Transform stress with the science of the heart
Most of us realise that stress is not good for us, but often it just seems like such a normal...
March 10, 2011
The Happiness Herb: Feel Good Factor Tip Ten
This week is the beginning of the Feel Good Factor tour in the UK and Ireland and we mark it...
March 8, 2011
Accept and Move Through Your Moods to Greater Happiness: Feel Good Factor Tip Nine
The experience of life means that we inevitably accumulate emotional tension and unresolved memories from the past. The more disturbing...
March 1, 2011
Could B Vitamins Make You Happier?
Do you know your Bs? You’ll probably have heard of folic acid, an important member of the B vitamin family,...
February 16, 2011
Why folic acid may prevent a first, but not second heart attack
Homocysteine predicts heart attacks but trials with homocysteine lowering B vitamins such as folic acid, given to those with cardiovascular...
February 3, 2011
Feel Good Factor goes to Number One
The Feel Good Factor is going to be Number One in the Irish Times Best Seller list this weekend. If...
February 1, 2011
The protein that can lift your mood
Feeling sad, depressed or low in motivation can often be caused by not having enough feel-good chemicals in your brain....
January 31, 2011
Sleeping pill prescriptions all-time high
HSE figures show a big increase in sleeping pill prescriptions, just behind cholesterol lowering and diabetes drugs. But there are...
January 27, 2011
Cheer yourself up on ‘Blue Monday’
‘Blue Monday’ – supposedly the most depressing day of the year is today, so we wanted to give you some...
January 24, 2011
January blues? Check your mood with our feelgood questionnaire
Finding January a bit of a downer? Then fill out our questionnaire and see if you could benefit from a...
January 11, 2011
The Feel Good Factor
The Mail on Sunday's YOU mag explains my top ten mood boosting secrets from the new book The Feel Good...
December 26, 2010
How to fill yourself up this Christmas and never gain a pound
The festive season requires some guerilla tactics if you don’t want to arrive at New Year wearing what you ate...
December 22, 2010
Cholesterol good for the brain
Having a high level of HDL cholesterol is associated with reducing your risk for Alzheimer’s. It also lowers your risk...
December 14, 2010
Biggest ever diet study proves my low GL diet works best
Europe’s biggest ever diet trial, published today, involving 722 families, costing 14.5 million euros, set out to discover the winning...
November 24, 2010
Say no to psoriasis
Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory skin condition that affects around 1 in 40 people, making it the most common skin...
November 24, 2010
Are supplements under EU threat?
In the past few weeks I’ve received a lot of emails from people who have been told that just about...
November 22, 2010
Don’t tax fat, tax sugar
Last week’s Panorama programme called Tax the Fat explored whether we should be taxing high fat foods to help deal...
November 19, 2010
Natural ways to kill a cold
Before you reach for the Lemsip there are natural, and more effective ways to beat a cold, or, at least...
November 17, 2010
Vitamin E – good or bad for strokes?
A recent analysis in the British Medical Journal suggests that vitamin E reduces the common kind of 'ischaemic' stroke but...
November 10, 2010
How to prevent, and reverse, failing eyesight.
If you are concerned about your failing eyesight, perhaps due to long sightedness, macular degeneration, glaucoma or cataracts read this...
November 3, 2010