds is the recall of some toys which were found to contain lead paint. Lead is a toxin that can cause irreversible damage to the brain and the body. Fact is, lead is all around us — in...
A time to weep and a time to heal
by Ching M. Alano - October 16, 2007 - 12:00am
Probably half of our female population has breast cancer while the other half is in mortal fear of getting it. We make this fearless assumption as the nation observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. You...
And now, a consumer-friendly medical guide from AIDS to zinc
by Ching M. Alano - October 2, 2007 - 12:00am
Anyone interested in health should have this book. That robust exhortation came from the good editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping Ellen Levine after she put down this not-so-little red book titled The Merck Manual...
Eat, drink and be wary
by Ching M. Alano - September 25, 2007 - 12:00am
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.
Food labels: Watch out for the fine print
by Ching M. Alano - August 21, 2007 - 12:00am
Cruising the aisles of your favorite supermarket, you make a sudden stop to check out the labels of some food products on your shopping list. It’s written in English, all right, but it seems Greek to you. Well,...
Energy-saving and enlightening tips from Philips
by Ching M. Alano - August 14, 2007 - 12:00am
It’s most consumers’ common complaint: Our electric bills are so high — and they’re getting higher and higher. A friend told me that, once, he came home and thought that his wife was trying...
The lowdown on fats: The good, the bad, and the oily
by Ching M. Alano - August 7, 2007 - 12:00am
Dear Consumerline, 
Be an informed cosmetics consumer
by Ching M. Alano - July 31, 2007 - 12:00am
With the recent formalin scare, people have become more conscious of what’s in the food products they buy and eat every day. But what about the beauty products/cosmetics that we use for our daily hygiene/beauty...
Everything you’re dying to know about formalin
by Ching M. Alano - July 24, 2007 - 12:00am
If there’s one thing you probably already know about formalin (or formaldehyde), it is that it’s used to preserve (embalm) human corpses. That’s the cold truth and nothing but. Fact is, formaldehyde...
‘Magbalik-bayong tayo’
by Ching M. Alano - July 10, 2007 - 12:00am
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