Ageing Well Public Talks Series: Ways to eat well and stay well – Sinead Eccles

Join us for the next webinar in the Ageing Well Public Talks Series 2023/2024 exploring 'intuitive eating'

In this talk, Sinead will introduce a new way of improving your individual eating behaviour that will nourish your body to feel and perform at your best.  She will provide direction and guidance on how to apply the concept of ‘Intuitive eating’ and other ways that will develop a deeper connection with your own internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction.

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The speakers

Dr Sinéad Eccles – Chartered Neuropsychologist and Staff Tutor, School of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University. Sinead has worked within academia for over 20 years and has a background in Neuropsychology with a focus on the Biological Basis of eating disorders.

About the series

The Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series explores how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity in older age, also known as The Five Pillars of Ageing Well.

Ageing demonstrates most significantly when we reach a certain age, the usual benchmark being 65+, but ageing starts much sooner and the way ageing demonstrates when we are over 65 depends on decisions we make over our life span.

The AWPT series and related materials such as The Five Pillars of Ageing Well became the cornerstones of further engagement with the public, specifically around COVID-19 and the relating self-isolation, which are now available on the OU website and the Internet.

The overall aim of these series of interventions is to facilitate a step-change in user behaviour and support service provision. Self-management and becoming a partner in our own healthcare is an important aspect of these talks. This may have a wider impact on healthcare economies, as ageing and related co-morbidities have a substantial health and economic burden footprint.