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Healthy Eating

Also read: Eating Disorders General Health Fitness & Exercise Smoking

This page discusses the important issue of healthy eating. There is an old saying - "you are what you eat", and this is very true.

More on Healthy Eating. . .

It is important that we look after ourselves so we remain fit and healthy. The things we eat can have a big effect on the way we look and feel.

Visit some of the websites below to find out more.

The Food 4 Thought website uses graphic images to get the healthy eating message across. This makes it very easy to understand. To find out more about why some foods are bad for you (and which ones) visit the Food4thought website at www.bhf.org.uk/food4thought.

5 A DAY: When it comes to healthy eating there is one message that remains consistent; eating more fruit and vegetables is essential for good health! This website gives more details on why this true and why you should eat 5-a-day! To find out more visit www.5aday.nhs.uk.

The BBC have information on healthy eating at:-
www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/nutrition/

The Food Standards Agency is an independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in relation to food. Visit our site at www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating.