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Aoife says that all traditional Irish foods have a place in a healthy lifestyle. \ Donal O’Leary
In 2020, Teagasc published a report on farmers’ health. One of the publication’s most alarming findings was that 80.5% of farmers have an “at-risk” waist circumference of 94cm (37in) or more.
Kicking off our conversation on this stat, Aoife Hearne recalls a time that the farming population were in the lowest health risk category.
“Traditionally farmers were some of the healthiest people in our population, because they were so active. We talk nowadays about people getting 10,000 steps in every day. But in the past, farmers probably got 30,000 steps per day,” she says.