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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)

Healthy Breakfasts

Dietician Nuala Collins is back with me in studio to share her tips on how to get your child to eat a healthy breakfast. Nuala breaks the endless list of breakfast cereals down for us into three main categories and tells us what we should be looking out for.

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(3 mins 24 sec)

The Dangers of Our Excess Salt Use

We are joined by dietician, Nuala Collins, who warns us to go easy on the salt cellar and reveals everyday foods with unexpectedly high salt content. We find out the breakfast which can contain 50% of children's maximum salt intake for the day and reveal some hidden truths about our diets.

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(4 mins 14 sec)

Nutritious School Lunches

We are joined by dietician, Nuala Collins, who gives practical advice to parents and guardians on how to make children's lunches that they will eat, but that are nutritious and filling at the same time. She explains to us why the beginning of the year is always easier as there is an excitement about going back, and how to prevent the boredom of sandwiches setting in.

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(3 mins 25 sec)

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)

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)

Get Fit and Lose Weight – Week 7

We are in to the last phase of our Get fit and lose Weight in two months programme with two weeks remaining We’re in week seven and resident dietician Nuala Collins is back with the encouraging news that our results should be showing and that our new eating habits are lifestyle changes for the long-term. Nuala gives simple and easy to follow tips on how to fit in the recommended five portions of fruit and veg a day and encourages us to give up alcohol for just one week in order to really make sure we reach our goals. In amazing she says what cutting out beer, wine and spirits, even for a week, can do.  Make a diary, she says, of your daily diet before and after and really see what a difference regular meals, eating breakfast and avoiding snacks and fast food can make, not just to out waist but our overall health and well-being.

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(4 minutes 55 secs)

Get Fit and Lose Weight – Week 6

Fitness expert Philip Phelan helps us through the last few weeks of our eight week plan.  He says we should now be feeling the positive impact of our work so far and now is the time to determine the key areas we need to change and to re-assess our fitness plan. The most important part at this stage is to stay on track and to remember that if you miss a few dates at the gym to continue with the programme after the break. Also, compare your results now to when you started, this will be great motivation!  Tune in to hear Philips advice and also to hear the story of Deborah Lawlor who joined a gym four years ago and hasn’t looked back since.

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(4 minutes 31 secs)

Get fit and lose weight in the new year Week 5

It's week five of our new year Get Fit and Lose Weight programme and out Diet and Nutrition expert Nuala Collins is back with us. Over the past number of weeks Nuala has looked at breakfast and dinner and now it’s the turn of lunch to take a healthy twist. Nuala suggests to take your lunch with you to work so you know for sure you’re sandwich doesn’t have a spread or mayonnaise, saving you 200 calories! Her top tip for lunch is a rice or noodle salad with far less calories than the average sandwich. Nuala also stresses that we are half way through and it’s time to congratulate ourselves and to have a small treat – but not a food treat! Tune in for more of Nuala’s advice.

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(4 minutes 17 secs)

Get Fit and Lose Weight – Part 3

Its week three of our ‘Get Fit and Lose Weight in two months’ programme and dietician Nuala Collins is back with the next phase of our food and diet advice. Nuala says mix good eating habits with more exercise and says the simple route is to get more walking into your day – leave the car at home. She says to start walking thirty minutes a day and to add on small changes to your new diet - particularly at breakfast time: ‘If you have a breakfast, you’re less likely to snack mid morning on high calorie foods and you don’t end up ravenous’, Nuala explains. So by leaving the breakfast roll in the garage forecourt shop and switching to porridge or toast we can save 900 calories! Email us with your progress through the series on healthclub@vhi.ie

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(5 minutes 17 secs)

Check out Nuala's steps to losing weight.