3. Recommendations to support people to have healthier lifestyles

We recommend that all people are supported to reduce their risk of ill-health and live healthy lifestyles. This can be achieved by:

• Reducing the uptake of smoking and increasing our rates of smoking cessation
• Encouraging adults to become more active with better information through Go4Life
• Supporting schools to encourage healthy eating and activity for children and young people
• Improving weight loss services for the growing number of people who are overweight
• Providing support for families where obesity is a problem including treatment services for overweight children
• Encouraging people to avoid binge drinking and reduce the number of hospital admissions of intoxicated people
• Reducing the number of underage drinkers
• Improving alcohol treatment services for the growing number of people drinking alcohol at harmful levels by delivering brief interventions and a specialist treatment service