Who has power over obesity?

Fighting against obesity is more than just personal willpower to eat less or move more. (This image is human-created, AI-aided)

If plans announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for Budget 2025 go ahead, Malaysian taxpayers could soon be “paying” for sugar in multiple ways – both good and bad for our health.

First, through subsidies that keep sugar prices artificially low (which is bad).