Diabetics have nothing to eat - please introduce sugar tax
Hi.. as a diabetic there is little available for me to eat which does not have added sugar or carbohydrates. I would appreiciate a sugar tax. I would appreciate a carb and sugar free menu item at restaurants. A sugar tax is the single biggest economic and public health and finances initiative still left untouched.
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duncan cairncross commented 2016-11-27 16:48:29 +1300I agree
we don’t have a “obesity” problem we have a sugar problem
mainly because of the wholesale replacement of fat with sugar over the last 40 years – driven by bad faulty science (and the sugar lobby) -
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Tim O'Donnell commented 2016-11-26 22:44:30 +1300I agree because there’s a fat epidemic that’s crippling our health system. Something has to be done if not this
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John Rusk commented 2016-11-26 09:54:53 +1300Maybe some controls on salt too? E.g. its seldom practical to bake one’s own bread, so we are at the mercy of how much salt is added by the bread companies. -
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Susan Jones commented 2016-11-26 08:16:38 +1300I didn’t realise there was problem, but you are correct. You would think like vegetarian, gluten free, etc now available the burgening number of diabetics would have triggered better reaction from food companies and food outlets. -
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Phil Marshall commented 2016-11-26 03:07:26 +1300We shouldn’t even need to discuss this! I would say it is a no-brainer but sadly not.
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Graeme Kiyoto-Ward commented 2016-11-25 18:48:21 +1300Agreed. Harmful substances where the costs are externalized and burdened back into the tax base should have compensatory taxes as both disincentive and cost recovery for the crown. Sugar, tobacco, narcotics come to mind.
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Graeme Kiyoto-Ward tagged this with interesting 2016-11-25 18:48:21 +1300
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Graeme Kiyoto-Ward tagged this with important 2016-11-25 18:48:20 +1300
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