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Catherine Conlon

  • Senior Medical Officer and Contributor, Freelance
Cork
As seen in: MSN Ireland, Ageing & Society, Memory Studies, Business Wire, The Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, TheJournal.ie, Limerick Leader, Optica and
Public health doctor, lecturer. Interested in obesity, social determinants of health. Former Director Human Health and Nutrition, SafeFood, Author.
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Body of evidence Trump says four hours’ sleep a night is enough. Science strongly disagrees

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By Catherine Conlon
| TheJournal.ie
DONALD TRUMP CLAIMS he usually gets between four and five hours of sleep per night. He says he usually goes to bed at midnight or 1am and wakes up at 5am to eat, read newspapers and watch television. “Don’t sleep any more than you have to,” he wrote in his 2004 book Think Like a Billionaire. His predecessor, the late UK prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, also famously said that she only ever needed four hours’ sleep a night.
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Catherine Conlon: The last bastion of urban silence is being shattered by drones

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By Catherine Conlon
| Irish Examiner
Finally, the sun is beginning to appear. The garden, tangled and overgrown from a long, wet winter, needs attention. There is nothing to compare with a couple of hours at the weekend, weeding, pruning, tending to the lawn and clearing the drive accompanied by friendly robins, garden smells, and the whisper of the wind in the trees. Until the drones arrive. Like oversized arachnids, they disturb my thoughts, scatter the birds, deprive me of my blissful solitude.
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Body of Evidence Why your body starts storing fat in your 50s — and how it affects your brain

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By Catherine Conlon
| TheJournal.ie
‘What the hell is happening to me? Is this the middle-age spread?’ ANYONE OVER A certain age may find themselves wondering why their weight has decided to just spiral as soon as they hit middle age. The arrival of the 50s, in particular, can cause men and women to despair at the changing shape of their bodies.
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