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Dietitian Heather Miller, who holds clinics in Balla, Castlebar and Ballindine this week talks about Omega 3.

Dietitian Heather Miller, who holds clinics in Balla, Castlebar and Claremorris, this week talks about blood pressure.

THE NEXT North Beach Poetry Nights Slam takes place this Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, and the guest poet will be Dave Lordan.

Safefood advises that pregnant women do not need to go on a special diet, but should follow basic healthy eating guidelines to get the right balance of nutrients for mother and baby.

Hardiman tells us, “There was from time immemorial a gap in the river called the Main Gap, through which small boats, sometimes with difficulty, passed up and down the river from the lake to the sea. This particular gap was always kept open from February to August, when all others were shut. The proprietors of the fishery, finding that it diminished the value of the weirs, caused it to be closed. This became the subject of legal contention, but it was finally decided that the gap should be, and it has ever since accordingly been, kept open.”

It is suggested that people should have at least two portions of fish per week, one of which should be oily. So why fish? Oily fish contains omega-3 fatty acids, a type of polyunsaturated fatty acid considered an essential fatty acid.

A Kilkenny trout farm has been shortlisted for a rural innovation award. The JFC Innovation Awards recognise innovation and efforts to secure a sustainable future for our families and the wider rural community.

The chairmen of the Western and North Western Regional Fisheries Boards have made a joint plea to Minister Eamon Ryan and Minister of State Sean Power to retain the two fisheries regions and their head offices in Galway and Ballina, when the fisheries boards are abolished and a new Inland Fisheries Authority is created later this year. Under Government proposals, the two regions are to be amalgamated.

Did you know that about 75 per cent of brain cells are in place before birth and the other 25 per cent are in place by the age of one year? That a newborn baby’s brain grows to almost three times its size at birth and that 60 per cent of the fats in the brain are Omega 3 with DHA – the important one for brain development?

The Galway City Museum will host a Japanese weekend tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday, when the Museum Café teams up with the Japanese Wa Café for food, thought, and origami.