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In the News . . .

• Sugary drink tax improves health, lowers health care costs -- Berkeley Public Health (21 April 2023)
  
  
• Evaluation of the sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Oakland, United States, 2015–2019: A quasi-experimental and cost-effectiveness study -- PLOS Medicine (18 April 2023)
  
  
• Global Coverage and Design of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes -- JAMA (29 March 2023)
  
  
• Are you paying taxes on sugary drinks? Half of the world's population does and here is why it makes sense -- World Bank (29 March 2023)
  
  
• WHO calls on countries to tax sugar-sweetened beverages to save lives -- World Health Organization (WHO) (13 December 2022)
  
  
• ‘This industry will stop at nothing’: big soda’s fight to ban taxes on sugary drinks -- The Guardian (12 November 2022)
  
  
• Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax -- The Guardian (23 August 2022)
  
  
• UK needs to tax salt in the same way it does sugar, says heart charity -- The Guardian (20 June 2022)
  
  
• ‘A ticking timebomb’: Australian doctors use social media to call for sugar tax on soft drinks -- The Guardian (18 January 2022)
  
  
• Beyond Meat boss backs tax on meat consumption -- BBCNews (02 August 2021)
  
  
• National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report -- BBCNews (15 July 2021)
  
  
• Norwegian sugar tax sends sweet-lovers over border to Sweden -- The Guardian (23 November 2019)
  
  
• Sweet spot: Norwegians cut sugar intake to lowest level in 44 years -- The Guardian (20 November 2019)
  
  
• Climate change: German MPs want higher meat tax -- BBCNews (08 August 2019)
  
  
• California wants to help fight climate change by charging diners more -- The Guardian (02 May 2019)
  
  
• Tax junk food high in sugar and salt, says top doctor -- BBCNews (21 December 2018)
  
  
• Sugar tax making half as much as money as the Government expected -- The Telegraph (20 November 2018)
  
  
• A bittersweet pill for a fat nation to swallow -- BBCcapital (19 November 2018)
  
  
• California passes statewide healthy kids’ meal bill -- BeverageDaily (23 August 2018)
  
  
• Sugar tax: Will paying more for fizzy drinks and alcohol make us healthier? -- BBCNews (01 May 2018)
  
  
• Big Soda vs. Public Health: 2017 Edition -- Center for Science in the Public Interest (05 September 2017)
  
  
• First US sugar tax sees soft drink sales fall by almost 10%, study shows -- TheGuardian (18 April 2017)
  
  
• Mexico's sugar tax leads to fall in consumption for second year running -- TheGuardian (22 February 2017)
  
  
• Spyware’s Odd Targets: Backers of Mexico’s Soda Tax -- The New York Times (11 February 2017)
  
  
• W.H.O. Urges Tax on Sugary Drinks to Fight Obesity -- The New York Times (11 October 2016)
  
  
• Berkeley ‘soda tax’ linked to 21% drop in sugary beverage consumption -- FOODnavigator (24 August 2016)
  
  
• Smoothies and fruit bars are latest targets in war on sugar -- The Telegraph (03 July 2016)
  
  
• Philadelphia to bring in 'soda tax' to fight obesity -- BBCNews (16 June 2016)
  
  
• Making a Soda Tax More Politically Palatable -- The New York Times (03 April 2016)
  
  
• Sugar tax not ruled out by David Cameron -- BBCNews (07 January 2016)
  
  
• Maya Ancestry May Help Explain the High Risk of Diabetes in Mexico -- Science (05 June 2015)
  
  
• Hungary Tries a Dash of Taxes to Promote Healthier Eating Habits -- The New York Times (02 March 2013)
  
  
• Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food ads, say doctors -- BBCNews (17 February 2013)
  
  
• Call for soft-drink sugar tax -- BBCNews (28 January 2013)
  
  
• Taxing junk food could improve diets, review finds -- Caroline Scott-Thomas, FOODNavigator (13 December 2012)

• Danish government considers abandoning fat, sugar tax -- Food Navigator (11 July 2012)
  
  
• Fat taxes 'could save thousands' -- BBCNews (11 July 2007)
  
  
• Fat tax should be part of policy measures on diets: Study -- By Jess Halliday, FOODNavigator (21 January 2011)
  
  
• FDA Defends industry agains fat tax for chocolate -- Sarah Hills, FOODNavigator (12 March 2009)
  
  
• GPs vote against 'chocolate tax' -- BBCNews (12 March 2009)
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). Oxford University Press, 2015.
  

• Should government use tax policy to improve eating habits? ... -- Eric Ringham, MPRNews (17 August 2011)
  
  
• Soda tax Could Threaten Irish economic recovery, body warns -- Ben Bouckley, Beveragedaily.com (29 September 2011)
  
  
• Tax food makers' caloric sweetener use to reduce consumption, study suggests -- FoodNavigator-USA (6 December 2001)