Me and my body
Unislim talks to RTE star Caroline Morahan, who presents The Fame Game and Off The Rails, about her eating habits and how she keeps looking so good.
My real belly
As for Caroline’s diet, she eats healthily but is not obsessed about it. “I don’t buy pre-packaged, microwaveable, ready in a minute foods. I can taste the preservatives in them. I buy organic when I can although it is very expensive. I am a big promoter of eating five fruit and vegetables per day, although I am not a purist, I am a real person with a real belly.”
When we speak Caroline is just finishing a strict three week detox diet, for health reasons rather than to lose weight. “It has been hellish,” she says. Caroline follows very good eating habits, has completely eliminated beer and bread from her diet, and is not a heavy drinker, and yet she was suffering from cold sores. So she went to see a homeopath at the Centre of Integrated Medicine in Naas where they checked her body for allergies and discovered that she had a build-up of yeast which was giving her immune system a hard time. Hence, the detox diet.
The diet was pretty strict - no sugar and no dairy products apart from sheep and goat’s milk and cheese, and when Caroline went out to eat she could only have a plain steak with nothing else. But it seems to have worked and she is fighting fit and ready for the new autumn series of Off the Rail.
“I love wine, but on this diet I was only allowed to drink vodka and gin. So I couldn’t drink champagne on my birthday even though all my friends were. “I love my food, probably a lot more than most people, and no-one has ever said that I should trim down but I do tend to put expectations on myself. Saying this, when I go on holidays I don’t worry about food and eat whatever I like. When I went to my sister’s wedding this summer in Italy I ate whatever I liked, and have a few extra pounds to show for it!
“I have a policy that I never deny myself anything on a permanent basis. Even if I’m on a very strict diet I always have Saturday to eat and drink what I want. I think that if someone says you can’t have something then you really want it. Eating habits should be a life change, a strict diet is like a jail sentence and you just want to break free.” Caroline is a real believer in complementary therapies such as reflexology and homeopathy. “I take milk thistle for a week after a big night out - 15 drops in a glass of water three times of day gets your body more quickly into recovery mode. I was taking liquorice drops as part of my detox diet, and Goldenseal kills off the bad bacteria in the gut. I don’t drink water out of the rap I always drink out of a water filter. Amazingly my homeopath was able to find metal in my body which is coming from my fillings. So I’m having those taken out soon and changed to white fillings.”
For further information please contact Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine , St. Johns Grove, Johnstown, Naas, Co. Kildare. Tel./Fax.: 00353 0 45 844819 or e-mail: info@icim.ie
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