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Bavaria wants to tax vegetables cheaper than meat: "Master plan prevention"
Published on October 1, 2025
One way to counter the rising costs in the health sector is to improve the provision.Against this background, the Bavarian Minister of Health Judith Gerlach (CSU) presented a "master plan prevention" in Munich on Wednesday.Prevention is not a "nice to have," said the minister, but "the answer to the challenges of our time. We have to get away from a repair medicine to lived prevention".Also in the Free State "chronic chronic, non -transferable diseases in large areas, which are significantly influenced by the lifestyle".
Specifically, cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension or arteriosclerosis are a preliminary stage of heart attack and stroke as well as cancer, especially the intestine and lungs, and the particularly frequent form of diabetes, the diabetes mellitus type 2. More than 90 percent of a total of around 150,000 deaths in Bavaria therefore accounted for non-transferable diseases, of which51,000 on cardiovascular diseases and 33,000 on cancer.In addition to life expectancy itself, the master plan says, the number of healthy years of life is crucial.Between 1999 and 2023, the number of people in need of care in Bavaria had more than doubled.The plan pursues the goal of avoiding or at least delaying the need for care.
A nationwide prevention day
Among other things, he provides to introduce a nationwide prevention day that will take place annually in October.It begins on October 13, 2025 at schools in Bavaria.From 2026, other institutions, such as companies, authorities or clinics, are also called for participation.In addition, a new country program under the guiding principle is: "Sports on site - outside, open, for everyone".Free, low -threshold sports offers in public areas are to be offered throughout the Free State.
The Master Plan identifies obesity as one of the central health problems.Not least against this background, the quality of school lunches should be improved.The State Ministry responsible for nutrition will offer its coaching positions for daycare and school catering from mid-October at menu checks for all schools in order to improve the quality of school lens.In addition, new preventive options are to be initiated, such as a menopause examination or systematic screening of children to mental abnormalities.