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The Glycaemic Index (GI) shows how quickly carbohydrate foods raise blood glucose (blood sugar) after eating. This is useful to know if you have diabetes, pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) as it helps you to manage your blood glucose levels.

This Food Fact Sheet looks at salt in our diet. It covers how to find foods that are too high in salt and gives tips on how to reduce the amount of salt that we eat.

We all have good days and bad days and we all have foods we prefer, or like less. But is there a connection between feeling fine and the foods we have eaten? Do some foods make us feel grumpy? Is it possible to plan a diet for a good mood?

Many don’t realise that simple changes to eating habits can have a large impact on how they experience the menopause and its effects on health and wellbeing, both now and in the years to come.   

Healthy eating is about having a balance of different foods to provide all the nutrients your body needs for healthy living and to reduce the risk of disease. Healthy eating does not have to be boring or difficult, it is about enjoying your food, whilst being mindful about what you eat.

This fact sheet will tell you about simple changes to your diet that can help reduce the health risks that having high blood pressure can cause.

This Food Fact Sheet will help you understand what dehydration might look like and how to either stop it from happening or manage it and how much fluid we need to drink.

Osteoporosis is a condition where bones become thin and their strength is reduced. This makes them more likely to break. It affects both men and women but is most common after the menopause.

This Fact Sheet will help you to choose snacks that will form a nutritious part of your diet. It will help you avoid snacks that can contribute too many extra calories and additional fat, sugar and salt to your food intake.

Malnutrition is a condition which happens when you do not get the correct amount of nutrients from your diet. The simple steps outlined in this Food Fact Sheet should help to identify and treat malnutrition.

Research on soya foods is ongoing, but it is clear that soya is a nutritious and useful part of the diet which fits well with healthy eating guidelines and may have multiple health benefits.

This food fact sheet explains what probiotics are, what they do to you, and their effect on certain diseases.