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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.
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