It would be so cool to have a high tax on sugar (and saturated fat). It has at least as much damaging effect as weed. I know it's not the perfect solution but it would force companies who want to sell in shops to decrease using it.
>It would be so cool to have a high tax on sugar
PS: Glucose and fructose are both C6H12O6 with slightly different shapes.
"All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dosage makes a thing not poison."
But I guess if sugar etc. would get a high tax, the tax money could be used to better educate the people which could possibly turn them away from too much sugar. And if we are at it, remove mc donalds, burger king etc. from the school grounds and sell healtier food.
Or we could consider sugar "food pollution" (which it actually mostly is) and regulate it like air and water pollution.
... Except that saturated fat has been exonerated of the charges leveled against it by the charlatans. Now the experts acknowledge that hydrogenated vegetable oils (trans-fats) are different than naturally-saturated fats. It is convenient for their business models to allow people to continue thinking that the drying oils (which react spontaneously with oxygen to form a hard film) are safe to eat.