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Healthy living
Promoting healthy lifestyles for people in England and Wales is an important governmental responsibility. DH runs initiatives to help people quit smoking, eat better and exercise more, as well as health screening projects and training and skills programmes.
What's new
11 February 2009
Be Active, Be Healthy establishes a new framework for the delivery of physical activity alongside sport for the period leading up to the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and beyond.
22 July 2008
The Agency and the Department of Health (DH) have jointly written to food industry leaders and other interested parties setting out plans to assist in delivering the Healthy Food Code of Good Practice.
The National Child Measurement Programme
The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) involves all children in Reception and Year 6 having their height and weight recorded. The exercise will take place in schools every year.
Food advertising and promotion to children
This section of the website has been designed to ensure key stakeholders and the general public are kept up to date with the Government's progress and activity on food advertising and promotion to children.
Food and Health Action Plan
The DH is working across Government, with the food industry, and with other stakeholders to establish a coherent national plan to help people in England improve their diets.
Young People's Health Demonstration Sites
The Department of Health's Children and Young People's Public Health Team and Child Health, Maternity and Women's Health Branch invites full applications from research teams who want to bid to undertake evaluation of its programme of Young People's Health Demonstration Sites.
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More than 20 million people can swim for free in England from 1 April 2009
Almost 300 local councils are providing swimming free of charge for people 60 and over, as part of the government’s free swimming programme. More than 200 of those also offer free swimming to 16s and under.
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