Sweet spot: Norwegians cut sugar intake to lowest level in 44 years
 

Sweet spot: Norwegians cut sugar intake to lowest level in 44 years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...vel-in-44-years

I like reading good news like that.

Good news, and hoping this progress serves as an incentive to others. We still have those who excuse sugar as an acceptable ingredient in a "balanced" diet.

Norwegian sugar tax sends sweet-lovers over border to Sweden

Consumption has fallen to record lows, but candy superstores in the neighbouring country are booming as the levy rises again

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...y-border-sweden

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Norwegians reduce sugar intake — how can we do the same? on the Swedish site, DietDoctor.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/norwegia...-we-do-the-same

LOL. Like "dry counties" in the US, which always have thriving liquor stores right on the border of the next county :)

Some of those countries like Norway also have a 50% tax rate or close to it....
No Thanks!

I would move to Norway in a heart beat... or Germany. When my SIL way sick while visiting her husband, all her medical was FREE. Now all these years after the wall has come down, the kids are grown..... they have moved back. BIL covers the EU and likely the mideast. They come back once or twice a year.....but I suspect they are not coming back. Both children are globe trotters. They see more of their kids over there than here.

The elderly and retired are well cared for, unlike here.

If 50% of their income is going to the government, healthcare is not free, they're paying for it.

But only according to their means, and they do not have to worry about how expensive their condition is to treat. Like the NHS, but with decent funding.

In contrast to the US, where I pay for it, and when the insurance refuses to pay, I pay for it again.

I have been to Norway. They are not happy about their taxes at all, and think they should not have to pay for people who don’t take care of their health.

At least in our system, with so many people on here going to alternate medicine because you are free to do so. In other countries from what I understand, you cannot go outside of the system and employ your own private doctor.
No it's not free but you have other freedoms that these other countries don't have with one type of medicine which determines how long you live according to their strict rules. In the US, if you don't make much money, you don't pay taxes and you may qualify for Medicaid.