Donal O Shea

Can two tablespoons of butter added to your morning coffee really help you lose weight and gain a mental edge? It sounds utterly revolting, highly imp(...)

The obesity problem among young people is so bad that the present generation of parents may be the “first to bury our children”, Department of Health (...)

‘They have delivered a death sentence to my patients. They are playing with people’s lives.” It’s not often you will hear a hospital consultant utter (...)

MARIE O’HALLORAN The battleground for obesity has moved to the playground and industry is the predator, a medical specialist on(...)

It is a shocking admission: we stand to be the first generation who will bury our children. Many members of Irish families will die prematurely due to(...)

Scientists have found a link in children as young as six years of age between childhood obesity and the later development of type 2 diabetes, cancer a(...)

Parents have been warned that many fruit drinks are not a “healthy alternative” to soft drinks and often contain as much or more sugar. Safefood said (...)

Twenty years ago next January, out of the blue, I was diagnosed with cancer. It hasn’t gone away – a dodgy liver remains home to over 20 secondary tum(...)

Some 650 women rose to their feet in unison and gave a standing ovation to Elma Walsh yesterday after she talked about the death of her son Donal in M(...)

It’s one of the most talked-about aspects of being in hospital, and usually for all the wrong reasons. “How’s the food?” is often the first question p(...)