safefood Podcast

Dr Colman Noctor, child psychotherapist, and Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood Director of Nutrition, talk about how a small daily change can start families on the way to a healthier life.

Hosted by safefood in partnership with Libraries Ireland, this talk invited parents to ask our experts advice on setting small, realistic goals and overcoming pushback from the rest of the family. 

 This webinar is brought to you by the START campaign.  A public health awareness campaign from safefood, the HSE and healthy Ireland and the public health agency and department of health in Northern Ireland.  In this webinar we're focusing on the topic of how best to moderate our children's treat food consumption. It is hosted by Jen Hogan, joined by safefood's chief specialist and nutrition Joanna De Silva, child and adolescent psychotherapist, Dr. Coleman Noctor and HSE clinical lead on obesity Professor Donal O'Shea.

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, food poverty, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Maura Murphy from Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity and Colin Dunlevy, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist. We look at the barriers to physical activity for those living with obesity.  

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, food poverty, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Dr Charmain McGowan, Scientific Officer at safefood , and dietician Sarah Keogh who runs Eatwell, a food and nutrition consultancy for the food industry and the public. We look at the importance of research and how it translates into practical resources and communications for the general public. 

In this episode of our Nutrition podcast we look at food poverty and the cost of a minimum food basket on the island of Ireland. We talk to Dr Bernadette Mac Mahon, Director of Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice, and Robert Thornton who works with her as Senior Research and Policy Officer. They are the researchers behind safefood’s reports on the cost of a healthy food basket on the island of Ireland. 

The safefood Nutrition podcast is presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications,  and looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. 

This is the safefood Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by James McIntosh, chief toxicologist with safefood, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the island of Ireland. In this episode, we look at the topic of food intolerances, how they differ from food allergies as well as how they affect many people in Ireland today.  We are joined by dietician and nutritionist, Sarah Keogh. For almost 20 years, Sarah has run 'Eat Well', a food and nutrition consultancy for the food industry and the public. Sarah also works closely with the Coeliac Society of Ireland. 

This is the safefood Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by James McIntosh, chief toxicologist with safefood, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the island of Ireland. In this episode, we look at the topic of food fraud, what it means for food businesses, particularly the small and medium sized food manufacturers, and what they can do to protect themselves from it.  We are joined by Chris Elliot, who is an internationally recognised expert in food safety, food fraud and food integrity. Chris is a professor of Food Safety at Queen's University Belfast. 

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Dr Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology and Childhood, at The Open University (UK) and Mr. Chris Macey, Head of Advocacy at the Irish Heart Foundation.  We look at the marketing of unhealthy food to children, with emphasis on digital media. We’ll examine the evidence on the extent, and impact, of marketing of unhealthy food to children, as well as how it’s currently being tackled in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Professor Donal O'Shea, consultant endocrinologist based in St. Vincent’s University Hospital and St. Columcille’s Hospital and  Professor Corinna Hawkes O’Reilly, Director for the Centre of Food Policy at City, University of London. We look at the link between COVID-19 and Obesity, and discuss the evidence that obesity increases the risk of poorer health outcomes from COVID-19. We look at what this means for patients living with obesity and question whether obesity has risen on the political agenda as a result. 

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode, we talk to Ursula O’Dwyer, Health Promotion policy advisor at the Department of Health and Dr Marian O’Reilly, Chief Specialist in Nutrition at safefood, about the new healthy eating guidelines for 1-4 years in Ireland. 

This is the safefood Food Safety podcast series, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the Island of Ireland. In this episode, we chat to quality and hygiene systems consultant Marie-Therese Sweeney about remote food safety auditing and discuss its implications for food businesses. 

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode we talk to Dr Grace O’Malley, who leads the obesity research and care group in the University of Medicine and Health Sciences; patient advocate Susie Birney from European Coalition for People Living with Obesity; and media trainer and former BBC journalist Sarah Travers. During the episode Sarah refers Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach and Susie refers to the video Ytisebo and obesity – what’s the difference? 

This is a safefood Food Safety podcast where we look at different elements of the food chain on the Island of Ireland. Presented by James McIntosh, a specialist in toxicology with safefood, this podcast looks at milk allergies and milk intolerance. He talks to Dr Hazel Gowland, member of the safefood Knowledge Network expert advisory group and leading advocate for people with food allergies. In the episode, Hazel refers to the Anaphylaxis Campaign milk allergy information and other resources including weaning support pack and a short fact sheet from Allergy UK.

This is the safefood Nutrition podcast presented by Dr Aileen McGloin, safefood’s Director of Marketing and Communications, which looks at key issues like obesity, weight stigma, sustainability and health in the media. In this episode we talk to Kitty Holland, social affairs correspondent for The Irish Times, and Dr Megan Blake, senior lecturer at University of Sheffield, about food poverty. In this episode, Megan refers to the Twitter profiles Milly - @Milly_caspaces, Jack Monroe - @Bootstrapcook and Ewan Gurr - @EwanGurr. Kitty refers to the Ken Loach film, I David Blake.

This is the safefood Food Safety for SMEs podcast series presented by Dr Linda Gordon, safefood’s chief specialist in food science, which looks at the factors that shape the food industry on the Island of Ireland. In this episode, we chat to Jim Power, Chief Economist for Aviva Ireland, about the potential impact of Covid-19 on the food industry in Ireland. This will be of particular interest to food businesses who are restructuring their business right now in response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. 

This is a special edition of the Food Safety for SMEs podcast series taken from a webinar recorded with Pat O’Mahony, Chief Specialist Food Science & Technology at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, and James McIntosh, Chief Toxicologist at safefood. They discuss Food Allergen Labelling for non-prepacked food - food ‘sold loose’ including food sold at takeaways, by distance selling, contract catering etc. This will be of particular interest to food businesses who are restructuring their business right now in response to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. 

This is a special edition of the Nutrition podcast series where we bring you a recording of a symposium on hosted by safefood at the 2019Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference in Dublin. 

The symposium asked “What Advice Does the Public Believe? – and the challenges for researchers, policy makers and practitioners”. 

The symposium is introduced by Martin Higgins, Chairman of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. Speakers are Cancer Advocate Eileen O’Sullivan; Dr Robert O’Connor from The Irish Cancer Society; RTÉ journalist Philip Boucher Hayes; and Dr Gabriel Scally, epidemiologist, honorary Professor at University of Bristol and author of the Cervical Screening Report.

This podcast is taken from a recording symposium on hosted by safefood at the 2019 Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference.  Here cancer advocate Eileen O’Sullivan talks about the ‘Nutrition Maelstrom’ for cancer patients and the challenges of navigating through often conflicting advice while being treated for cancer. 

This podcast is taken from a recording symposium on hosted by safefood at the 2019 Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference. Here Dr Robert O’Connor from The Irish Cancer Society talks about diet shaming for cancer patients and the danger of misinformation on nutrition that is spun to people with cancer. 

This podcast is taken from a recording symposium on hosted by safefood at the 2019 Federation of European Nutrition Societies conference. Here RTÉ journalist Philip Boucher Hayes talks about the proliferation of ‘Nutribabble’ in the media and how real experts need to go on air to counteract the misinformation that is fed into the media circuit.