Nutritional Blog

Healthy Eating plans for the New Year? Small changes will lead to a healthier you. With Caroline Masters, Nutritionist Whelehans Pharmacy, Pearse Street, Mullingar   New Year is a time when we give a thought to our habits and lifestyle and perhaps decide a few changes would benefit our health and well-being.  All changes should be sustainable and the reason for change should be for you.  It is your health that should be your priority and we should all become more mindful of our food choices and feeding ourselves with what our bodies require not with what our head or...

Time to make changes in 2019?   We may have good intentions but most of us never actually act on them.  We usually plan that next Monday is going to be the start of a healthier eating and exercise regime but somehow it rarely happens! We find change hard and we can have bad habits which form part of our every day. Poor nutrition means that we are neglecting our health by having alcohol, fatty foods, sugary treats and processed foods in excess.  It may be time to look at our daily intake of food and be honest with our...

 As people grow older, bones and muscles change, resulting in decreased lean body tissue and bone density. This reduces basal metabolic rate therefore energy requirements fall and appetite may lessen.