Chronic Disease Information

healthy foods

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 

 

NHS FOOD SCANNER APP 

DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE  

DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY

 

NHS WEIGHT LOSS PLAN APP

DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE

 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY

 

NHS COUCH TO 5K APP

DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE

DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY

 

NHS ACTIVE 10 APP 

DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE

DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY

 

NHS DRINK FREE DAYS APP 

DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE

DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY

 

NHS QUIT SMOKING APP 

DOWNLOAD ON APP STORE

DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY

 

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:

Charleston Community Centre

Douglas Community Centre

Finmill Centre

Hilltown Community Centre

Menzieshill Community Hub

Mill O' Mains Community Hub

Whitfield Community Project

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/

 

Bowl of veg

Healthy Eating

Community Cookit - NHS Tayside

Green Health - Green Health Prescriptions | Green Health

No smoking sign

Smoking Cessation

Quit your way Scotland - Quit Your Way Scotland | NHS inform

NHS Stop Smoking - NHS Tayside

People playing sports

Active Living

Walking Scotland - Walking Scotland

SPFL - Fans in training - SPFL Trust | Football Fans in Training

 

Page last reviewed: 03 February 2026
Page created: 25 September 2025