Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

Why should we be handing out tax breaks to industry lobby groups or for companies spending billions of dollars advertising junk food to kids?

Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and that's pharmacy.

But if they are at me see why a place for conversations that matter in today's conversation

I think you're gonna think matters a lot because it's on the subject of my new book food fix how to save our health our economy

Our communities and our planet one by the time about our food system. What's wrong with it and how to fix it?

Now there's a lot of controversy about what to do and how to do it

But there's some great thinking about how to reduce the consumption of

Bad foods particularly sugar sweeten beverages and there's efforts globally around the world

Looking at soda taxes as a solution

For bringing down the consumption of foods that we know cause obesity and chronic disease which we heard about in the last podcast

Now there's a group that started called the task force on physical policy for health started by Larry Summers the former

Head of the council of economic advisors under President Obama and Michael Bloomberg

Who's the former mayor of New York to look at bringing together leaders in physical policy around the world to create incentives

for people to consume less and

Disincentives for them to consume more in fact Larry Summers said what I came to realize was that in terms of human betterment

In the health gear arena. It was enormous potential in terms of the impact you could have even with a limited number of dollars

There was probably no sector more promising than health

So looking at global health through the economic lens

He realized that countries could drive tremendous returns by investing in health making one of the best financial investments

He said sometimes

The returns can be as high as nine to one or even 20 to one in terms of the benefit to cost ratio

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