Should the government get involved in reducing Britain’s Waistline?
original image modified by ed Fizzy drinks should be heavily taxed and junk food adverts banished until after the watershed, doctors have said, in a call for action over obesity. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which represents nearly every doctor in the UK, said ballooning waistlines already constituted a "huge crisis". Its report said current measures were failing and called for unhealthy foods to be treated more like cigarettes. - bbc This is similar to drug sellers giving discounts to new users, and then charging them high prices upon addiction. In this context, we have the pretense of concern for our well-being being used to justify said rises. Regulate these industries so that we can have a choice between good stuff as opposed to having a choice between having or not having what we have been made to be accustomed to. Secondly, There are quite a few whom believe that the government should just stay out of it and not ‘nanny’ the people in this, amongst other respe...