Regular, brisk walking can help lower your risk of
heart disease and really boost your general health and
well-being.
So why not think about walking the kids to
school instead of taking the car, or walking to the next bus
stop on from your usual start point on the way to work?
Remember that getting fi t can be fun too. Choose
something really enjoyable that fi ts into your lifestyle: join
the local netball team, go out dancing or borrow a friend ’ s
dog! Chances are, the more you enjoy it, the more you ’ ll do
it and the more fi t you ’ ll become.
1 Understand your own diet cycle.
2 Remember: ‘ If you change what you always did,
you can get what you always wanted. ’
3 Choose an activity that makes getting fi t fun.
4 Accept your past dieting experience, learn from
it and move on.
WHAT ARE GDA s ?
Quite simply, GDAs (Guideline Daily Amounts) and GDA
labels take the guesswork out of knowing what we should
be eating, and make planning a healthy, balanced diet as
easy as pie. GDA labels allow you to control everything you
eat – and that makes controlling your weight much easier.
When you ask yourself ‘ What do I fancy eating today? ’
‘ What will the family want for supper? ’ you are also making
decisions about your fat, sugar, salt and nutrient intake.
Every time you go to the supermarket, you have to make
decisions about health and nutrition.
Hmmm … now you know that, should you pop the pizza
or the pasta in your trolley? (For the answer to that one,
see page 14.) The benefi t of the GDA system is that a quick
glance at the GDA label on the packaging will give you all
the nutritional facts you need to help you decide.
AT A GLANCE YOU CAN:
CHECK how many calories and how much sugar, fat,
saturates and salt are in your food.
COMPARE this with something else you might fancy.
CHOOSE the one that ’ s right for you.
We all know that we need a certain quantity of
calories a day. But if we want to keep weight at a healthy
level, we can ’ t afford to keep eating foods that give us
more calories than we need. The good news is, there ’ s
GDA information about calories on almost every pack of
food, to show you how many calories a portion of food
contains and what percentage that is of your daily total.
But calories aren ’ t the only thing we need to keep an eye
on. So there are GDAs for all the other key nutrients too,
including sugars, fat, saturates and salt. (For an
explanation of the function of these nutrients
heart disease and really boost your general health and
well-being.
So why not think about walking the kids to
school instead of taking the car, or walking to the next bus
stop on from your usual start point on the way to work?
Remember that getting fi t can be fun too. Choose
something really enjoyable that fi ts into your lifestyle: join
the local netball team, go out dancing or borrow a friend ’ s
dog! Chances are, the more you enjoy it, the more you ’ ll do
it and the more fi t you ’ ll become.
1 Understand your own diet cycle.
2 Remember: ‘ If you change what you always did,
you can get what you always wanted. ’
3 Choose an activity that makes getting fi t fun.
4 Accept your past dieting experience, learn from
it and move on.
WHAT ARE GDA s ?
Quite simply, GDAs (Guideline Daily Amounts) and GDA
labels take the guesswork out of knowing what we should
be eating, and make planning a healthy, balanced diet as
easy as pie. GDA labels allow you to control everything you
eat – and that makes controlling your weight much easier.
When you ask yourself ‘ What do I fancy eating today? ’
‘ What will the family want for supper? ’ you are also making
decisions about your fat, sugar, salt and nutrient intake.
Every time you go to the supermarket, you have to make
decisions about health and nutrition.
Hmmm … now you know that, should you pop the pizza
or the pasta in your trolley? (For the answer to that one,
see page 14.) The benefi t of the GDA system is that a quick
glance at the GDA label on the packaging will give you all
the nutritional facts you need to help you decide.
AT A GLANCE YOU CAN:
CHECK how many calories and how much sugar, fat,
saturates and salt are in your food.
COMPARE this with something else you might fancy.
CHOOSE the one that ’ s right for you.
We all know that we need a certain quantity of
calories a day. But if we want to keep weight at a healthy
level, we can ’ t afford to keep eating foods that give us
more calories than we need. The good news is, there ’ s
GDA information about calories on almost every pack of
food, to show you how many calories a portion of food
contains and what percentage that is of your daily total.
But calories aren ’ t the only thing we need to keep an eye
on. So there are GDAs for all the other key nutrients too,
including sugars, fat, saturates and salt. (For an
explanation of the function of these nutrients
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