Nutrition, healthy weight and physical activity

    Eating a healthy balanced diet will give you all of the energy and nutrients you need to keep active and maintain a healthy weight and can help to prevent diet-related illness.

    The Eatwell Guide outlines the recommendations for eating a healthy balanced diet. The guide shows the different types of foods and drinks you should consume – and in what proportions – every day or over a week.

    Eatwell guide showing how much of what you eat overall should come from each food group.

    More information about nutrition can be found via the websites below:

    Eat Better Feel Better

    Food and nutrition - Healthy living

    Nutritional advice - Healthy eating

    First Steps Nutrition Trust

    Making small, simple changes to what and how much you are eating and drinking and maintaining a healthy weight can have many benefits for your overall health and wellbeing.

    NHSGGC has three core adult services;-self-management, community weight management and specialist weight management-which are available to support people living in East Dunbartonshire. More information can be found on the websites below:

    Manage your weight

    If you are a young person aged 12- 18 years, overweight and would like to lose or manage your weight, you can find out more about the Weigh to Go Service at Weigh to Go - NHSGGC.

    Being physically active is one of the best ways to improve our health and wellbeing. The benefits are many and include improved sleep, preventing and managing a range of conditions and diseases, having fun and living longer.

    Recommendations for the amount and type of physical activity we should do are set out by the UK Chief Medical officers, however most people should aim to do at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week, although this will vary during different stages in our lives.

    It is also important to not only raise our physical activity levels, but also try to reduce the amount of time we spend being sedentary such as sitting or lying down.

    UK Chief Medical Officers Physical Activity Recommendations:

    Physical activity for adults and older adults- Build strength  Physical activity for disabled adults - make it a daily habit

    Physical activity for pregnant women = throughout pregnancy aim for at least 150 minutes  Physical activity for early years birth - 5 years)- every movement counts

    Physical activity for children and young people (5-18 years) - Be physically active  Physical activity for disabled children and disabled young people= getting and staying active

    If you would like to become more active there are a number of activities that you could take part in, from structured sport and exercise programmes, to dance, housework, gardening and walking. NHSGGC have three core physical activity programmes; Health Walks, Live Active and Vitality, which are available to support people living in East Dunbartonshire.

    More information on physical activity can be found at the websites below:

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