Health
Widmark formula (educational only)
Calculate your BMI instantly using ASEAN health thresholds — metric and imperial.
Estimate your body fat percentage using the Navy method — with ASEAN-specific health ranges.
Decay tracker + sleep cutoff
Calculate your daily calorie needs in seconds — enter your details and get your maintenance calories instantly.
Likely conception date, fertile window + due date
Calculate your pregnancy due date and current week — enter your last period or conception date.
Calculate target heart rate zones
Find your ideal weight range using 5 medical formulas — with ASEAN-adjusted healthy ranges.
Boer + Hume + James formulas
Calculate your daily protein, carbs and fat targets — based on your body, goals and activity level.
Predict a child's adult height from the parents
Find the best times to wake up or go to sleep based on 90-minute sleep cycles — wake up refreshed, not groggy.
Calculate your daily calorie needs based on age, weight, height and activity level.
WHtR — better than BMI
Calculate your ideal daily water intake based on weight, activity and climate — with ASEAN tropical heat adjustment.
The calcium formula everyone uses is not the one it cites
Corrected calcium is computed with a coefficient of 0.8 and attributed to Payne 1973 on virtually every clinic...
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4 Sep
The Army stopped taping. The Marines did not.
Both services replaced the tape test with waist-to-height ratio in 2026 and then disagreed twice over. The Arm...
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3 Sep
Two poison services disagree about how much chocolate your dog can eat
Britain's Veterinary Poisons Information Service answers in grams of chocolate per kilo of dog. The ASPCA and...
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3 Sep
The kidney formula in your drug label came from seven data points
The 1976 equation that still decides anticoagulant doses was fitted to seven averaged points, drawn from 249 m...
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2 Sep
10,000 Steps Was a Product Name. The Evidence Says 7,000.
The number is the name of a pedometer sold in Japan in 1965, chosen because it was round and the character for...
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30 Aug
Twenty-One US States Now Regulate Clinical AI, And They Do Not Agree
Thirty-three healthcare AI laws were enacted by the end of 2025, from more than 250 bills introduced across 47...
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22 Aug
What Your A1C Actually Measures, and When It Does Not
A1C estimates average glucose over about three months by measuring what has happened to your red blood cells —...
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11 Aug
Your Fertile Window Is Six Days, and It Ends at Ovulation
"Ovulation is on day 14" and "ovulation is 14 days before your next period" are repeated as the same fact. The...
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11 Aug
How to Work Out How Much to Feed Your Dog or Cat
Almost every feeding mistake starts with the weight you type in. Use the animal in front of you and the sum re...
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9 Aug
Same Body, Two Verdicts: What the Drink-Drive Limit Actually Depends On
At 0.058% blood alcohol you are under the limit in Singapore and over it in Johor Bahru. Malaysia cut its limi...
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1 Aug
Macros Explained: Where the Protein, Carb and Fat Targets Actually Come From (2026)
Macro targets traced to source: the government AMDR bands and 0.8 g/kg RDA versus 40/30/30 and the 1 g/lb gym...
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22 Jul
How Much Water Do You Actually Need? The '8 Glasses' Rule vs the Evidence (2026)
No study ever backed '8 glasses a day.' What NASEM, EFSA and Singapore's HPB actually publish, why coffee coun...
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22 Jul
Sleep Cycles and the 90-Minute Rule: What the Science Actually Says (2026)
Two NIH institutes give two different sleep-cycle lengths, and neither is a fixed 90 minutes. What the primary...
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21 Jul
Heart-Rate Zones: What '220 Minus Age' Gets Wrong (2026)
The wall-poster formula for max heart rate has a thin research pedigree. We trace every number to its source a...
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21 Jul
BMI, BMR and TDEE: What the Numbers Mean — and Why Asia Uses Different Cut-offs (2026)
What BMI, BMR and TDEE actually measure, the equations behind them, and why Singapore and Malaysia flag risk f...
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21 Jul
Medtronic Is Notifying 3.8 Million People of a Data Breach — Here's What It Means for Patients
Medtronic, the world's largest medical device maker, is notifying 3,834,294 people that a data breach of its c...
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11 Jul
The FDA Is Reviewing 7 Peptides on 23–24 July — Here's What That Does and Doesn't Mean
The FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee will review seven peptides — BPC-157, KPV, TB-500, MOTS-c, E...
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9 Jul
Researchers Push Back on the FDA's 2026 Wellness-Device Guidance — What It Means for Wearable Owners
A Nature Biomedical Engineering Comment published on 23 June 2026 argues that the FDA's 2026 General Wellness...
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2 Jul