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Sugar taxes may not prevent obesity and associated conditions overnight, but they can be part of the solution.
Sugar taxes fail to tackle the root of the problem – the production and marketing of foods that cause chronic disease.
Why you might soon be paying more for your favourite sugary drink.
Too much refined sugar in your diet is not just a risk factor for obesity and diabetes, it also increases your chances of heart disease.
South Africa has one last hurdle to cross before it implements a sugar tax to prevent a wide-range of obesity related non-communicable diseases.
The decision to tax sugary drinks in South Africa faces furious industry opposition, but global experience shows industry cannot be trusted to put public health before profits.
Since Mexico introduced a 10% “tax” on sugar-sweetened beverages in 2014, global political momentum for this form of fiscal policy has been building. Societal interest and support have also grown. Taking…
South Africa’s massive and growing obesity epidemic has much to do with people’s excessive daily sugar intake.
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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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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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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Lecturer in Anthropology, University of British Columbia
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Independent public health researcher, Leeds Beckett University
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Research Fellow, Deakin University
