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Winter is here and it’s time to boost your immune system and ward of winter colds and flus…Read on to find hints on how to maximise your health with food…
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Aveen
November 1st, 2011
December 31st, 2008
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The Low FODMOP diet; treating irritable bowel syndrome successfully…
January 30th, 2012Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is experienced by approximately 30% of people at some point in their life. It accounts for up to 20% of all referrals to gastroenterologists. It is both a complex and multifaceted condition. Symptoms of IBS include abdominal pain and discomfort, constipation and/or diarrhoea, flatulence, urgency to defecate and a sense of [...]
No need for salt to make food taste better…just ask Orla…
January 17th, 2012We are regularly told that too much salt is bad for us and that we should try to cut down on it. Yet, many people keep their saltshaker beside the pepper grinder on their dining table! Why are people reluctant to let salt go? Well it may be because they do not understand why salt [...]
New Year…New you….check out Orla’s top tips
January 4th, 2012The most popular New Year’s resolutions include drinking less alcohol, getting fit and eating healthier food … Fortunately these three resolutions lead on to one of the most popular resolutions….losing weight. For this reason, let me explain how to make these into sensible goals…
Drink less alcohol
The government’s guidelines on sensible drinking advise no more than [...]
Its Movember, the month of the moustache… so here’s a few interesting mens health facts!
November 6th, 20111. Looking after your heart…Eat your greens.
There are many steps involved in keeping your heart health…one of them is to include something green in your diet daily. An emerging risk factor for developing heart disease is a high level of an amino acid in the blood called homocysteine. It can be caused by a genetic [...]
Are you running the marathon? look out for some healthy tips…
October 13th, 2010Good nutrition is essential for performance. The food you eat fuels exercise and getting the right balance can help give you the upper hand. Both athletes and non-athletes need the same nutrients…but they need to consume them in different quantities and proportions.
Carbohydrates are the sugars present in sugars, cereal grains, fruits and vegetables and they [...]
Balancing Dinners…
July 14th, 2010Dinner appears to one meal where many of our bad habits appear. Often we arrive home tired and can find the contents of our fridge less than inspiring…Increasingly people report that they might not eat until late and will have not eaten since lunchtime so by the time dinner arrives they are starving. This results [...]
Heart Healthy Tips…
May 10th, 2010It is estimated that half of the Irish male population are overweight in Ireland and less than half of Irish men partake in regular physical activity…The main risk factors for heart disease include lifestyle, diet, being overweight and inactive…Smoking is another serious heart disease contender along with high fat and high salt diets.
The first [...]
Tips on how to lower your blood pressure…
May 10th, 2010What is blood pressure?
Your heart is a muscular pump that pumps blood around the body. Everyone has blood pressure. The pressure is created by the hearts constant pumping blood around the body and the size of the blood vessels which the blood has to pass through. Exercise, excitement, anxiety, stress or anger will all make [...]
Surviving Christmas…
December 3rd, 2009Some research indicates that, on average, people gain 2 kg in the four-week Christmas period. That is equivalent to an intake of an extra 600 calories per day in food terms; a few drinks and canapés at a party, or of course the take-away on the way home after a night out, or a fried [...]