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Cedar Girls’ Secondary School Students' Project on Food Resources

Caleb Mok, our dietician, involved as the project advisor in the project of a group of Cedar Girls’ Secondary School students on "Excessive and Unhealthy Food Consumption Among Teenagers in Singapore". After understanding the public nutritional issues and challenges from Caleb, the students have presented an interesting social media app prototype that strives to improve healthy eating among the adolescents.


Why Aging People Suffer From So Many Aching Joints

Aging too often results in the breakdown of healthy joint function and structure. Increasing evidence points to destructive inflammatory factors as culprits behind the joint problems humans encounter as they grow older.

While anti-inflammatory drugs have become mainstays in the medicine cabinets of senior citizens, an increasing body of knowledge reveals that natural approaches to maintaining joint health may be more effective, and a lot safer.


Public Education – Let Food Be Thy Cancer Avengers

Caleb our Dietician, at the Supreme Court's Staff  Wellness Series, sharing with participants about the different nutrients that fight against cancers.


The Harsh Truth of Hangovers

Drinking alcohol is a popular social activity around the world. Basically, alcoholic beverages are produced from the fermentation of carbohydrate or sugar. To name a few, beer is fermented from barley; sake from rice; wine from grapes; mead is made by fermenting honey with water. Through the fermentation process, with the help of yeast or bacteria, sugars in food will be converted to ethanol, the alcohol in the alcoholic drinks.

While having a drink can be enjoyable, when you get carried away and drink in excess, it can result in a hangover. A hangover is a group of unpleasant signs and symptoms that can develop after excessive alcohol consumption. How does hangover come about? Here is a closer look.


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Lutein and Zeaxanthin Protect Vision While Boosting Brain Blood Flow

There is a direct connection between the eyes and the brain.

When doctors examine the retina and optic nerve they are looking directly at brain cells.

The retina consists of certain plant pigments that are good indicators of visual health.

Two of those pigments are carotenoids called lutein and zeaxanthin.

Supplementation with these carotenoids helps prevent age-related vision loss.1


Public Education - The Science-based Superfood - Euglena P-3

Caleb our Dietician, sharing with participants the scientific updates about Euglena, the superfood, that can bring about various health benefits.


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Restore Youthful Immune Function

The diseases of aging such as cancer, pneumonia, and dementia are linked to a malfunctioning immune system.

This degenerative impairment is known as immune senescence. It accelerates aging by causing chronic inflammation while failing to protect against pathogens and malignancies.1-5

Not only do we lose the ability to defend against cancers and infections, but our failing immune cells create a state of hyper-inflammation that destroys neurons, the endothelium, and joints.6,7


Role of Folate in Healthy Human Brain Function

B vitamins are critical for the production of neurotransmitters in the brain.

Insufficiency is associated with cognitive decline.1-3

Folate has a number of mechanisms by which it can enhance cognitive performance. These include lowering inflammation and reducing homocysteine.1,4

Elevated homocysteine and chronic inflammation are linked to degenerative brain disorders.

Perhaps the most far-reaching implication of folate in the brain is its ability to modify gene expression.1

This means that folate plays a role in turning a gene “on” or “off.”


Public Education - Secrets to youthful bone and joints

Caleb our Dietician, discussing with participants on “Secrets to Youthful Bones & Joints”.


Carnosine, Cataracts, and Visual Clarity

Cataracts cause about half of all cases of blindness worldwide.1,2

By age 80, more than half of all Americans will have cataracts, or will have undergone surgery to remove them.3

Researchers have been investigating two different but related forms of the nutrient carnosine to help slow the development of cataracts as well as improve visual performance of cataract-affected eyes.


Public Education - Digestive cancers and cancer-preventive diet

Together with Dr. Melvin Look, consultant general surgeon of PanAsia Surgical Group, Caleb our Dietician, discussing with the members of Orchid Country Club on digestive cancers and cancer-preventive diet.


Vitafoods Asia 2018

Activa, lead by Valerie Marin, Regional Director, exhibited and shared with visitors on how their use pharmaceutical micro-granules revolutionized the herbal industry in France.


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