More and more teens and pre-teens in Singapore, mostly girls, some of them as young as eight years, are falling prey to anorexia nervosa. This debilitating eating disorder, which was fairly uncommon in Asia just a couple of decades ago, is characterised by...

Any mention of eating disorders typically brings to mind the image of a reed thin teenage girl starving herself. Actually, sufferers can come in all shapes and sizes. You don’t have to be thin to have an eating disorder, neither do you have to be female; it can happen to anyone, at any age...

Diabetes is a common and serious chronic illness and when poorly controlled, leads to multiple complications. “Although there are many medications available, nutritional therapy or dietary modification remains paramount to good diabetes control”...