To enable clients and their carers to understand the need to increase their fibre and fluid intake, so that they can apply the dietary advice.

Target Group will know how to increase the fibre value and fluid intake of their diet.

NICE Constipation CKS Management Scenario 2020 https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/constipation/management/

Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition. (2015). Carbohydrates and Health https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445503/SACN_Carbohydrates_and_Health.pdf.

Additional references

NHS (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/constipation/) 

NHS Inform (https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/stomach-liver-and-gastrointestinal-tract/constipation)

NHS 111 Wales (https://111.wales.nhs.uk/Encyclopaedia/c/article/constipation/) 

BDA Food Facts – Fibre (https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/fibre.html)  

BDA Food Fact – Vegetarian, Vegan and Plant-based Diets (https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/vegetarian-vegan-plant-based-diet.html)