Bradford: Takeaway project aims to cut obesity levels

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Bradford: Takeaway project aims to cut obesity levels
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The scheme hopes to give people healthier choices from fast food restaurants.

Fast food restaurants are being encouraged to make their menus healthier in an attempt to improve people's health.nearly 70% of the city's residents are overweight or obese.

Project development manager Helen Maguire said her team spoke to 250 fast food customers in Bradford and found 82% would like the food they eat from takeaways to be healthier. "For me what's working is instead of offering something completely separate, takeaways change the way they work," Mr Hussain said.

"It sounds like a great policy but in Bradford we're full of small businesses who don't have 250 employees," Tim Howells, the city's head of public health, said.Tim Howells, head of public health at Bradford Council, said small changes could make a difference"The plan for the second and third year of the contract is to work out what we can do and what we can't do and then roll it out across the district," Mr Howells said.

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