To combat the epidemic of childhood obesity, junk food should be taxed, Dr. Ruth Collins-Nakai, president of the Canadian Medical Association said.



According to her, ‘Healthy choices should be cheaper and more readily available... The corollary is that you make unhealthy choices less available and one way to do that is to tax them. Certainly it works for cigarettes.’



While as recently as the 1980s Canada ranked in the top third, it now ranks in the bottom third of OECD countries for child mortality. And this decline, according to Collins-Nakai, is a national disgrace. ‘We simply must do more for child health,’ she said.



Via: Canada