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    The power of herbal medicine

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 09/11/2021

    » Earlier this year, health-conscious customers were seen queuing up at a herbal retailer in a Bangkok neighbourhood in hopes of buying a few bottles of fah talai jone (green chiretta) capsules. With a surge of Covid-19 cases earlier this year, the herbal product made them feel secure and gave them hope of relying on something else besides Favipiravir.

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    Hold the salt!

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 29/10/2019

    » An estimated 8 million people in Thailand suffer from chronic kidney disease, according to 2017 statistics from the Ministry of Public Health. Of this number, around 100,000 patients are in the terminal stage and require haemodialysis on a regular basis, which works as an artificial kidney. This requires a national budget of over 20 billion baht per year.

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    A brush with sophistication

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 05/06/2019

    » On a recent Saturday in a packed James Christie Room at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Rahul Kadakia kicked off the auction at 5.30pm sharp. From there the figures quickly rose to dizzying heights, not unlike the skyscrapers that dot the metropolis.

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    The perils of overconsumption

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/12/2018

    » Three years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) adjusted its daily recommendation of sodium intake and suggested adults not consume more than 2,300mg per day. But an average Thai takes 4,350mg of sodium on a daily basis -- almost twice the WHO's healthy threshold.

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    A new age for old age

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/11/2018

    » The population aged 60 or above is growing at an exponential rate. Last year, the world was home to roughly 962 million elderly people, according to the United Nations' World Population Ageing Report. That is more than twice the 1980 figure, when there were only 382 million worldwide. By 2050, the number is expected to reach 2.1 billion.

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    The time to combat plastic is now

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 02/07/2018

    » It comes as no surprise that Thailand is among five Asian countries -- together with China, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines -- that are responsible for more than half of the 8 million tonnes of plastic waste dumped into the world's oceans every year, according to a 2015 Ocean Conservancy Report. The people of Thailand use over 70 billion plastic bags a year.

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    The dairy dilemma

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 07/08/2012

    » A few months after the Ngamyingsanga family warmly welcomed their newest member, they found they were spending far too much time in places they never wanted to revisit _ hospitals.

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