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The new food clinic at Health and Herbs, Sea Road, was set up by Yvonne Duffy O’Shaughnessy, a raw food specialist, nutritionist, iridologist, and reflexologist, in order to offer people the opportunity to heal different medical conditions with different foods or diets. Basically this clinic is a natural, drug free approach to treating illness using food as medicine. Diet is a major factor when it comes to health and wellbeing and different foods can have helpful or harmful effects on different illnesses. Certain foods exacerbate or even trigger different conditions. The ability to identify the foods to include and exclude from your diet can have a profound effect on your health and overall wellbeing.

Juice therapy and raw food for weight loss is not only a delicious solution to assist you in your weight loss goals, it is also an incredible way to increase your stamina and vitality as well as fight disease and recover from illness faster as you cleanse your body, rebuild blood cells, increase your immunity, alkalise your system, reduce allergies, improve the cardiovascular system and heart health, and increase your over all wellbeing.

While Christmas is a wonderful time of year, those extra calories are going to add up! Did you know that the average Christmas dinner contains 3,500 calories? What’s more, while the waistline inevitably gets bigger, blood pressure and blood sugar also increase. It’s not just vanity we need to worry about but the state of our health.

The statistics do not lie. A sobering 51 per cent of Irish men and 32 per cent of Irish women are overweight. As a nation we are getting larger and enjoying a less than healthy relationship with food. The Christmas period of excess, however enjoyable, confounds the problem and really tips the scales in January. Did you know that for the average Christmas dinner, with all the trimmings, you will consume 3,500 calories?

Is your metabolism stopping your weight loss? Do you suffer from any of the following?

A new report published by the European Heart Network entitled'Diet, Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Europe gives a strong indication that the current dietary consumption and very low levels of physical activity cannot continue, as this is causing an increase in coronary heart disease and stroke across Europe.

The western branch of the Coeliac Society of Ireland will hold a festive Christmas lunch on Sunday December 12 in The Twelve Hotel, Barna (www.thetwelvehotel.ie).

Metabolism faults can severely limit or stop weight loss no matter how much dieting or exercise you do. To achieve real weight loss and to keep the weight off you need to address your metabolism weak spots.

Metabolism faults can severely limit or stop weight loss no matter how much dieting or exercise you do. To achieve real weight loss and to keep the weight off you need to address your metabolism weak spots.