Keeping Singapore Healthy 2020

The New Age

From personalised health dashboard to body servicing: Inside S’pore’s massive healthy ageing experiment

The team members at Alexandra Hospital’s Healthy Longevity Research Clinic (HLRC) with some participants (from left): research assistant He Qian; exercise physiologist Saiful Anwar; Michelle Liao, a doctor; participant Ivan Low; Laureen Wang, head of HLRC; participant Lee Siu Yin; Grace Chiang, a family medicine consultant with HLRC; senior staff nurse Eswari Sundrasagaran; and health coach Cheryl Tan.

NUS Medicine’s focus on research leads to better patient care, raises school’s standing globally

The school secures more than $100 million in research grants each year to fund impactful research and breakthroughs.

Intermittent fasting? Keto? Paleo? Be careful about the diet you follow

Another diet trend in vogue is the ketogenic diet (or keto diet in short), one of many versions of low-carb diets.

Some hawker foods can raise heart attack, stroke risk

Ms Surayah Omar, who runs Meal Logi at Bukit Canberra Hawker Centre, uses the lower-sodium K-salt both for the food she sells, and at home.

Primary healthcare no longer just treats the sick, but also keeps people healthy

Interior of the Women’s and Children’s clinic at the new Sembawang Polyclinic.

ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI

Citizens, PRs aged 40 to 59 can enrol for Healthier SG programme

More than 400,000 residents have signed up for Healthier SG since it was launched in July this year.

34 commended for helping to save lives in cardiac arrest cases

Engineer Lin Guang Min (left) and educator Jeremy Ang were among 34 recipients of the Survivor Awards Singapore 2023 at the Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF)’s Project Heart event.

Singapore’s centenarians still enjoying life past 100th birthday

Pictured here is Madam Loh Cheong Tai ,105. at her HDB Bedok flat . Story on healthy centenarians and their secret to longevity

Hard-hit young Asians stepping up in fight for climate change

Lifestyle changes can go a long way in preventing diseases

Getting children to spend sufficient time in sunlit green areas can reduce the risk of myopia. They should also take frequent rests from reading. Every 20 minutes, they should look up for 20 seconds at something 20m away.

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