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via NHS chief Simon Stevens says: ‘Stop marketing junk food at children’ | Daily Mail Online.

Personally, I wish that policy-makers would stop talking about the dangers of obesity and intervene decisively.

There’s a need for a special tax or levy on junk-food companies and soft-drinks companies. A levy, like on the banks or North Sea oil, would be much more effective than trying to tinker with VAT, which is already very complicated.

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