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Health and Lifestyle Advice

Find more advice in our Food Safety and Healthy Eating section
Find more in our Food and Healthy Eating section

Find practical advice on healthy living and sources of reliable online medical information.

Explore this section, and find more in our Food Safety and Healthy Eating section.

In this section...

  • Alcohol - Know Your Limits - advice on sensible drinking and staying safe on a night out. Units of alcohol and the effects on your health. Cutting down on alcohol can help you lose weight, get fit and save money
  • Help to Stop Smoking - where to get free advice and support. Get help to quit with East Sussex NHS Stop Smoking Service
  • Healthy Living - top tips for good health, including drinking more water
  • Change4Life - join the campaign to eat well, move more, and live longer
  • Exercise - advice on everyday activities to improve your health
  • Sun Safety - tips to protect yourself in the sun to prevent skin cancer
  • Hot Weather - Heatwave Advice - how to avoid heat exhaustion or heatstroke during hot summer weather
  • Hair and Beauty - including advice on sunbeds and UV tanning
  • Gambling and Your Health - tips to avoid addiction problems
  • Winter Safety and Health - flu jabs, keeping warm and well in winter

Health Websites and Leaflets

NHS Direct provides health information 24 hours a day, through a website, digital TV service or telephone helpline - 0845 46 47. The NHS Choices website has a health topics A-Z, body map and Live Well section with health advice for each stage of your life.

To find hundreds of local and national support groups, search our web directory. We have also selected links from this page to reliable health information websites and leaflets to download.

You can access over 500 Patient UK information leaflets on health, diseases and medicines. Use the Patient UK Web Directory for one-stop access to trustworthy websites which have been reviewed by GPs.

You are at: www.eastbourne.gov.uk/lifestyle

Health and Lifestyle Advice Online
Health and Lifestyle Advice Online - [102 KB] Publicity flyer promoting the advice and publications available on the council's website at www.eastbourne.gov.uk/lifestyle
Alcohol Safety Advice Online
Alcohol Safety Advice Online - [146 KB] Have Fun, Stay Safe - Publicity flyer promoting advice for young people available on the council's website at www.eastbourne.gov.uk/staysafe
Smokefree Advice Online
Smokefree Advice Online - [101 KB] Publicity flyer promoting the advice, publications and forms available on the council's website at www.eastbourne.gov.uk/smokefree