Nutrition and food poverty toolkit
Author/Editor: Press, Vivienne; Mwatsama, Modi
Produced by: National Heart Forum; Faculty of Public Health, 2004
ISBN: 1 874279 12 8
Cost: Free
Download Available: Nutrition and Health Toolkit
This toolkit aims to help professionals tackle food poverty at local level. Nutrition + Food Poverty Toolkit brings together in one volume information essential to developing a local food poverty strategy.
The toolkit:
- Outlines the barriers to healthy eating and the scientific evidence on the role of poor nutrition in the major public health problems in the UK
- Details key messages for healthy eating and includes practical tips on how people on low incomes can achieve a better diet
- Demonstrates how nutrition and food poverty strategies can help to achieve local targets and how they are central to the government's health and inequalities agenda
- Shows how nutrition and food poverty strategies inter-relate with the government's environment, social and education policies and programmes
- Provides background information on how to write and implement a local strategy
- Provides a comprehensive list of examples of good practice and further sources of guidance to assist with strategy development.
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Individual Sections:
The executive summary or individual sections of this toolkit are also available to download below:
The executive summary: Nutrition and food poverty toolkit - Exec
Individual sections:
A: What is healthy eating?
This section gives the main healthy eating messages for most individuals, explains the beneficial effects of food on health and provides practical tips on how people on low incomes can achieve a healthier diet. Tool A1 provides the research evidence of the benefits of healthy eating. It can be used by primary care professionals to help in consultations, and by physical activity specialists to help in the management of clients who are overweight or obese.
B: Why consider what people eat?
This section shows the importance of poor diets in the development of avoidable chronic diseases, and in health inequalities. It can be used by public health professionals, registered public health nutritionists, dieticians, community food workers and other professionals as background information for strategies, or for making the case for action to colleagues in primary care.
C: Why prioritise strategies for nutrition and food poverty?
This section shows how nutrition and food poverty strategies can help to achieve local targets and how they are central to the government's health agenda. It also shows how they give benefit to and receives support from the government's environment, social and education policies and programmes, and outlines the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy. It will help establish food poverty as a priority issue.
D: Developing a local nutrition and food poverty strategy
This section gives background information to help you develop and write a local nutrition and food poverty strategy. It includes information on the barriers to healthy eating. It also gives an outline of a local strategy. The first section - Recognising the underlying barriers to healthy eating - will also be useful for health and physical activity professionals.
E: Choosing interventions to reduce food poverty
This section describes the types of settings for local food programmes, and the range of local projects that can be successful in tackling food poverty and the barriers to healthy eating. It includes several examples of good practice.
F: Resources
This section lists sources of further information - publications, organisations and websites - on the scientific basis of healthy eating and on developing strategies to improve nutrition and alleviate food poverty.