Broome County is taking a healthy initiative...

Pushing all its restaurants to cut out the Trans Fat.

It's this weeks Steps to A Healthier New York.

There's an old saying... You are what you eat.

And the Broome County Health Department wants to make sure you're eating right.

So it's pushing more than 700 restaurants in Broome County to cut trans fats out of their menus.

"Trans fat is an industrial engineered fat its an artificial fat that was created by the food industry to have a very stable shelf life which enabled it to be reused again and again and again. The impact on the human body however from this item is that it really depresses good cholesterol and elevates bad cholesterol in the blood stream," says Public Health Director Claudia Edwards.

It's sending out surveys to area restaurants to see what ingrediants and fats they use in the meals... And hope to post that information online for everyone to see.

The Steps to A Healthier New York Program has played a big role in this initiative.

"The ability to make very healthy food choices, choices that will not be encouraging or fostering the development of cardiovascular disease would be a primary focus for steps," says Edwards.

New research shows 23 percent of cholesterol related deaths could be avoided if there was no trans fat.

So while local restaurants get a makeover you can check the food in your kitchen at home.

"All you gotta do is turn the label around and look at what you're buying and then you can avoid consuming that at home," says Edwards.

For more information, log on to broomesteps.org.