Thoughts on solutions? A sugar tax as a quick start to a solution?
If being overweight or obese and lower ones quality of life, worsening ones health, and shortening ones life expectancy isnt getting soemone motivated then maybe taxes hitting the pocketbook will. Taxes and fees. Dont like the route of insurance premiums but taxes like on alcohol and tobacco.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto...llion-27046619
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Fat is becoming a weighty economic issue. Almost a third of the world’s population is overweight or obese, levying an economic cost that rivals that of armed conflict or smoking, according to research by McKinsey consultants.
The strain on healthcare budgets is set to mount because unless current trends are curbed, half the global adult population will be overweight in 15 years’ time. In a 150-page report, published on Thursday, the consultants put the global annual cost of obesity at $2tn – equivalent to 2.8 per cent of the world’s economic output.
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