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Health: Fewer chubby babies may mean progress in battle against childhood obesity
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Tax on soft drinks can cut childhood obesity Study
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ANISunday 18th December, 2016The findings, published in the Lancet Public Health journal, revealed that passing on half of the cost of the levy to consumers, leading to a 20 percent increase in the price of high and mid-sugar drinks, was predicted to reduce the number of obese adults and children by 81,600, cases of diabetes by 10,800, and decaying teeth by 149,000."Children stand to benefit the most, so this study is a clarion call to industry to fulfill their moral obligations to promote child wellbeing," a Indian-origin professor Neena Modi from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health."We also reiterate the importance of evaluating the true impact of the sugar tax, once it is introduced, so that the UK can provide much needed evidence to other countries that are considering emulating this potentially powerful public health intervention," Modi added.
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'Health by stealth' sugar tax could slash rates of childhood obesity by 10 per cent
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The planned sugar tax could slash obesity among young children by 10 per cent and create "health by stealth", experts from Oxford University say.The first ever study examining the likely impact of plans for a levy on sugary drinks suggests it could halt spiralling rates of obesity, diabetes and tooth decay over the past decade.The study, published in The Lancet, models likely changes in the behaviour of consumers and drinks manufacturers when extra duties are placed on high sugar drinks.
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