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This Food Fact Sheet will help you to choose snacks that contribute to a healthy and balanced diet. More information on what a healthy and balanced diet is and how to follow one can be found on the BDA Healthy Eating Food Fact Sheet. The Eatwell Guide shows how much of what we eat overall should come from each food group.

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), previously known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or PCOS, is a common complex hormonal condition, which affects how the ovaries work. Diet and exercise can improve symptoms. This Food Fact Sheet will look at PMOS and how to manage it with lifestyle changes.

This Food Fact Sheet explains how to manage type 2 diabetes through healthy eating, physical activity and blood glucose monitoring. It offers practical advice on balanced meals, carbohydrate intake, weight management and the potential for remission.

Do you want to lose weight and keep it off? Have you ever tried to lose weight but found it difficult? Lost a little and then regained it? If you have then this fact sheet is for you. Here you’ll find advice and tools that will help you start to achieve the goals you want.

Long Covid can affect your appetite, digestion, taste and energy levels. Discover practical dietary advice and nutrition tips to help manage symptoms and support recovery.

Malnutrition is a common problem. Malnutrition happens when you do not get the right amount of nutrients from your diet.

There are lots of reasons for wanting to change your diet. However, this should not be at a cost to your health, your relationship with food or your wallet.

Good nutrition is important for our mental and physical health. This Food Fact Sheet will look at how following a healthy diet can protect your mental health.

We all have good days and bad days and we all have foods we prefer, or like less. But is there a connection between feeling fine and the foods we have eaten? Do some foods make us feel grumpy? Is it possible to plan a diet for a good mood?

Healthy eating is about having a balance of different foods to provide all the nutrients your body needs for healthy living and to reduce the risk of disease. Healthy eating does not have to be boring or difficult, it is about enjoying your food, whilst being mindful about what you eat.

This fact sheet will tell you about simple changes to your diet that can help reduce the health risks that having high blood pressure can cause.

This Food Fact Sheet will help you understand what dehydration might look like and how to either stop it from happening or manage it and how much fluid we need to drink.

This Food Fact Sheet is all about the nutrient iodine. It explains why iodine is important, how much iodine you need for health and the main food sources of iodine.

Research on soya foods is ongoing, but it is clear that soya is a nutritious and useful part of the diet which fits well with healthy eating guidelines and may have multiple health benefits.

This food fact sheet explains what probiotics are, what they do to you, and their effect on certain diseases.

Evidence is growing that eating wholegrains regularly as part of a healthy diet and lifestyle helps to keep us healthy. This fact sheet shares ways to increase wholegrain consumption, examples of wholegrains and what benefits they provide.

Packed lunches can be easy, healthy and exciting. These tips can help you make a tasty and nutritious lunch and help you choose options from the main food groups.

Do you really need supplements or are they just a waste of money? Mixed messages from the media, family and friends can make things even more confusing. This Food Fact Sheet will help you decide.

This Food Fact Sheet is about the role that diet may have in managing symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis literally means the inflammation of joints.

Dietary changes can often help irritable bowel syndrome symptoms and sometimes simple changes are all that are needed. This Food Fact Sheet explains that dietary changes can help these symptoms.