Healthy Living  

The Health Improvement Team at Cheshire East Council promotes healthy living and aims to improve safety, health and wellbeing of people in their communities, to reduce inequalities in health and to prevent ill health.

It is important that we follow a healthy lifestyle in order to keep our bodies and minds in a healthy condition. This can help to prevent the development of ill health in the future. If you would like more information you can visit the British Heart Foundation website.

National Wear Red Day

National Wear Red Day in February is an easy way to be a part of the Red for Heart campaign. More information on how to keep your heart healthy is available from the British Heart Foundation website. 

Determinants of Health

The following determinants were recognised in “Our Healthier Nation” in 1998 as factors that affect people’s health:

• Fixed factors e.g. age, sex, genetics
• Social and economic circumstances e.g. poverty, unemployment, social exclusion, crime
• Environment e.g. air quality, water quality, housing, working environment
• Lifestyle e.g. diet, physical exercise, smoking, alcohol, sexual health, drugs
• Access to services e.g. health, social services, transport, leisure

Therefore the factors that can affect our health include a variety of lifestyle choices that we need to make as individuals. The lifestyle choices we make as individuals can also affect our children.

How to stay healthy

The information available on the links below can assist you in making the right decision regarding your lifestyle choices:

• What we choose to eat
• Food safety and storage
• Healthy lunchboxes
• The Down to earth project
• Details on the breastfeeding directory for the Congleton area
• How much exercise we do
• Availability of activity programs for young people 
• programmes for older people
• Weight Management programme
• Programmes for referred clients 
• The amount of alcohol we consume 
• Availability of stop smoking advice 
• Smoke free places
• The use of drugs
• Keeping safe in the sun
• Message in a bottle, containing medical details available to emergency services
• Details on the Golden Apple Award and the winners
• Availability of talks on healthy lifestyles 
• Environmental Health issues
• Breast feeding in public places
• Health in the workplace

More Information can also viewed on the following links to external websites:

The Great Swapathon is a fun activity from Change4Life to help you and your family make small, simple changes to eat well, move more and live longer.

It’s easy, fun, free and tailored to you or your family.

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Info Link

• InfoLink – Provides you with support and access to services that can support your health and wellbeing. Click on the link and access a wide range of information on the different services that can help you.