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An aging obese population is the elephant in the room. This problem is not only happening in UK.

About 15 years ago the NHS tried to add easy to read labeling to foods with a semaphore: red, yellow, green. And it was blocked during a Labour government with majority.

Giving it more and more funds while not fixing the underlying problems is going to cause a massive budget crisis. We need to fix the causes not the symptoms.

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"easy to read labeling to foods with a semaphore: red, yellow, green"

Easy to read, OK, but would it actually be reliable?

It is way too easy to label avocado red because of high fat content while labeling a candy bar orange because sugar isn't officially considered that dangerous ... and unlike avocado farmers, highly processed food producers have a good lobby.

Looking at bigger/higher res monitors getting worse "ratings" over here (obviously they use more power lol), yeah these labels are dumb as hell.

We need to fix the causes not the symptoms

We need both. You don't fix a skull fracture by giving the patient a helmet.

Well you might give them a helmet to protect the injured area if serious, so bad example there I'd say.

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