Archive for the ‘Sunday Independant’ Category
Breast Cancer does not discriminate
Friday, June 9th, 2006
Caroline Morahan
Fashion Legend
Breast cancer does not discriminate. But with early detection, it can be beaten. Last year, when I interviewed Kylie Minogue, she was the picture of good health. Two weeks later, the story broke that she had breast cancer. My first thought was concern for her and her family. My second: the realisation that her openness would save thousands of lives. An icon like Kylie shows that no woman is untouchable. Regular breast checks are a great tool for detection but now, in Ireland, we have the technology to intercept it much earlier. At the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine in Naas, Medical Thermography can detect the potential development of cancer 10 years before any other form of testing.
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Vilela Difference
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
Sharon Fidgeon was plagued with backache for decades and thought she was doomed to a life of pain. Then a new treatment changed everything, says Andrea Smith.When glamorous social worker Sharon Fidgeon was 13, she received a playful kick in the backside during a pillow fight that was to have repercussions for the next 20 years. Having suffered with recurrent back pain, Sharon was also dogged with chronic tiredness, and she was feeling pretty miserable until a diagnostic technique known as medical thermography was able to pinpoint the exact cause of her health problems and set her on the road to recovery.
Now aged 34, and mother to pretty eight-year-old leah, Sharon recalls how the childhood prank was the first of three injuries to her back. “My coccyx [tailbone] was injured and I was in a lot of pain at times, with numbness down my legs,” she recalls. “It was when I went to college at the age of 18 that it really began to bother me, and my mother was at me to have the problem sorted out.” (more…)
Born in Brazil, Felipe Reitz & the Ancient practice of Medical Qi Gong
Monday, January 9th, 2006
Born in Brazil, Felipe Reitz has crossed the world to tell us about the anient practice of Medical Qi Gongsays Olivia Morahan
Felipe Reitz is a man with a mission, a crusader spreading the word of the ancient Chinese practice of Medical Qi Gong. The health and fitness market is swamped with pseudo Indo-Chinese disciplines, from the cardio workouts of power yoga and body balance to the more traditional tai chi and hatha yoga.
While Madonna’s favourite, ashtanga yoga, has a huge following, little has been heard of the damage caused by some of these intensive workouts to well-intentioned but ill-quipped yoga practitioners. Could there be room for any more?
Medical Qi Gong is over 7,000 years old, a safe form of breathing, movement and meditation tailor-made to suit specific ailments. The healing exercises are derived from the ancient wisdom of Taoism and its supporting philosophy. Seventy million Chinese practice it every day and Chinese doctors use the exercises in hospital and clinics to treat patients suffering from ailments including arthritis, asthma, bowel complaints, heart, kidney and liver disease, obesity, and stress. (more…)