Your health, your way

Your NHS guide to long-term conditions and self care

Tools to help you live well

Below are 10 simple, interactive tools to help you towards a healthier lifestyle. You can use them to find out how fit you are, how healthy your diet is, whether you are drinking too much and whether you are the right weight.

You’ll also find recipes to make healthy eating quick and easy and, if you smoke, you can find out the financial and health costs of smoking and get support to help you quit.

5 A DAY meal planner

This meal planner makes it easy to get your five a day. It's packed with tasty recipes and compiles your weekly shopping list for you.


Check your drinking

Use this tool to find out if you are drinking too much and to check if the amount that you are drinking could be damaging your health.


Are you a healthy weight?

Calculate your BMI (body mass index) to check your weight and get tailored advice on how to reach your ideal size.


Check your fitness

Take this simple fitness test to find out how fit you are and whether your activity levels need a boost.


Put your diet to the test

Could your diet be putting your health at risk? Find out if you are eating healthily with this short test.


Find out which tests you should be having

Use this interactive timeline to check which NHS tests you should have and when.


Add up what smoking is costing you

This tool works out the financial and health costs of your habit and shows you how stopping will improve your prospects.


Get fitness tips every day

Get useful fitness tips and information about local events sent to your computer each day.


Get support to help you stop smoking

Receive daily stop smoking support to your computer with this 30-day course. It will help keep your willpower high and tell you how much money you're saving.


Health choices video wall

From planning for long-term care to changing to a healthier lifestyle, see how people are making active choices about their health and wellbeing.


Last reviewed: 10/11/2011

Next review due: 10/11/2013

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