Eat Well Newham
This page provides information on the Eat Well Newham programme. You will find information about the Eat Well Newham principles, healthy food swaps and more.
In Our Hands
‘In Our Hands’ translates the Eat Well Newham principles into bite-sized messages that will help us to make better food choices. It tells us what we should be including, rather than excluding in a way that’s relevant to our diverse cultures and ways of life. The messaging is designed to make healthy eating feel simpler, more achievable and more relevant to everyday family life.
In the coming weeks, keep visiting this space to access new videos and posters as part of the campaign. Download and share these with your friends, family, colleagues on social media to promote is as much as possible.
You will see videos, short videos, radio shows, posters, leaflets, moving posters and much more!
Let us take healthy eating IN OUR HANDS!
Eat Well Newham Principles
Eat Well Newham celebrates the foods and cultures across Newham by working with the foods we know, love and value.
Newham residents have higher levels of hypertension, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, the conditions that are directly impacted by the foods we eat, also called diet related disease.
Preventing diet-related disease doesn’t mean uphauling and abandoning the foods we know and love.
The programme works alongside our communities and traditions to build on the meals and cooking styles you already know and enjoy, rather than uphauling the way we eat.
By making small, practical changes to everyday meals we can improve our health while enjoying the foods that matter to us.
Eat Well Newham is all about :
- Preventing, managing and reversing diet related diseases like hypertension, type2 disease and cardiovascular disease
- Cutting through the noise with easy to follow advice, 7 principles based on leading remission diets
- Working with our budgets, making practical, affordable changes
- Acknowledging and celebrating Newham’s cultures and diversity, not compromising on tradition and flavour
- Making long-term changes, rather than “dieting”, adopting a new eating habits rather than more drastic, short-term changes which may not last
- Focussing on positive, achievable actions, to eat more of the foods that are best for us
Diabetes
Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person’s blood sugar level to become too high.
Food
On this page you will find information about all support available for food including free school meals , healthy eating, heathy weight.
Healthy Weight
Did you know that being just a little bit overweight can increase your risk of certain illnesses?
Eating a balanced diet and keeping active, are simple ways you can help manage your weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Help to buy food
If you are worried that you cannot afford to buy food, or you want to find ways to save money when buying food, there is lots of support out there you can make use of.