 |  Robert Rees
Robert is General Governor of the British Nutrition Foundation. He trained as a Chef at Westminster College, London between 1984 and 1987. He has a large catering background - Royal Crescent Hotel Bath, Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman Islands, Le Gavroche London and the Bath Spa Hotel Bath as well as Head Chefs positions at Circus Bath and Splinters in Christchurch.
Robert is a former Board Member of the Food Standards Agency. He is a former member of the Meat Hygiene Advisory Committee-supervising all aspects of UK Meat safety policy monitored by the Meat Hygiene Service with BSE controls being placed as a priority.
Robert has worked with Central TV, HTV, BBC, SKY and C4 as well as most BBC and Commercial Radio Stations. |  |
- Healthy stealth.
Don't make a radical change in your diet overnight - simple small changes make all the difference. Health can be achieved by stealth in cooking.
- Balance.
Remember it's about a balanced diet and not a banning of any food stuffs.
- Lifestyle.
Don't forget to consider your lifestyle as a whole - energy in needs to match energy out.
- Children's choices.
To get your children to make healthy choices too, you may like to get involved with your local school in setting up a food action group that can help develop what is known as a 'Whole School Approach' to food.
- Good food.
In your workplace, you may want to help your catering team develop a nutritional pledge - ensuring that all the meals cooked there are produced as healthily as they possibly can be. Nothing needs to be then marked out specifically as 'healthy'.
- Enjoy.
Don't let eating 'healthy' spoil your life - it need not stop those special occasion, eating out experiences and healthy can be tasty.
- Many ways of...
5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day doesn't always have to mean fresh fruit and veg - consider frozen, tinned, dried or juiced - all of them count.
- Pulses and pastas.
Potatoes are not part of your 5 a day though. A more nutritious option would be pulses and pastas that can absorb lots of your favourite flavours.
- Farmers markets.
Think about the role that local food can play in improving your health. Farmers Markets offer great value prices on seasonal and, often unusual, tasty produce - 'As fresh as it can be from the farm to the fork'.
- Packed lunches.
Vary your packed lunches if you go to school or work. You can choose delicious healthier options in sandwiches as fillings, a small snack perhaps both sweet and savoury, a piece of fruit and a nutritious drink.
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