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To: MP
Reduce the prices of healthy products to enable people to make their own healthy product choices
In society we are a nation of overweight people. Government advise that we need to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits and stop eating processed foods full of sugar and cut back on convenience foods as the NHS is becoming strained for all the health concerns of this overweight society we live in. The government is not making it easy when the prices of natural healthy products is so expensive people can ill-afford to eat the healthy way as you make this so hard on lower income families so they opt for the cheaper route. Why not make it so it matches so we are able to make sensible choices for our families.
Why is this important?
Its is very important to me because we hear new claims how sugar, alcohol and household products we use daily is damaging our health with 1 in 3 people we know will have cancer at one point in their life. Majority of these diseases and cancers are caused by the cheap products on the market and poor lifestyle.The natural and healthier products prices are sky high, I believe the prices should be cut down so people can make healthier food and product choices for their families or even make it equal price so people have a freedom of choice. This subject is dictated on television and on the news but is sometimes impossible being healthy as its too expensive to upkeep and something needs to drastically change.
I have tried to make a change as a overweight person due to the food choices I have made and decided I needed to eliminate sugar and carbs as its ruining my health but some of the prices out there in our local shops are ridiculous for a family to enjoy the benefits of healthy eating are can be virtually impossible to upkeep if you are on average wage.
Some people have to go into debt in order to eat naturally and use natural products due to the economic climate and the cost of living is so expensive and I wish to make a stand by making it equal or reverse the prices so healthier is cheaper rather than the other way round.
