Loss of votes or loss of lives

DR. A.C OBHOLZER WRITES:Namibia is still stuck in the colonial era as far as sugar is concerned. Tobacco and alcohol are taxed, with excise duty, and VAT, with a health warning (both addictive).Sugar, a relic of Afro-American slavery, is exempt from VAT! It is the number one addiction worldwide. It is the cheap cocaine of the masses. It is sold without a health warning, resulting in massive collateral damage.Your teeth disintegrate - milk and permanent. You become hungry and fat in three hourly recharge cycles – Diabesity.Add salt and you have thirsty/hungry obesity, leading to hypertension, diabetes and the metabolic overload syndrome!This results in target organ damage (capillaries blocked) of the eye, brain, heart, liver, kidneys and limbs (amputations).Chronic toxic sugar addiction results in snoring, reflux, inflammation (wear and tear arthralgia) and decreased effort tolerance. Obesity results in infertility. The incidence of cancer is higher.Diabetes reduces your immunity. Two thirds of Covid deaths are linked to diabesity and smoking. Alcohol is a co-factor.The kill for cash diet may be good for business turnover (capture) but is a slow death sentence for health. You rest in pieces before you rest in peace. The size of coffins has increased due to the diabesity / Covid pandemic.Some politicians (Ministry of Votes) believe that taxing sugar, with a warning, may result in loss of votes from sugar addicts.Sugar is a slow, steady, progressive, relentless, cumulative and compound killer, a legacy of colonialism. We must decolonize.Sugar only gives you go to the next stop street – hang on to the stop sign...Exhausted America (USA) has 4 percent of the world population, but 20 percent of the world Covid deaths, as they have two thirds herd obesity, due to fake, fast, junk foods and drinks.The MoHSS has a blind spot on sugar tax, which defies logic. Progressive evidence based, social responsibility driven governments, do tax sugars (foods/drinks) with a warning and exempt milk, eggs, brown bread, tripe, organ meat, soup bones, lard, unsifted vitamin, mineral enriched maize meal and apples. from VAT.Use the principle of cross subsidy. Tax the bad and ugly and exempt the basic good.Think not of the next election but the next generation (18+ years) – service delivery.Vision 2030 is about prosperity and health – I can see my toes!My views are based on the Primary Healthcare Principles, which the GRN (MoHSS) adopted in 1990 – promotion, prevention, screening, rehabilitation, treatment and palliation.Cure sometimes.Relieve often.Comfort always.Your no. 1 index of health is an umbilical belly circumference, which is half your height!

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