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When you think of Traditional Chinese Medicine, what images float to mind? Silver needles puncturing your skin? Or herbal teas that look like the forest floor? How about building a beautiful singing voice? Or forging a mind-body-spirit connection so deep that your intuition knows how to guide you to health? Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has […]
Workshops are not all about paper and pens and powerpoint. At least not any that The Hopsack is getting involved with. We have over the years heard many a good thing about Keith Ashton (and an introductory interview is just around the corner!) over the past few years. His reputation as head of TCM (traditional […]
This is the ideal time of year to take stock and to plan. I don’t mean making New Year’s resolutions, which most of us abandon before the month is out. I mean putting in place some rough guidelines for the way you want to live your life over the next 12 months. For most of […]
Twinkling festive lights. I'm feeling compelled by forces beyond my control to mention the C-word. OK, OK! I give in! CHOCOLATE! There! I've said it. 'tis the season to eat choccie, tra la la la la la la la la. But where, pray, is the tall dark handsome man? Should he not ski through my […]
There’s something magical about searching for the plumpest, reddest raspberry in your garden, or boiling new potatoes you have dug from the soil and eating them slathered with butter. Yum! Even if you don’t have a garden, you can grow fruits, veggies and herbs beside a nice bright window, or on a balcony high above […]
Ode to Autumn by John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the mossed cottage trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the […]
Whey protein promoted on the radio today but Holford slammed for his anti-dairy stance…dairy industry stooge? http://tinyurl.com/yabjok6
Doesn't sound like the best motivational productivity pep talk you've ever heard does it? But that's what permaculture is all about – learning from nature how to economise our energy input into the world around us and get the best results. And by that we don't mean downing tools on the hour every hour for […]
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Recently, The Irish Times reported that nutritional rickets has once again been observed by dieticians in Irish maternity and paediatric hospitals after a long respite. Rickets is a deficiency disease that manifests in childhood if vitamin D is severely lacking. In the 1600s it was known as an illness that softened and deformed bones. In […]