I’ve Got a Cold, I’m Boiling Hot, Nothing Makes Sense So here’s the “boiling hot take” (for all you Blind Boy fans in the audience) on our coughs and colds winter pandemic… If you’re sniffling right now, chances are it’s not because some bacteria or virus is actually in your body wreaking havoc, it’s […]
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A few months ago I was in a rut. Every Sunday, Iâd read (or doze) the morning away, get up at lunchtime, walk to Dun Laoghaire market, eat Lebanese falafel, buy artichokes, cheese, raw chocolate, fruit and veg, browse the bookshops, buy dinner, cook it, watch TV and go to bed. A nice leisurely Sunday? […]
Dr Robert Verkerk and Senator Dierdre de Burca both gave cause for concern and fuel for the fight in relation to this looming EU food supplement regulation at the recent meeting in the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire. In a broad ranging presentation to a group consisting mainly of members of the public and […]
More than 5000 years ago, while we were busy making healing poultices from cow dung and arsenic (please allow for a touch of artistic licence hereâ¦), Chinaâs practitioners of traditional medicine were mapping out the energy pathways flowing through our organs, a network still known as the meridian system. Certain points along the pathways are […]
The 21st Century Health Show In Ireland a new generation has emerged. Fast-moving, fun-loving, questioning, time-strapped, Europeâs brightest consumers â and sometimes a little stressed. And a generation more health-conscious than ever before. Juice bars, spas, gyms, activity holidays – all part of 21st century living. A generation more than 50% of whom regularly use […]
Hydrargyrum (Hg), more commonly known as quicksilver or mercury, is one of the most toxic elements on earth. Exquisite to behold when flowing around Alexander Calderâs Mercury Fountain in Barcelona, itâs not quite so beautiful when residing two inches from your brain. The phrase âmad as a hatterâ directly describes the mercury-induced psychological and neurological […]
It is deep blue-green. When I mix it with water it looks freakishly like my old school skirt. Did our uniform suppliers use spirulina to dye the cloth? The smell is sock-ish and soupy, the texture muddy. Itâs like eating Plasticine. Or Pleistocene. But the buzz is worth it (so Iâm told!) and its amino […]
Well if you ever needed a food guide to get you through lean times with wholefoods made both filling and fulfilling then check out Cecelia’s Irish Eating Plan. With a lifetime of experience in turning ill health to rude health using macrobiotic eating principles, Cecelia’s plan is a solid starter for anyone lost in a […]
Sick of pasta dishes? Stuck in a rice rut? Well then get thee to our latest piece of health advice – the very sagely Hopsack Guide to Cooking Grains. This little guide should see you gain confidence in the cooking of a whole host of grains – from buckwheat to bulghar. E-mail us your results!