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.