L’obesità del Regno Unito e l’epidemia in sovrappeso costa £ 126 miliardi all’anno, suggerisce lo studio
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/02/obesity-overweight-cost-estimate-nhs-study
di pajamakitten
L’obesità del Regno Unito e l’epidemia in sovrappeso costa £ 126 miliardi all’anno, suggerisce lo studio
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/02/obesity-overweight-cost-estimate-nhs-study
di pajamakitten
3 commenti
Fix the food industry, and they’ll fix this. The UK’s food isn’t as bad as the USA, but there’s too many sugars and simple carbs and ultimately calories in the food we buy. Yes, of course people can choose to eat better if they’re educated and make a conscious effort, but that won’t scale. The default choices need to be healthy in order to address this. I think the average person over consumes by 200 calories a day if I remember correctly, it’s 7-10% more calories than we should need and it builds up overtime.
I’ve been complaining for years that healthy foods are both pretty expensive, and mostly target just having less calories in the box than anything else. We got this back in Janurary:
>The Food Foundation found that 1,000 calories of healthy food such as fruit and veg costs £8.80, compared to £4.30 for the equivalent amount of less healthy food, such as ready meals and processed meats.
Guess we go another round of “Make the junk food more expensive” instead of making healthier alternatives more affordable, horray
Why does it cost more for butter with less salt in it anyway?
If people were forced to spend a day in a hospital caring for bariatric patients, they’d absolutely think twice about their diets. It’s not for the faint-hearted.