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I'm getting a bit sick with the way the world works, we're hearing so much these days about rates of obesity in the UK, childhood obesity, bad health, junk food diets, and so on. Then we have adverts everywhere for junk food at the same time we have diet plans, diet foods, fitness DVDs and celebrity weight loss programs all jammed down our throat.

But do you know what we really need? Some cost re-adjustment. It's that simple.

If you give a child £1 to buy something to eat, they're going to go and buy some sort of packet of sweets and can of fizzy drink combination. Even if they wanted to buy a bottle of orange juice and a banana, they wouldn't be able to afford it!

Junk food is cheap, and it shouldn't be. It's full of saturated fats, MSG, sugar, sweeteners including carcinogenic ones like aspartame, and it's all bad for us. But if you want to buy the healthy stuff, like healthy 'candy' cereal bars, whole foods, fruit bars, fruit juices, they all cost significantly more.

Surely junk food should be more highly taxed like cigarettes and alcohol, and there should be no tax on fresh fruit and veg and healthy foods. It shouldn't cost us more to keep ourselves healthy, it would be much less of a strain on the NHS if they sorted all this out!

Photo: TheFoodJunk (Flickr)