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Recipe for change


by Helen Lloyd


Scotland, Supporting Healthy Choices sets out 17 commitments for action across four priority areas.


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HE BATTLE TO curb Scotland’s rising obesity epidemic is being


taken onto the High Street and into workplaces across Scotland.


More than 1,500 food providers have commited to improving the food they serve the public. Now more than 725 of them have been officially recognised for their health-conscious policies.


Restaurants, takeaways, cafes and hotels and other caterers have been presented with a Healthy Living Award in recognition of their atempts to offer folk healthier food options.


With an emphasis on less fat, sugar and salt and using healthier cooking methods, the image of fast food is changing. There has been an increase, too, in the use of fresh fruit and veg and whole grain bread.


Produced in partnership with the Food Standards Agency in


18 July 2015


These include: puting children’s health first in food- related decisions; rebalancing promotional choices to encourage healthier choices; improving education and information available to the public and changing recipes to reduce levels of salt, sugar and fat.


Scotland has some of the highest rates of obesity in the western world, with 64 per cent of adults classed as overweight, and 27 per cent as obese. One in six Scots children is currently at risk of obesity.


It is estimated that obesity costs the NHS more than £600 million a year by leading


“I realised that for some of our applicants, healthy eating was a new concept. It required


significant change.”


:Anne Lee, manager of healthyliving awards


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