Is it right to raise the tax on junk food trying to reduce obesity?

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On the point: Helps fat people eat less

Study after study reveals that obesity is most closely related to a high calorie intake than any other factor. Research also connects obesity with most diseases. More to the point this particular study, on college students shows that a fat tax doe snot have an effect on people who already have a healthy diet but who have too many fatty foods do cut down after the tax.
[[http://www.csnews.com/top-story-researchers_study_junk_food_tax_effectiveness-58094.html]]

People of all weights, ages and sizes get sick, it's part of the human condition. Fat people are being ostracized to the nines. A health diet is balanced and comprises of fat, protein, vitamins, minerals, water and carbohydrates  
It is unfair that fat kids are told to starve themselves, when they are perfectly healthy. Dramatic changes(reduction) in diet can have fatal consequences.  
Studies revealing the linkages between obesity and disease, ignore the fact that as people get older they are more likely to get sick because they are getting older. And so what if the likelihood of being fat also increases with age?

Yes, because... Helps fat people eat less

 

No, because...

Study after study reveals that obesity is most closely related to a high calorie intake than any other factor. Research also connects obesity with most diseases. More to the point this particular study, on college students shows that a fat tax doe snot have an effect on people who already have a healthy diet but who have too many fatty foods do cut down after the tax.[1]

  1. ^ http://www.csnews.com/top-story-researchers_study_junk_food_tax_effectiveness-58094.html

 

People of all weights, ages and sizes get sick, it's part of the human condition. Fat people are being ostracized to the nines. A health diet is balanced and comprises of fat, protein, vitamins, minerals, water and carbohydrates It is unfair that fat kids are told to starve themselves, when they are perfectly healthy. Dramatic changes(reduction) in diet can have fatal consequences.

Studies revealing the linkages between obesity and disease, ignore the fact that as people get older they are more likely to get sick because they are getting older. And so what if the likelihood of being fat also increases with age?

 
22 February 2011