Hey Jacinda

Take the opportunity; you can fix this. However, you will need to be far stronger than you’ve been even with COVID-19.

If I can convince you that you can make huge savings on the most critical factor affecting individuals’ lives – their health – then you will need to be strong and alter
the control that the food barons have of our food chain.

Life without sugar, life without preservatives, life without chemically ripened fruit, life without unnecessary sprays, life without unnecessary manufactured fats – will lead to a long life with a very short illness period pre-death.

We don’t need a string of academics to notice that we are more than 50% obese, more than 90% stressed, eating crap food because it’s the cheapest food and, interestingly, because such food relies on poverty to propagate its demand.

You will need to say no; you will need to legislate, you will need to kick the tick, you will be accused of operating a nanny state. However, you will be able to reduce taxes, which will attract a few Nats because the skyrocketing cost of health care (actually, it is not Health Care; it is disease care) will drop dramatically. Cardiovascular disease will drop to around 10% of the population, and non-insulin-dependent diabetics will drop to 5% of the population. Dementia and mental illness will also be dramatically reduced – when we feed properly and quit short-circuiting our digestive systems by having easily absorbed, rapidly available, highly toxic sugars.

Jacinda; you can do it. You could change the trajectory of illness in this country – reducing the burden on the taxpayer and improving the quality of life of the majority of those who are lucky enough to live in this country.