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1. Eat healthily. Try to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. When doing your grocery shop stock up on healthy snacks, such as rice cakes, celery, cucumber and low-fat cheese. Try to incorporate wholemeal foods, bread and pasta and low fat yoghurt into your diet, too. Avoid sugary and fried foods and salt as much as possible. Grill, bake, microwave but steer away from frying. Watch out for the hidden fats in creams and sauces as well.

Dietician Heather Miller, who holds clinics in Balla and Castlebar, offers some advice on diabetes.

Bio-energy is a powerful healing technique that is natural and highly effective. It is used to treat a large number of conditions, the most common being digestive disorders, arthritis, back pain, lack of energy, headaches, and stress/anxiety.

The Mayo Parents Support Group was formed by parents of children with diabetes in 2008. The group holds regular meetings in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar for parents to meet and discuss all matters of diabetes.

The Diabetes Service at Galway University Hospitals will mark World Diabetes Day on Sunday November 14 by raising awareness of its pre-pregnancy diabetes care programme.

World Menopause Day takes place this October 18 and a national campaign called Feeling Flush supported by Phyto Soya will highlight key issues for Irish women. The campaign features practical information and most importantly real Irish women's stories about the menopause.

324 hospital admissions for diabetic foot disease in the Kilkenny area have cost the HSE South €9.72 million.

Do you feel exhausted all the time, find it hard to lose weight, or even to keep warm during the good weather we are presently experiencing? The vast majority of people with underactive thyroids often accept these symptoms as normal, living with levels of fatigue that would be completely unreasonable to most - without realising it.

Recent statistics show that there has been a huge increase in stress-related illness as a result of the current economic climate. When stressed, our bodies become charged with adrenaline and our hearts beat faster; a build-up of stress causes a build-up of hormones which can affect our immune responses, hearts, and nerve tissues that result in our bodies not working to their full capacity causing obesity, as well as many other health ailments.

Recent statistics show that there has been a huge increase in stress-related illness as a result of the current economic climate. When stressed, our bodies become charged with adrenaline and our hearts beat faster; a build-up of stress causes a build-up of hormones which can affect our immune responses, hearts, and nerve tissues that result in our bodies not working to their full capacity causing obesity, as well as many other health ailments.