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I said this before but make it super easy and affordable to live healthy lives. Subsidise the crap out of well built community gyms that are within reach for all ages. They exist but are very expensive. Subsidise the crap out of healthy foods that are easy to prepare like access to fruit and vegetables.
It baffles me that people live their lives smoking, vaping, getting smashed, and eating kebabs and then end up with lung cancer / obesity that the NHS needs to find funds to look after. I'm not saying we should outlaw these things, who doesn't like a cheeky kebab? But we're rapidly turning into the US and expecting the NHS to just pick up the problems.
If you viewed the national health as preventative rather than reactionary these things would already be in place.
Agreed. But also make actually healthy food accessible, available, and affordable. It is SO expensive to eat a diet that isn't trying to give me cancer or a host of other health issues. Being able to eat well should be a basic access right, not a privilege of the well-off.
It does? If I read enough headlines in a single day, I feel like I’d love to get smashed into a fine powder, or vaporized, or turn myself into a kebab.
I agree 100% but would point out that simply having healthier options available at reasonable prices is only half the solution. The other half is time. With much of the working class working 9-10hr days and commuting for an additional 2hrs, that doesn't leave a lot of time for the gym or cooking healthy meals. ...and that's for those lucky enough to be working only one job.