Bakso is one of the most favorable foods to Indonesian. Despite its delicacy, the price is also relatively cheap. Even Obama, the USA’s president, during his visit to Indonesia, said that Bakso is one of his favorable foods. Due to the high number of its consumers, Bakso is very ubiquitous. Bakso vendors can be found from an alley to the big market. For some people, Bakso has even been their daily food.

In fact, Bakso plays important role on poor economy cycle because most Bakso vendors are people with low income level. The high number of Bakso consumers provides job opportunities for Bakso vendors and it decreases the number of unemployment in this country.

In other hand, some of Bakso ingredients are believed to be harmful for people’ healthy. In order to give better taste, many Bakso vendors add additive substance to their product regardless of the nutritional values. One of the additive substances is MSG (monosodium glutamate). As a matter of fact, MSG may not be harmful if it is consumed in accordance with legal standard level by issued by the Government. In contrast, if it is consumed in excessive number, this substance will be accumulated in our body and will give various diseases. Therefore, the more frequent the consumers consumed Bakso, the more the MSG substance will be accumulated in their body.

Most of Bakso are made of beef meat that has cholesterol. Our body needs fat/cholesterol to support our activity, but it should be in proportional number. So it is recommended to consume Bakso inexcessively.

The consumers should also be aware of the hygiene of Bakso vendors. Some of them never wash the plates and spoons using pure clean water and it has a potential risk to spread various diseases. Although not all Bakso vendors are poor in terms of hygiene, being selective to the Bakso vendor is necessary if we care our health.

In conclusion, it is not prohibited to consume Bakso. However, people should consider how much they ate and hygiene or cleanliness of the Bakso vendors.

Written by Khairul Syahri | The Executive Board of HEC

Infant formula is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age, usually prepared for bottle-feeding or cup-feeding in form of powder (mixed with water) or liquid (with or without additional water) (wikipedia.com). Most of infant milk formula is made from cow’s milk which is enriched  by some important nutrition compounds to baby’s growth. However still many mothers are lack of information about the proper giving of this milk to the babies. This paper will explain why infant formula is not suitable and tends to give harmful impacts for the baby-under-12-months.

Infant formula becomes one of the alternatives of milk chosen by mothers to fulfill baby’s need of nutrition. In practical reason, a working mother chooses it to help her in balancing between working and feeding her baby. Looking for the best infant formula is being one of the priorities of parents in order to keep nourishing their baby. This formula promises the substantial nutrition for babies that can assist their growth and development in their early life. In the other hands, the babies consuming infant milk formula will grow as the “chubby baby”. The more chubby a baby, the more his mother is proud of him and the more satisfied she feels.The satisfaction comes upon them as the understanding of healthy baby is still measured by size of the baby. This assumption still remains until now.

The fact is the formula has the higher protein and other mineral contents than breast milks. Thus infant formula milk is rich of nutrient compound. Even so the milk will just be absorbed 15-20% in baby’s digestion. Different from breast milk that will be absorbed 100% in baby’s digestion.Therefore baby’s digestion system in their early life is not ready yet to effectively absorb any food except human milk.In addition infant formula milk contains high sweet that will make a baby consuming the formula have tendency of growing in obese.

Long-term effect will come to the baby who consumes infant milk formula. One of the effects is the rapid increasing of weight that will influence baby’s health in the future. According to Barker Theory, a baby who has a rapid increase weight in their childhood has higher risk of non-communicable disease in their adulthood such as coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus. Another effect is the immunity of the baby  will be low if it compared with breastfeeding babies. Breast milk is a ‘live’ food that contains living cells, hormones, active enzymes, antibodies and at least 400 other unique components.

In conclusion, Infant milk formula is not suitable with baby’s digestion. Breast milk is the best solution for baby’s feeding and benefits baby health in the future because early nutrition and adult outcome are the pieces of the puzzle.

Written By: Fatwa Awaru | A Post-Graduate Student of Public Health
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The study about the blood type has been widespread in all over the world. In some advanced countries in Asia like Japan and Korea, the blood type becomes more influencing in some ways because they believe that there are relations between the blood type and an individual personality. Therefore, the Japanese and Korean institution often consider blood type in hiring employee, deciding a group leader, and even of finding future spouse through matchmaking agencies. Although the study about blood type and personalities remain scientifically unproven, it is still popular due to its resemblance to people personalities.

Furthermore, not only in deciding someone’s personality, for some institutions in this world researching about the blood type also gives useful information in the medical side.  There has been plenty of research explained about the relation between the blood type and personal health. The researchers have been working out to reveal the secret of the blood type and the relation with health risk for several diseases. This paper will discuss about the categorization of the blood type in the personalities along with the blood type in medical aspect.

The first discussion starts from people with the A blood type who tends to be earnest, reserved, patient, punctual, trustworthy and perfectionist persons, but they are also obsessive and stubborn. Those in A type have such high standards (perfectionists) that they easily get stressed when they could not accomplish their goals. It is already explained in medical study that the people with the A blood type are more likely to have higher levels of stress hormone in their body which weaken their immunity system. Therefore, the A has high risk for several types of cancer such as gastric cancer and pancreatic cancer and they also more prone to be severe from malaria and smallpox infections.

Secondly, people with the blood type Bare considered to be creative, passionate, optimistic, flexible, and outgoing persons, but they are also forgetful, irresponsible, and self-centered. However those with B type are goal oriented and strong minded persons that they will finish everything they started. In medical side, the people with B type have an 11 percent increase in risk of heart disease over those with the O type. Recently, the study in Harvard University also found that those with the B type have a raised risk in developing ovarian cancer.

Thirdly, people with the blood typeAB tend to be cool, controlled, rational, adaptable, and empathic persons, but they are also critical, aloof, and indecisive. In the medical side, the people with type AB have a 23 percent increased risk of heart disease over those with type O. The study about blood type in the journal neurology also found that those with type AB blood have higher risk in cognitive difficulties, specifically in memory recall, language and attention than those with other blood types.

Fourthly, people with the blood type O tend to be confident, strong-willed, intuitive, and self-determined persons, but they are also cold, insensitive, and unpredictable. Type O are outgoing and very social, they are initiators and natural leaders although they don’t always finish what they start. Research from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that people with type O are more vulnerable(adj. mudah diserang) to a bacterium that can cause peptic ulcers. Type O also has increased risk of cholera. Fortunately, another research from Edinburg University London found that people with type O are resistant to the tropical disease such as malaria.

To sum up, every human has strength and weakness, all they have to do is to accept and love theirs by keeping their healthiness. One way to be healthy is by knowing the blood type tendencies, so an individual can know the health risk of their body and avoid something negatives happened to their body.

Written By: A.Nurhayati | Mathematical and Natural Science Bachelor

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The goverment of Makassar city turns out to encourage a program namely Makassar is not slovenly (adj/jorok) or locally well-known as Makassar Tidak Rantasa’. Many people have been familiar with the meaning of  “slovenly”, which means more and less, dirty. As the part of governor’s vision to keep Makassar clean, it will ensure (V/memastikan) the trash (n/sampah) to be transported from public dustbin (n/tempat sampah) to the city central disposal (n/tempat pembuangan sampah). It is thus expected to create a public awareness to cooporate with the distric goverment in cleaning maintenance of Makassar city. This paper will discuss the issue of Makassar is not slovenly.

As metropolitan people, many are not really concerned with environmental hygiene (n/kesehatan) and cleanliness, especially in our city, Makassar. The lack of public awareness and knowledge towards hygiene has inspired Makassar governor, Danny Pomanto, to initiate a program labeled Makassar Tidak Rantasa’ or Makassar is not slovenly. This is expected to have metropolitanians realize the urgency of hygiene as modern people’s behaviour. In addition, it expectedly becomes an inspiration for urbanized community being discipline responding to clean city effort. Apart from the intention to social change for being more clean, Makassar Tidak Rantasa’ is expected to be a stepping stone to grab back Adipura, an appreciation symbol of regional level cleanliness award in Indonesia.

In application, this program starts from distributing the number of garbages over the side of main roads in Makassar. The less number of garbage can is one of the major causes for environmental pollution and slovenly area, particularly in road vicinity. As the consequence, government then makes one of service following the Makassar Tidak Rantasa’, i.e. Bank Sampah (trash bank), making trash collected in certain number subtitutable (adj/dapat ditukar) with rice. This program intends to attract societies to collect garbage which will then be submitted to designated (v/ditunjuk,ditugaskan) governmental stands. After the submission, they will give rice as the reward.

Above all, Makasssar Tidak Rantasa’ seemingly is not more than a word. We can see that the implementation of the program is not running well, even makassar is more slovenly. Many taglines put in street billboard only gives dirty impression instead. Until now the banner is not well cared by the governor. Some billboard turned out to have broken and been recklessly (adv/serampangan, tidak diperhatikan) scattered (v/berserakan) around the street, nailed in trees, and other public facilities. How come Makassar is not filthy (adj/kotor, dekil)! The society will not be interested by only giving a tagline without controlling. Instead of making them awared, the society is prepared more not to care about the tagline which spread around the city. They also feel that the banner is just only for electoral campaign purpose. So, we need someone who can control and make evaluation toward the governor program.

Furthermore, the main cause of dirty derives from the town alley (n/lorong). Life style of filthy mostly commences (v/mulai) from the alley in this city. Therefore, for making city clean, the governor have to give more attention to the society who live in vicinity (n/sekitaran) of the alley. Beside that, the governor have to appoint someone who is competence and reliable (adj/dapat dipercaya) to be responsible on overseeing (v/mengontrol) that program, instead of merely (adj/hanya selalu, melulu) providing a dustbin in everywhere without control.

To conclude, narrow space in heterogen community has caused all the problems, one of them is the slovenliness. So, after seing this condition, concerning on the town alley will be more effective to reduce the number of slovenliness rather than putting banner in city’s billboard or, the worse, in every city’s spot and it also will make makassar clean or not slovenly, or tidak rantasa’.

Written by : Dwi Febry | Media Department of HEC

Picture : makassar.tribunnews.com

Nowadays, mobile phone is very important for all people in this world started from childreen until old people. The simple form of mobile phone makes the sociaty more interested in using mobile phone than home phone. We can comunicate easily with another people anywhere. This paper will argue that the sociaties just know about the advantage of the mobile phone but they do not know about the impact of the mobile phone. That’s why, this paper will explain about the drawbacks of the mobile phone radiation to user’s brain and DNA.

As a matter of fact, only a few people know that radiation of mobile phone can be used to cook an egg. In the mobile phone component, there is transmitter, which functions to change voice to be sinusoidal wave that can transmit through antenna. This wave will fluctuate through the air (microwave) that will result electromagnetic radiation (EM). Microwave radiation will modify protein in egg that egg may make ripe. It is proved by an attempt using 2 mobile phones and an egg, an egg lied in between 2 mobile phones which are in active condition, in 55 minutes after transmitting microwave each other, an egg will be ripe. This radiation can be sensed while our ear feels hot if we speak via mobile phone for long duration. 

Furthermore, radiation of mobile phone can irradiate not only protein in egg but also protein in human’s brain. Most people waste their time to communicate via mobile phone. And then, currently society is eased by various offer to communicate for long duration with a cheap payment. Only by buying TM (Talk Mania) packet, they can talk more than 1 hour. If we imagine in 55 minutes, mobile phone radioation can cook an egg, how about our brain?

In fact, radiation can change structure human DNA, including radiation of mobile phone. When someone is calling, his/her mobile phone will be put nearby their head. In this posisition, it is highly possible for the phone radiation is absorbed by the human nerve system. The consequently nerves in the brain vein will blow. The higher the radiation, the more radiation absorbed by human nerves, it means the damage will be more acute. Besides that, using mobile phone excessively can make gene mutation that will trigger cancer.

However, we should not worry excessively because radiated by mobile phone, the damage was not big as impact of radioactive. But, we should also consider that the smallest effect that we receive, when we get the radiation on a continuous, it will result the big impact too.

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by Dwi Febri | Human Resources Departement | dwiyfebri90@yahoo.co.id

I'm pretty sure that you often meet smokers during your daily activities, anywhere and anytime. In public transportation, on the road, around the mosque, around the mall, and at various other public places, they are everywhere. For those who don't smoke, it is probably very annoying when you meet person who's smoking and the smoke is directed on you. Perhaps you will say to the man, "Please do not smoke here!". and do you know what he will say? "Does this place belong to your father?" or "It's my right!" or "There's no 'no smoking sign' here, why should I listen to you?" and so many similar expressions. This circumstance (noun = keadaaan) is often found everywhere, especially in big cities like Makassar. It's very difficult to find smokers who can understand those around them. Worse, people who smoke today are not olny adults but also teenagers, children, and even women. Moreover, so many smokers don't really care about their surroundings (noun = lingkungan sekeliling). They don't even show any respect to the people who do not smoke. In fact, by ignoring people - those around them, smokers have actually helped the government reduce the population density (noun = kepadatan) (LOL). This is because those around the smokers (passive smokers) smoke more poison than the smokers themselves. This article was not created to offend those who smoke. I just want to tell you the facts about smoking. I know it'll be painful, but it doesn't mean you can't accept it, does it? ROFL. 

Now, here are the facts about smoking. There are 1.1 billion smokers in the wolrd and if this current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025. FYI, China is home to 300 million smoker who consume approximately 1.7 trilliun cigarettes a year or 3 million cigarettes a minute. There are about 15 billion cigarettes are sold each day and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis. Five trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately 480,538 Bugatti Veyrons, 25,000 semi trucks, 2,500 747s, or 10 cargo ships. Great, huh?

Let's talk about more about filter. It's estimated that trillions of filters, filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke, make their way to the environment as discarded (verb = dibuang) waste yearly. While they may look like white cotton, cigarette are made of very thin fibers of a plastic called cellulose acetate. Hm, I think chemistry students understand it well. A cigarette filter can take between 18 months 10 years to decompose (verb = terurai). 

A typical manufactured cigarette contains approximately 1) 8 or 9 miligrams of nicotine. While the nicotine content of a cigar is 100 to 200 miligrams with some as high as 400 miligrams. There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to KILL AN AVERAGE ADULT if ingested (verb = ditelan) whole. 2) Ambergis, otherwise known as WHALE VOMIT is one of the hundreds of possible additives used in manufatured cigarettes. 3) Radioactive lead and Polonium are both present in low levels in cigarette smoke. 4) Hydrogen Cynide, one of the toxic byproducts present in cigarette smoke, was used as a genocidal chemical agent during World War II. 

Secondhand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemical compounds, 11 of which are known to be group 1 carcinogens (noun = zat penyebab kanker). Worse, kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of 3,000 a day in the U.S., and 8,000 to 10,000 a day worldwide. One in five teens age 13 to 15 smoke cigarettes. Half of long-term smokers WILL DIE a tobacco-realted death. There are even many more terrible facts about smoking. But I think it's too long to write here. 

Although most of society already know the facts about smoking as above, it does not make them stop smoking. Instead, they often excuse. Now what do you think? 

1. Why should I stop smoking? For health? Look, next door neighbor, He never smoked but still dead. Okey, do you want die happily or terribly? 
2. Wah, I can't think without smoking, my brain frezes. Okey, when you were still not smoking, could you think? 
3. How can you ask your children not to smoke if they see you smoke? 
4. Have you ever estimated how much money you spend for smoking? Let's give a simple count. Consider that one pack cigarette costs Rp 10,000,-. You smoke 2 packs cigarette a day, it means it costs Rp 20,000,- a day. Rp 600,000 monthly. Isn't it better for you to buy nutritious food with that money? 
5. I tried to stop smoking many times, but I always failed. Well, are you really serious? Have you got commitment? 

Okey, I want to stop smoking, now what am I supposed to do? Let's discuss it, LOL 

by Naskar Hansam (Hasanuddin University)

Most people like sport. Sport is not only fun to do but it is also good for us. Playing sport keeps us healthy and let us exercise our body. There are many kinds of sports. One of them is jogging. Many people in Indonesia like jogging. It is very important to our body because it keeps our heart healthy. It also keeps us fit.

Recently, I started my intensive and extensive jogging with my friend Ruslan Letal who also study physics at the same campus with me. Actually, I've been jogging since I was in my first year at campus. Only, I often absent in several days. Sometimes I even only jogged on Sunday. But now, it's different because I believe that health is a must and there's no shortcut to obtain it.

Now, if we get up early in the morning in most Indonesian cities we will see an unusual sight. Lots of boys and girls and men and women are already up and busy. What are they doing? Yoa, they are excercising. Many will do jogging, and that will also be me. I bet you already know what jogging is. But to avoid missunderstanding, let me define jogging for you. Jogging is a gentle running. That's it! That means if you are running really fast, then you are not jogging, maybe you are being chased by a dog. LOL. People jog to realx themselves, to keep themselves fit, or simply to enjoy themselves. There are also many people who jog not to relax their body, particularly some boys, but to spot on girls back, or simply say, goggling. ROFL.

So, just how to do jogging? To do jogging does not need a lot of money. It is a cheap sport. Or we can even say that it costs zero. We only need a pair of running shoes, a sport shirts, shorts, and socks. Okey, let me tell you something about my jogging. Actually, I don't have any running shoes, sport shirts, shorts, and socks to jog. Then what should we do without these fittings? Put it simply, just use what you have. As for me, I subtitute running shoes with a pair of slipper (I asked Ruslan Letal his reason wearing shoes during jogging, and he said that wearing shoes made him feel comfortable and safety, even his shoes were not running shoes actually, lol) but if you have a sport-like shoes, it's better for you to use it because it's actually not safe using slipper when we're jogging. What about sport shirt? Easy, just use your daily T-shirt and if you don't have any, just go to hell, lol. You can also jog while listening to the music, but if you make that as a requisite to do jogging, your jogging will costs much money. Oh yes, if you have a dog, you can bring him along, but just assure him not bite every cute girl that he sees.

We can jog on the streets, in the big squares, in the park, in the stadium, etc. Because my campus is encircled by a streat, I just need to jog around the campus. If we want to make our body fit, we have to jog at least three times a week or everyday. So, don't jog only on Sundays. Why? first, jogging only on sundays can only make your muscle suprised everytime you jog, because it's not exercised to jog everyday or continuously. Second, it can't lead you to have a fresh and fit body. Third, if you jog only on sundays, I bet that you just want to goggle on dazzling girl/boy's back.

What should and shouldn't we do before and after jogging?

1. Before we start jogging, do some exercise. It is called warming-up (hey Ruslan Letal, I finally found the english of 'pemanasan'). By doing this, our body and muscle will be able to adapt easily. 
2. Before we start jogging, we should not drink or eat anything. If we drink or eat something, moreover, especially if we consume a large portion, our stomatch will ache while we are jogging. 
3. After jogging, don't take a bath directly, we should wait for about fifteen minutes, or until our body gets dry. If we are still ni a sweat and take a bath, we will be sick. 

As we know, nowadays our government is very enthusiastic to support the sports programme. And our government also provides many facilities. Recently, South Sulawesi's government held a gentle walk to celebrate the anniversary of South Sulawesi. And there were so many inhabitant participated in that event. See? The government provides facilities, and the society make use of them. But, whether there is a government's faciltiy or not, let's do sport if we want to keep our body fir and healthy. If are healthy, we can study and work very well, can't we? Or simply say "Healthy inside, fresh outside" like a commercial ad promotes.

I'm jogging, what about you? LOL (@visionasc)

Glossary :
fun (n) = kesenangan; exercise (n) = gerak badan
unusual (adj) = luar biasa; gentle (adj) = pelan - pelan
warming-up (n) = latihan pemanasan; ache (v) = sakit
sweat (n) = keringat; enthusiastic (adj) = bersemangat
inhabitant (n) = warga masyarakat; dazzling (adj) = mempesona
goggle (v) = plototin

How do you feel about waking up earlier? I guess you don't like the idea since you already struggle to get enough sleep. You probably hit the snooze every now & then to sleep in for an extra 10 mins. But while the idea of waking up earlier can seem painful, once you start doing it consistently and experience its benefits it becomes a no-brainer. Here are 7 reasons why you should wake up early. 

Healthier Diet. Not feeling hungry on waking up and lack of time are the top reasons for skipping breakfast. Waking up early gives you time to eat breakfast and to prepare your food for your day - 2 keys to eating healthy. Eat Breakfast. Eating breakfast helps building healthy eating habits by setting the trend. You'll be less likely to eat junk food during the day if you eat a healthy breakfast on waking up. Prepare Food for Day. Cooking your own food gives you total over the ingredients and thus over your results. It also gets rid of stress caused by you not finding something healthy to eat at work. 

Less Missed Workouts. Training in the morning will prevent missed workouts as long as you wake up early. Unexpected things like long work days will never get in the way: you've trained already. More benefits : More Energy. Your body temperature drops when you sleep. Exercising increases it which will make you feel more energized after your morning workout. (Although you might need a 30min nap after a hard session). More Motivation. Although exercising after work reduces destress, you need more motivation to go to the gym. Especially if you had a rough day and feel tired. Morning workouts are easier. By the way, if you exercise in the morning, wait 1h upon waking up before you load your back with exercises like Squats. Your spine hydrates at night which makes it more prone to injuries on waking up. Wait 1 hour and you'll be safe. 

More Productivity. Most successful people are early risers. Think of Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Edison. One reason is that you get more done if you wake up early. Not just in the morning, but the whole day. Here's why : Less Distractions. Most people aren't awake. Nobody can disturb you with phone calls. There isn't much you can do except work. It's quiet. More Efficiency. You're less efficient and make more mistakes when you work long and later at night. More Energy. Because your eating habits & sleep quality improve, you have time to exercise in the morning and skip less workouts. 

Less Stress. How you lead your life the 1st hour after you wake up sets the trend. You'll be amazed at how more positive your day will become by waking up early. Here's some stress that you'll avoid : 

1. No more rushing to get ready for work because you're late again 
2. No more arriving late at work, barely awake, because you didn't had the time to shower or have breakfast 
3. No more stressing about what excuse you'll come up with this time to explain to your boss why you're late again.

Better Quality Sleep. Going to bed at the same time each day doesn't work: sleep needs vary depending on your activity levels, diet, sunlight exposure, ... That's why you have to focus on wake up time, not bedtime. By waking up early at the same time daily, you'll stabilize your circadian rhythm. This will improve the quality of your sleep and make you feel more energized during the day as a result.By waking up early at the same time daily, you'll stabilize your circadian rhythm. This will improve the quality of your sleep and make you feel more energized during the day as a result. 

More Free Time. Start your workday earlier and you'll end it earlier. But since your productivity & sleep improve by waking up early, you'll also get more done in less time. Couple of examples : Save Time. You'll save time commuting by avoiding the rush hour. You'll save time at the gym since it's less crowded in the morning. You'll sleep less hours on average by waking up consistently at the same time. Shorter Workdays. You'll do more work in the morning. Start early and by noon you'll have a lot done. By 5PM your work day will be over. 

Enjoy Sunrise. I tend to party late, and I always thought driving back home while the sun was rising was beautiful. Now that I wake up early I see sunrise daily. 

So how do you build the habit of waking up early?