The objetive is not to diminish weight, but to reduce mortality and health problems. You don’t need to make people lose weight to reduce mortality. Just make people eat more vegetables (and use cold pressed virgin olive oil), and exercise more. No expensive healthcare budget is required, just the genuine political will to improve public health: ie, subsidize physical activity, improve agriculture policies etc. Several studies have shown that many "non-medical" interventions reduce overall healthcare costs by preventing chronic disease and lowering medical expenditures in the long term. They don´t cost money, they save money. That is why they are threatening to the system. The system wants a big spending. The more it spends, the better for those who benefit from it, as more money gets distributed.
Since this VOG would like the DHSC to have a basic understanding of the competing ideologies in play here, I would add to their obligatory reading list Michel Accad's Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine. You can be either with Geoffrey Rose or Georges Canguilhem and 'having a bit each way' for 'political' reasons will continue to produce internally contradictory policies doomed to produce little..
All food businesses have a critical part to play in providing good-quality, affordable and healthy food. At Tesco, we have measured and published our own healthier food sales for a number of years now - we believe it is key to more evidence-led policy and better-targeted health interventions. That’s why we have called for mandatory reporting for all supermarkets and major food businesses and why we welcome the government’s announcement on this. We look forward to working with them on the detail of the Healthy Food Standard and its implementation by all relevant food businesses."
Seems like Tesco are all for the changes so I sense there are ££££profits to be made....
I think it's true that the proportion of the adult population that can be classified as 'obese' (or suffering from type II diabetes) has risen steadily since the late-1970s.
These are the same decades that the government has advised the population to try to reduce their serum cholesterol (often by lowering the amount of animal fat in the diet).
It seems obvious to me that this advice has caused our obesity crisis by encouraging the consumption of refined carbohydrate.
The objetive is not to diminish weight, but to reduce mortality and health problems. You don’t need to make people lose weight to reduce mortality. Just make people eat more vegetables (and use cold pressed virgin olive oil), and exercise more. No expensive healthcare budget is required, just the genuine political will to improve public health: ie, subsidize physical activity, improve agriculture policies etc. Several studies have shown that many "non-medical" interventions reduce overall healthcare costs by preventing chronic disease and lowering medical expenditures in the long term. They don´t cost money, they save money. That is why they are threatening to the system. The system wants a big spending. The more it spends, the better for those who benefit from it, as more money gets distributed.
Since this VOG would like the DHSC to have a basic understanding of the competing ideologies in play here, I would add to their obligatory reading list Michel Accad's Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine. You can be either with Geoffrey Rose or Georges Canguilhem and 'having a bit each way' for 'political' reasons will continue to produce internally contradictory policies doomed to produce little..
"Ken Murphy, Tesco Group CEO, said:
All food businesses have a critical part to play in providing good-quality, affordable and healthy food. At Tesco, we have measured and published our own healthier food sales for a number of years now - we believe it is key to more evidence-led policy and better-targeted health interventions. That’s why we have called for mandatory reporting for all supermarkets and major food businesses and why we welcome the government’s announcement on this. We look forward to working with them on the detail of the Healthy Food Standard and its implementation by all relevant food businesses."
Seems like Tesco are all for the changes so I sense there are ££££profits to be made....
I think it's true that the proportion of the adult population that can be classified as 'obese' (or suffering from type II diabetes) has risen steadily since the late-1970s.
These are the same decades that the government has advised the population to try to reduce their serum cholesterol (often by lowering the amount of animal fat in the diet).
It seems obvious to me that this advice has caused our obesity crisis by encouraging the consumption of refined carbohydrate.
Oh, dear!
Vitality insurance, amongst others, offers incentives of lower premiums for customers proving evidence of healthy lifestyles through fitness apps.
https://www.vitality.co.uk/
There must be enough data out there to evidence what works and what doesn’t.
Keep big Pharma out of it. Popping pills can’t correct poor lifestyle choices.