Free Health Consultation and Talks

Since 1997, I have provided free consultations to cancer patients who wish to improve their health by taking health food. These cancer patients are from various economic backgrounds, ranging from the low income group to millionaires. Interaction with them provides the opportunity to learn more about cancer, treatments and the related physical and psychological impacts. Since my family and I were able to enjoy good health, we feel it is our social responsibility to share our knowledge and experience with others. In the meantime, I also read and gather more information on health.

Commencing 2002, I delivered free health talks to various groups in our society in three languages, namely English, Chinese and Malay. Health talks are delivered in Malaysia and abroad (when I attend conferences). It is hoped that more people can live a healthy lifestyle and have the joy of having good health. Such talks have received good responses.

I hold strictly to the principle that such consultation is absolutely free and there is no selling of product and service. At most, I encourage those meeting me to read by health books. Such practice is rather strange as most health talks are associated with certain medicine, food supplements and herbal product.

Some friends and relatives are sceptical about my health talks as I am not trained in conventional medical science. The medical profession and related industries certainly have a very important role to play in health improvement. Due credit is given to the advancement of medical science in improving human health. When one is not feeling well, the first thing one does is to visit the clinic. When one gets a disease, it is medical science which confirms these diseases through the various tests available. The use of medicines and medical operations has lengthened the life of many people.

In the meantime, it is also true that medical scientists have yet to find long-term solutions to illnesses and diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer. The answers may lie in health food, alternative medication and exercise. Information on health food has yet to be widely disseminated and is seldom highlighted by the mass media. I became very interested in the relationship between food/nutrient and health because I would like to play a small role in disseminating such information by delivering health talks from time to time.

With access to such alternative approach to good health, it is hoped that more people would join in the food revolution that could save human health and the world as emphasized by Lai (1993), Robbins (2001) and Kushi & Jack (2003). The decision to write this book is to help promote health food and share my family’s experience. The first edition of this book was published in March 2007. With encouraging response and requests by Chinese and Malay friends, two other health books were subsequently published, Xun Zhao Jian Kang (in Chinese in October 2007) and Makanan Sihat Sebagai Ubat (in Malay in September 2008). By October 2008, when the first print of 1,000 copies of this health book was almost sold out, I began revising and updating the book. Hence, the publication of this second edition in 2009.

My family and I believe that one of the important paths to good health is via healthy eating habits. A healthy body makes a healthy mind. We may avoid both physical and mental suffering when we consume health food. We may have more energy to do more things and to perform better in daily tasks.

Health food is not a sophisticated sphere of knowledge as thought by many. A gradual approach may be adopted in switching to health food. The change should be done in accordance to your pace and food preference. As long as we are willing to learn, recognize the true faces of food, let go of all forms of toxic food and gradually replace them with vegetables, fruits and grains, all of us have a higher chance of reclaiming our health, keeping illnesses and diseases at bay.

To my family, health is a form of wealth that can never be replaced by material wealth. Being healthy enables us to enrich our livelihood and the livelihood of others and contribute more to the well-being of our society.