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Hexagon is one of the leaders on a pioneering project that aims to improve the health of our residents and staff. The Healthy Hexagon, Eat Less Salt project will provide healthy eating advice to over 3,000 households, showing people just how simple it can be to reduce their salt consumption.
 
The Eat Less Salt project has been funded by a partnership grant from the Food Standards Agency. The FSA has funded the project as part of a national salt campaign to help consumers reduce the amount of salt in their diet to no more than 6 grams a day – about a teaspoonful. This is the most adults should eat in a day and the lower the better. Children should have less.

The project is co-ordinated by campaign group The Food Commission and works closely with Hexagon residents and staff who can attend free Eat less salt workshops. The workshops will help people to decrease the amount of salt in their diets by helping them to understand labels, to choose lower salt versions of foods they eat and to try out some new ways of flavouring the food they cook. Residents and staff can also access information about salt in Home News and on this website. The project involves Hexagon residents from all over South east London, including tenants in living in hostels, and care homes. 

For further information on the Eat Less Salt project, make sure you read Home News and keep checking out Hexagon’s website. You can also contact Jessica Mitchell at The Food Commission on 020 7837 2250; or check out www.foodcomm.org.uk for information about healthy eating (including reducing your salt intake), children’s food and much more. Further advice regarding salt and healthy eating can be found at The Food Standards Agency website www.salt.gov.uk.

Do you have questions about Healthy Hexagon, Eat Less Salt?
We know that not all staff or residents will be able to come to Eat Less Salt workshops, but may have questions they want to ask about reducing salt consumption or other aspects of healthy eating. You may also have some ideas about the Eat Less Salt project.

Fill in the form below and either post or email it to us. We will answer within two weeks.

Send this form by return email to jessica@foodcomm.org.uk or Jessica Mitchell, The Food Commission, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF.

 

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