HomeHealthy Eating
Signposting to policy, evidence and tools
- Policy and guidance for Healthy Eating
- Evidence base for Healthy Eating
- Tools and resources for Healthy Eating
- Links for Healthy Eating
Tools and Resources for Healthy Eating
- What is a healthy diet?
- How do you set up and run a cookery club or cook and eat course?
- How do you set up and run local initiatives to improve access to healthy sustainable food?
- What are the links between food and mental health?
- How do you set up food growing projects?
- Who offers training courses to run community-led food projects?
- How do you get hold of healthy sustainable food for an event or meeting?
- What funding is available?
What is a healthy diet?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| The Balance of Good Health PDF A 5-page guide including information on the five food groups, portion sizes, the amount of food people need, vitamin & mineral supplements and composite foods. |
Food Standards Agency 2001 |
| FSA nutrient and food based guidelines for UK institutions PDF The Food Standards Agency’s Food and Nutrition 8-page guidelines for the UK, including an explanation of the Eat Well plate to ensure a balanced diet. |
Food Standards Agency 2007 |
| Food labels PDF A 24-page document explaining traffic light labelling, ingredients lists, allergy information, claims on labels and vegan & vegetarian labelling. |
Food Standards Agency January 2007 |
| Food labelling terms An interactive list of labelling terms to help answer the sorts of questions you may ask yourself when you pick up a product in the supermarket. The aim is to help people make healthier and more informed choices when out shopping. |
Food Standards Agency February 2009 |
| Example menus for adults 19-74 years PDF A 41–page document of dietary requirements and a week plan of meals. |
Food Standards Agency |
| The Eat Well Plate poster PDF Poster displaying the Eat Well plate. It shows how much of what we eat should come from each food group. |
Food Standards Agency |
| BMI calculator The Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator is a useful guide telling you if you're a healthy weight for your height. |
Food Standards Agency |
| Height – Weight Chart You can use this chart to check if you are the right weight for your height. |
Food Standards Agency |
| The little book of SALT Little very colourful simple leaflet on salt PDF |
Food Standards Agency |
| Nutrition and Food Poverty PDF A toolkit for those involved in developing or implementing a local nutrition and food poverty strategy. |
National Heart Forum 2004 |
How do you set up and run a cookery club or cook and eat course?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| What’s cooking? Guide: England PDF A guide to setting up and running community and school food clubs in England |
Food Standards Agency 2008 |
| Keep it going! PDF Guidance for schools and other settings on how they can make their cookery club sustainable |
Food Standards Agency 2008 |
| How to set up a “cook and eat” course PDF Includes a step by step guide and working examples. To help design and run practical courses offering basic cooking skills and healthy eating and budgeting information to community participants from a low income area. |
East Kent Coastal NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust 2006 |
How do you set up and run local initiatives to improve access to healthy sustainable food?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| London Food Access Forum This forum brings together those organisations and individuals around London trying to improve access to healthy affordable food for people on low incomes. It is free to attend and open to all with an interest in the topic. |
London Food Link N/A |
| FoodCoops.org Website developed by Sustain, including information on where to find your local food co-op and how to set one up. |
Sustain N/A |
What are the links between food and mental health?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| The Mind Meal PDF A recipe resource that draws attention to the important relationship between “food and mood”. Serves as an example of what can be done with some of the good mood foods that are generally recommended as beneficial for emotional and mental health. |
Mind |
| Food & Mood Google group This group is for people to share their experience of exploring the links between diet, nutrition and emotional and mental health. |
How do you set up food growing projects?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| Food Growing for Groups PDF Advice on finding funding, getting started, planning with the months of the year, dealing with the media and useful contacts. |
Women’s Environmental Network |
| Grow your own organic food PDF Information on why to grow organic, finding somewhere to grow, checking the soil, which seasons you can start growing in, what you need, what to grow, feeding the soil and things you can make. |
Women’s Environmental Network |
| Landshare – find land or share your land A website set up by Channel 4 that connects food growers with landowners. |
Landshare |
| Growing round the houses PDF Practical advice on food growing on housing estates using garden plots, fruit trees, ornamental borders, growing on concrete and alternative production. Also includes advice on how to set it up on existing estates, design, funding, managing and sources of help. |
Women’s Environmental Network |
Who offers training courses to run community-led food projects?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| National Training Programme for Community Food Workers This is the first programme of its kind. It provides an accredited framework of training and study, which will resource the development of food working in local communities. |
Community Food Enterprise |
How do you get hold of healthy sustainable food for an event or meeting?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| Locally sourced Food Finder The database holds records of producers and suppliers in London and the counties surrounding London, and a few businesses a bit further away supplying products which aren't available closer to the capital. |
Sustain N/A |
| Serving up Sustainability PDF A detailed 28-page guide for caterers and restaurants on how to provide greener, healthier and more ethical food. |
Sustain December 2007 |
| Requirements for sustainable foods at meetings and events PDF A one-page list of ideas on how caterers can provide healthier options that have a low impact on the environment and support local sustainable economies. |
Sustain January 2008 |
What funding is available?
| Title and description | Published by |
|---|---|
| Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts - Local Food programme This programme will fund a variety of food related projects to make locally grown food more accessible and affordable to local communities. For more information visit: |
Big Lottery Fund / Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts |
| Capital Growth This programme will help Londoners transform the capital by creating 2,012 new food growing spaces by 2012. The Capital Growth campaign will offer practical and financial support (for limited periods) to communities around London, helping people get access to land and create successful food growing spaces. Capital Growth will offer funding at several stages until 2012. To be able to apply for this funding your project must already be on the Capital Growth scheme. |
London Food Link |
