Health and Wellbeing vision

i). Health and wellbeing, food production and health at work and home should be all part of the same joined up approach. Our workplaces should invigorate and keep us healthy with opportunities for exercise and healthy food, whilst our doctors treat the cause as well as the symptoms of disease through diet and exercise advice. Farms should grow healthy organic produce packed with micronutrients, whilst our  schools train our children to prepare and cook healthy food on a budget. Supermarkets need to stop stocking food that can kill you packed with fats and salt and sugar and promote healthy alternatives.

ii) The NHS should provide screening tests such as blood tests for C Reactive Protein measured at below 3, with training for doctors to ensure that they can interpret the results in terms of inflammation resulting from an infection, compared with cardio vascular disease.

iii) Doctors should be trained in a range of preventative medicine and surgeries should provide a range of advice from food as medicine, to exercise, relaxation and stress management. Doctors should see patients who are well to help ensure that they are not for example eating diets linked to a higher risk of cancer

iv) all Managers should receive training in identifying mental health issues from stress to depression and employers give access to counselling and expert psychiatric care to nip problems in the bud at an early stage

v) workplaces should treat people as individuals and encourage them to exercise at work, take regular breaks from computers and telephones, thereby raising the quality of productivity

vi) the Government should legislate to ban hydrogenated and most saturated fats from food within 3 years, apart from dairy products such as cheese where this is impossible to achieve

vii) all manufactured food should face restrictions on the amount of sugar and salt they contain.
Voluntary approaches have failed which is why enforcement is required to prevent some manufacturers making profit which leads to greater cost to society in terms of poor health

viii) all workplaces should move towards naturally ventilated systems within 5 years which take warm stale air from the buildings and use that to heat cool natural air coming in at the base of the building. Workplaces should also use natural paints and finishes to avoid staff breathing in toxic free radicals. Photocopiers and printers should be designed to produce minimal fumes and should be sited in separate ventilated rooms from staff.

viiii) The government should work with employers to legislate re work life balance with 45 hours a week being the maximum, as productivity is generally poorer after these hours

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