To live longer, healthier lives require very different health and public policies

Column from the Irish Independent on 3 March 2015

So what would it take for Ireland to be the best little country in the world to be healthy in?

For a start, it would take all of us being more healthy, not just exercising more but eating less processed food and more home-cooked, fresh food; drinking much less alcohol; not smoking; looking after our mental health; being more caring of ourselves and each other.