Video
Guide To Healthy Eating
The
'Eating for Life' video has been produced by SHARP and is available to help everyone
get back to good food habits and offer them support and advice.
Eating
for Life has been produced by the Scottish Heart and Arterial Risk Prevention
group (SHARP) and is aimed especially at helping people reduce their risk of heart
disease.
The
12-minute programme's central message as it looks at a day of healthy eating is:
"Get the balance right and live longer".
The
video's presenter is the well-known Lorraine Kelly,of LK Today. With the help
of people in the street, families and single people of all ages, she identifies
the components of a healthy diet and explains how everyone can follow and enjoy
such a lifestyle
Tips
include the importance of eating breakfast and pre-measuring the amount of oil
used in cooking, and how to choose healthy alternatives to fat or salt rich foods.
She also explains the apparent contradiction of fatty fish being good for the
heart - as well as the brain!
One
of the video’s medical advisers said: 'Our aim was to give people an overview
of what a day of healthy eating would look like.
We
tried to appeal to all social groups, hence our use of family cooking and cooking
for single people, especially the elderly.
From
the point of view of heart-disease, we would like individuals to reduce the fat
content and increase the fruit, vegetable and fibre content of their diet, all
of which are part of healthy eating.”
The
video is intended for use by both the public and health professionals who can
use it to reinforce verbal advice.