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PETALING JAYA: Experts have sounded the alarm over the state of Cameron Highlands with fears that La Nina will hit by the end of the year.

While Cameron Highlands has seen this year as one of its driest yet - affecting even its vegetable and flower production - the rains may yet bring havoc with landslides and flooding.

The area has seen a total rainfall of 221mm from January to April compared with 763.2mm for the same period in 2006.

Climate expert Prof Datuk Dr Azizan Abu Samah said there was now over a 70% chance of La Nina hitting between October and December during the north-east monsoon.

"We could see 10% to 15% more rainfall across the region," he said.

The large clearing - legal and illegal - of forests in Cameron Highlands for vegetable farming, he said, was likely to lead to landslides, particularly at slopes with 25-degree inclination or more.

"Forests are better 'exporters' of rain than vegetables. Rain water doesn't infiltrate the soil as deep in vegetable plots as in the forest because their roots aren't very deep.

"The soil around the vegetables quickly gets saturated and it cannot hold the water. So, there's a high run-off," he said.

"Chances of landslides occurring around vegetable plots are higher than in forests. If there are slopes, that's much worse," he said.

Depending on the slopes, Prof Azizan warned that a big chunk of soil could be sliced off the slope.

"It is a major disaster that can kill. You are talking of tonnes and tonnes of soil moving," he said.

In its May 12 update, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in United States said that while the world weather was still in a weakening El Nino phase, there was a 75% chance of La Nina striking in fall and winter.

While Cameron Highlands is undergoing a dry spell now with less rain as it moves into the southwest monsoon, Prof Azizan said this was still broken by thunderstorms.

"Thunderstorms have a high intensity of rainfall around 60 to 100mm per hour. So, it has very strong erosion power. I expect more flooding," he said.

There are an estimated 4,000 legal and illegal farms in Cameron Highlands.

Cameron Highlands has already had several bad experience with flooding, with erosion causing sedimentation on river beds, making the rivers shallower and more likely to burst their banks.

Already, there was a landslide in Kuala Terla just days ago.

"Be prepared for the worst," said Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands president R. Ramakrishnan.
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Alarm raised as La Nina brings wet dampener - Nation | The Star Online

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PETALING JAYA: Experts have sounded the alarm over the state of Cameron Highlands with fears that La Nina will hit by the end of the year. While Cameron Highlands has seen this year as one of its driest yet - affecting even its vegetable and flower production - the rains may yet bring havoc with landslides and flooding.

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-Government create campaign to reduce obesity
-Healthy campaign by government change people mindset to eat healthier
- Government relieve sugar production to prevent diabetes
- Government using halal certification in every restaurants
-government’s effort to position Malaysia as a global halal hub has resulted in the establishment of halal certification systems and requirements for food suppliers and food outlets.

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PUTRAJAYA, May 25 - Putrajaya should ban 24-hour food outlets if it is serious about fighting obesity among Malaysians, nutritionist Prof Dr Mohd Ismail Noor said today.

The president of the Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity linked the easy availability of food at restaurants that were open round-the-clock to a rise in overly-fat Malaysians who suffer health issues due to consumption of a high-carb diet.

"Why do we give Malaysians an option to eat 24 hours? At 3am you should be sleeping, not sitting in mamak restaurants watching Euro Cup," he said in a public talk on the double dangers of obesity and malnutrition in Southeast Asia.

"If it's open, you have an option to go, but if it's closed, you stay at home," he told the forum jointly organised by the Razak School of Government and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef).

Mamak restaurants, associated with Malaysia's Indian-Muslim community, have become ubiquitous over the years, alongside Western-style fast-food restaurants, most which sell burgers and deep-fried chicken. Many operate 24 hours and offer high carbohydrate dishes and sugary drinks.

Dr Mohd Ismail suggested these 24-hour food outlets should close by midnight.

He added that popular Malaysian dishes and drinks like nasi lemak and teh tarik have contributed to a rise in lifestyle diseases.

This is not the first proposal to ban 24-hour food outlets. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim had made a similar call last year, but the government rejected the idea on grounds that imposing a time limit would inconvenience others who work outside regular office hours.

Dr Mohd Ismail also said the number of Malaysian children who were becoming obese was growing, contrary to the findings of the latest Unicef Regional Report on Nutritional Security in Asean.

According to the Unicef report, over 7 per cent of Malaysian children under age 5 are overweight, compared to 8 per cent in the same age group who are severely malnourished.

"It's one malnourished child to two or three overweight, obese children," Dr Mohd Ismail said, adding that Malaysia faces a more severe problem with obesity at an early age than malnutrition.

However, he did not provide the source for his figures to support his assertion that children whose growth was stunted in their formative years are at a greater risk of ending up overweight later in life.

Obesity and malnutrition are the twin health dangers that have been on an upward trend within Southeast Asia in recent years amid emerging economic markets like Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

The Unicef report said nearly one in five children in Malaysia are stunted or are too short for their age.

Other speakers at the forum titled "Malaysia's Double Burden - Challenges and Ways Forward" included Unicef East Asia regional nutrition adviser Christiane Rudert, the Health Ministry's nutrition division director Zalma Abd Razak and Dr Elise Mognard from Taylor's University's School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts.

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PUTRAJAYA, May 25 - Putrajaya should ban 24-hour food outlets if it is serious about fighting obesity among Malaysians, nutritionist Prof Dr Mohd Ismail Noor said today. The president of the Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity linked the easy availability of food at restaurants...

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- Malaysian eat 3-6 meals per day.
- Consumption of alcohol has risen.
- Low consumption of alcohol due to large Muslim.
- Religion has important role that influence eating habit and diet.
- Malaysian Chinese are the largest consumer of alcohol in Malaysia.
- Men consume five times more alcohol per capita than women.
- People made decision to drink based on convenience rather than cost.
- study of 2014, 64% above of malaysians eat  at least one meal per day outside the house.
-A trend to eat clean and healthy food has become popular with younger people
-Malaysian government established halal food certificate for food supplier and food outlet.

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-Save our time for driving and finding parking (o)
-Save our time by not queuing in the line and waiting for the bill.(o)
-It also help to our last minute plan.(o)
-Third-party like Food Panda and Food Express can provide food delivery service to food company that do not provide food delivery services.(o)

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-Technology has become important in modern times. More and more people are using internet to buy goods via the internet.
-Kids and teenagers nowadays have ready access to mobile devices. Reports say that kids and teenagers are more and more using mobile phones for playing games and videos in addition to  reading books or other important things.
-Teens very actively using their gadgets to open the social media.
- There has been increase by the travellers for ridesharing application like uber or grabcar
- Mobile network such as Digi, Celcom and etc. allow people to access internet.

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-Malaysia population is growing rapidly and has reached 30.5 million in 2015. So that  there will be more young people in population rather then old people in 2015, 2016 and the subsequent years. This means that there are more people in 2015 and 2016 that are going out to eat in restaurants or cafes, because young people love to eat there.
-An attractive market with youthful consumers and rising disposable income built the strength of the economy.
-The opportunities of income in Malaysia is a rising middle class is driving growth potential of the customer market.
-In 2014, the highest concentration of total gross income in Malaysia was observed in the age band 15-32.
-Currently many people are starting to order drinks with less sugar or no sugar.

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-Nowadays according to their lifestyle, more Malaysians are spending less. i.e limiting their spending
-unemployment rate was 3.1% in 2015 and it will be increase to 3.2% in 2016, this mean unemployment in Malaysia is not much and increase slowly. That’s mean Malaysia has an excess of job vacancies of various sorts. This results in the low unemployment rate.
-Economic growth and low unemployment have supported Malaysia’s income and expenditure.
-In 2013, prices of non-alcoholic beverages have risen. (T)

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- Food delivery service are popular in Malaysia to prevent people in traffic jam to go somewhere. They can get the food easily by doing delivery service
-Full service restaurants as we see from number of units/ outlets, number of transaction, food service value from 2010-2015 are increase from year to year
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- full service restaurant usually for high income people because it is include the government and tax service
-full service restaurant offer the delivery service such as food panda
-North American full service has growth since 2015. They doing promotion like sharing photos on facebook in that dining area
- The stuff in full service restaurant are well trained to be able to communicate with customer

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-income increases in the majority of malaysians, consumer prefer to dine out instead of dine at home. (o)
-using a smartphone is a central part of daily life, consumers can get information about restaurant from technology (new menus, food reviews, promotion). (o)
-by posting photo of the food to the media social, reastaurant get a free advertisement. (o)
-lack time of cook, work overtime, and traffic jam, made consumers prefer online ordering and food delivery. (o)

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-Due to the convenience of deliveries the food industries has increase by 36%. (o)
-Home delivery is good for those who find it difficult to travel and has become a trend . (o)