Unhealthy foods should be taxed to encourage healthy eating and halt growing obesity epidemic, a leading academic claims.However, increasing number of obese people and related health problems is burning issue of most countries health department.
To help tackle the problem of obesity in Britian , Dr Rayner proposed a 12p tax on soft drinks, claiming it could save up to 2,000 lives a year as people switch to healthier alternatives.
He linked the proposed rise to existing taxes which are already in place on cigarettes and alcohol and said: 'We are in the grip of an obesity epidemic. We, as a nation, are eating too many calories.
“We use taxes to discourage drinking and smoking. It raises lots of money for the treasury and prevented people from dying too early. There are now lots of evidence that manipulating food prices could promote healthy eating.”
To support his claim, Dr Rayner referenced how Denmark has brought in a 'fat tax' on foods with saturated fats, saying the Scandinavian country has 'got the right idea.'' I don't care whether it's hot or cold, whether you got it from a takeaway or a shop - I'd like us to tax all unhealthy foods from butter to biscuits. And in doing so we can tackle a problem that will only keep expanding.
It has been found in earlier US study that taxing high- fat and sugary junk food is a more effective way to fight obesity than making healthy foods like fruit and vegetables more affordable.
The lead researcher psychologist Leonard Epstein and his team researchers at the University of Buffalo in New York had found in a study that hiking the price of junk food, as would happen with a so-called "sin tax," was more effective at getting the women to buy a week's shopping that was lower in overall calories than was cutting the price of the healthy food items.
In fact, cutting the prices of healthy foods like broccoli, yoghurt, grapes, eggs and fish actually increased the overall calorie value of the foods and drinks the women put in their shopping carts suggest the US researchers.
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