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Food and Diet

Achieving a balanced healthy diet will help you feel better and improve the quality of your life. Plus it will reduce the risks of conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, some cancers, osteoporosis (thin bones) and help you reduce your weight.

Ten Footsteps: Step seven - Sleep
Step seven in the Ten Footsteps to Living Well With Pain is 'Sleep'.
My Living Well: Eating well
Why is it important to eat well?

It's important to eat well for a number of reasons:

- To maintain a healthy weight
- To lower your risk of developing diseases and conditions
- To help you to feel good about yourself
- To give you more energy to enjoy life
Mood-Improving Foods
Find out about foods which can improve your mood in this thought for food blog from food and health information.
Food and Mood
Knowing what foods we should and shouldn’t be eating can be really confusing, especially when it feels like the advice changes regularly. However, evidence suggests that as well as affecting our physical health, what we eat may also affect the way we feel.
Healthy Somerset
Everything you need to know about the support that's available in Somerset to help you become healthy and improve your wellbeing.
NHS: The Eat Well Guidelines
Eating a healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health, and can help you feel your best.
The Eatwell Guide
The Eatwell Guide is a policy tool used to define government recommendations on eating healthily and achieving a balanced diet.
Arthritis Diet
Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Arthritis: Learn more about the anti-inflammatory foods that can help reduce inflammation and pain
10 Foods That Fight Pain
WebMD Slideshow with 10 foods that help to fight pain.
A diet for patients with chronic pain
Patients with chronic pain need a high-protein-intake diet, with avoidance of carbohydrate-induced episodes of hypoglycemia and weight gain.
Harvard Medical School: Can diet heal chronic pain?
The foods you eat (and don't) can determine how well your body fights painful inflammation
Diet and Pain Leaflet
We all know that what we eat can affect our health. New research, however, shows that there may be a specific link between diet and pain. Pain Concern interviewed pain specialist Dr Rae Bell who tells us more and outlines steps you can take to improve your diet as part of your pain management regime.
Food and Pain
Food is a major, and enjoyable, part of our lives and eating the right sort of food can have an effect on your general health and even your pain levels. Read about good nutrition, how food can affect pain levels, some great cooking tips and our recommended books.