• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Because 64% of adults are overweight or obese, with 26% being in the heavier classification. It’s costing the NHS £11 billion per year, and 13% of hospital admissions in 2023 were due to being overweight. The cost to the economy through sick days, reduced productivity and death is around £100bn per year.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 hours ago

      Me and you (hopefully) both understand that that is not a human mistake rather than mega corpos profit-hungry strategies to hook people up on sugary drinks. Instead of limiting peoples choices, we should strafe to punish companies for their aggressive strategies towards customers. As simple as regulate how much actual sugar goes in a drink. People will complain and hopefully drink less if it is less sweet. The ones who would keep drinking would ingest less sugar. Win-win for humanity, lose-win for corpos. This new rule looks like is fighting the cause in a backwards direction.

    • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Yeah turns out people were incapable of making good decisions on their own. Which is fine, unless you’re asking everyone around you to pay for it.