Lifestyle & Wellness
The Secret to Satiety and Blood Sugar Control: Why Food Order Matters
Discover how changing your food order—eating carbs last—boosts satiety and controls blood sugar to help manage obesity and diabetes.
Pharmacotherapy
Preserving Muscle Mass on GLP-1s: A Practical Guide for Singaporeans
Learn how to preserve muscle mass on GLP-1s in Singapore with practical protein, exercise, and diet tips tailored for your weight loss journey.
Lifestyle & Wellness
The Hidden Risks in Convenience: What Ultra-Processed Foods Mean for Our Health
From instant noodles and soft drinks to packaged snacks and ready-made meals, convenience foods are a familiar sight in busy households. While these quick choices fit easily into a fast-paced Singaporean lifestyle, a major comprehensive review published in The BMJ shows that higher intake of ultra-processed foods
Pharmacotherapy
Can You Reverse Fatty Liver? Practical Ways to Fix It in Singapore
Finding out that your liver panel blood test and ultrasound scan point toward a fatty liver can be an unexpected and alarming shock. It’s completely normal to feel anxious when medical reports flag something new. However, before you assume the worst, here is the ground reality: Your liver is
Lifestyle & Wellness
How to Manage Weight Gain During Menopause?
Clinician's Perspective: • During the menopause transition, the Basal Metabolic Rate (the energy expended by the body at rest) decreases by approximately 250 to 300 kcal per day. In essence, the body burns less energy, hence lowering caloric intake is essential to prevent weight gain. • The decline in estrogen
Pharmacotherapy
Hair Loss and Weight Loss Injections
Clinician's Perspective: • Users of GLP-1 receptor agonists may experience a three-fold higher risk of hair, however, the overall incidence is still very low. • Research into Semaglutide reveals that hair loss is rarely reported at the lower doses (0.25mg to 2mg) typically used for diabetes, but
Pharmacotherapy
The Complete Guide to Weight Management in Singapore: From Lifestyle to Surgery
Clinician's Perspective: • In Singapore, it is estimated that 12.7% of the population has a BMI of 30 or higher, a significant 22.8% of residents fall into the high-risk category (BMI ≥27.5) due to the higher risk of cardiovascular disease in Asian populations. • Healthy diet
Bariatric Surgery
Hair Loss After Bariatric Surgery: Why It Happens And How To Make It Better?
Clinician's Perspective: • Hair loss is a common occurrence, affecting approximately 57% (nearly 6 in 10) of patients following metabolic and bariatric surgery. Most of the time, it is not severe. • Hair loss is often temporary; the incidence rate drops from 58% in the first year to 35% after
Understanding Obesity
Obesity and Osteoarthritis
Clinician's Perspective: • Obesity increases the risk of developing osteoarthritis. The incident of knee osteoarthritis (knee joint decay) is increased by 1.3 to 6.0 times, making it the most susceptible joint in the body. • Osteoarthritis is not merely a "wear and tear" mechanical disease but
Understanding Obesity
Resistance Training And Its Impact On Obesity
Clinician's Perspective: • Resistance training is a form of physical exercise where you move your limbs or body against resistance provided by your own body weight, gravity, bands, or weighted equipment (like dumbbells or machines). • Integrating resistance exercise with caloric restriction fundamentally shifts the body's metabolic priority
Understanding Obesity
Aerobic Exercise And Its Impact On Obesity
Clinician's Perspective: • The 150-Minute Threshold: Data from over 6,800 participants reveals that while any exercise helps, a minimum of 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity is required to achieve clinically important reductions in waist size and body fat. • Linear dose-response (the relationship
Understanding Obesity
What is Circadian Rhythm and How It Impacts On Our Health?
Clinician's Perspective: • Circadian rhythm is the term used to describe our bodies' relationship with the day cycle. • Biological Synchronization: Every cell in the body contains an autonomous molecular clock that orchestrates gene expression to ensure that Lipogenesis (the metabolic process of fat formation) and energy processing coincide