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Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, Region
Department of Health
Updated almost 11 years ago
Age-standardised proportion of adults (16+) who met the recommended guidelines of consuming five or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day by gender.To help reduce the risk of deaths from chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer. The Five-a-day programme was introduced to increase fruit and vegetable consumption within the general population. Its central message is that...
Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours
Department of Health
Updated over 12 years ago
Range of modelled indicators of health lifestyle choices. These estimates must be used with caution. They will almost certainly not mirror precisely any available measures from local studies or surveys (although research by NatCen and others have shown that they tend to be related). 1) Current smoking among adults (aged 16 or over). Current smokers were defined in the HSfE...