Bad diet now beats smoking
Bad diets have overtaken smoking as Britain biggest health burden, with the ill- effects (allegedly) costing the NHS £6 billion a year. A new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has concluded that the Health Service must now focus more closely on tackling poor diets, highlighting their link to ill-health.
Source: Scotsman (15 November 2005)
posted by Simon Clark @ 10:55
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According to the Telegraph newspaper: "Poor diets are costing the National Health Service £6 billion a year - significantly higher than the £1.5 billion cost of smoking-related ill health."
The authors of the report say: "The estimates suggest that the burden of food-related ill health is large compared with, say, smoking, and suggest that food-related ill health has been neglected by health and food policy-makers.
"For example, while there are specific Government targets for smoking in England there are no equivalent dietary requirements."
So, watch out for million pound gov't advertising campaigns, funded by the taxpayer, telling us: "eating makes you ugly" & "passive eating kill"...
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