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Our body's worst enemy

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To Prime Minister David Cameron and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt:

As citizens concerned about the damage added sugar does to our health, we call on you to take immediate action to curb the sugar epidemic in the UK. We urge you to introduce mandatory labels that clearly display the worst types of sugar in our food, and to force the food industry to cut its sugar use by 40% by 2020. We also call on you to ban junk food ads on all marketing channels that reach children. These simple steps could prevent the public health crisis we are currently heading towards.
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Our body's worst enemy
As a doctor, I see the terrible things sugar does to us: one in four of us is obese and our children may be the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents. But I’ve got a plan to stop this deadly epidemic and I need your help.

The food industry hides sugar everywhere we least suspect - bread, soup you name it - and now government advisors have said our daily sugar intake must be halved to stop a potential health catastrophe that's already killing people, ruining lives and costing the NHS billions. There’s a simple 3-point plan that can make this happen, but mega-corporations are spending millions to block reform.

David Cameron says he tries to protect his own kids from excess sugar; it’s time he protected the rest of us too -- and with elections ahead, he can’t afford to not listen to voters. If 50,000 of us sign, we’ll march with mums, dads and children to Downing Street to demand he backs our 3-point plan to stop the deadly sugar rush. Click here to add your voice, then share this with everyone.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra - cardiologist and science director of Action on Sugar - with the Avaaz team

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