What's Enough?
A pictorial resource designed to re-educate families on age-appropriate portion sizes as part of a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle.
Professional Guidelines to support interpretation and application of the guidance within this resource are available to download here: What's Enough Professional Guidelines .pdf
Advice is complex, condition specific and requires a Dietitian with knowledge, skills and experience in the condition.
What's Enough? aims to support weight management by providing simple information to guide parents/carers of children and young people on how to provide appropriate portion-sized meals and snacks for a healthy balanced diet.
The Target Group will be aware of how to vary food choices and portion sizes to ensure:
- Healthy food and fluid choices
- Age appropriate food portion sizes
- Frequency of food consumed including snacks and meals
- The importance of nutrient balance and how to achieve this, including examples of what healthy balanced meals look like
- Ways to reduce salt, sugar and fat intake.
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- The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition. Vitamin D and Health. 2016.
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- Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (1991) Dietary Reference Values for Food Energy and Nutrients for the United Kingdom. HMSO. London.
- Public Health England, 2016. Government Dietary Recommendations: Government recommendations for energy and nutrients for males and females aged 1 – 18 years and 19+ years.
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- Vitamin D recommendations for infants: information for parents. 2017. Scottish Government.
