5 Tips For Healthier Living

WITH ONE million Singaporeans expected to have diabetes by 2050, the Ministry of Health is scrambling to try and contain the rise of this disease. But Dr. Jonathan Carp, Founder...
Fu Shou Jeen of Wen Ken Group

Thirst For Cooling Water Hots Up

AS IT turns 80, the Three Legs brand has kept its momentum going. "This is an unusual family business that saw four family friends come together to form the Wen Ken...

How To Help Those In Need

WOULD you know NOT to grab a visually impaired person by the arm to steer them along? Or would you be in a position  to help someone in and out...

9 Ways To Spot A Narcissist

WE ALL know that narcissist in the group: the person whose bloated sense of self is disproportionate to his or her actual merits. The term “narcissist” has been liberally deployed in...

16 Ways To Beat Stress

STRESS, anxiety, disruptions and low productivity - welcome to today’s workplace. Singapore’s workers continue to lead the pack when it comes to the number of hours they work according to...

4 Tips On Handling Adolescents

HERE are some tips for encouraging good behaviour and strengthening positive brain connections: 1. Educate your adolescent about his developing brain. Understanding the neuroscience behind this important period of growth might help teenagers...

Building A Healthy Brain

ADOLESCENTS are supposed to go through the shenanigans that drive their parents crazy. The ‘adaptive-adolescent’ perspective of the adolescent brain, can be tricky to embrace —the more so for parents...

Inside the Adolescent Brain

  IN A longitudinal study of 1,800 teenagers over 13 years at the American National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dr Jay Giedd, has shown that the brain seems to...

The Adolescent Brain – Crazy by Design

  WE TEND to think of adolescence as a time of turbulence; a crazy, tumultuous period in human life that is often marked by stormy arguments, sullen silences, hormones run amok...

Soothing The Itch

Finding a good fix for his own itch led Jason Humphries to scratch his head in search of a solution. Humphries’ search for respite from his fungal infection led him...