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Children and young people need to be moderately active for one hour every day. Some types of moderate physical activity include brisk walking, games and active play, dance, cycling, swimming, skipping, climbing, gymnastics, and most sports.

Do you struggle for weeks to lose a few pounds, only to have the weight pile back on again once your diet ends? System 10, a new approach to weight loss, offers permanent results by speeding up the rate at which your body burns fat.

The Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service of HSE West is advising parents to encourage their children to make healthy lifestyle choices every day.

An inspiring new 12-week course in nutrition for everyday living, which will take place in Galway on Wednesday evenings from April 14, will demonstrate how good nutrition can prevent disease, make you feel energised, look younger, feel happier, and enjoy better health. You’ll learn vital practical tips along the way about cooking methods to preserve nutrients, improving your mood with food, feeding children, detoxification, and anti-ageing, as well as how to use food as medicine.

There are plenty of statistics available that prove child obesity in Ireland has reached epidemic levels. Current figures show that 300,000 children are overweight or obese in Ireland with the number set to grow by 10,000 every year. The Growing up in Ireland 2009 study found one in four nine-year-olds are overweight or obese. Obesity is preventable; the focus now needs to be on prevention and early intervention.

After the excesses of Christmas and the New Year many of us are waking up to the reality that it is time to embrace a healthier diet.

Castle Leisure Club is hosting a six-week camp commencing on Monday August 11, which aims to provide the necessary information and physical requirements essential for reducing your weight and making you feel great on your special day.

Convent Primary School in Moate launched their new Healthy School Policy recently, which they created as part of the HSE’s Schools’ ACE (Activity Confidence Eating) Project.

Keeping your children well when they go back to school is not always easy. Regardless of their age, they are going back into packed classrooms full of germs, and our changing Irish climate means immunity is often compromised. For parents, that means niggly colds, sore throats, tummy bugs, ear infections, and lots of other fun stuff!

A unique new weekend break-away (Get Yourself Together) which will help you focus on yourself has been launched at the Westport Woods Hotel. The break is an ideal way to refocus yourself in this fast-paced, hectic world where you may have forgotten to understand or look after yourself.