5ive & 5ive Project

This is a new innovative project to help improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in Barrow-in-Furness; through food and physical activity awareness.

The project incorporates both the government's food and physical activity messages:

  • Eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day
  • Doing least thirty minutes of moderate physical activity five times a week for adults and young people doing at least one hour of physical activity on most days.

The project is not a 'diet' and is not about weight loss.  It is about how small changes in your daily routine can make a long term positive impact on your health. We hope it will continue to assist in the cultural shift in attitudes towards physical activity and food and influence long term lifestyle change.

To help you along the way we have produced some fact sheets for you to download!

5ive & 5ive Diary

To help you make those small changes we've produced a 5ive & 5ive Diary! The project diary has been designed to help you incorporate more fruit and vegetables in your diet and 'moderate physical activity' into your daily routine.

The diary allows you to keep a record of how much moderate physical activity you do each day and how many portions of fruit and vegetables you eat each day for 10 weeks.

The diary also has space for you to set goals, monitor progress and make comments about how you are feeling.