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Me and My Health: Citybeat DJ Robin Elliott
Citybeat DJ Robin Elliott (29) lives in Dunmurry with his partner Jude and
their 15-month-old baby girl, Cienna. Approaching the big 3-0 he has
embarked on a diet to improve his overall health and fitness
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Jan de Vries
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Jan answers your health-related questions
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How to be the perfect patient
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Who'd be a GP? Unfortunately, we family doctors have a bad reputation at the
moment. The Government doesn't like us because we got a massive pay rise and
now they're painting us as lazy fat cats whom patients can never get to see.
Meanwhile, we are as busy as ever.
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My mum won’t move on after dad’s death
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Dear Virginia,
How can I help my mother? My father died four years ago, and she refuses to
look for anyone new, saying no one can replace him. She’s only in her
fifties, but won’t consider training for a career. She has sold her flat and
now rents, has no pension, and I am desperately concerned about her future.
She seems happy enough, but does nothing all day. I’m 34, single and work as
a tour guide, and every time I leave the country I’m sick with worry.
Yours sincerely, Elsa
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Me and My Health: Jimeoin
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Comedian Jimeoin McKeown (42) is originally from Portstewart but now lives in
Melbourne, Australia, with wife Catherine and three children, Rose (7),
Mario (4) and Grace (1). He has just finished a series of gigs in Northern
Ireland
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LSD cured my headaches
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
This is the story of a man known online as Flash – a man driven to the brink
of suicide by the debilitating effects of cluster headaches. After years of
ineffectual treatments, Flash stumbled on what he declared was a new
treatment, as controversial as it was, he claimed, effective: hallucinogenic
drugs.
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Jan de Vries: Bowel inflammation
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
I was hoping you could help me with a problem that I have with bowel
inflammation. About two years ago I had some tests done and was told that it
was inflammation. I was given some dietary advice and medicines to take
which has helped, but I am still having a few problems with diarrhoea. Could
you give me any more information that may help me further?
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Belfast’s slimmer sheds half her body weight
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
A Belfast woman has managed to turn her life around by shedding an amazing 11
stone in just 18 months.
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Ten store cupboard secrets
Saturday, 13 September 2008
We may have upped our fruit and vegetable intake, but we’re still ignoring
many nutritious foods in our kitchens, writes Jane Feinmann
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Virginia Ironside: You have the power to help a loved one heal
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Dear Virginia
My wife suffers from a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder and our house
is filled with old newspapers, bags of shopping, old food cartons, boxes and
rubbish. I and my two teenage sons have had to move next door as there’s no
room to eat or sleep. The children are happy and balanced – there’s no lack
of love. A doctor has said that without help, which she refuses, she’ll
never get better. What can I do?
Yours sincerely, Rodney
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Sean McEvoy: Me and my health
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Belfast barista Sean McEvoy (38) was a late ‘convert’ to rugby, having only
joined the newly formed gay rugby team, the Ulster Titans, 18 months ago. He
lives in the city and manages Clements’ coffee shop in Stranmillis. Sean has
a partner
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Jan De Vries answers your questions
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Some months ago I developed an allergy affecting my fingers. It is itchy
and red in between my fingers and affects my left hand more than my right. I
also have a patch on the palm of my hand. I got some Betnovate but it didn’t
really cure it and I don’t want to use cortisone cream if I can help it. I
wonder if there are any suggestions you could make?
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Battling through pains of PMT
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
It’s Pre-Menstrual Tension Awareness Week which aims to enlighten and debunk
the myths surrounding the condition that affects up to 60% of Northern Irish
women. Jane Hardy talks to three of them
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The Ulster Titans, Northern Ireland’s first gay friendly rugby team
Thursday, 4 September 2008
On a waste ground off the Ormeau Road in Belfast, a rugby team trains on earth
ground in the biting Northern Irish winter. Every so often they have to stop
their passing plays while one of them goes to the petrol station to buy more
diesel for the generator powering the halogen lights.
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Me & my health: Lucy Evangelista
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Former Miss UK Lucy Evangelista (22) is a bit of a sleepyhead and loves
nothing more than staying in bed until lunch time. She got engaged to
boyfriend Matt in June and they live in east Belfast
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Cervical cancer survivors speak out
Friday, 29 August 2008
It’s the sixth most common female cancer and 70 new cases are discovered each
year in Northern Ireland, some in younger women like Jade Goody. But two
local survivors tell Jane Hardy there is life after diagnosis
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Me and my health: Frank Mitchell
Thursday, 28 August 2008
The UTV Life presenter (43) has been a strict vegetarian since he watched a
behind-the-scenes documentary on beef burgers that put him off meat for
life. He lives in Belfast with his wife Helena and only child, daughter
Laura (17).
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Jan de Vries: Bronchitis and puffy eyes
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Jan answers your questions
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'Why I'll never eat a fry-up again'
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Many of life's most profound, unforgettable experiences occur in the stark,
antiseptic confines of a hospital. Holding my tiny, wrinkled, newborn son in
my arms; the two long weeks he spent in a special care unit, lost in a
tangle of tubes; the last words my father said to me before he died.
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Me and my health: Frances Black
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Folk singer turned addict counsellor Frances Black can't start the day without
a cup of tea. The reformed alcoholic lives in inner city Dublin with her
husband and manager, Brian Allen. She has a grown-up son and daughter
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