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Review a venue that is suitable for low budget expats

Editor;
Re: (PM Dining Out Friday, 29 November 2013) - When, oh when will the Dining Out team review a venue that is suitable for expats (who must make up a considerable percentage of your readers) staying in Pattaya on a budget?
I look at the column every week in the hope of getting advice about great value venues, such as the Hilton lunch buffets, but it seems time after time you have either been invited by management, which no ordinary punter would be, or you review up market hotels or restaurants that only a fortunate few can afford.
Many thanks for the column.
Regards,
Woollybear


Whether sugar is harmful is debatable

Editor:
Re: Sugar is not so bad (PM Mailbag Friday, 29 November 2013) - Whether sugar is harmful to us is debatable, like the myth that we must drink 2 liters of water per day. The body takes what it needs. A sugar glider never drinks fluids, but survives. Some diabetics carry a candy bar in case their blood sugar drops. Sugar is an energy booster; it kicks in when needed then leaves you drained.
Also there is no scientific proof that a vegetarian will live a longer or healthier life than a meat eater. Rabbits will seek out forage that is infested with insects to counter the lack of vitamin K12. A lack of this substance affects the nervous system. Vegans are deficient at the rate 1 in 5, whereas meat eaters are 1 in 20 (perhaps that is why Vegans are so nervy about criticism). Chimpanzees have been known to kill other animals and then eat them to raise their K12 level.
If America stopped the slaughter of 35 million cows, 115 million pigs and 9 billion birds each year. Imagine what all the extra flatulence would do to “Climate Change”.
We have been eating meat for well over 2 million years and now 5% of the population said we got it wrong.
Life is short enough to worry about tomorrow, so light up a smoke & crack a can while the chops sizzle on the barbecue. It’s a great life.
Sean
 


Water frontage

Editor;
For the last 15 months I have watched the building of a large complex on what was once the “Little Duck disco” behind the hotel of the same name. (Name now changed, but the old timers will know of it.) It is a massive project consisting of 3 X 9 story blocks and another 4 tier building.
Entrance to one block is off the soi that runs past the Pattaya Memorial Hospital. I will admit that when it rained moderately there was a slight build up of water that may reach ankle deep, but that was gone within an hour.
Since the construction of this complex, even a shower, the water will build up and the water sits there for days. With a heavy downpour the buildup can be knee deep. Will the contractors be made to fix the problem or will they walk away saying mai mee pen ha - not on my land.
Arnie


Everyone is right and everyone is wrong

Editor;
Re: Sugar is not so bad (PM - Mailbag Friday, 29 November 2013) - I almost want to apologize for starting this conversation a few weeks ago with my post about vegetarianism.
I think everyone here is right and everyone is wrong. The correct answer is moderation and balance. Anyone who believes that the best diet is all of something or none of something else is getting it wrong.
There was a “meat only” diet a few years ago that people used to lose a lot of weight. But it you looked at the books promoting it, they listed all the supplements you had to take. Same with most books promoting vegetarianism. They tell you it’s great, then tell you what vitamins or other supplements you need to take. You cannot have a diet without sugar. Sugar occurs naturally in nearly all foods, including fruits and vegetables.
Moderation. Balance. The only answers.
John Nielson
 


Prime Minister using government

Editor;
Re: Foreign Ministry asks foreign press to cover protests based on facts (PM Saturday, 30 November 2013) - Fact is that the Thai Prime Minister is using the government, like her brother, for business purposes and abusing power making freedom pass for her brother Thaksin. Yes we farang all know from news abroad and you can’t shut us up too! That’s what you get PM when you don’t do your job for the good of the country of Thailand. You should be locked up with your brother!
Michael


Sugar not harmful

Dear Editor,
In his seemingly rabid attempt to propagate vegetarianism at the expense of logic, Mr. Gordon (Mailbag 29/11) claims that taken in moderation sugar is not that bad because the ill effects of meat eating can be reversed by going on a vegetarian diet.
It is not possible to know what moderation means and meat in moderation might not be ‘that bad’ except that small quantities of meat might adversely affect the gut flora and/or interfere with vitamin B12 production; hence large amounts of meat might be better than small ones. It was, I believe, who first said that toxicity was in the dose and we know that anything, including water, can be lethal if the dose is large enough. Many of our vital nutrients are extremely poisonous in quite small amounts: arsenic, iron and iodine being prime examples. The jury is still out on whether arsenic is a necessary nutrient. We cannot live without oxygen; yet it eventually causes our demise unless we get killed by meat, sugar, smoking or an errant bus! Some readers might be unaware of the dangers of oxygen but we know that it eventually disintegrates cellular activity.
There is no doubt whatsoever that sugar is far more hazardous than meat and Mr. Gordon could do no better than to read Prof. Yudkin’s ‘Pure White and Deadly’. Yudkin was one of only four professors of nutrition in the UK and, apart from temporarily with-holding adverse information about white bread whilst he was in the pay of the Flour Advisory Board, was a very honest man and adamantly claimed that fifty years ago that sugar was the most harmful dietary factor - prescinding of course from extreme alcohol abuse and drug taking!
The adverse effects of sugar range from appendicitis and colitis to diabetes, cancer and heart disease. I am sure that many of them could be reversed by stopping sugar but this is not easy as it is now ubiquitous. However this is irrelevant.
The whole point has been missed which is that vegetarianism is an ethical choice.
It may also be a health choice, though fish and insects may even be beneficial.
Perhaps the biggest problem today is the increasing human population and increasing wealth which leads to keeping billions of cattle and deforestation. This, in turn, leads to climate change and the inevitable side-lining of the very poor.
Michael Nightingale (Dr)


No change

Editor;
Re: 20 teens arrested as youth gangs rumble in Jomtien Beach (PM Friday, 29 November 2013) - “Held until relatives came to get them”. No charges, no punishments, no few days in jail to think about their actions = no change!
Geordie


Garbage piles up on Dong Tarn Beach

Dear Editor,
Again today there was no collection of the garbage on Dong Tarn Beach. The stink from the waste heaps is now no longer bearable. When (will something be done)? Again I was told there’s no collection tomorrow because the car is damaged. A shame for all the visitors of this beach.
Best regards,
Bob


No evidence

Editors;
Sean Murphy’s claim that l in 5 vegans are nutritionally deficient is insane and he offers no evidence to back up his claim. For the “millionth” time a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed vegetarians live longer than meat eaters. He gives no evidence (as usual!) that vegans are vitamin B12 deficient (many vegans take vitamin B12 supplements to be on the safe side). If people stopped eating meat, farm animals would soon become extinct and then the environment would greatly improve.
Sincerely,
Steve Gordon


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Review a venue that is suitable for low budget expats

Whether sugar is harmful is debatable

Water frontage

Everyone is right and everyone is wrong

Prime Minister using government

Sugar not harmful

No change

Garbage piles up on Dong Tarn Beach

No evidence

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