Chronic Disease Information
The NHS encourages healthy lifestyle choices, including regular physical activity, healthy eating, and smoking cessation, to help manage chronic conditions effectively. You can find some useful links below.
Looking after your health and wellbeing
Looking after our physical and mental health is good for us and can help to deal with difficult times in the future. The link below provides up to date information on the steps we can all take to improve our health, as well as the local and national sources of support that we can access to help with this.
LOOKING AFTER YOUR HEALTH AND WELLBEING - NHS
KICKSTART YOUR HEALTH BY DOWNLOADING THE FOLLOWING APPS
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NHS FOOD SCANNER APP |
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NHS WEIGHT LOSS PLAN APP |
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NHS COUCH TO 5K APP |
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NHS ACTIVE 10 APP |
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NHS DRINK FREE DAYS APP |
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NHS QUIT SMOKING APP |
Check your Body Mass Index(BMI)
Community Hubs and Centres have various fitness and wellbeing classes available to you. These can range from fitness classes to mindfulness classes.
Find your local hub below:
Douglas Community Centre
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A DETAILED LIST OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES
British Heart Foundation https://www.bhf.org.uk/
Diabetes uk https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/coronavirus
Asthma uk https://www.asthma.org.uk/
Chest Heart Stroke Scotland https://www.chss.org.uk/
British Lung Foundation https://www.blf.org.uk/
Weight loss
NHS Better Health - Lose weight - Better Health - NHS
Slimming World - Welcome to Slimming World | Achieve your weight loss dreams
Healthy Eating
Community Cookit - NHS Tayside
Green Health - Green Health Prescriptions | Green Health
Smoking Cessation
Quit your way Scotland - Quit Your Way Scotland | NHS inform
NHS Stop Smoking - NHS Tayside
Active Living
Walking Scotland - Walking Scotland
SPFL - Fans in training - SPFL Trust | Football Fans in Training
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