Because 64% of adults are overweight or obese, with 26% being in the heavier classification. It’s costing the NHS £11 billion per year, and 13% of hospital admissions in 2023 were due to being overweight.
Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I am failing to understand how come a choice of a person or bad parenting should be enforced. Like if a person wants to drink more of sugary drinks he likes, it is purely up to him, right? Or parents letting their children drink as much as they want. That shit is purely on a customer. Why would anyone regulate that? Focus on other things like littering, public smoking and drinking, drug selling. This hast to be one of the least important things to regulate.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yeah turns out people were incapable of making good decisions on their own. Which is fine, unless you’re asking everyone around you to pay for it.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
They can drink as much as they like. There’s nothing stopping someone buying another drink.
Obesity is a huge public health concern that should be treated seriously and we should be steering our culture into making better health decisions.