The Importance of Prevention

There's growing evidence from around the world that many different interventions to promote healthier choices really work. So these big forces have been changing our choices in ways we don't always understand and this is about government just rebalancing things to make it easier for those healthy choices to compete. In the US they looked at cities that have a tax on sugar sweetened beverages and there was a big decrease in the rate of gestational diabetes which has lifelong health risks, he says.