Change 4 Life
Eat well, Move more, Live Longer
Change4Life is a society-wide movement that aims to prevent people from becoming overweight by encouraging them to eat better and move more. It is the marketing component of the Government’s response to the rise in obesity. The campaign aims to inspire a societal movement in which everyone who has an interest in preventing obesity, be they Government, business, healthcare professionals, charities, schools, families or individuals, can play their part.
The Change4Life advertising campaign began in January 2009 and in the initial stage targeted young families with childen aged 5-11 years. Since its launch the movement has grown to targeting parents of 1-4 years olds (Early Years) and new parents with babies (Start4Life).
Click on the logo to link to the website
Download Change4life Toolkits
Local Supporters Toolkit, Early Years Toolkit, Employers Toolkit
School Pack, Breakfast4life Toolkit, Bike4life Toolkit
Let's Dance, Play4life Toolkit, Swim4life Toolkit, Walk4life Toolkit
Breakfast4life and Pack a Perfect Picnic below have been designed for families to promote healthier eating and lifestyle messages taken from the national Change4life campaign.
Breakfast4life
Breakfast4life has 10 easy steps to get everyone in the family to school and work having eaten breakfast. Tips include breakfast on the go and what to look out for in cereals such as levels of salt and sugar. The resource also has recipe ideas from sprucing up porridge to making a delicious fruit smoothie using over ripe fruit.
Pack a Perfect Picnic
Pack a Perfect Picnic has 10 easy steps to get everyone in the family involved in planning and preparing a picnic or pack lunch from start to finish. Tips include sun safety advice, food hygiene, quick and easy recipe ideas and a check list of what you might need to make your picnic a success.
These resources have been designed by Gloucestershire Food Vision and Gloucestershire's Children & Young Peoples Health & Wellbeing Team.
Please click on this logo to see the healthy eating web page.
5 A Day
Fruit and vegetables are part of a balanced diet and can help us stay healthy. That’s why it so important that we get enough of them.
5 A DAY highlights the health benefits of getting five 80g portions of fruit and vegetables every day. That’s five portions of fruit and veg altogether, not five portions of each.
Food Standards Agency (FSA)
Eat well, be well - Eatwell
Campaign and information from the Food Standards Agency which stresses the importance of healthy diet and safe storage and preparation of food.
The Eatwell Plate
Use the Eatwell Plate to get the balance of your diet right. The Eatwell Plate makes healthy eating easier to understand by showing the types of proportions of foods we need to have a healthy and well balanced diet.
The Caroline Walker Trust (CWT)
The Caroline Walker Trust was founded in 1988 after the death of the distinguished nutritionist, writer and campaigner, Caroline Walker.
The work of the CWT is particularly targeted towards vulnerable groups and people who need special help. They produce nutritional and practical guidelines for both young and old.
HENRY
(Health Exercise Nutrition for the Really Young)
HENRY is an exciting new initiative designed to tackle early childhood obesity by training
community and health practitioners to work more effectively with parents and young families.
School Food Trust
The School Food Trust is an independent body with the unique remit of transforming school food and food skills. It was set up as Non Departmental Public Body in 2005 with £15 million of funding from the then Department for Education and Skills (replaced by Department for Children, Schools and Families, DCSF and subsequently by the current Department for Education (DfE) to promote the education and health of children and young people by improving the quality of food supplied and consumed in schools. In April 2007 the School Food Trust became registered as a Charity.
Guidance for Food and Drink - Early Years
Food a fact of life
Food a fact of life provides a progressive approach to teaching healthy eating, cooking, food and farming from 13-16. The website provides a wealth of free resources to stimulate learning, ensuring that constant and up-to-date messages are delivered.
NHS Choices
Live Well
Healthy living for everyone
Govenment Office for the South West
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives Regional Programme
British Heart Foundation
Diabetes UK