Doctors demand soft drinks tax and healthier hospital food to tackle obesity

[Northerner]

Britain's 220,000 doctors are demanding a 20% increase in the cost of sugary drinks, fewer fast food outlets near schools and a ban on unhealthy food in hospitals to prevent the country's spiralling obesity crisis becoming unresolvable.

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is calling for action by ministers, the NHS, councils and food firms, as well as changes in parental behaviour, to break the cycle of "generation after generation falling victim to obesity-related illnesses and death".

In a report spelling out the problem in stark terms, the academy says doctors are "united in seeing the epidemic of obesity as the greatest public health crisis facing the UK. The consequences of obesity include diabetes, heart disease and cancer and people are dying needlessly from avoidable diseases."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/18/doctors-soft-drinks-tax-obesity

 

[LeeLee]

Without the junk food and fizzy drinks machines in hospitals, the medical staff would have to bring their own junk for night shifts!

 

[Vicsetter]

Strange, this from the Telegraph:

Malcolm Walker, the chief executive of frozen food chain Iceland has claimed that schools, hospitals and prisons should be ?blamed? for the horse meat scandal for allegedly ?driving down? food quality to cut costs.

According to him the unhealthy food in schools and hospitals is due to cost cutting.

Also it's the government interference with the price of sugar in the USA that results in the use of HFCS instead😱 are these 'experts' mad?