Studies suggest that the UK’s 2018 sugar tax prevented 5,000 cases of obesity in UK girls aged 10-11 each year, but the picture may be considerably more complicated than that. .
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January 27, 2023
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Britain’s sugary drink tax is working, or so says a study released this week. A newspaper headline says the tax prevents 5,000 cases of obesity in UK girls aged 10 to 11 each year. claim.
Unfortunately, it may be optimistic. Whether the small decline in obesity rates in this age group is really due to taxation is debatable, and such an impact is nevertheless overwhelmed by massive increases in child weight…
