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Primary school teachers from County Galway recently joined teaching colleagues from across the region for a Food Dudes Presentation Day at The Raheen Woods Hotel, Athenry. The event was held to celebrate the achievements of schools that have completed their four-year participation in the award-winning Food Dudes Programme.

A new five-year public health campaign to build a healthier food environment and protect children’s health has been launched today by the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Colm Burke, TD. The campaign from Safefood aims to raise awareness of the unhealthy food environment, how this is harmful to children’s health, and why it needs to change.

ALONE, the national organisation supporting older people to age at home, has called for action from the Department of Health on loneliness, as new data shows that Ireland is the loneliest country in Europe.

Primary school teachers from County Westmeath, recently joined teaching colleagues from across the region for a Food Dudes Presentation Day at the Sheraton Hotel, Athlone, to celebrate the achievements of 540 schools that have completed their three-year participation in the award-winning Food Dudes Programme.

Slimming World members in Galway are celebrating their fabulous weight losses by donating the clothes they have successfully slimmed out of to the Irish Cancer Society. They have so far donated more than 800 bags to raise vitally needed funds for the cancer charity.

Hello, Sarah here from Cleary’s Pharmacy, Galway city centre. There’s great awareness nowadays of the many benefits of a healthy gut such as effective digestion, a strong immune system, heart health, improved mood and lowering the chance of obesity.

Patients with severe and complicated obesity respond differently to a dietary weight loss programme based on their genes, according to a study by researchers at University of Galway and Brunel University London.

For more than one million people in Ireland who live with obesity, new treatment guidelines that redefine care have been launched with the support of doctors, patient groups and the HSE.

A slimmer who has improved her own health and mobility is using her success to shape a whole new career helping other people change their lives and achieve their weight loss dreams too.

Half of adults are unclear about whether nutrition makes a difference during cancer care and 60% don’t know that losing weight during treatment carries risk, including for patients who are overweight or obese.