Staff Dietetic Service Self Help Information

Healthy Eating

Healthy eating and good nutrition is about having a range of foods and drinks and consuming these in the right amounts. This will help you maintain a healthy weight and get the essential nutrients your body needs for good health and wellbeing.

The following 8 tips can help you to eat healthier whether you’re planning a meal or picking up a snack.

1. Base your meals on starchy foods
2. Eat lots of fruit and veg
3. Eat more fish
4. Cut down on saturated fat and sugar
5. Try to eat less salt- no more than 6g a day
6. Drink plenty of water
7. Don’t skip breakfast

The Eatwell guide consists of five food groups and its guide to what we should eat and drink to have a healthy, balanced diet.

Resources Available

• NHS Live Well provide a wide range of information and resources to help you maintain a healthy diet.
• The British Nutrition Foundation give lots of information on healthy eating and nutrition.
• The British Heart Foundation provide healthy eating information that can help prevent heart disease.
• Change 4 Life can help you to eat well by providing healthy eating tips, sugar swap tips and information on being calorie smart.
• The Public Health Dietetic Team are a team of registered dietitians and support workers who support and develop initiatives helping people to make healthy food choices.
• British Dietetic Association supply facts on nutrition and information on how a dietitian may be able to help you.
• Eating Disorders Service is a service available to anyone over the age of 18 within the Cardiff and Vale catchment area. They can signpost you to useful sources of information about eating disorders and can be accessed by asking your GP to refer you to either the Primary Mental Health Support Service or the Community Mental Health Team for assessment.