Many people with lung disease get breathless, and as a consequence believe they cannot exercise (which as you will see elsewhere in our website actually is not the case).

As a consequence of exercising less, and eating too much, weight gain occurs. This results in even more breathless!

We'd like to help you with this, so we hope the You Tube video provides "food for thought" (pun intended), and the information below might also be useful to you.

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Healthy Helpings in Grampian

Healthy Helpings, is a free 6 week course which offers a fun, interactive and informative way of finding out more about healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle, and the best way to put it into practice in your everyday life.

Who is it for?

Healthy Helpings is suitable for adults over the age of 16 who want to lose weight. Healthy Helpings is not suitable for children.

What happens?

As a part of a group of 10-12 people you will come to Healthy Helpings for 1 hour, once a week for 6 weeks.

Sessions will include:

The importance of healthy eating and exercise in achieving a healthy lifestyle

Quick, easy healthy meal ideas

Making sense of food labels

The importance of fluid

The effect of alcohol on calorie intake

Keeping going!