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Our immune system is our body’s defence mechanism. When our health is threatened it works at full power to fight off any invaders, such as bacteria or viruses.

Dietitian Heather Miller who holds clinics in Balla, Castlebar, and Ballindine, this week talks about how to deal with allergies and intolerances.

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.

Christmas is around the corner. You are busy shopping and preparing for the festive season. It is chilly and damp outside and you cannot keep warm. Before long, you are sniffling and coughing and are battling with a cold.

Constipation is one of the worst metabolism disorders of all and kills weight loss. It is a serious breakdown of your digestive function. Causes can include: stress, poor thyroid function, imbalanced gut bacteria, low fibre, excess calcium, medications, food allergies and low stomach acid to name but a few.

The majority of people enjoy chocolate. Some will nibble, others will devour an entire bar. It may taste good, but what about its effect on your health?

Tiredness is one of the most common reasons for a visit to the doctor with one in 10 people suffering from it. Women are more likely to be affected than men, say experts, with up to 75 per cent believed to suffer from it at some time.

Holistic health refers to a philosophy of medical care that considers physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life as closely interrelated and equally important approaches to treatment. Holism, as a health concept, has existed for a very long time outside the academic circles, however it is only relatively recently that it has been integrated into the mainstream health care system.