To encourage a healthy lifestyle, follow these useful tips:
- Always eat breakfast - you'll feel better, think better and set yourself up for the day
- Drink lots of water – at least 2 litres a day, more if it's very hot or if you are exercising
- Have more starchy food – including pastas, bread and potatoes in your diet. Choose wholegrain cereals if you can since these foods release their energy slowly so keep you going longer
- Take less sugar – you don't need to give up, just be sensible and cut down. Remember sugar is a 'quick fix' of 'empty calories' and can cause tooth decay
- Take less salt - look for 'no added salt' on labels. Remove the salt pot from the table
You can download a fact sheet with these useful tips from the 'Read more' section on the right-hand side of this page.