Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Essay – Should the government place a tax on junk food and fatty snacks?

Essay: - Should the government place a tax on junk food and fatty snacks?
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I very strongly feel that government must place high tax on junk food and fatty snacks. In this essay I shall elaborate my view point.

It is well known that junk food and fatty snacks are not good for human health. Those foods in short term cause problems like indigestion, belching, gastric, and bloating of stomach and many more. In the longer run, Fatty snacks give rise to high cholesterol, abnormal weight gain and obesity. High Cholesterol, Obesity and Heavy body weight result into heart problems and heart failures.  Those foods are very popular among students and the younger generation. For young parents with their kids, eating those foods in the food stands and fast food stalls has become a fashion and a status symbol. In this fast age of computerization people don’t prefer to make food at home but consume junk food popularly called Fast Food.

It is a proven fact that smoking and drinking alcohol are injurious to the health and can cause deadly diseases like Cancer and Cirrhosis of liver. These products are highly taxed. High taxation on these products makes the affordability difficult resulting into low consumption rate. General motivation to consume these products is low and this is in the interest of good health of the population.

Identically, junk food and fatty snacks must also be heavily taxed so that the affordability of these foods becomes difficult resulting into lower consumption. This will be largely in the interest of good health of the population by large.

In summary, Government must highly tax these foods in the interest of the good health of the population. It would not be out of place to mention here that “Healthy population builds a healthy nation”
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