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	Betel Nut : by Ray Sahelian, M.D., Benefits of Betel Nut
		Betel nut is chewed regularly by at least 10% of the world population, imported by immigrant users wherever they settle, and is the fourth most widely used addictive substance.
		Betel quid chewing is a strong independent risk factor for pharyngeal cancer (cancer of the back of the throat), but not laryngeal cancer (cancer of the voice box), according to findings published in the International Journal of Cancer.
		Betel quid is chewed for its stimulant effects, to satisfy hunger and as a social and cultural practice.
	www.raysahelian.com /betelnut.html (1262 words)

	Cancer Treatment > IARC Monographs Program Finds Betel-quid and Areca-Nut Chewing Carcinogenic to Humans
		Betel quid generally consists of betel leaf (from the Piper betle vine), areca nut (from the Areca catechu tree), and slaked lime (predominantly calcium hydroxide), to which tobacco is often added.
		Betel quid is chewed for many reasons, including for its stimulant effects, to satisfy hunger, to sweeten the breath, and as a social and cultural practice.
		Areca nut, a common component of all betel quid preparations, has been observed to cause oral submucous fibrosis (a pre-cancerous condition that can progress to malignant oral cancer), leading to the determination that areca nut itself is carcinogenic to humans.
	www.emaxhealth.com /51/1085.html (784 words)

	Betel nut beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Betel nut beauty on the road between Taipei and Hsinchu.
		Taiwanese betel nut kiosks, heavily decorated with bright neon lights, are most common on highways and suburban roads in the western part of the island, such as around Taichung.
		In its view, working as a betel nut beauty is the first step down a slippery slope leading to substance abuse and prostitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betel_nut_beauty (581 words)

	Sake Drenched Postcards - Betel Nut in Papua New Guinea
		Betel nut is perhaps the one unifying element amongst PNG's numerous cultures, languages (cultural stigmas concerning inter-marrying amongst its tribes have given rise to over 700 languages), and topography (coastal marshes, beaches, mountains, and rainforests).
		In enjoying betel nut, lime and betel pepper are chewed together with the white and brown marbled nut of the areca palm.
		This being a necessary byproduct of the ritual, it dictates that the chewing betel nut is banned in certain public places.
	www.bigempire.com /sake/betelnut.html (1420 words)

	BETEL - betel cutter, preparing of the quid, lime container, areca nut, the 13 spices.
		Betel is chewed in fact in north India, in Nepal and in northerner borders of the Indochinese peninsula.
		The areca nut was attributed to Brahma, the Tambool (betel) leaf to Vishnu and lime to Mahesh.
		This sort of chewing-gum made of areca nut, tobacco and betel leaf, leaves a fl layer on teeth, due to the polyphenol in the areca nut and the betel leaf.
	www.le-betel.com /histoire/en_histoire.htm (2335 words)

	Betel Box Hostel - What is Betel Nut Areca. Backpacker Youth Hostel Singapore. Singapore Hostels Accomodation
		The “betel” part actually refers to the leaf of the betel vine, which is used as a wrapper for the various ingredients of betel chewing.
		The betel nut is chewed as part of a package consisting of small pieces of the betel nut combined with some lime paste or powder (from limestone or coral) and some times tobacco, gambier or other spices, and these ingredients are packaged in the betel vine leaf.
		Betel nut chewing is still popular today, with estimates of numbers of users ranging from 200 million to 10% of the world population.
	www.betelbox.com /whats_a_betelnut.htm (653 words)

	BY WAY OF DISPLAY
		The cultivation of betel nut palms, the marketing and consumption of its nuts in Taiwan generate a special complex, which appears on the streets of the country.
		Today the cultivation of betel palms, often illegal in the mountains, and the marketing of betel nuts are a national economic factor.
		Betel nuts are predominantly chewed by long-distance truck drivers and males in the lower economic classes who each consume as many as dozens a day.
	www.expand.at /s/words/bwod.html (1059 words)

	What is a Betel Nut? (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The betel nut is shaved or cut into slivers for easier chewing and is often mixed with local spices or tobacco for a more appealing flavor.
		Betel nut is often marketed as a homeopathic cure for indigestion and is also used in some Asian toothpastes and anti-parasite medications.
		There is compelling medical evidence that habitual betel nut chewing can cause a number of forms of cancer, especially in the mouth, throat, esophagus and stomach.
	www.wisegeek.com.cob-web.org:8888 /what-is-a-betel-nut.htm (491 words)

	BETEL NUT - Online Information article about BETEL NUT
		Betel nuts are further used as a source of catechu, which is procured by boiling the nuts in water.
		species of Areca are used by the poorer classes in the East as substitutes for the genuine betel nut.
		action of the betel nut is alone due to this substance.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BETEL_NUT.html (892 words)

	Herbs, fragrance to the mouth, heart-shaped betel-leaf, betel nut, gutka, paan
		Betel is originated from central and eastern parts of Malaysia.
		The betel plant is attractive, aromatic slender creeper, betel has an alternate, heart shaped, smooth, shining, and long stalked leaves with pointed apex.
		Betel morsel (betel nut and other ingredients folded in betel leaf) or pan supari is extensively taken in south Asia.
	www.hashmi.com /paan.html (498 words)

	Betel Nut in Taiwan
		Well, facts first: "Betel nut - the astringent seed of an East Indian palm, the betel palm, used for chewing with betel leaves and lime." The effects of chewing seem to be a slight feeling of warmth over the body and a warm tight feeling across the forehead; those are my lab findings.
		There are two preparations: one splits the nut and pastes in mash of the betel nut along with a small slice of lime: the second preparation is the 007, where two nuts are wrapped together is a betel nut leave.
		Roadside betel nut stalls are the abodes of the 'Betel Nut Beauty,' the pedestals from which they can display their beauty and a few other things as well.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Gulf/1507/letter/one.html (2196 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Betel Chicks Hot and Bothered (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The women are selling betel nuts, the seed of a palm tree, which has long been used by Chinese doctors to treat infections.
		But the soft nut is also chewed by about three million, mostly men, in Taiwan as a stimulant which gives a buzz similar to drinking six cups of Windex cut with blow.
		The development has not been welcomed by everyone and officials in Taoyuan county near Taipei have now told their betel nut beauties - as they are known - enough is enough.
	nonemore.keenspace.com.cob-web.org:8888 /betel2.html (623 words)

	Oral Cancer and Areca Nut, Betel Nut, Paan, Gutka
		Paan tends to refer to the glossy heart-shaped betel (Piper betel) pepper spice leave, which is not botanically related to the betel nut palm (Areca catechu) which is added as slivers, to it along with some lime (calcium hydroxide) to better extract the alkaloids in the nut.
		After about 20 minutes of chewing, the fibrous residue which remains of the nut is often spat on the street, where it remains visible due to its characteristic bright red colour.
		In the past people chewed betel, paan or beeda to make their teeth look red which was considered a symbol of beauty.
	rdoc.org.uk /areca_betel_nut.html (1055 words)

	UglyExpat : Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In Taiwan, it is common to see scantily-clad women sitting by the road in brightly-lit glass booths selling betel nut.
		Betel nut, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of trying it, is a mild stimulant.
		In Hsinchu, more than 480 betel nut girls and their employers have been arrested since January.
	www.uglyexpat.com /MT/archives/000086.shtml (192 words)

	Asia Times
		Their task is to take a betel nut, wrap it with some paste in a leaf and pack half a dozen nuts into a boxes.
		Because such is the competition to sell the nuts among what is estimated to be 100,000 vending outlets around the island that some of the girls have all but dispensed with clothes altogether.
		Most betel is grown illegally, on theoretically protected slopeland, and it is overwhelmingly sold illegally - none of those booths in which the beauties sit have permits for their erection.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/DJ09Ad01.html (2157 words)

	Taiwan artist turns fleshy "betel nut beauties" into art
		In their heyday, betel nut girls worked at an estimated 100,000 booths all over the island, mostly along the streets near highways catering to truck drivers who chewed the nut, the seed of a palm tree, as a stimulant.
		Pictures of betel nut girls Wu has collected over the past decade decorate the walls and the floor of the stage is a mirror fringed with neon lights.
		Some betel nut stands in the 1990s were operated by gangsters who suspected Wu of trying to steal their trade secrets by talking to the saleswomen and threatened to beat or kill her.
	news.sawf.org /Lifestyle/10125.aspx (1303 words)

	Beauty - Medicow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Betel chewing is reflected in the epics to such an extent that one not familiar with the practice may find it strange that while food is hardly mentioned, betel chewing is referred to several times to the point of redundancy.
		There's a betel nut stand in town, this is where you see the most people gathered, although you also see bags of betel nuts in the three markets, and in some of the other stores as well.
		A mouth flened, or reddened, by chewing betel was considered a sign of beauty, and betel was thought to be wholesome and refreshing to the mouth.
	www.medicow.com /topics/Beauty (2178 words)

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		Betel nut chewing, long a popular habit throughout Asia, has "given rise to one of the raciest marketing ploys ever devised to sell an agricultural product" in Taiwan.
		Betel nut sellers, many of them country girls trying to make a living in the cities, can earn twice as much as in factory or conventional service jobs.
		Long-term overuse of betel nut is said to weaken sexual potency.
	www.herbalgram.org /iherb/herbclip/review.asp?i=42414 (467 words)

	Betel nut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In countries and communities where betel is consumed extensively, there are vastly higher levels of oral cancer [2], and in Asian countries where it is consumed, oral cancer forms up to 50% of malignant cancers.
		Betel nut chewers in Taiwan were found to have a twenty-eight times higher risk of acquiring oral cancer [3].
		Although a substantial proportion of the cancers are caused by the tobacco rather than the betel nut and leaves in the quid, according to WHO, betel chewing without tobacco also leads to cancer of the mouth [4].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betel_nut (1588 words)

	Trinket Boxes and Unique World Decor
		The betel nuts are chewed, usually wrapped in betel leaves, along with some lime and other spices for flavoring.
		Betel chewing originated in Southeast Asia, and today it is practiced from East Africa to the Pacific Islands.
		These beautiful boxes are hand crafted from local wood representing the art and culture from past generations.
	www.antiki.com /trinket-boxes.htm (441 words)

	Betel nuts, children, adults, and dogs - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The betel nut is the fruit of a palm, Areca catechu Linnaeus.
		Betel nuts were also said to sweeten the breath and aid digestion through stimulating the glands associated with the GI tract.
		The powdered betel nut administered in a syrup became a standard treatment to rid the intestines of tape worms (Taenia species).
	www.killerplants.com /plants-that-changed-history/20031021.asp (1090 words)

	Betel nut beauty - photos and links about betel nut in Taiwan
		Betel nut beauties or betel nut girls (æª³æ¦”è¥¿æ—½ binlang xishi) are a common sight along the roadsides in Taiwan.
		Betel chewing is common in many parts of Asia, although the exact methods and preparations vary.
		While betel nut girls are a source of controversy and interest the environmental and health impacts of betel nut are in reality more serious concerns.
	taiwan.8m.net /betelnut.html (899 words)

	Mondo Taiwan - Culture: Betel Nut, KTV, and Perverts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		If you ever take a taxi in Taiwan, you'll no doubt experience the strange scent of "betel nut." Betel nuts are the seeds of the betel palm which are usually prepared by having a slit cut in them into which a slaked lime (CaO) paste is added.
		Betel nut not only stains the lips and teeth of the users.
		It is said that the demand for betel nut in Taiwan is so great that it must be smuggled in from other countries.
	www.angelfire.com.cob-web.org:8888 /mt/mondotaiwan/culture.html (1822 words)

	Oriental Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Seen in every traditional Burmese home would be the Betel Nut Box, a cylindrical box made of woven bamboo and fitted inside with a pair of shallow trays to hold essential items for making quids of betel.
		A guest would take a Betel leaf from the bottom of the box, smear it with lime paste, and wrap it around thin slices betel nut and other selected ingredients, such as shreds of tobacco, dried orange peel, cardamom, cinnamon or others.
		Betel nut boxes were important items of regalia at the Burmese Court.
	www.oriental-galleries.com /betelnut_boxes.htm (199 words)

	wfn.org \| Taiwan's Betel Nut Beauties: Under Pressure from All Sides
		A 25 year old "spicy sister in charge" at a Betel Nut stand on Hong Ping Road in Kaohsiung County, who goes by the nickname of A-mei, reported that the base salary is between 18,000 and 20,000 Taiwan Yuan per month.
		A GOH social worker said, "Betel nut beauties are controlled and abused by their employers and they don't necessarily even realize what is happening." The economic drive to enter the trade comes from the child labor laws.
		He doesn't care much how she gets the money, just so long as she "doesn't learn to do bad." But his daughter is only 17, and under the law that persons under 18 cannot be involved in retail sales of tobacco, alcohol or betel nut, she has received six citations.
	www.wfn.org /2002/10/msg00279.html (1168 words)

	wfn.org \| Taiwan's Girls Need Bodily Sovereignty
		Chi Huei-rong, the operations manager of the Garden of Hope Foundation, (a Christian NGO that advocates for the rights of Taiwan's women) forcefully stood up at a recent seminar on the sex trade to denounced the occupation of "Betel Nut Beauty" as the first step towards prostitution.
		There is a rough push to become 'money trees' in bars, Karaoke parlors, betel nut stands and 'spicy girl tea rooms', all of which use erotic appeals to bring in customers.
		Betel nut beauties may expose lots of skin by the roadside to sell more of their wares, but the profit goes to the stand owners.
	www.wfn.org /2002/10/msg00038.html (595 words)

	cb3vitamins.com
		The crop of billberries was said to indicate how well the rest of the crops would fare in their harvests later in the year.
		In Taiwan, betel nut shops usually have a large picture window behind which a provocatively dressed young woman can be seen wrapping betel nuts (see betel nut beauty).
		There is some alarming news released from the BHP (Bureau of Health Promotion) which shows that the habit of betel nut chewing is entering younger age groups and spreading across different professions.
	cb3vitamins.com /blog (7780 words)

	Tambool - Betel Nut and Leaves Accessories - Exhibition
		The betel leaf or the paan has been responsible for the beautiful innovative crafting of functional objects of great beauty.
		Hence the theme of "Tambool" was chosen for the exhibition of "Betal Nut and Leaf Accessories" that was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the National Museum from 24th January to 2nd February, 2000.
		A special focus of the exhibition was the collection of betel nut boxes the "Tepak Sirih" in the National Museum's collection.
	www.wccapr.org /activities/tambul.html (525 words)

	FilmFestivals . com - Berlin International Film Festival 2001
		Scantily-clad in mini skirts that couldn’t be shorter and swinging their hips voluptuously, they sell betel nuts on the edge of the road.
		Their wares, which have an effect on the mind not unlike that of marihuana, are particularly popular among taxi drivers and truckers.
		It follows Tian ma cha fang (1999), which is a love story set in Taiwan immediately after World War II and once again brings to light topical issues in modern-day Taiwanese society.
	www.filmfestivals.com /servlet/JSCRun?obj=FicheFilmBerlin&CfgPath=ffs/filmweb&id=2339 (398 words)

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