Sugar swap for your family

Supporting national Change4Life 2019 campaign

The Council is supporting the 2019 national Change4Life new sugar swaps campaign to help families cut back on sugar by “making a swap when they next shop”.

Pupils from Cherbourg Primary School helped us celebrate the launch when the Borough’s glass collection lorry visited them. The lorry has been adorned with Change4Life vinyls to promote the awareness of sugar swaps this summer.

Research has shown that children in England are having around 2,800 sugar cubes more than they should each year, more than double the maximum recommended amount. Too much sugar is bad for children’s health and can lead to serious health problems such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. Too much sugar can also cause painful tooth decay.

All Borough libraries have teamed up for the campaign and are running fun interactive sugar swap activities for children and families throughout June.

Change4Life is showing families how easy it is to cut back on sugar by making a few simple swaps to their everyday food and drink. To help #makeaswap, when shopping, families can download the fun free food scanner app, which lets you look up the sugar, saturated fat and salt in everyday food and drinks.

Find out more: eastleigh.gov.uk/change4life Picture above: Pupils from Cherbourg Primary School, with the Borough’s glass collection lorry