Nutrition: eating a healthy balanced diet can help to prevent diet-related illness and will give you all of the energy and nutrients you need keep active and maintain a healthy weight. A diet with a wide variety of fruits and vegetables ensures your body has access to all essential nutrients and promotes good digestive health. Aiming to eat 20-30 different type of plant over the course a week will help you achieve this. Frozen fruit and frozen and canned beans and vegetables can be an inexpensive way to improve your diet.

It is recommended that we consume 30 grams of fibre per day (unless you have been advised to avoid fibre by a dietician). Most adults in the UK consume only 10g of fibre. Look at the labelling on the back of your food packaging and work on gradually increasing this- nuts, beans, humous and vegetables are great source of fibre.

It is advised that we consume less than 6g grams of salt per day- most of us eat more salt than we think. Looking at the salt content and recommended portion sizes on the food you are eating will help you work out how much salt and is you diet. Supermarket sandwiches have around 3g of salt, an average slice of bread has 0.4g.

Ultra-processed food- over recent years there has increased discussion about ultra-processed foods. These are foods that contain ingredients that you would not expect to find in an average kitchen. This form of processing is used to increase the shelf-life and improved taste of products, but these techniques can reduce nutrients and fibre which can make you eat more of them, feel hungry sooner, and more tired.

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