Health & Lifestyle - West Cork People

Safefood issues advice for food shopping and storage during ongoing Covid-19 restrictions

WCP Staff April, 2020

Shopper spend is up 27 per cent as households make bigger shopping trips As public health measures to deal with COVID-19 continue, safefood is reminding people of the steps they can take to protect themselves when food shopping and storing food at home. Retail data published last week by Kantar revealed that […]

Vitamin C for brighter glowing skin

Sherna Malone April, 2020

When it comes to vitamin C, more often than not we tend to associate it with boosting our immune system and helping fend off colds and flu but if you didn’t know already, it also works wonders for our skin. Loved by pretty much every skincare expert, it’s renowned for […]

A simple wonder food

WCP Staff April, 2020

Dr. Rosari Kingston PhD, M.Sc (Herbal medicine) is a medical herbalist practising in Dr. O’Reilly’s integrative clinical practice in Clonakilty, Co. Cork as well as Church Cross, Skibbereen. She considers the integration of herbal medicine with biomedicine to be the future of health care, if the great traditional medical systems, […]

Cook-in with Mark Moriarty

WCP Staff April, 2020

With many of us at home now looking for meal inspiration, a brand new eight-part series on RTÉ One Cook-in, with award-winning chef Mark Moriarty and Bord Bia, aims to give us home chefs a survival guide of easy-to follow, uplifting recipes for nutritious meals made from the humble contents […]

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Has Covid-19 changed the way you shop and cook?

WCP Staff April, 2020

Flour is up there with toilet roll as a commodity that is in high demand at the moment. Retailers are working closely with suppliers to keep stocks of baking ingredients on shelves as a result of the dramatic rise in the number of people who are baking in response to […]

Nutrition screening to be introduced for all patients admitted to hospital

WCP Staff April, 2020

30,000 bed days and €24m can be saved per year – as experts welcome new National Clinical Guideline Screening and increased treatment to prevent malnutrition is planned for all patients admitted to Irish hospitals, as part of a new National Clinical Guideline on patient nutrition released this week. The key protocol is the […]

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