As those of you who read The West Cork People will know I am back on track with daily juicing at the moment and loving it. I don't really follow recipes as such, which sometimes backfires - I'm not sure this mornings concoction of cabbage, celery, kale, apple, pear, green beans, mange tout, green grapes and lime was all that...

What an amazing summer we are having! At the time I am writing this we are looking at another lovely week of sunshine. Such a treat. It is important though that we remember to look after our skin this summer - during hot weather like this our skin can easily be neglected. Here are a few tips for easy natural...

Fresh sprouts are some of the most nutritious, tastiest and cheapest foods on the planet. They contain vitamins, minerals, protein, enzymes...and all in an incredibly easy to digest form. In fact, because of all the enzymes, eating sprouts is actually beneficial to our digestion. And amazingly, they grow without any soil, fertiliser or even sunlight - just a jar or...

When I was a child, my parents always drank coffee on Sundays. They would make it almost ceremoniously, take it to the conservatory, and sit and enjoy it while reading the Sunday papers. This wasn’t a grab it and go take away as you raced around the supermarket. This was an enjoyable break from the routine of housework and farm-work...

1. They put WHAT in the dough? Sometimes we are, quite literally, what we eat! Human hair has been on our menus for quite some time although few of us knew it and we certainly won't see it listed on ingredients labels. In organico, we recently received an organic pastry product and were intrigued to read on the label ‘Does...

Modern living can easily burden our whole system. We eat unhealthy foods, we drink unhealthy drinks and we don’t give our bodies a chance to recover and flush out the toxins we ingest. Traditionally many cultures had fasts built into the year, like Lent or Ramadan. Unfortunately the tradition of fasting has waned in Ireland and this means that our...

Where I live we are lucky to have our own supply of water that comes from a mountain spring. We have a wealth of water in ireland, and we often forget just how lucky we are. However questions on the topic of the mandatory fluoridation of our public water supply have raised a spectre of suspicion and fear over the...

I love water. It is my favorite drink. It’s my 3 year old daughters favorite drink. As we all know, drinking water is good for our health – isn't it? But what if the water we are drinking contains a chemical is actually damaging our health and contributing to our excessively high rates of certain cancers, of neurological diseases, of...

Have you ever eaten fresh turmeric? (Or tumeric even) It’s fantastic in curries of course, but some people make a tea (a bit like ginger root tea) from fresh turmeric root (it even looks a lot like ginger) to ease aches and pains. Turmeric has fantastic anti-inflammatory properties, and in Chinese and Indian herbal medicines it has been used to...

Sometimes I find that I get so caught up with new health products that I forget some of the most tried and tested ones. L-Glutamine is a really interesting supplement. It isn’t new (although there is a new digestive tablet called GI Naturals containing Glutamine that I will discuss further at the end). It can be helpful for a variety...