The evidence is clear: a tax on sugary drinks would reduce consumption. All that’s needed is political leadership that prioritises health above the profits.
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A ban on sugary drinks sale and advertisements in schools is likely to hold more promise in improving the diets of children and help prevent obesity in children than voluntary actions.
Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
Rwanda’s food policies focus on production to make sure people have livelihoods and enough nutritious food. Not much attention is given to overnutrition.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Between 2018 and 2019 Kenya registered a 30% spike in sugar production and an increase in sugar consumption.
A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may be intended to improve health, but for Indigenous consumers, such a tax would be unethical, contravene tax law and undermine Indigenous rights.
We’re hardwired to love sweet things, but too much sugar is leading to an increase in type 2 diabetes. Here’s what individuals and policymakers can do cut our collective sugar intake.
Myths that taxes on sugary drinks unfairly disadvantage the poor and will result in job losses don’t hold up. Here’s what the evidence says.
Many argue the key to helping low-income Americans eat healthier is eliminating food deserts. A new study suggests this doesn’t help.
We found that evidence cited by three organisations - a big corporate and two industry lobby groups - was either not evidence at all, or had been twisted to suit the industry’s narrative.
Sugar taxes may not prevent obesity and associated conditions overnight, but they can be part of the solution.
Our research estimates how much benefit taxing sugary drinks could bring to Indonesia.
How a price-hiking “meat tax” could prevent 220,000 deaths and save more than US$40 billion in health care costs around the world every year.
Obesity is not a rational choice. But there is scope for governments to get involved and improve our options.
Australia needs a sugar tax, as part of a broader national nutrition policy, to combat the obesity crisis. And the sugar industry is getting in the way.
Tonight, Four Corners looks at the tactics Big Sugar has used to influence health policy. Here’s our pick of five analysis pieces that will get you informed on the issue before the program airs.
A new study in rats adds to the evidence that artificial sweeteners may be bad for your health.
Sugar taxes fail to tackle the root of the problem – the production and marketing of foods that cause chronic disease.
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Senior researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research associate, Imperial College London
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Public Policy and Health, University of Sydney
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Phillip Baker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
