SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE:MEP Cathy Sinnott, a nutritional therapist, and Erica Murray, health store owner, are among those who will speak at a public meeting on the EU Food Supplements Directive (2002) in the Mont Clare Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin on Wednesday, September 14th at 7pm. The meeting aims to highlight possible withdrawal of high dosage vitamin and mineral supplements from Irish health stores following full implementation of the directive.
HEALING WORKSHOP:Healing your body by facing your emotions and making peace with your past is the controversial approach taken by American mind/body healer, Brandon Bays. Bays wrote a book called The Journey, following her own experience of getting rid of a uterine tumour in six weeks using mind/body healing without drugs or surgery. Over the past 10 years, she has been leading workshops on her techniques and will lead one in the Clarion Hotel, Dublin Airport, Dublin on Saturday and Sunday. Cost: €345. Tel: 0044-1656 890400 for more details. See www.thejourney.com
ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS MEETINGS:New developments in the treatment and management of the painful rheumatic disease, Ankylosing Spondylitis, will be discussed at public information meetings organised by the Ankylosing Spondylitis Association of Ireland in the following weeks. Consultant rheumatologists will address meetings at the Plaza Hotel, Tallaght, Dublin on Wednesday, September 12th at 7.30pm; in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork city on Wednesday, September 19th at 7.30pm; and in the Galway Bay Hotel, Galway city on Wednesday, September 26th at 7.30pm. Admission is free. Tel: 01-7038618 for more details.
MIGRAINE SEMINARS:Seminars on migraines will be held in the Greville Arms Hotel, Mullingar, Co Westmeath on September 9th at 2pm and in the Auburn Lodge Hotel, Ennis, Co Clare on September 15th at 3pm. Organised by the Migraine Association of Ireland, the seminars will discuss various approaches to managing migraines. September 12th has been designated Migraine Day of Action. Tel: 1850-200378 or see www.migraine.ie for more details.