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NUTRITION AS WE GET OLDER HEALTH AND WELLNESS
vegetable intake as they are easily benefits of a good bone stock in certain minerals and vitamin D.
digested and provide all those terms of flavour, nutrition and it’s Vitamin D, in particular, as we
extra vitamins and minerals our ability to seep into the very bones cannot get enough through our
bodies need. Yet again, some of of an ageing and ailing body to food and generally, do not meet
the practices of years ago, are help restore and nourish in times our vitamin D levels through
perfect for a light supper. Old of need. sunshine exposure, yet vitamin
fashioned bone broth with finely In warmer weather, a salad of D is involved in a wide range of
diced vegetables is ideal for fresh leaves, tomatoes, avocado, body functions from bone health,
this meal. The boiling of meat, cucumber also offer a good cardiovascular and mental health,
chicken or fish bones over a long serving of both green and immunity and the protection from
period of time allows the minerals colourful vegetables. To any salad flu, colds, diabetes and cancer.
of those bones to be leached into add oily fish such as sardines, Get your vitamin D levels tested
the broth along with collagen. tuna or wild caught salmon for with your GP and supplement
Not only is the broth a tonic some omega-3, needed for our according to your results to
for our own bones, the collagen joints, heart, eyes and brain. achieve optimum vitamin D status.
is beneficial to joints, skin and WHAT ABOUT SUPPLEMENTS?
blood vessels. This mineral rich If you were to believe everything Being active and healthy as an
broth also provides calcium and you read about supplements older adult is largely dependent on
magnesium in optimum ratios you would be rattling with the what you ate, drank, did and did not
to support bone health, mental volume of pills, capsules and do as a younger one. Whether you
health and promote good sleep! potions marketed at the older were reckless or prudent it is never
In the past, those who were ill population. As long as your diet
or convalescing consumed bone is clean, green and consistently too late to eat well and be well!
broth as a medicinal tonic to made up of fresh produce the
aid recovery, build up vigour and need for supplements can then Irene Ní Fhlannúra, Nutritional
to rehydrate the body during be based on any shortfalls arising Therapist, Ré Nua Nutrition Clinic,
and after illness. Unfortunately, due to the ageing process itself.
many of these practices were There is widespread evidence Dingle. 086 1662562
lost to food processing but it is as we age we do need extra B
worth noting that there isn’t a vitamins, vitamin C, Omega 3, Consultations, Health Talks and
stock cube or gravy mix that can Medicinal Cookery Workshops.
replace the far-reaching health www.renuanaturalhealth.com.
108 Active Retirement Ireland www.activeirl.ie
vegetable intake as they are easily benefits of a good bone stock in certain minerals and vitamin D.
digested and provide all those terms of flavour, nutrition and it’s Vitamin D, in particular, as we
extra vitamins and minerals our ability to seep into the very bones cannot get enough through our
bodies need. Yet again, some of of an ageing and ailing body to food and generally, do not meet
the practices of years ago, are help restore and nourish in times our vitamin D levels through
perfect for a light supper. Old of need. sunshine exposure, yet vitamin
fashioned bone broth with finely In warmer weather, a salad of D is involved in a wide range of
diced vegetables is ideal for fresh leaves, tomatoes, avocado, body functions from bone health,
this meal. The boiling of meat, cucumber also offer a good cardiovascular and mental health,
chicken or fish bones over a long serving of both green and immunity and the protection from
period of time allows the minerals colourful vegetables. To any salad flu, colds, diabetes and cancer.
of those bones to be leached into add oily fish such as sardines, Get your vitamin D levels tested
the broth along with collagen. tuna or wild caught salmon for with your GP and supplement
Not only is the broth a tonic some omega-3, needed for our according to your results to
for our own bones, the collagen joints, heart, eyes and brain. achieve optimum vitamin D status.
is beneficial to joints, skin and WHAT ABOUT SUPPLEMENTS?
blood vessels. This mineral rich If you were to believe everything Being active and healthy as an
broth also provides calcium and you read about supplements older adult is largely dependent on
magnesium in optimum ratios you would be rattling with the what you ate, drank, did and did not
to support bone health, mental volume of pills, capsules and do as a younger one. Whether you
health and promote good sleep! potions marketed at the older were reckless or prudent it is never
In the past, those who were ill population. As long as your diet
or convalescing consumed bone is clean, green and consistently too late to eat well and be well!
broth as a medicinal tonic to made up of fresh produce the
aid recovery, build up vigour and need for supplements can then Irene Ní Fhlannúra, Nutritional
to rehydrate the body during be based on any shortfalls arising Therapist, Ré Nua Nutrition Clinic,
and after illness. Unfortunately, due to the ageing process itself.
many of these practices were There is widespread evidence Dingle. 086 1662562
lost to food processing but it is as we age we do need extra B
worth noting that there isn’t a vitamins, vitamin C, Omega 3, Consultations, Health Talks and
stock cube or gravy mix that can Medicinal Cookery Workshops.
replace the far-reaching health www.renuanaturalhealth.com.
108 Active Retirement Ireland www.activeirl.ie
