Denmark has introduced the world's first tax on fatty food. Danish shoppers will now have to pay extra when they buy foods that are high in the cholesterol-packed fat.
The new tax is at a rate of $2.87 per kilo of saturated fat. This means 250 grams of butter will go up in price from $2.78 to $3.25 and the cost of a packet of potato chips will rise by 15cents. Milk, cheese, pizza, meat and oil will also cost more. Many shoppers tried to buy this food before the prices went up.
The new tax will help people eat less fatty food. Around 10 per cent of Danes are overweight but the government wants to reduce this number. Doctors say four per cent of deaths in Denmark are because of saturated fats.
Other European countries are looking at Denmark's fat tax to see if it works. Britain has obesity rates of over 20 per cent, the highest in Europe. British doctors say taxing food that is high in fat will help cut the number of people who die from heart attacks.
What do you think about this tax? I think that the tax on fatty food is the very good idea. People recently get fatty because people eat many fatty foods and lack of the exercise. The government considered how to reduce the rate of the overweight and hit this idea. When I went to America this summer, there were many fat people more than Japan. Every food was too sweet, strong and a large quantity. It is not good for our health to eat these food. The price increase of the fatty food makes people considered own health. The oppotunity to buy the fatty food will decrease because people want to save money.
In Japan, the food style is changing like Western, so people who get fat are increasing. To get fat gives people the risks which people become diseases. We should reflect the life style. I want to think more about my eating habitat. People keep own health by oneselves. Almost all of people want to live a long life, so let's make good your life by considering own health. I will do my best to spend good time.
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The new tax is at a rate of $2.87 per kilo of saturated fat. This means 250 grams of butter will go up in price from $2.78 to $3.25 and the cost of a packet of potato chips will rise by 15cents. Milk, cheese, pizza, meat and oil will also cost more. Many shoppers tried to buy this food before the prices went up.
The new tax will help people eat less fatty food. Around 10 per cent of Danes are overweight but the government wants to reduce this number. Doctors say four per cent of deaths in Denmark are because of saturated fats.
Other European countries are looking at Denmark's fat tax to see if it works. Britain has obesity rates of over 20 per cent, the highest in Europe. British doctors say taxing food that is high in fat will help cut the number of people who die from heart attacks.
What do you think about this tax? I think that the tax on fatty food is the very good idea. People recently get fatty because people eat many fatty foods and lack of the exercise. The government considered how to reduce the rate of the overweight and hit this idea. When I went to America this summer, there were many fat people more than Japan. Every food was too sweet, strong and a large quantity. It is not good for our health to eat these food. The price increase of the fatty food makes people considered own health. The oppotunity to buy the fatty food will decrease because people want to save money.
In Japan, the food style is changing like Western, so people who get fat are increasing. To get fat gives people the risks which people become diseases. We should reflect the life style. I want to think more about my eating habitat. People keep own health by oneselves. Almost all of people want to live a long life, so let's make good your life by considering own health. I will do my best to spend good time.
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