Healthy Eating and Gentle Exercise
BMA Commended. For adults with learning disabilities - illustrated information on the importance of healthy eating and gentle exercise. Provided with professional guidelines and charts to record progress.
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Advice requires some explanation from a Health Professional who has basic nutrition knowledge to enable correct implementation.
BMA Commended. For adults with learning disabilities - illustrated information on the importance of healthy eating and gentle exercise. Provided with professional guidelines and charts to record progress.
To enable clients and their carers understand the principles of healthy eating and the benefits of exercise.
The target group will realise what gentle exercise is, how to take part in gentle exercise and follow a healthy diet.
- HEA (1994) The balance of Good Health
- Thomas (2001) Manual of Dietetics Section 1.2, pp11 - 24
- Parsons T. (2002) Weight Management for Health Learning Disability Practice Vol. 5, No 8, pp28 -37
- National Obesity Forum (2003) The cost of doing nothing
- Messent P.R. (1999) What choice: a consideration of the level of opportunity for people with mild and moderate learning disabilities to lead a physically active healthy lifestyle. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 27, pp73 - 76
- Moore M.S. (2000) Interactions between physical activity and diet in the regulation of body weight. Proc. of The Nut Soc. 59, pp193 - 198
- Scottish Executive (2000) Same As You
- Gatenby SJ, Hunt P and Rayner M (1995) The National Food Guide: development of dietetic criteria and nutritional characteristics
- National Physical Activity Targets
