Everyone knows intuitively that stress is bad for your health. It is also true that stress does manifest in real physical symptoms and changes to your physiology. In clinic, I am regularly seeing manifestations of stress in teenagers, which can potentially, over time, lead to ill health. Dilated pupils Dilated […]
An eating disorder is a very serious health condition that affects your mind, body and emotions. They can begin as emotional issues that cause stress, reduced appetite and disordered patterns of eating, or as dieting where nutritional deficiencies start to affect memory, mental health and cause unhealthy behaviours like skipping […]
West Cork’s Kate Ryan has scooped the award for Food Writing at the second annual Irish Food Writing Awards. Over 75 award finalists attended from throughout the island of Ireland, competing for the 20 awards on offer covering Irish food and drink journalism, cookbooks, feature writing, blogging, podcasting, photography and […]
For years Kinsale residents have been complaining about really bad odours and noise coming from the town’s waste water treatment plant and the EPA have now backed up their complaints in a new report criticising the continuous and ongoing breaches at the plant. The EPA has questioned the capacity of […]