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Healthy Eating

A nutritious, well-balanced diet can help you look and feel your best, and help to keep you healthy.

Eating well is easier than you think!

Just follow these eight tips to get started, then read how to eat the right foods in the right proportions using the Eatwell Plate model.

Tasty and packed full of vitamins and minerals, fruit and vegetables form part of a healthy balanced diet. Visit this page to find out how a few small changes can help you and your family get the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

The British Nutrition Foundation offers advice and tips on how to put healthy eating and active lifestyles into practice, for life. There is also a section on Food in Schools where you can learn about details of current curriculum requirements and access lesson plans and teaching resources.

Use this BMI calculator to work out the right weight for your height, then find out how to start losing weight healthily and successfully.

The Weight Wise campaign page has been developed by the British Dietetic Association and is packed with information and advice on how to manage your weight.

Your body changes as you get older, but a balanced diet will help you stay healthy. Follow the link below to find out what to eat and how to keep healthy as you get older.

Eat well over 60

The Guernsey Obesity Strategy offers recommendations on how to combat the rising levels of obesity in the Bailiwick.

The Health Promotion Unit Unit runs Weight Management courses to help you achieve your ideal weight. Please download our leaflet for further information or get in touch to request a copy.

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Spreading Waistline Leaflet Spreading Waistline Leaflet Guernsey Obesity Strategy A copy of the Guernsey Obesity Strategy in the November 2009 Billet D'Etat Healthy Choice Recipe Book Ideas for tasty and nutritious home cooking Guernsey Young People's Survey 2010 Health and Weight

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