Health Diary 365 • Fit吃

04/01/2025

Throwback to our Community Health Talk on Gut Health 👩🏻‍⚕️

Understand the difference between life span and health span can drastically change your perspective towards your own preventive health !

27/11/2024

🚨 NEW SERIES ALERT! 🚨

Say hello to “A Date with Your Health”, our brand-new online community health talks designed to keep you informed, inspired, and in tip-top shape! 💪✨

🍽 First up: Gut Health
Join us as a medical doctor & certified fitness coach dive into the hows and whys of maintaining a healthy gut. Trust us, your gut will thank you! 😉

Save your spot now and let’s get to the core of wellness together. 🩺 PM us or comment below to register your interest 💚

11/01/2023

🔥🔥🔥 Representing & , our Health Diary 365 co-founder Dr. 👩🏻‍⚕️⁩ is invited to give a talk on 988] FM on Thurs 12/Jan @ 8am. 她会与大家探讨现代疾病和如何预防及达到健康的生活方式。

You can tune in on the radio or on 988] FB Live 🎙️

25/12/2022

May this Holiday Season sparkle and shine and may all your wishes and dreams come true, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2023! 🎄🎅

24/08/2022

25/08 FB Live 与你有约！

Talkshow 与医生👩🏻‍⚕️谈谈免疫健康，了解 Long Covid 对人体的影响⚠️，还有 Monkeypox 的风险与危害⚠️

14/04/2022

Dear readers 🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️, hope you enjoyed our Sembang session on Monday! 🤩

Raya is a season of delicious food, from rendang 🍗 to lemang 🎍, from ketupat to cornflakes madu 🍯. We understand, sometimes it is mission impossible to resist the temptation 😋, when these delicacies are “presented” to your face.

Here are 5 tips 🖐 from our Nutrition Advisors that can help you to stay slim & healthy 😎 this Raya:

1️⃣ Eat in Moderation. Find the balance between health and indulgence. ⚖️

2️⃣ Control your portion 🍽 & reduce frequency of eating them. Example, limit yourself to only go for the best ketupat 👍🏻 and not trying all the ketupat! ❌

3️⃣ Reduce the amount of oil, sugar & salt 🧂 added into your food. Sikit-sikit lama jadi bukit ⛰

4️⃣ Eat smart 🥸. Take BodyKey meal replacement before your meal, to increase 🔺 your feeling of satiety, which helps to curb craving and control appetite. Better still, replace one of your meals with BodyKey to keep your daily calorie intake in check. 💪🏽

5️⃣ Get help! Use nutritional supplements 💊 e.g. Lecithin E, Green T Plus and CB Plus that can help reduce 🔻 fat & carbs absorption into our body. (Only useful if you watch your diet at the same time too!)

We enjoyed your audience and cannot wait to see you again! 🥳 We wish everyone a healthy & peaceful Ramadan month 🌙

09/04/2022

Ramadan is here, Raya is coming! 🌙

🍗 Raya is a season of love & family, but also a festive of foods, from rendang to lemang 😋

But, how can we enjoy Raya and stay fit & slim at the same time? Join us next Monday 11/4 for some tips 😎

08/04/2022

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is high blood glucose 🩸 that can develop during pregnancy in women who do not already have diabetes. Annually, 10-15% of pregnancies 🤰🏻 in Malaysia 🇲🇾 are affected by GDM.

Unlike Type 1 diabetes, GDM is not caused by a lack of insulin, but by other hormones (e.g., estrogen, cortisol, human placental lactogen) produced by the placenta during pregnancy that can make insulin less effective. This usually begins about 24-28 weeks 🗓 into the pregnancy.

Although any woman 💁🏻‍♀️ can develop GDM, some risk factors include:
• Overweight or obesity 🍔
• Family history of diabetes 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
• Age (women >25 are at higher risk) 👩🏼‍💼
• Pre-diabetes (i.e., impaired glucose tolerance)

Will GDM affect the baby? 🧐
Unlike Type 1 diabetes, GDM generally occurs too late to cause birth defects, which usually originate during the 1st trimester. However, affected infants 👶🏻 may experience chemical imbalances (e.g., low serum calcium or magnesium), and can suffer from macrosomia or hypoglycemia.

Macrosomia refers to a baby 👶🏻 who is considerably larger than normal. All the nutrients the fetus receives come from the mother's blood 🩸. If the maternal blood has excessive glucose, the fetus’ pancreas senses the high glucose levels 🍬 and produces more insulin to utilise this glucose. The extra glucose is converted to fat 😳

Hypoglycemia refers to low blood sugar 🔻 in the baby 👶🏻 immediately after delivery. This occurs if the mother's blood sugar levels 🍬 have been consistently high 🔺, causing the fetus to have a high level of insulin in its circulation. After delivery 🤰🏻, the baby continues to have a high insulin level, but without the high level of sugar from its mother 👩‍👦, resulting in the newborn's blood sugar level becoming very low.

01/04/2022

Pregnancy is one of the happiest phases of life ❤️ tag your pregnant or soon-to-be pregnant friends in the comments 😊

12/03/2022

When it comes to health, it’s important that we break down and discuss even the taboo subjects.

05/03/2022

Obesity is the “mother” or sources of many diseases. Think diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, gout & even cancer risk .. they are linked to overweight & obesity

Call for action plans to reduce rates of obesity and its associated complications.

03/03/2022

Cervical cancer 👩🏻 affects the entrance to the womb. The cervix 📍 is the narrow part of the lower uterus, often referred to as the neck of the womb.

Various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠, a sexually transmitted infection, causes the majority of cervical cancer cases, by turning off some tumour suppressor genes such as p53 and Rb. This may cause uncontrolled division & growth 📈 of abnormal cells lining the cervix, leading to cervical cancer 🧬.

However HPV is not the only cause of cervical cancer. In fact, most women with HPV do not get cervical cancer. Other risk factors, like smoking 🚬, long term use of birth control pills 💊 and having a weakened immune system 🤕 e.g. an HIV infection, influence which women exposed to HPV 🦠 are more likely to develop cervical cancer.

In the early stages of cervical cancer, a person may experience no symptom at all 🤷🏻‍♀️. In later stages, typical symptoms include

1) Unusual vaginal bleeding 🩸 after in*******se, between periods or post-menopause
2) Pelvic pain 😖
3) Unusual vaginal discharge tinged with blood & with a foul odour 💨.

These symptoms can easily be mistaken 🤔 for other conditions e.g. menstrual periods or urinary tract infection. Therefore, it is recommended ✅ for all women aged 21 to 65 🙋🏻‍♀️🧓🏻 to have regular cervical smear test, or Pap tests 🏥.

Another important thing you can do to prevent cervical cancer is to get the HPV vaccine 💉 if you are eligible.