SUGAR TAX

People eat too much sugar and this is harmful to their health. The USA and UK governments are really worried about how bad sugar is for public health. Therefore, both of the governments are trying to find solutions for this problem. Moreover, “The World Health Organization” (WHO) says that there should be sugar tax. WHO warns the governments and says that if they cannot take action quickly, they will have really big medical, social and economic issues. WHO also claims that junk food sales at schools should be banned to prevent kids from getting fatter. They say, “Childhood obesity is at crisis level in many countries and it needs an urgent and serious solution. The increasing rates of childhood obesity cannot be ignored and governments need to accept the responsibility for the issue.”

To start with, the government in the USA made new diet guidelines for people to stay healthy. In these guidelines, they recommend that people get less than 10 per cent of their calories from sugar. On the other hand, Britain’s leader said he was thinking about a tax on sugar so that people wouldn’t buy too much sugar. The rates of obesity in Britain are getting higher every day and the politicians are trying to find solutions to lower the rates of obesity.

According to them, consuming less sugar in food is an effective way to solve this problem. There was a study in Mexico and both governments looked at that study. It showed that when the rates on sugary drinks increased, the sales decreased by nearly twelve per cent. Also, right after the new taxes, the sales of mineral water went up by four per cent. Another idea is to reduce the level of sugar in drinks. A London university said that cutting the sugar in drinks by 40 per cent over five years could prevent one million cases of obesity in the U.K. The researchers say that there is so much sugar in those drinks that people might not even notice when you reduce them.