Health Champions – Healthy Eating Awareness

Healthy Eating Awareness

Whatever your age, eating a healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health and wellbeing.

This means eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions and consuming the right amount of food and drink to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight.

This awareness session covers:

• The importance of a healthy and balanced diet
• Providing advice to others on how to achieve a healthy and balanced diet
• National guidance on portion sizes and recommended calorie intake  
• Different food groups and the impact on the body
• Food labelling
• Signposting to national and local resources

• linksforlife@sunderland.gov.uk