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Healthy Eating at Christmas

Our resident food expert, Nuala Collins, is back with me in studio today to tell us how we can eat healthy at Christmas and still enjoy ourselves also.

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(4 mins 19 sec)

Vhi Health Club Dec 18th

Hello and welcome to Vhi Health Club - Ireland's online health show presented by Aileen O Meara. In this edition, Dublin Researcher on the search for a vaccine for the latest hospital super bug. It’s a time of giving, the Blood Transfusion Service wants us to donate some blood and food expert, Nuala Collins, is back to give practical advice for healthy eating at Christmas.

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(12 mins 11 sec)

New Hospital Bug

The new hospital bug that has hit Irish hospitals, Clostridium Difficile, or C dif, is much more dangerous than MRSA. I'm joined by one of the scientists working hard to find a cure, Dr. Christine Loscher from the School of Biotechnology in DCU, who explains the challenges researchers are facing.

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(3 mins 41 sec)

Blood Transfusion Service

The Hospital service needs 3,000 donations of blood a week, especially at holiday times like Christmas. Kieran Healy of the Irish Blood Transfusion Services joins me and tells us why it is vital that regular donors come forward to give blood.

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(3 mins 24 sec)

Vhi Health Club Dec 11th

Hello and welcome to Vhi Health Club - Ireland's online health show presented by Aileen O Meara. In this edition I hear from Marie Lawlor at St James Hospital Dublin about new ways of helping people survive with chronic respiratory disease and our fitness and health expert Philip Phelan is back to guide us through the water and a range of new exercises to see us through the dark days of winter when being outside can be a bit challenging! Join us in our next edition, our year end edition, when we'll be looking at healthy ways to survive Christmas.

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(5 mins 53 sec)

Chronic Respiratory Disease

St. James' Hospital in Dublin has launched a special DVD to help patients of COPD or Chronic Respiratory Disease to manage their symptoms. Marie Lawlor is a respiratory nurse at the hospital and she tells me how it works.

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(2 mins 54 sec)

Exercise in the Water

Our resident fitness expert, Philip Phelan, is back to talk about exercise, this time in the water. Philip explains how this low impact form of exercise can offer a relaxing and enjoyable work-out.

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(2 mins 18 sec)