Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government will work with major supermarkets to make healthy food choices easier for consumers. He outlines plans to reduce calorie intake across the population, tackling rising obesity and easing pressure on the NHS without the need for additional taxes. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00We've got an obesity crisis in this country. Rates have doubled since the 90s.
00:04One in five children leaving primary school obese and it's costing the NHS ÂŁ11 billion a year with that bill set to rise.
00:11And that's why we're taking a radically different approach working with supermarkets to make sure that our shopping baskets in the future are healthier
00:20and in a way that we won't actually notice particularly as consumers and doesn't rely on the government trying to dictate
00:27how supermarkets sell or worse still increase things like taxes.
00:32So if we reduce our calorie intake by just 50 calories a day, then more than 300,000 children will be lifted from obesity.
00:41Two million adults. If obese people reduce their calorie intake by around the same amount as a bottle of Coke,
00:48then we'll have obesity rates. And crucially, we're doing this with supermarkets rather than two supermarkets.
00:54That's why supermarkets like Sainsbury's and Tesco's have welcomed this.
00:57We're going to work together, get Britain healthier, reduce the cost of obesity so that we've got a healthier, happier, fairer country
01:05and a sustainable NHS that's always there for us when we need it.
