Healthy Eating

HEALTHY EATING FOR A HEALTHY HEART

Making a few positive changes to your diet can help you reduce your risk of heart disease - lots of little changes soon add up to a healthier way of life. It is never too late to start making healthy changes to your lifestyle and having a more healthy diet can be interesting and cheap.

A healthy balanced diet contains a variety of types of food, including lots of fruit, vegetables and starchy foods such as wholemeal bread and wholegrain cereals; some protein rich foods such as meat, fish, eggs and lentils; and some dairy foods. The key to a healthy diet is eating the right amount of food for how active you are and eating a range of foods to make sure you’re getting a balanced diet.

Use the Eating for Health model (below) and the following tips to show you how.

1. Base your meals on starchy foods
2. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables
3. Eat more fish
4. Cut down on saturated fat and sugar
5. Try to eat less salt – no more than 6 grammes a day
6. Get active and try to be a healthy weight
7. Drink plenty of water
8. Don’t skip meals

How healthy is your diet?  Click on the following link to take a quiz which will tell you:

Healthy Eating Quiz