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Vhi Health Club April 24th 2007

Vhi Health Club is a weekly online consumer health show. In this edition Aileen O Meara talks to Bob Illback from Headstrong about youth mental health issues in Ireland, Two champion sportswomen tell us why rowing is a great sport to keep fit and our resident dietician Nuala Collins tackles the issue of food supplements, can fish oil supplements really increase a child’s IQ?

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 42secs)

Headstrong – A Youth Mental Health Organisation

Headstrong is an organization set up to tackle issues around Youth mental health. Bob Illback from Headstrong moved to Ireland from the US, wanting to make a difference. Here he tells Aileen O Meara how pilot youth projects like ‘The Gaf’ in Galway are great starting blocks while we need for resources for our young people. Bob suggests possible reasons for stress among young people such as the rate of change in Ireland and the transition from childhood to adulthood. More information on Headstrong can be found on www.headstrong.ie

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(4 minutes 55 secs)

Rowing – Great exercise to burn calories!

Sinead Jennings and Niamh Ni Cheilleachair are two of Ireland’s top rowers and have won World Cup medals in 2006. Both girls have a passion for the sport but also see the amazing benefits. Sinead tells us how she took up rowing as a hobby and to make friends and now burns up to 3000 calories a day!

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(2 minutes 55 secs)

Food Supplements

Food supplements are all over the supermarket shelves, but which ones are best? Dietician Nuala Collins tells us that FOOD is best. We should all aim to get ours and our children’s allowances of nutrition from food first before resorting to taking supplements! While Nuala disparages the suggestion that Fish Oil supplements increase a child’s IQ, they are good for the heart and so she suggests that homemade salmon nuggets are a great way to get your kids to eat healthy oily fish!

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(3 minutes 04 secs)

Vhi Health Club April 17th 2007

In this edition of the online consumer health show Vhi Health Club, we find out about a new guide to independent living for those living with disabilities, Dublin Band Warm Wax tell us about their health struggles and our resident stress expert Karen Belshaw is back with us talking about how change can cause stress in our lives. 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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(10 minutes 59secs)

A new guide to Independent living for the disabled

About one in twelve Irish people are living with some form of disability. Michael Ryan, along with the centre for independent living has produced a new guide to independent living for those with disabilities. The guide was produced with the help of people with disabilities in line with the CIL motto ‘Nothing about us without us’ and is aimed at those leaving care and moving to be independent for the first time. http://www.dublincil.org/

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(3 minutes 49 secs)

Dublin Band work through disability

Making it in the music industry is always going to be a struggle but for one Dublin Band, Warm Wax, there are some added pressures. Guitarist Lar Meade suffers from epilepsy, Bassist Mark Mocklar comes from a deaf and partially blind home and Singer / songwriter Michael Meade suffers from dyslexia.  Listen to their story.

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(2 minutes 17 secs)

The Stress of Change

Dealing with change in our lives can be stressful, especially as we get older. Stress expert Karen Belshaw explains that we go through three stages when coping with change before accepting the change and that there are three types of person that each deal with change in very different ways. Karen also gives her top tips on how to reduce the stress of change!

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(4 minutes 09 secs)

Vhi Health Club April 10th 2007

In this edition of Vhi health Club, TD Conor Lenihan tells presenter Aileen O Meara about his recent health scare and how a TV appearance could have saved his life, Dietician Nuala Collins gives her tips on eating for a healthy heart and midwife Georgina Farren talks through the devastating time of a miscarriage. 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 20secs)

Eating for a Healthy Heart

Dietician Nuala Collins is back with us to talk about Trans Fatty Acids. In the US there is a recommended daily intake of these acids as they can have an adverse affect on your ‘good’ cholesterol levels while increasing your ‘bad’ cholesterol levels. Nuala’s advice to eat for a healthy heart is to cut down or avoid trans fatty acids which are found in margarines and confectionary and to pay attention to the ingredients listing on your food!

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(2 minutes 58 secs)