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Vhi Health Club March 27th 2007

In this edition, Dr Ria Lawlor tells presenter Aileen O Meara that both health and wealth are possible for the modern woman, Dermot Keogh speaks about his long battle with Oesophegeal Cancer and the road to recovery while our resident parenting expert John Sharry is back to answer the age old question - how do you get enough sleep with a new born in the house?

Vhi Health Club is available free every Tuesday on vhi.ie and podcastingireland.ie Remember to email us your views and your own health stories to healthclub@vhi.ie.

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(13 minutes 37secs)

Health & Wealth - How to have both

One woman who believes that health and wealth are both possible and that we are entitled to both is Dr Ria Lawlor. Here she talks about her workshops, 'Healthy, Wealthy & Wise' that she runs along with colleagues. They are designed to give women the tools to control the finances which Ria says will free up time in other areas of their lives and ultimately reset a balance in your life.

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(3 minutes 20 secs)

Oesophegeal Cancer - One Man's Story

Oesophegeal Cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in Ireland. Here Dermot Keogh speaks to Aileen O'Meara about his struggle with the cancer. Dermot says he experienced no symptoms and was a non smoker when he was diagnosed. He later underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy and dropped to just 6 and a half stone before his recovery.

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(4 minutes 42 secs)

Sleeping with a new-born in the house

New mother Patricia Courtney talks about her experiences after the birth of her son and our parenting expert John Sharry is back with us to talk about sleep or the lack of it with a new born baby. There are two main schools of thought in parenting about this and John says what suits your child will depend on your own preferences and the personality of the child. He maps out the expert thinking but his own advice is to try to have your child learn to fall asleep and take their naps during the day which will help then at night-time.  Ironically its being over-tired which can create most problems he says.

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(4 minutes 32 secs)

Vhi Health Club March 20th 2007

In this edition of Vhi Health Club, the online consumer health show, our fitness guru Philip Phelan is back to talk about exercising during pregnancy.  One school in Dublin launches a healthy eating campaign with the backing of Education Minister, Mary Hannafin, and presenter Aileen O Meara meets Penny Quinn who tells us about her son Sam who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome - a form of autism.

Vhi Health Club is available free every Tuesday on vhi.ie and podcastingireland.ie Remember to email us your views and your own health stories to healthclub@vhi.ie.

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(11 minutes 18secs)

Exercising while pregnant

Keeping fit and healthy is paramount during pregnancy. Our fitness coach Philip Phelan is back to talk us through the do's and don'ts of exercising while pregnant. Philip's top tip is to be fit and training before you become pregnant and to use exercises to strengthen your lower back, especially in the first and last trimesters. Of course the most important thing is not to overdo it and to tailor your exercise to your stage of pregnancy.

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(2 minutes 44 secs)

Mary Hannafin backs school's drive to stamp out obesity

With child obesity an ongoing social problem healthy school lunches can be the first step in the right direction. The Loreto school in Dalkey has implemented a healthy lunch policy where children should get one third of their daily nutrients in their school lunch. Aileen O Meara caught up with the Minister for Education Mary Hannafin, who was at the launch with dietician Caroline Hallory and hear how its all working. Some of the students also shared their thoughts on healthy eating.

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(3 minutes 15 secs)

Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Asperger's Syndrome is a form of autism where the child has difficulty communicating and socialising. Penny Quinn was devastated to hear the diagnosis that her son Sam was 'mildly handicapped'. She went in search of answers and Sam was three and a half years old when he was diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome after many psychological assessments. Penny says the road to get help was long and lined with waiting lists. Penny says that Sam, now 13, can do anything once he is taught how to do it and stresses the importance of building social skills for an autistic child.

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(4 minutes 16 secs)

Vhi Health Club March 13th 2007

Vhi Health Club is Ireland's online health show presented by Aileen O’Meara. In this edition Aileen talks to MEP Gay Mitchell about the importance of health checks, particularly for men who often neglect their own health, and he talks frankly about his family experiences with cancer. Our resident stress expert Karen Belshaw talks through the stress of relationships and we begin a new series ‘The Diary of an Expectant Mother’ with broadcaster Deirdre McCarthy, who is having her third child. We meet Deirdre in her seventh month  in the first of a series of interviews tracking the ups and downs of the final stages of her pregnancy. Vhi health Club is available free every Tuesday on vhi.ie and podcastingireland.ie.   Remember to email us your views and your own health stories to healthclub@vhi.ie. Listen to the complete show HERE or choose from the stories below...

(9 minutes 43secs)

MEP Gay Mitchell urges men to take their health seriously and get checked!

Cancer is a topic close to Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell’s heart having lost close family members to the disease. Recently he hosted a talk urging people, men in particular, to get health checks and for men to have regular prostate checks. Around five hundred men die in Ireland each year from prostate cancer. Many die because it is diagnosed too late – if it is caught early there is almost a one hundred percent survival rate. Listen as Gay talks about his own experiences as he shares his story in a very open interview with Aileen.

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(2 minutes 58 secs)