It is estimated that there are 100,000 people living in Ireland with Coeliac disease. Living with coeliac disease requires more than just avoiding gluten-containing foods - it necessitates a fundamental shift in one's approach to nutrition.
One often overlooked secret to success in the workplace is nutrition. The food we consume plays a crucial role in our energy levels, focus, and overall wellbeing, making it a cornerstone of workplace productivity and satisfaction.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a medical term used to describe a collection of gut symptoms. Symptoms can vary in severity from one person to another, and it may be constipation or diarrhoea dominant, or a combination of both.
Losing weight does not have to involve an extreme overhaul of every element of your current lifestyle. In fact, making gradual and manageable changes has been found to be much more effective for sustaining weight loss in the long run. Try out these five easy swaps to get you started on your weight loss journey!
For optimal health, you should aim to drink 8 to 10 glasses of water per day (around 1.5 to 2 litres), however sometimes it can be tricky to hit this goal. Our Dietitian Hollie Corrigan is here to provide some helpful tips for how to boost hydration and get an optimal level of water intake day to day.
A letter to the editor of the Irish Examiner newspaper was published recently about the importance of building healthy habits for our children and their future. Our head dietitian, Michelle Loughlin, has written a response to it by highlighting the importance of the issue and how best to tackle it.
Life is busy and finding time to eat a nutritionally balanced diet can be a struggle. We live in a culture of convenience foods which may not always be packed with the essential nutrients that your body requires; especially if you are active regularly. Couple that with conflicting and confusing sports nutrition available and it can be an absolute mission trying to figure out what to eat and when. If you train a lot or partake in competitive sports, then having a basic understanding of eating to fuel your activity is essential.
Today our head dietitian, Michelle, wants to highlight some key nutrients that are worth prioritising in your diet if you take part in regular activity and where to find them.
Anyone who remembers the 90s can tell you how much Ireland has changed over the past 30 years. But while you may hear plenty of comments about the influence of the Catholic Church, or how all those houses used to be fields, there is one area people will usually overlook: dental health. It may not be obvious, but the state of dental health in Ireland has improved dramatically since 1990. This is thanks in part to significant investment in the sector, but the impact of lifestyle changes shouldn’t be ignored.
As May is Arthritis Awareness month, we at Spectrum Nutrition aim to spread awareness on the diseases that may affect the overall health of many people within the Irish population.
If you have been suffering with severe and prolonged joint pain, you may be at risk for having gout. Almost 1 in every 20 people in Ireland suffer from gout; this means that there are over 140,000 people who face this form of chronic joint pain. This whopping number constitutes for around 4% of the population and it seems that the number of people with this condition has been increasing at an alarming rate.
If you have ever closely examined a bone, you may remember that it appeared to have lots of tiny holes, similar to a sponge or a honeycomb. The presence of these holes means bones are much more lightweight than if they were completely solid, but the size and spread of the holes means the bone is still incredibly strong and durable. Osteoporosis, which literally means “porous bone”, is a condition where these holes are much larger than they should be, either because the bone has lost density, or never produced it in the first place.
Eating is one of the few things in the world we can safely safe everyone does, so it is no surprise that it has been dissected in so many different ways. What we eat is one of the most influential factors in determining our lifelong health, a fact that can be scaled up to show different trends across nations and particular demographics.
At their most fundamental level, taxes are intended to raise money and cut costs for the government by changing consumer behaviour. Activities that the government wants to discourage, such as drinking and smoking, are taxed heavily, while activities that they want to encourage, such as buying from within your own country or driving an electric car, are taxed at a reduced rate, or given exemptions.
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in Ireland, responsible for roughly one-third of all deaths, and one-fifth of all premature deaths. In real terms, this means that about 10,000 people a year in Ireland die of heart disease.
