Health is our greatest wealth
Lucy Hyland combines her unique knowledge of health and nutrition to offer practical food advice to individuals and companies through her Food for Living business.
A qualified nutritional therapist and chef based in Cork, Lucy focuses on each client’s needs during in-depth clinical or Skype consultations before creating meal plans based on each set of requirements.
Looking for a balanced weight loss plan? Do you need to avoid gluten, lower your cholesterol or do you suffer from symptoms like chronic fatigue or indigestion? Lucy can help.
Are you a food producer or business owner in need of a food consultant? Lucy can create exclusive health messages for your brand and develop health-based recipes and menus for your outlet.
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Client Testimonial
“Working with Lucy was not a regimented diet plan, it was about becoming aware of how foods affect our body and being held accountable for what I eat. I would highly recommend Lucy to anyone who wishes to get healthier through better eating.”
Benjamin, Cork
"URRU was looking for a good communicator with a passion for food and a knowledge of nutrition and who could translate nutritional informational into meaningful, appealing messages for our shoppers. We found the perfect match with Lucy"
Ruth Healy, URRU Culinary Store
A positive healthy mental attitude
Tuesday 26th October
Just found this and thought you might find it interesting. I’m always trying to re-enforce the importance of positive mental attitude and social support in my nutrition clinic:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/205662.php
Many studies have documented the dangers of the traditional negative physical risk factors on health – excessive smoking, drinking and being overweight. But far less research has focused on less-tangible, positive influences — the protective role of psychological and social supports.
New research by Margie E. Lachman Ph.D. and Stefan Agrigoroaei Ph.D. of the Brandeis Psychology Department explores the psychological roots of health. Lachman is Director of the Lifespan Developmental Psychological Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, and Agrigoroaei is a postdoctoral researcher at the lab.
What Lachman and Agrigoroaei found in The Midlife in the U.S. (MIDUS) study, involving 3,626 adults aged 32 to 84 who were assessed over two periods about 10 years apart, was that with proper protective elements in place, declines in health could be delayed by up to a decade. Their findings indicate that specific psychological, social, and physical protective factors are associated with better health in later life.
The research identified physical exercise, social support and control beliefs, individually and in combination, as significant predictors of change in functional health, above and beyond the negative effects of the traditional risk factors.
“Control beliefs” refer to a person’s sense of how much they can influence important life outcomes. Those who have a greater sense of control are more likely to engage in health-promoting behaviors, such as getting exercise and eating right. Suppotive social relationships can promote health by reducing stress and encouraging healthy behaviors.
The research is reported in an article “Promoting Functional Health in Midlife and Old Age: Long-Term Protective Effects of Control Beliefs, Social Support, and Physical Exercise,” just published in PlosOne.
The researchers note that the results are encouraging for the prospect of developing interventions to promote functional health, and for reducing public health costs for disabilities later in life.
This research was supported by The National Institute on Aging.
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