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Cathy Hilborn Feng
Editor and Contributor, Health & Wellness
As the Post's health and wellness editor, Cathy has a keen interest in research related to ageing well. She is a plant-powered endurance runner and trekker who recently graduated with an MA in Sports Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
A festival of traditional Chinese medicine and a dedicated hospital are ways TCM is being promoted in the city. Here’s what you need to know.
Christmas means lots of tempting chocolate. A study shows eating five small portions a week of the dark kind may have major health benefits.
Four minutes a day of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (Vilpa) halve the risk of cardiovascular events in middle-aged women.
A plant-based brunch in a secret garden on Lantau, a guided healing and meditation session, and a mind-expanding film are among our picks.
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Run to help refugees, try pickleball and axe throwing, take in a basketball tournament or gain tools to overcome life changes this weekend.
No plans for New Year’s? From eating out to staying in for some screen time to taking some ‘me time’, Post Lifestyle and Culture editors offer their top tips for the long weekend.
The Covid-19 pandemic has made wellness a necessity, and the industry is changing to meet new demands. Here are six ways this is affecting us, including how we travel and our health care.
Hong Kong-based physical education teacher Julien Schneider shares his keto diet weight loss tips, including how to avoid early carb cravings from the high-fat, low-carb regime and pairing it with intermittent fasting.
When brain surgery was offered as a last resort for 10-year-old epileptic Liam Smith, his dad turned to the low-carb keto diet. He tested it on himself, and put his son on it a year later. Liam, now 17, is free from seizures.
Actress Halle Berry and reality-TV star Kourtney Kardashian are among celebrity advocates of the keto diet, but what does it involve?
Yoga is a 5,000-year-old tradition that melds physical and mindful pursuits to promote inner harmony. Head to one of these events happening around the city as International Day of Yoga kicks off a week-long celebration
When usual treatments for blood diseases fail, a bone-marrow transplant may be a person’s only hope. But the city’s growing number of Eurasians are under-represented on the city’s donor register – as one man is now finding
An alert from his smartwatch prompted 76-year-old Hongkonger Gaston D’Aquino to go to hospital, even though he was feeling fine. It turned out his coronary arteries were almost completely blocked. Now he has a new lease on life and wants to share his story
Three days into the ‘toughest foot race on earth’, Karin Holzschuher faces scorching heat and venomous snakes during the day and freezing temperatures at night as she celebrates a milestone birthday her way
Feisal Alibhai didn’t smoke, touch alcohol, tea or coffee, rarely ate out and worked out every day. When, aged 35, he got 10 cancer tumours, the businessman sought to understand why. These are the lessons he learned
Tao Porchon-Lynch defied her aunt to begin learning yoga aged eight, and was taught by masters such as B.K.S. Iyengar. At 87 she took up ballroom dancing, living up to her advice that ‘within you is the possibility for you to do anything’
He almost lost all his gear before starting out, and encountered bears, rattlesnakes and dangerous ground, but Tony Or hung in there thanks to friendship, the kindness of strangers – and Swedish death metal
Martina Lee, a senior yoga instructor at Hong Kong’s Pure Yoga, teaches a form of yoga that uses singing bowls, the human voice and sound energy to release negative emotions, relieve stress and focus the mind
Dr Richard Davidson from America’s Centre for Healthy Minds and ‘world’s happiest man’ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche explain how meditation practitioners can benefit whether they are children in school or adults in the workplace
Sleep apnoea – which causes breathing interruptions – or restless leg syndrome, in which sufferers thrash their legs in bed, are much less prevalent in people who believe their lives have value, study of older Americans finds
Tax expert and mum of three Tobey Hill gets up at 5am every weekday do to CrossFit before work, an activity that has helped her build strength, confidence – and an active family
