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Category: Health promotion
In work food poverty. 10 small steps your company could take
In work poverty is real. What can your company do to reduce the burden on your staff.
5 a day is completely unrealistic…
Fruit and vegetables: Achieving 5 a day can be a challenge on a budget but for most people it is possible. Here are some tips on how to eat your 5 portions on a budget alongside quality proteins, dairy and starchy carbohydrate.
Food poverty – sadly not a thing of the past
Food poverty action required in Greater Manchester. Action plan launched.
Does healthy eating have to hurt the planet?
Image: Commons Wikimedia -https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_3224_Pulses_and_legumes.jpg This is a very complicated question because there are so many factors involved, but it has been the subject of much debate over the last few years. The latest headline comes from work by scientists at Harvard University in the USA. The proposed diet moves us all away from eating… Continue reading Does healthy eating have to hurt the planet?
Should we even be selling food which can cause harm?
This is a question to wrestle with. I am not going to give you the answer but share a few thoughts to start off your dinner time discussion! With the latest cancer prevention report suggesting processed meat should, if possible, be avoided and the government consulting (finally) on a total ban of the sale of… Continue reading Should we even be selling food which can cause harm?
Eating to reduce your risk of cancer
Today sees the launch of the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research. The report takes all the studies on cancer and brings them together to see what the evidence base is. It takes all the individual studies you see in the newspapers and many more and brings them together. The report is 2000… Continue reading Eating to reduce your risk of cancer
Portion sizes for children
All children are different and have different appetites. Here are 8 tips to help all those with responsibility for feeding children to know how much to give them. Know the child's weight and get them weighed regularly (at least once a year for school-age children, more often for younger children). If they are tracking along… Continue reading Portion sizes for children
Good mental wellbeing and nutrition
The longer I work in the field of nutrition the more I am convinced that we need to tackle mental wellbeing and nutrition together. It can't be a coincidence that we have epidemics of both obesity and mental illness. We have to look at people as a whole. I am not saying anything new but… Continue reading Good mental wellbeing and nutrition
10 minutes
There has been a lot in the headlines about 10 minutes of walking recently. 10 minutes brisk walking a day can have amazing health benefits. 10 minutes sounds like a short amount of time but for some of us it is more difficult to squeeze in that we would like to think. Here are some… Continue reading 10 minutes
