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Sugar is the new tobacco
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Dave
Jan 20, 2022, 8:32:36 AM1/20/22
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If governments generally want to improve health they need to do to sugar
what they have done with tobacco successfully over the last 60 years or so.
My understanding is that in the USA bans and taxes aren't aligned with
freedom of choice, but there is an appetite for improved labelling. e.g.
clear warnings and pictures of fat people on soda pop bottles. Also
rotten teeth, and diseased livers.
The real health crisis is the metabolic one e.g. type 2 diabetes,
Alzheimer's, avoidable cancers, not COVID. With improved diet and
lifestyle my view is that expenditure on physical illness could get down
to 12% of GDP in western countries.
what they have done with tobacco successfully over the last 60 years or so.
My understanding is that in the USA bans and taxes aren't aligned with
freedom of choice, but there is an appetite for improved labelling. e.g.
clear warnings and pictures of fat people on soda pop bottles. Also
rotten teeth, and diseased livers.
The real health crisis is the metabolic one e.g. type 2 diabetes,
Alzheimer's, avoidable cancers, not COVID. With improved diet and
lifestyle my view is that expenditure on physical illness could get down
to 12% of GDP in western countries.
Incubus
Jan 21, 2022, 7:57:40 AM1/21/22
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unencumbered. My solution is for anything harmful - tobacco, sugar,
alcohol &c - to be taxed at a rate whereby those who consume them are
effectively paying for their treatment later in life.
JNugent
Jan 21, 2022, 9:49:44 AM1/21/22
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least).
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