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" The government wants more restaurants to provide calorie information on their menus. Health secretary Andrew Lansley said he wants to make it as easy as possible for people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s why we&amp;#039;re working with industry to bring in calorie information on menus,&amp;#039; he revealed. &amp;#039;As a nation we are too unhealthy,&amp;#039; the health secretary continued. &amp;#039;We cost the NHS billions of pounds a year through bad diet, lack of exercise and poor lifestyle choices. We can and we must improve this.&amp;#039; The government has no plans to force restaurants to display calorie counters on their menus, but hopes that more outlets will volunteer to provide the information. Mr Lansley&amp;#039;s comments came as the UK&amp;#039;s Food Standards Agency (FSA) published a progress report on companies which have committed to reducing salt and saturated fat in their products, and to providing more nutritional information to consumers. The FSA said that participating companies are now offering a wider range of healthier options and have succeeded in reducing salt levels. Caterers are working to reduce saturated fat and have been providing nutritional information on menus, websites and leaflets. Clair Baynton, head of nutrition at the agency, said: &amp;#039;We very much welcome all the efforts being made by the catering sector to ensure their customers have greater choice and the information they need to choose healthier options.&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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