Keeping kidneys healthy

(From left) Shobana, Liew, Kamalanathan, Goh, Fajura and Chua at the launch of the Healthy Kidney, Longer Life national campaign.

IT is easy to figure out the size of the heart – it's roughly the size of your clenched fist – but did you know that your clenched fist is also approximately the size of your kidney?

These bean-shaped organs are in charge of detoxifying our blood but being buried deep within us, it’s easy to take their well-being for granted.