Junk Foods Shrinks the Brain

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We all associate junk food with a swelling of our waistlines but new research suggests that it may also contribute to the shrinking of the brain associated with dementia’s like Alzheimer’s disease. The good news? A diet rich in vitamins and fish may well have the opposite affect and protect us from these increasingly common and devastating disorders. Continue reading…

50% of Medicines and antibiotics are mis sold

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The pharmaceutical industry has come increasingly under fire over the past couple of years with stories emerging of research cover-ups and safety concerns regarding some popular drugs. Now, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), it appears that over 50% of medicines prescribed, dispensed or sold worldwide are done so inappropriately. Continue reading…

Benefits of Turmeric in the treatment of Cancer

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It’s no longer a well kept secret that turmeric has some great health giving properties, with news of its powers leaking slowly into the press over a number of years now. However with number of high profile individuals, including Steve Jobs, sadly succumbing to cancer , the amazing research on turmeric’s cancer fighting properties has catapulted the results from over 200 published studies into the press; and boy are the results impressive. So much so that we are left asking…..is turmeric actually a life saver? Continue reading…

Ask a silly Question…..

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In a rather melodramatic editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine titled ‘Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements’, the authors claim that multivitamin supplements show no evidence of a beneficial effect on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, cancer, or cognitive performance (1). They also re-issued outdated studies that appear to demonstrate that beta-carotene, vitamin E, and possibly high doses of vitamin A supplements increase mortality.

It’s difficult to prove anything when asking such a silly question. Neither their Continue reading…

Why Christmas Dinner Isn’t Such a Guilty Pleasure. By Suzanne Laurie, IHS Director

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Parties, presents and plenty of food – overindulgence is part and parcel of the festive period. With this in mind many of us become even more obsessed than usual on how not to gain weight - but is Christmas the time to worry about this? And what if I told you that whilst many of the foods you will be eating over the festive season may be a little high on the calorie scale, many of them do contain plenty of nutrients? Perhaps you don’t need to feel so guilty after all! Continue reading…

IHS are now in Cork

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Owing to great demand, from September 2013, we will be running our IHS Certificate in Dietary Counselling and Diploma in Diet, Health and Wellness Coaching at Brú Columbanus in Cork. Please contact the office for further information on 076 603 0746 or info@instituteofhealthsciences.com