Healthy Eating
Why are we promoting healthy eating at Vyners?
Healthy eating is important for everyone, especially children, to ensure that they receive all the nutrients they need to grow and develop. Eating well and being physically active will improve children’s health as well as their ability to learn and achieve at school.
Encouraging children to eat more healthily now will make them more likely to adopt a healthy lifestyle as they get older. Learning about the benefits of a healthy and varied diet will not only help children to maintain a healthy body weight, but also enhance their general wellbeing in the future.
At Vyners School, we aim to ensure that all aspects of food and nutrition which are delivered within school promote the good health and the wellbeing of pupils, staff and visitors to the school.
| 8 guidelines for a healthy diet • Base your meals on starchy foods • Eat lots of fruit and vegetables • Eat more fish • Cut down on saturated fat and sugar • Try to eat less salt – no more than 6g a day for adults • Get active and try to be a healthy weight • Drink plenty of water • Don’t skip breakfast |
Taken from The Food Standards Agency
How are we promoting healthy eating at Vyners?
The school council works in collaboration with the school canteen to promote healthy eating. As a result, Vyners has received a ‘Healthy Hillingdon’ award for supplying food that complies with the new government healthy eating standards.
Furthermore, the school council, researches pupil and staff attitudes to general wellbeing and examines ways of promoting healthy living around the school.
What is a healthy diet?
A healthy diet:
- is based on breads, potatoes, and other cereals
- is rich in fruit and vegetables.
- includes moderate amounts of milk and dairy products (or milk alternatives)
- includes moderate amounts of meat and fish (or meat alternatives)
- includes limited amounts of foods containing fat or sugar.
No single food can provide all the essential nutrients that the body needs. Therefore, it is important to consume a wide variety of foods to provide adequate intakes of vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre, which are important for health.