BHF comment
BHF supports new Tesco report to help shoppers eat healthily
Published:
6 January 2021
Published:
6 January 2021
The new report, A balanced diet for a better future, is part of an ongoing commitment from Tesco to help customers look after their health and the environment by eating a well-balanced diet.
Research has shown that eating more plant-based foods and less meat can reduce your risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors, such as type 2 diabetes.
The new report sets out how Tesco will work with us and its other partners to make it easier for its 300,000 employees and millions of UK customers to rebalance their diets and reap the health benefits.
The pledges include reformulating food products to make them healthier, helping customers find affordable, healthy and sustainable options in stores, and providing shoppers with healthy eating guidance.
Making the healthy choice easier
We have been part of the “Little helps for healthier living” partnership with Tesco, CRUK and Diabetes UK since 2018.
The partnership brings together the skills and expertise of some of the UK's biggest health charities with the scale and reach of Tesco to help lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes.
In a joint statement from Tesco’s Health Charity Partners – the BHF, CRUK, and Diabetes UK – we said: “Eating a healthy, balanced diet is an easy way to boost your health, and Tesco’s new report is one great example of how supermarkets can help make the healthier choice the easier choice for customers.”
Tracy Parker, our Senior Dietitian, added: “Plant-based foods have been shown to help lower your risk of heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors, such as type 2 diabetes.
“Most of us will reap health rewards by switching to a traditional Mediterranean style diet full of fruit, vegetables, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds and wholegrains with less meat.”
You can read more about Tesco's new report here.
“Most of us will reap health rewards by switching to a traditional Mediterranean style diet full of fruit, vegetables, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds and wholegrains with less meat.”
You can read more about Tesco's new report here.