Food enforcement does food endorsement

We have been working in partnership with Glasgow City Council Environment and Sustainability Service to promote the healthyliving award to Glasgow’s catering businesses and, in particular, those that are situated around the official venues and main transport hubs.

We are working together to encourage caterers to embrace healthier catering and make it easier for their customers to eat healthily when eating out.

The Food Enforcement team has been highlighting the award to cafes, restaurants, workplaces and other catering businesses of all sizes as they carry out their routine food hygiene inspections.

To be eligible to register for a healthyliving award, a business must first be registered with their local food enforcement team and have met basic food hygiene requirements, which equates to a pass rating in the Food Hygiene Information Scheme.

Contact us to register or find out more enquiries@healthylivingaward.co.uk

Food in MIND

The mental health charity MIND has produced a guide explaining how different foods can significantly affect people’s mental and emotional health. It describes which foods can cause problems, which foods can help, why and how to change your diet for the better, and where to get help and advice.
                  
Many people seek to take control of their mental health using self-help and to find approaches they can use alongside, or even instead of, prescribed medication.
One self-help strategy is to make changes to what they eat, and there is a growing interest in how food and nutrition can affect emotional and mental health.

There are many explanations for the cause-and-effect relationship between food and mood, which are described in the booklet. These include: fluctuations in blood sugar levels; brain chemicals; reactions to artificial chemicals in foods; hypersensitivity; and low levels of vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids.

The booklet can be downloaded from the MIND website at:
www.mind.org.uk/media/7498/mind-guide-to-food-and-mood-2010.pdf

Other advice on mental health is available on the Information and Advice page of the MIND website at www.mind.org.uk/information-support. People in Scotland can also find useful advice on mental health on the Scottish Association for Mental Health website at www.samh.org.uk.

Please note: This guide is not endorsed by the healthyliving award and not necessarily in keeping with healthyliving award principles.

Celebrating your achievement

Our award ceremony will be held in March at Scotland’s national stadium and premier Commonwealth Games venue, Hampden Park in Glasgow. Businesses that have achieved the award for the first time have been invited and can expect further information in due course.

So, if you are working towards your first award and are close to completion, we recommend that you get in touch to book your assessment visit as soon as possible to ensure that you can be included in the award ceremony.

On the day, we enjoy meeting chefs, cooks and managers face to face and really celebrating your achievement. We look forward to seeing many of our hard working clients on the day and hearing about your experiences.

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