Ever wonder why fewer women in China get breast cancer compared to their western counterparts? In her best-selling book “Your Life In Your Hands”, Professor Jane Plant, herself a breast cancer survivor, shares her extensive research on the subject and concludes that dairy-product consumption is a risk factor for breast cancer (and perhaps prostate cancer), […]
SHOULD WE SAY NO TO MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS? Read More »
I have posted the above image not to promote Dr Tom Wu’s book as it needs no promotion, but rather, to revisit it and find out why my blog article about him written in June 2009 has consistently remained the most read and with the most comments. It has garnered close to 121,400 page views
REVISITING CANCER SURVIVOR DR WU’S RECIPES FOR CONQUERING CANCER Read More »
The UN refers to people aged 60 and above as Older Persons. World Health Organisation uses the term ‘older people’. Are these terms of reference preferable to ‘senior citizens’ or ‘the elderly’? What is your opinion? When I started this blog in May 2008, I had dozens of names in mind for the blog. Unfortunately
HERE’S WHY THE 60+ DO NOT LIKE TO BE REFERRED TO AS ‘THE ELDERLY’ Read More »
My mother first showed signs of Alzheimer’s Disease probably as early as 2008. She was 82 then. She couldn’t remember dates, places and names of family members. She didn’t know one day from another, and forgot what she just had for dinner or where she had left her purse. That was 11 years ago. I
MY MOM HAS ALZHEIMER’S – AM I AT RISK? Read More »
Sometimes one can’t help but wonder whether our city fathers and policy-makers consider the special needs of older people when they make decisions on improving the city’s infrastructure and public facilities. Do they study the demographics when they brainstorm at meetings? Admittedly there have been some improvement over the past few years, but there is
HOW AGE-FRIENDLY IS OUR CITY? Read More »
The other day I dug up my favourite pair of jeans from the cupboard. It has been a number of years since I last wore them. To my horror, I had to struggle to zip up. What used to be a snug fit was now a tight fit. I knew I was in trouble when
WHEN THE SCALES RING A WARNING BELL… Read More »
As Malaysia celebrates its 62nd independence day, it is time again to ask ourselves how far have we travelled on the road towards one nation, one people. When my former high school friends and I got together recently, we bemoaned how racially divided our schools have become, and how we wish for those good old
A TIMELY REMINDER OF OUR SHARED IDENTITY AS MALAYSIANS FIRST Read More »
‘Diet, exercise, lifestyle, prevention, mindset…’ – these words were repeated over and over at the recently concluded 9th Malaysian Conference on Healthy Ageing (MCHA) organised by Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society (MHAS). So too were the more ominous words ‘cancer, diabetes, depression, dementia, death’. A total of 6 plenary sessions, 30 symposiums, 11 workshops and 5
AGEING WELL – ARE WE THERE YET? Read More »
I turned 71 today – 28 June, 2019. When each birthday comes around, we get well-meaning reminders of how quickly the years have rolled by. It’s not just the number of big and small candles that announce our age on the celebratory cake, but also the family members that gather around us for the all-important
WEAR OUR AGE WITH PRIDE Read More »
I didn’t get the results of the biopsy till my third follow-up visit on 4 May as Dr Chan was on leave. Frankly, on all my visits I was more interested in knowing when I could stop wearing the compression tights than in the biopsy results. When I found out that male patients had worse
DOC, I HAVE A LUMP ON MY LEG (Part 2) Read More »
