NHS Forth Valley Websites & Resources
- Choose To Lose – This website was created by NHS Forth Valley Dietitians to provide you with knowledge and tools to help you lose weight at your own pace.
- Child Healthy Weight – This website was created by NHS Forth Valley Dietitians to help support children, young people and their families work towards a healthier weight.
- Community Nutrition – Our Public Health Nutrition team can help with information on issues that may be impacting your food choices. This may include access to food, limiting food waste or ideas for healthy recipes.
- Physical Activity – Find out more about how you can be more active in your own home and what is available within your local area.
- Return to Fitness Videos – This series of videos are designed to help you improve your activity levels or help you recover from lower limb joint pain.
- Step on Stress – Online group education and guided self-help courses
- Stop Smoking Service
- What You Can Do To Manage Your Weight – Evidence Based Self-help
Other Useful Websites
- 12 Week Weight Management Programme | NHS Inform – Access a free and interactive online 12- week NHS Weight Management programme which is designed for adults over 18, with a BMI over 25 (not suitable for pregnant women).
- Action in Mind – Action in Mind provides a range of services, in the Stirling area, aimed at helping people experiencing or recovering from mental ill-health.
- A Local Information System for Scotland | ALISS
- Beat Eating Disorders | Momentum – Guided self-help programme for binge eating disorders.
- Binge Eating Disorder | NHS Inform
- Breathing Space – A free, confidential phone and web-based service for people in Scotland experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety.
- Find a Freelance Dietitian | British Dietetic Association
- Coping with money worries | NHS Inform
- Counterweight
- Daylight – Online digital treatment for anxiety and low mood.
- Eat Well, Your Way | Food Standards Scotland – is a resource to help you take small manageable steps to eat healthier.
- FDAMH – Falkirk’s Mental Health Association – FDAMH’s mission is to assist people to recover from mental health problems and to promote mental well being. FDAMH offers a range of services that aim to empower individuals to lead a fulfilling and participative life. They provide education and support for carers and are committed to bringing people together across the local community.
- Fad Diets – Food Fact Sheet | British Dietetic Association
- Lose Weight – Better Health | NHS
- Mind to Mind | NHS Inform
- Overeaters Anonymous – Access peer support to overcome urges to overeat.
- Planning Meals and Recipes | Parent Club
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Diet – Food Fact Sheet | British Dietetic Association
- SilverCloud – SilverCloud offers a range of online self-help programmes to give you the skills to deal with everyday issues that affect your emotional health. Free online self-referral – Use access code: Scotland2020
- Sleep Problems – Self Help Guide | NHS Inform
- Sleepio – Online digital treatment for those with sleep problems
- Waiting Well Hub | NHS Inform
- Weight Loss – Food Fact Sheet | British Dietetic Association
Easy Read Resources
- Easy Health – Easy Health are an online library of accessible health information with simple words, clear pictures and films. They have lots of easy read resources including information on Obesity.
- Healthy Eating – Easy Read Downloads – Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
- Healthy Life Styles – Download Easy Read information sheets – A Picture of Health – NHS South of England – Making Health Information Easier.
- Learning Disability Service – Leeds and Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Have developed a range of easy read, downloadable resources including a Nutrition Support fact sheet.
Useful Apps
- Couch to 5K App – Download this free NHS App to help get you off the couch and reach your health goals.
- Food Scanner App – Download this free NHS App to help you find healthier swaps the next time you shop.
- Lose Weight – Better Health – Download the free NHS Weight Loss Plan. Keep track of your eating habits, and develop a healthier, more active lifestyle with this easy-to-follow 12-week, weight-loss plan.
- Myfitnesspal – This tracking app can support you to build on healthy habits with the all-in-one food, exercise and calorie tracker.
- NutraCheck – Is a food and activity tracker app, use the barcode scanning app on your phone or tablet, keep an online food diary, or use both together.
- Useful Health Apps | NHS – Better Health