Many manufactured food and drink products contain high level of sugar, which causes many health problems. Sugary products should be made more expensive to encourage people to consume less sugar. Do you agree or disagree?

Consumption
of packaged
foods
and drinks are increasing evermore across the globe. The main reason for
this
shift from cooking to ready-to-eat alternatives is because of the
conveinience
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convenience
and changing tastes.
However
, the
consumption
of manufactured food has its consequences, these
items
are often having
high
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level
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levels
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of
sugar
and fats
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to increase their shelf-life, as well as to make them tasty, resulting in severe
health
problems among
people
.
Therefore
, it is important to find methods to reduce
sugar
consumption
. I disagree that making
sugar
products expensive is one of the methods to reduce
sugar
consumption
, since, the effectiveness of
this
method is questionable.
Consumption
of high
sugar
products
are
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causing many
health
problems in
adults
nowadays.
For instance
, studies suggest that more
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that
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60% of American
adults
are suffering from obesity,
as a
result
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there is an increase in
heart related
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issues among
adults
. The major
contributer
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contributor
to obesity is
the
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packaged drinks which are often advertised as healthy
,
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but is reported to have high
sugar
content.
Thus
it is high time that we put forth
intiatives
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initiatives
to reduce
sugar
consumption
. One of the ways to reduce
sugar
consumption
is
through
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making sugary
foods
expensive.
For example
in Kerala in the 2019 budget the
goverment
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government
started imposing
health
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tax on junk
foods
which would make them expensive,
as a result
, they will not be bought frequently by the
people
.
Although
this
is a really effective method to decrease
sugar
consumption
,
this
approach is
also
having some drawbacks.
For example
, once sugary drinks are made expensive there will be
increase
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in
use
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of artificial
sweetners
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sweeteners
which might be even more unhealthy than
sugar
. As long as demand is not reduced for sugary
foods
, supply will be provided. There are many other initiatives that can reduce
sugar
consumption
, by reducing the demand for
sugar based
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items
.
For instance
,
people
can be taught about the negative effects of increased
sugar
consumption
,
furthermore
,
people
who
follows
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a healthy
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lifestyle
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life style
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can be rewarded,
as a
result
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people
may willingly reduce
sugar
in-take
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and lead a better
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lifestyle
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life style
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. In conclusion,
consumption
of
sugar based
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cusines
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cuisine
are on the rise, in turn, causing many
health related
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problems in
adults
, so it is important to reduce
consumption
of sugary
items
.
Increasing
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price
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the price
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of
sugar based
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sugar-based
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products is one of the
solution
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but the effectiveness of
this
method is questionable. There are various other initiatives that can be implemented to reduce sweet
consumption
by reducing the demand for sweet
items
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • sugar consumption
  • health problems
  • manufactured food and drink products
  • encourage
  • expensive
  • reduce
  • effectively
  • discourage
  • tight budget
  • purchasing
  • disproportionately
  • lower-income individuals
  • healthier food choices
  • demand
  • regardless
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