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Weight management/Healthy eating

Resources that can be used by health and care professionals to facilitate discussions around weight management. 

Weight management/Healthy eating

  • A Healthier Me

    Organisation: Mencap
    Type: Guidance Pack
    Date published: August 2021
    Description: A resource pack to help people with a learning disability and autistic people understand how food and drink choices can affect health and how to make small changes.

  • Community Food Membership

    Organisation: FareShare - surplus food redistribution
    Type: Direct access to surplus food for charities and community groups from local supermarkets.
    Date published: Regularly reviewed
    Description: Direct access to surplus food for charities and community groups from local supermarkets.

  • Cookery and Recipes

    Organisation: Various
    Type: Resources
    Date published: Various
    Description: A selection of cookery resources for people with a learning disability

  • Cost of Living Resources

    Organisation: Learning Disability England
    Type: Information and resources
    Date published: Winter 2022/23
    Description: Shared information and resources, including accessible information, to help members with the increases in the cost of living - including saving money and staying warm and well.

  • DanceSyndrome

    Organisation: The National Learning Disability Nursing Forum
    Type: Films
    Date published: July 2022
    Description: Supported by the national nursing directorate at NHS England and Improvement, DanceSyndrome has created a series of six informational videos which aim to demonstrate to healthcare professionals, including Midwives and Learning Disability Nurses, the many ways in which individuals with learning disabilities can live fulfilled lives, contributing to society and becoming visible leaders, performers and advocates.

  • Get Fit With Affinity Trust

    Organisation: Affinity Trust
    Type: Film
    Date published: June 2011
    Description: Fitness video created by and for people with a learning disability.

  • Healthy Eating Healthy Living

    Organisation: SCLD
    Type: Training resource pack
    Date published: 2018
    Description: The pack provides all the materials needed to run a course on Healthy Eating Healthy Living and teaches participants the knowledge and skills required to eat a healthy and balanced diet.

  • Hydration

    Organisation: NHS (Scotland)
    Type: Guidance on good hydration
    Date published: 2016
    Description: Information about staying hydrated and signs and symptoms of dehydration - including a urine colour chart.

  • Joe Wicks' Chair based exercises

    Organisation: Joe Wicks the Body Coach
    Type: Film
    Date published: 2021
    Description: Short YouTube video of chair based exercises.

  • Love Food Hate Waste

    Organisation: WRAP
    Type: Website
    Date published: Regularly reviewed
    Description: Recipe bank for leftover food

  • NHS Healthier Families

    Organisation: NHS
    Type: Food facts, recipes, activities.
    Date published: 2021
    Description: Easy ways to eat well and move more

  • Obesity, weight management and people with learning disabilities: Guidance

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Sept 2020
    Description: This guidance is for public health staff commissioning or running weight management services and other mainstream health professionals working to support people to lose weight.

  • Poo Matters

    Organisation: NHS
    Type: Leaflet
    Date published: May 2019
    Description: Information for families and carers about constipation in people with a learning disability.

  • Relaxation - NHS

    Organisation: NHS Coventry and Warwickshire
    Type: Video (YouTube)
    Date published: 2014
    Description: A short film about relaxation produced by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust for people with a learning disability.

  • The Eat Well Guide

    Organisation: NHS
    Type: Guides for healthy eating
    Date published: Regularly reviewed
    Description: Information and guidance about eating a healthy, balanced diet.

  • The Trouble with poo

    Organisation: Learning Disability Matters/Books Beyond Words
    Type: Book, Video and guidance on recognising constipation - and prevention.
    Date published: May 2019
    Description: A book, guidance and video on preventing constipation.

  • Trouble Pooing (Easy Read)

    Organisation: NHS
    Type: Leaflet
    Date published: May 2019
    Description: Information for people with a learning disability about constipation and its prevention.

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