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Better Health Families

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NHS Food Scanner App

The app is the ideal health hack for families, helping them to swap food and drinks that are higher in sugar, saturated fat and salt to healthier alternatives. With a simple scan of the barcodes, families can see how much sugar, saturated fat and salt is in everyday food and drinks.

You can download the app and get more information about the campaign, food and recipes on the Better Health Families website.

You can also find 10 Minute Shake Up activities - favourite Disney characters will inspire children to rediscover being active by having loads of fun outdoors, together with their friends and family.

Go to the Better Health Families website

10 Minute Shake Up

We’re supporting the new Better Health Families 10 Minute Shake Up campaign. Now is the time to get inspired and be active! Shake things up with these brand new games, inspired by some of your kids’ favourite Disney characters.

Go to the 10 Minute Shake up website

Be more active

Find ways to build activity into every day, moving more and staying healthy.

Get ideas for how your family can get more active.

Healthy eating

Try our simple healthy eating tips to get you and your family into great healthy eating habits.

Get ideas for snacks, lunchboxes and new recipes for family meals.