Step into any of the UK hospitals and you’ll find vendors like Greggs, WHSmith and M&S selling ultra-processed, cancer-causing meal deals – sometimes only a corridor away from an oncology ward.
The contradiction is stark: WHO-classified carcinogens are packed into meals that spike blood sugar, inflame the gut and encourage overeating. By their side are “zero-sugar” energy drinks laced with corrosive, acidic additives, in a building where health should always come first.
Hospitals may have agreed to cut sales of sugary drinks to <10% of beverages, but they’ve been replaced by “diet” cans that hit teeth, sleep and blood pressure harder than ever. If the place we go to get better actually sells the same products tied to diseases it treats, you have to ask: is the system protecting your health, or quietly fuelling a return journey? ...<<<Read More>>>...
