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[johnny333]

hi johnny i called up customs and they told me to call AVA and the person told me if you order more than 100 sing dollar of these products there might have be some problems.

Did u face anything shipping them in since i believe u order more than 100 worth of these supplements.

I think the $100 limitation is what you are allowed to bring into Spore tax-free. You can bring in more but you will have to pay gst.

iHerb has alot of experience serving Sporean customes.
Maybe that's why they have an US$80 maximum on orders they send out using US post. This is the cheapest method as it only costs US$4 & you don't have to pay gst when it arrives in Spore.

While order's above US$80 is handled by either UPS or DHL. These courier companies will take care of the paper work & GST. I've order 6+ times using DHL & haven't had any problems

 

[Ramseth]

You sound like taking so much supplement that you don't have eat food anymore.

 

[johnny333]

oh now brand. It was also the brand i took last time.

I think it's moleculey distilled like most brands are.

Now Foods usually has the best prices for supplements. iHerb gives extra discount if you buy in quantities of 4 or more of each Now Foods product.

You'd be surprise that many brands sold in Spore do not indicate that it's been molecularly distilled. Even some famous cod liver oil, hint: the one being taken by a brother forummer

 

[johnny333]

You sound like taking so much supplement that you don't have eat food anymore.

You can never replace foods. Supplements are meant to supplement & not replace food.

For awhile there when I was feeling great, I stopped following a strict diet & started eating all my favourites hawker foods. Unfortunatly I paid for it with angina pains, couldn't sleep because of the pain :( Now I'm back to a bland diet of oats & vegetable soup :(

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

I also asked about krill oil. Someone told me as krill are lower on the food chain. I believe they are the 2nd since they eat plant based food compared to salmon which eats smaller fish which in turn probably eat krill they have less toxins in them as you know the higher an animal is on the food chain the more toxins it accumulates so plant eaters theoratically have less toxins compared to meat eaters.

Anyway he also told me you have to take alot of fish oil before it becomes toxic and that's going to be very hard since it's moleculely distilled.

 

[manokie]

Anyway he also told me you have to take alot of fish oil before it becomes toxic and that's going to be very hard since it's moleculely distilled.

I think not brands of fish oil is molecularly distilled. I am not sure which brand you are talking about. Again, if they use a cheap solvent to distill the fish oil like hexane instead of ethanol, then there may be residuals as well.

 

[johnny333]

I think they need new ideas from younger generation.
Such chinese name also hard to sell in today mkt. sigh.

I notice that one of the directors of Haw Par is someone named Lee Suan Yew.
I doubt you can expect much leadership from politically connected individuals

 

[manokie]

I notice that one of the directors of Haw Par is someone named Lee Suan Yew.
I doubt you can expect much leadership from politically connected individuals

Singapore companies normally cannot make it without shelter from competition.

The only exceptions are Singapore Airlines and Keppel.

What to do?

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

I think not brands of fish oil is molecularly distilled. I am not sure which brand you are talking about. Again, if they use a cheap solvent to distill the fish oil like hexane instead of ethanol, then there may be residuals as well.

I am talking about NOW brand lor.


It's quite a good brand and it's pretty popular and johnny uses it too. It's pretty cheap too. I suppose it's quite good. Check the link in one of johnny's earlier posts it has Now brand fish oil 500 capsules.

 

[Ramseth]

You can never replace foods. Supplements are meant to supplement & not replace food.

For awhile there when I was feeling great, I stopped following a strict diet & started eating all my favourites hawker foods. Unfortunatly I paid for it with angina pains, couldn't sleep because of the pain :( Now I'm back to a bland diet of oats & vegetable soup :(

I notice that a person can survive practically perpetually till natural lifespan runs out (i.e. anywhere from about 60 to 100) without any food, but on drip alone, provided s/he can afford the hospital bill of course.

Therefore, what's necessary isn't really food, it's the nutrients contained in food. Food is just the most naturally convenient and delicious way to deliver it. It's not that natural and healthy anyway, with modern cooking and processing. There're other ways with modern biotechnologies too.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

I notice that a person can survive practically perpetually till natural lifespan runs out (i.e. anywhere from about 60 to 100) without any food, but on drip alone, provided s/he can afford the hospital bill of course.

Therefore, what's necessary isn't really food, it's the nutrients contained in food. Food is just the most naturally convenient and delicious way to deliver it. It's not that natural and healthy anyway, with modern cooking and processing. There're other ways with modern biotechnologies too.

ALAMAK!!

Why do you always force me to type this. No shit sherlock! It's like me typing the sky is blue in the day and black at night.


Yeah it's the nutrients in the food that enable any organism to live not just a human. It couldn't be the taste or anything else could it be?


FYI i remember in the past some ozzie farmers or hunters i think ate some rabbits but it turned out it took even more resources to digest the rabbit meat thanany nutrients the rabbit meat provided. They actually starved to death despite eating rabbit meat.

 

[Ramseth]

Why do you always force me to type this. No shit sherlock! It's like me typing the sky is blue in the day and black at night.

Sherlock Holmes was classic but so passe and ancient. I'd rather play Patrick Jane nowadays.

Yeah it's the nutrients in the food that enable any organism to live not just a human. It couldn't be the taste or anything else could it be?

Then accept the cooking and processing that come with the tastes. All cooking and processing are unhealthy. Only raw fruits are meant to be natural foods for human beings, and they contain all we need. They're naturally apetitising and delicious, but we wanted more, and more, and look what a messy myriad of foods and supplements we end up with.

 

[johnny333]

I notice that a person can survive practically perpetually till natural lifespan runs out (i.e. anywhere from about 60 to 100) without any food, but on drip alone, provided s/he can afford the hospital bill of course.

Therefore, what's necessary isn't really food, it's the nutrients contained in food. Food is just the most naturally convenient and delicious way to deliver it. It's not that natural and healthy anyway, with modern cooking and processing. There're other ways with modern biotechnologies too.

It may have been true in the old days but the modern diet now contains too much transfats, overprocessed flour, too much sugar, salt, preservatives, chemicals, ....

You can see the result in our hospitals, people with all sorts of ailments: heart, cancer, diabetes,... It's getting worse as the patients are getting younger.

Food is not only a source of nutrients, it is also where we get the phytonutrients to prevent diseases. The body cannot make these necessary phytonutrients, we must get it through eating fruits & vegetables. These phytonutrients are also important to resist the pollution & chemicals that are in the environment.

Our food sources are contaminated with genetically modified crops, over use of dangerous pesticides & antibiotics. Modern farming techniques are putting a stress on the soils. Although crops may look similar, the nutrients they contain are much lower.

Gone are the days when we can just live on food alone. That's why there is an explosive growth in the supplement industry. It's there to fill a need,

 

[Ramseth]

Why I mentioned that was because I watched a documentary that humans were supposed to be herbivorous by nature. Not even vegetarian, but fruitarian by nature to be exact, as evidenced by some studies of the human ingestive and digestive systems as compared to true carnivores that could ingest and digest raw flesh (not cooked meat) without visiting hospitals, clinics or pharmacies. Before the mastery of fire and invention of cooking, humans couldn't even eat raw veggies unless starved to the borderline of death, and would rather drop dead than to chew on raw flesh.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Why I mentioned that was because I watched a documentary that humans were supposed to be herbivorous by nature. Not even vegetarian, but fruitarian by nature to be exact, as evidenced by some studies of the human ingestive and digestive systems as compared to true carnivores that could ingest and digest raw flesh (not cooked meat) without visiting hospitals, clinics or pharmacies. Before the mastery of fire and invention of cooking, humans couldn't even eat raw veggies unless starved to the borderline of death, and would rather drop dead than to chew on raw flesh.

you are barking up the wrong tree here. You are dangerously close to tony chat terroritory.

Other than being an anti-sinkee, nuisance, a racist, tony chat is also a vegetarian and hates anyone that eats meat too.

Yes the human digestive system seems suited more for fruits and veggies rather than meat.

Yet you must know that it was meat that enabled humans to develop their big brains and grow bigger.


Humans are able to digest meat after it's cooked anyway and nobody would eat raw meat unless they were insane.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Sherlock Holmes was classic but so passe and ancient. I'd rather play Patrick Jane nowadays.



Then accept the cooking and processing that come with the tastes. All cooking and processing are unhealthy. Only raw fruits are meant to be natural foods for human beings, and they contain all we need. They're naturally apetitising and delicious, but we wanted more, and more, and look what a messy myriad of foods and supplements we end up with.

you want me to say no shit patrick jane to you in future?


You cannot just simply say it's a mess due to all these foods.


Look humans have been eating meat for many many thousands and thousands of yrs already.

Cooking and seasoning etc etc have been in use for thousands of years too. THe japanese ppl whom are one of the longest lived people in the world obviously cook their food and use seasoning etc.

By not cooking one's food one in fact risks catching diseases like samonella, round worms etc etc.

Meat has its uses and so does animal products like milk, eggs and so on.

Do you think the human race would have progressed so far if they only sustained themselves on a diet of fruits and veggies?

For a so called intellectual damn this post shows you fall short.

 

[johnny333]

Why I mentioned that was because I watched a documentary that humans were supposed to be herbivorous by nature. Not even vegetarian, but fruitarian by nature to be exact, as evidenced by some studies of the human ingestive and digestive systems as compared to true carnivores that could ingest and digest raw flesh (not cooked meat) without visiting hospitals, clinics or pharmacies. Before the mastery of fire and invention of cooking, humans couldn't even eat raw veggies unless starved to the borderline of death, and would rather drop dead than to chew on raw flesh.

Most unlikely that humans are herbivorous

Humans are omnivorous . We have incisors like those found in meat eaters, & molars found in meat eaters.

Just look at our cousins the chimps which share 95% of genes when compared to humans, they also like meat when they can catch birds or other primates.

Humans need things like DHA & L-carnitine which the body can't manufacture & are found more easily from meat sources.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

johnny so far NOW brand is one of the best brands for you correct?

 

[Ramseth]

you want me to say no shit patrick jane to you in future?

That'd be nice if you so oblige.

By not cooking one's food one in fact risks catching diseases like samonella, round worms etc etc.

I plucked fruits from trees for decades. Eat after cursory rinsing, no problem, no samonella etc.

Meat has its uses and so does animal products like milk, eggs and so on.

Do you think the human race would have progressed so far if they only sustained themselves on a diet of fruits and veggies?

I agree. That's why I said, humans want more and more and seek for more and more. With more, comes progress. With progress, comes cost, or even at the very least, some collateral damages that require remedies.

For a so called intellectual damn this post shows you fall short.

Nowadays, I fashion myself not as an intellectual, that's passe and ancient.

 

[johnny333]

johnny so far NOW brand is one of the best brands for you correct?

It is the brand that gives the most value.

I am using many Now Food products. You won't go wrong with them.


I switch around between Now, Jarrows & Drs.Best,... but only because I can't really tell which brand is better