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vielife's SmarterEating lifestyle management program

Eat your way to a healthier life. What we eat has a dramatic effect on our health and how we feel.

Looking for ways to feel better? Healthier eating doesn’t have to mean boring eating. In fact, the key to healthy eating is eating a variety of foods.

The SmarterEating program is just one of the lifestyle management programs that are available through vielife. The six-step online program is highly personalized, encourages healthy eating and can help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

By focusing on healthy eating rather than ‘dieting’, this program promotes practical lifestyle changes that can be maintained in the long-term.

 

Features and tools »

  • 6 weekly steps and easy to read chapters 
  • A rich article library on nutrition
  • Interactive tools: diary and online trackers 
  • Weekly behavior change exercises, challenges, polls and quizzes
  • Weekly email reminders 
  • Printable PDFs for each step to read on the go

 

Did you know? »

  • BMI is in itself a strong predictor of overall mortality
  • A faster eating rate is related to higher weight
  • It is recommended that you try to eat a diet which provides 15-30% of your total calories from fat
  • Setting a healthy eating goal for personal reasons, such as feeling better about yourself, increases the chances of you succeeding and making the changes last in the long run
  • A measurable goal helps you to see the progress you are making. Setting goals such as eating five portions of fruit and veg every day or snacking twice a day are things that can keep you on track
  • Breakfast jumpstarts your metabolism and keeps it running optimally thereafter. Additionally, research shows that people who eat breakfast eat less calories throughout the rest of the day
  • Experts suggest it takes 8 - 10 tries before you learn to like a new food
  • Ingredients are listed in order of their weight, from greatest to least. So the main ingredient in the food product is the first one you see on an ingredients list
  • Food products labelled ‘lite’ or ‘light’ must have at least 30% less fat or calories as a standard version of that product

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Lifestyle changes