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).
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