One of the country’s leading health charities is calling for urgent action to reduce the “carcinogenic effects” of cheap alcohol and unhealthy food after a 40% increase in deaths from liver cancer in a decade.
I think cheap in this case means inexpensive not poor quality. Hence they're asking the government to tax it to deter excessive use. Also it said it increased in the last decade. What do the 1900s have to do with anything?
The trouble is that part of society glorifies alcohol abuse and believe it's impossible to socialise without it. In some ways, it's more damaging to society than drugs.
In the case of obesity, I started secondary school just as they phased out cooking classes and limited anything that was hands-on, so it's not a big surprise that people don't learn good habits. Parents also don't seem to have done much to teach cooking skills at home since the pull of convenience food is so strong.
Shocking./s Have never seen anyone actually order food with their drinks at a pub.Even chips or peanuts. They just drink how many pints straight up with no food and the pubs are full daily.much less the amount of alcohol/drunken stupors on the weekends seen everywhere.Alcoholism and obesity must be on the rise and im not even from the uk just an observation as someone who moved a year ago here.