Unhealthy food is killing us - yet deaths from coronary heart disease could be halved if diets improved.

Currently over 1.2 million people in Greater Merseyside are failing to eat the recommended daily quota of 5 portions of fruit or vegetables and more than 800,000 Merseysiders are overweight or obese.

Heart of Mersey (HoM) has put poor diet at the top of its agenda for action. In partnership with others it plans to:

Reduce mean dietary fat intake in Merseyside to 30% of total energy intake by 2008 (of which a maximum of 10% should be saturated fats)

• Reduce the population mean level of serum total cholesterol (through reduction of saturated fat in diet) by 10% in 2008
• Increase the percentage of the population eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day by 2008
• Reduce the total salt intake in diet
• Reduce the total and frequency of sugar intake in diet