Booklet 2- Current Dietary requirements Flashcards
What is the importance of eating a balanced diet ?
Helps maintain a good health and feel your best.
Eating a variety of foods in the right proportions and consuming the right amount of food/drink can maintain a healthy body weight.
The Eatwell guide shows us that we should try have a healthy balanced diet and that people should try to ….
Eat 5-a-day
Base meals on starchy foods
Have dairy alternatives
Eat beans, pulses, fish, eggs and other protein.
Choose unsaturated oils and spreads in small amounts
Drink plenty of water
Department of Health (DOH)
They identified the malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) as the screening tool of choice to identify adults at risk of malnourishment or who are.
The first step in the identification of malnourishment is Nutritional screening.
This enables detection of malnutrition and supports and implements a clear plan of action.
What are the 3 guidelines of care settings
Hospital settings
Community settings
Care homes
The screening tool and what it contains
A food record chart and a food first advice leaflet
What does the screening tool do ?
All patients must be screened to identify those who are malnourished.
Action has to be taken at the assed risk level.
MUST score is communicated across the relevant care setting
What is the main purpose of this tool
To improve the quality of nutritional care of adults across NI in HSC settings including peoples own homes.
2.) The Department of Education NI (DENI)
They examine options for preventing the rise in levels of obesity in children and young people.
Food in schools are representative of the balance of a good diet and makes a significant contribution to childhood nutrition.
What does the Food for Schools Forum tasked with ?
Ensuring support fro schools and providing advice on implmentation of the foods in schools policy.
This policy improves the quality of food in school settings
What are the elements addressed within the policy
School meals with nutritional standards are set.
Food sold in school.
Breakfast Clubs.
Drinking water in school.
Milk in school
Packed lunches and health breaks
What are the main aims of this policy ?
To make food and drinks in schools healthier to allow children and young people to make healthier lifestyle and dietary choices to reduce obesity levels in children.
3.) Public Health Agency (PHA)
Was established in 2009 for the health protection and health and social well- being improvement.
What do the PHA do ?
The PHA support all people to achieve their full health an well being.
How do they support people
They provide dietary guidelines such as “Enjoy Healthy Eating”.
This booklet provides dietary guidelines for adults and children over 5 years old and are in the form of the eat well guide.
