Health Update: Health Update: Newstalk presenter and health coach Clare McKenna talks to Emily Hourican about wellbeing and her book Would You Be Well? – What Experts Say– What Experts Say.
Fed up with trends, fads and diets, Clare McKenna went on a journey to pin down the true meaning of health and wellness. Six years later, enduring the pandemic and loss of her father, she shares her discoveries, the subject of her latest book ‘Would You Be Well?’
Title: Clare Mckenna’s top health tips for the new year.
Clare McKenna’s new book Would You Be Well? is timely – both in terms of a January release and also, on a macro level, as a guide through the increasingly complex world of ‘wellness’. The book is a very detailed look at the many aspects of health – physical, emotional, psychological, as well as the delicate balance between these – and is clever about breaking down the sometimes-intimidating advice out there into small, manageable actions. Divided into three sections – Mind, Body and Soul – there are chapters on why dieting doesn’t work, on gut health, on movement, on connection and much more.
As such, it helps cut through the ever-increasing noise around ‘being well’, at a time when the responsibility for one’s personal health can feel overwhelming. There is so much advice, it changes so often, and plenty of it seems aimed squarely at people who are already operating at a such a level of performance that they are focussing on shaving seconds off personal bests, or optimising their intake of creatine. Is that advice even relevant to the rest of us? And where, amidst all the noise – do this, eat that, don’t, eat the other – are we supposed to start?