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Location: UK
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How to solve Europe’s obesity problem: Experts tackle crisis of lifestyle diseases
How to solve Europe’s obesity problem
Experts tackle the bloc’s crisis of lifestyle diseases.
https://www.politico.eu/article/sym...alth-care-2024/
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Stop Big Food and Big Pharma killing for profit
Aseem Malhotra is honorary consultant cardiologist at the Lister Hospital in the U.K. and a trustee at the King's Fund.
Life expectancy may be increasing in some parts of Europe but every country is seeing a rising burden of chronic disease. This predominantly relates to poor lifestyle and overconsumption of ultra-processed food, but this is not an issue of personal responsibility. It’s a result of a systematic failure by policymakers to protect people from the excesses and manipulations of the junk food industry.
The EU's next leaders need to ban the sale of junk food in hospitals and close to schools; make unhealthy food less affordable through taxation; and launch public health campaigns that are backed by the media. Those policies worked to slash cigarette consumption and would have a profound and rapid impact on reducing diet-related diseases too.
But Europe’s crisis of lifestyle disease is also a result of endemic corruption within the health care industry. Medical guidelines on prescription drugs have been bought out by the pharmaceutical industry (aided and abetted by influential academics), resulting in an overmedicated population now experiencing the detrimental side-effects of medications.
The EU needs to completely overhaul the regulatory system that allows industry-sponsored data to have such a huge influence on prescribing practices. Honest doctors can no longer practice honest medicine because we’re having to make decisions based on biased and corrupted information — leading to bad outcomes for our patients.
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