Nutrition Guide

A good variety of food is vital for a healthy body and mind. Fluid is also important and water is needed to keep the body hydrated and other fluids such as milk are very nutritious and play an important role during the first year of life

• Nutrition and older people
• Nutrition and women
  
• Nutrition and teenagers
• Nutrition and sex
• Nutrition and arthritis 
• Nutrition and stress 
• Nutrition and diabetes 
• Nutrition and gout 
• Nutrition and brain 
• Nutrition and bones 
• Nutrition and oral health
  

Healthy heart, Healthy eating

The food that we eat can affect the way that blood flows through the heart and blood vessels. Over time, a diet high in saturated fat can cause a build up (a plaque) in the arteries that can both slow down the flow of blood and weaken the walls of the arteries

• Ways to a healthier heart
• Heart health nutrition rules
• Fat and excess weight

Choice of meal

As adults we know what to eat but getting the time to shop, cook and eat can be a problem due to the busy lives many people lead. Try and eat a variety of food and take time to sit down and enjoy your food. It is also important to take daily exercise to use energy from the food you have eaten

• Food for teenage boy
• Food for teenage girl
  
• Food for Athletes
• Food for busy people

Fruit, vegetables and health

Most people know that they should eat more fruit and vegetables, yet time and time again surveys reveal that intakes of this food group are well below recommended levels

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