Sweet Drinks Can Affect Your Health
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"In Indonesia, there is already a National Insurance or locally known as BPJS that guarantees public health, such as basic medicine, including insulin and oral medication, doctor consultation, and laboratory work." she said.
“But we have a challenge too, such as limited sources of HCP, there isn’t diabetes technology, and there are still unlimited packaged sweetened beverages. If people still consume sweet-based foods and drinks such as packaged drinks, the number of non-communicable diseases will also be higher.” said Anita Sabidi.
After that, the party of packaged sweetened drinks, Gita Kusnadi as the center of Indonesia's strategic development initiatives said that Indonesia is indeed in the 3rd highest rank in Southeast Asia with packaged sweetened drinks consumption with a total consumption of 20.23 liters/person/ year.
The relationship between consuming packaged sweetened drinks and non-communicable diseases is that it refers to an increase in body weight which eventually leads to obesity, and increases the risk of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, liver etc.
"Because many people consume packaged sweetened drinks, we hope that the tax can increase. So, the price of these packaged drinks can also increase which in the end will reduce the consumption of these unhealthy drinks and have an impact on reducing the level of obesity and non-communicable diseases.” She said,
Gita also added that the implementation of MBDK tax in Indonesia must be a real step for the government to protect the public from the adverse health effects.
Not only consume packaged sweet drinks, it turns out that smoking is also the cause of the high number of non-communicable diseases.
According to dr Rita Damayanti as Plt. Director of P2PTM of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia, the government must place the interests of public health above any interests that become obstacles in implementing public policies. The government also needs to implement policies and be right on target for these products that bad for health.
