Let’s put health back on the menu

I HOPE you’ve been enjoying the features on healthy food in the Irish Examiner this week - lots of thought-provoking articles which make us further realise the crisis that’s looming as a result of the deterioration of the national diet.

The statistics on obesity, diabetes and other diet-related diseases are there for all of us to see - now it’s time for action. It’s time for all of us to rattle the pots and pans and make a difference in our own homes.

A growing body of research is linking an impoverished diet to behavioural problems in unruly children, uncontrollable and aggressive teenagers, and, indeed, adults. It sounds simplistic to suggest that changing one’s diet can have such a dramatic effect. Well, why not try it?