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There are virtually no sugar free foods available in any of the british supermarkets. The solution is simple. Any food selling shop must have at least 30% of their offering healthy. That will alleviate some of the stress the NHS is facing (and is of course blamed on immigrants). It will also make it more desirable to investors once privatised.

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> There are virtually no sugar free foods available in any of the british supermarkets.

A cursory glance at a UK supermarket website shows that statement to be hyperbole.

The reason many food contain added sugar is because that is what people choose to buy!

It's really easy to avoid sugar if you buy raw foods and actually cook, rather than convenience food. It's also cheaper. The solution is education.

There is no such thing as healthy food, only a diet which is healthy. You can eat so called healthy foods, but if you eat ecess calories your diet isn't healthy for you!

> must have at least 30% of their offering healthy

Who defines what "healthy" is?

In the US, Big Ag and USDA created a food pyramid that put processed carbohydrates as the base, even knowing at the time that that amount of carbohydrate intake is harmful.

> There are virtually no sugar free foods available in any of the british supermarkets.

The whole of the fruit and vegetable section, unless you're including fruit sugars.

Fructose and glucose are sugars and many plants contain significant amounts of sucrose in any case.

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