Download IslingtonLife - Autumn 2012 - Islington Council

Healthy living
Olympic sports
on your doorstep
If you’ve been inspired by London
2012 and think you could be the
next Bradley Wiggins, Mo Farah or
Nicola Adams then why not have a
go at an Olympic sport in Islington?
18 of the 26 Olympic sports are
on offer in the borough including
tennis, trampolining, swimming
and many other sports in the
council's leisure centres, and local
Look out for these rating signs around the borough
Where’s good to eat?
To help you choose where to eat or
shop for food in Islington you might
want to check the premises’ national
Food Hygiene rating.
Under a national scheme the
hygiene standards in restaurants,
pubs, cafés, takeaways, hotels, and
sports clubs offering boxing, judo
and triathlon. There’s also a free
5k run every Saturday morning in
Highbury Fields.
Go to www.islington.gov.
uk/active for full details.
To find out what's on offer
across London go to
www.getactivelondon.com
other places you eat at, as well as
supermarkets and other food shops
are available online. You can search for
the rating of any place you eat or shop
for food at food.gov.uk/ratings
Look out for shops displaying their
ratings too!
Are you living
a Hearty Life?
Did you know that cardiovascular
diseases - those that involve the heart
or blood vessels - are the leading cause
of death in Islington, with around 370
deaths each year?
Four out of ten of these deaths are
in residents under the age of 75 and are
potentially preventable. These figures
are higher than the average for the rest
of London and England as a whole.
Hearty Lives Islington (HLI) is a joint
environmental health and British Heart
Foundation project working on healthy
eating, one of the main lifestyle choices
affecting heart health. HLI recently
launched a workplace health initiative to
raise awareness amongst employees of
local small to medium sized businesses
on how to make healthier choices using
food labels.
Two important things you can do to
live a hearty life are:
reduce salt, saturated fat
and sugar in your diet
eat more fruit and veg.
For more advice
visit www.islington.gov.uk/
heartylives or email
Michelle Webb at
heartylives@islington.gov.uk
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