Colombia passes ambitious 'junk food law' to tackle lifestyle diseases

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4. Junk food by definition isn't healthy for you.

High in sugar and fats, low in complex carbohydrates, protein, fibre and vitamins.

Designed to trigger the famine reaction, the craving for high energy density foods that, in a time of famine, means survival.

But there is money to be made in selling poor quality, cheap to produce fast food.
Then there is money to be made from the decades of bad eating - diet programs, diabetes medications, loose-weight-quick drugs.

Unfortunately there isn't money to be made teaching people how to eat healthy, so it's up to individuals to break out of the cycle.

Let's just say it starts at home.
Parents who shop for healthy foods and eat healthy tend to have kids who are going to grow up healthy.

By all means tax foods based on their sugar and fat content.
And make it a big tax.
Make loading foods with cane sugar/corn syrup fructose and animal fats unprofitable.