The resource aims to:

• make following an energy deficit diet easier by providing pictures of food portions and pictorial examples of portioned meal plans and examples
• allow flexibility of choice of foods within an energy-deficit diet
• achieve a healthier body weight through healthy cooking techniques and portion control to achieve appropriate serving sizes for weight loss and management.

The target group (people aged 16+ from Gujarati communities in the UK) will understand that:

• overweight and obesity is a major health risk and that it increases the risk of many symptoms and disorders
• that eating appropriate portion sizes in a balanced way will help them to lose and/or control body weight
  how many portions of food from each food group to include for nutritional balance and to achieve and/or maintain their healthier body weight
• how portions relate to servings within a plated meal and/or multiple foods from one group feature in a meal.

• McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of foods integrated dataset, 19 March 2021
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid
• Department of Health and Social Care . Physical Activity Guidelines: UK Chief Medical Officers’ Report. Department of Health and Social Care; London, UK: 2019.