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.

For more information on healthy living please visit NHS Choices healthy living  section. This includes sections on 115 popular topics as well as sections for babies and children, men and women.

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

A healthy lifestyle can include eating a healthy diet and taking part in exercise. More information is available on the Cheshire East website regarding local leisure, culture and tourism which give details of local facilities including leisure centres and  libraries. 

However exercise does not have to be in a leisure centre and you may prefer to know where there is more information on walking or where you can access free maps of local walks .

The links below will take you to information that can assist you in making the right decision regarding some of your lifestyle choices at home, at work and during leisure time:

• 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
• Programmes for older people
• 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
• 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.