Health improvement

A Healthier Future: Scotland’s diet and healthy weight delivery plan was published in 2018. It sets out our vision where everyone eats well and has a healthy weight.

It also sets out our ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030, and significantly reduce diet-related health inequalities.

The plan identifies five key outcomes:

• children get the best start in life - they eat well and have a healthy weight
• the food environment supports healthier choices
• people have access to effective weight management services
• leaders across all sectors promote healthy weight and diet
• diet-related health inequalities are reduced

This delivery plan goes together with a more active Scotland: Scotland’s physical activity delivery plan, published in 2018, for supporting and enabling people to become more active.

Changes to the promotion of high fat, sugar and salt food and drink were introducted in 2026.

We support a range of initiatives to influence and encourage the nation to adopt a healthier diet. The following are some examples:

• The Scottish Grocers Federation (SGF) Healthy Living Programme Guidance for Promoting Produce
• The Healthy Living Award
• Eat Better Feel Better

Previous strategies on diet and healthy weight:

• obesity route map action plan (March 2011)
• preventing overweight and obesity in Scotland: a route map towards healthy weight (February 2010)
• Healthy Eating, Active Living: an action plan to improve diet, increase physical activity and tackle obesity (2008-2011) (June 2008)