Eating a healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health and can help you feel your best.
This means eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions, and consuming the right amount of food and drink to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight.
Useful information
- This booklet from Public Health England provides useful guidance on maintaining a healthy and balanced diet.
- The NHS Live Well page has plenty of advice tips and tools to help you make the best choices about your health and wellbeing.
- British Dietetic Association website will help you understand what a dietitian is and how they work. The food fact sheets also will give you some information and guidance about the different food groups in your diet.
- Mental health charity, Mind, have healthy eating tips which explore the link between food and mood.
- Mencap has a selection of helpful resources regarding health in those with a learning disability, such as a hospital passport and easy read PDFs.
- The Down’s Syndrome Association have developed an app to support people with Down’s syndrome and their parents or carers to make positive changes to their lifestyle through healthier eating and activity tracking.
