Consuming a healthy diet throughout the life-course helps to prevent malnutrition in all its forms as well as a range of noncommunicable diseases and conditions.

However, increased production of processed foods, rapid urbanisation and changing lifestyles have led to a shift in dietary patterns.

People are now consuming more foods high in energy, fats, free sugars and salt/sodium, and many people do not eat enough fruit, vegetables, and other dietary fiber such as whole grains.

Read more about Healthy Diets on our Our Global Voice page here

You can also check out the Global H&S Yammer group where the Health & Safety team will be posting additional advice from CardiO.

We also have a poster available to display on your local notice boards, which can be found in the download section of the UK News website here: Cardi-O - Is yours a healthy diet? poster (755 downloads)