#sugartax — Public Fediverse posts
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Le #Tasse NON sono un #furto - elogo della #Patrimoniale #Carbontax #sugartax #Webtax https://youtu.be/sqbJ7cUBEbA?si=4Y-GkG_WpmnTwqDn via @YouTube
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Public Health: What if a policy can succeed on paper— and still miss how the body actually works?
Public health policy often operates through measurable targets, such as reducing sugar consumption to address obesity and metabolic disease. While such approaches can achieve significant improvements at the population level, they may not fully account for the complexity of biological systems.
#HybridMind42 #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #Nutrition #UKPolicy #SugarTax #Metabolism #SystemsThinking #PreventiveHealth #FoodEnvironment #Wellbeing
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@CppGuy I agree. Tobacco taxes are indeed regressive, but I think the public health argument on that one is strong enough to outweigh the tax equity argument.
If someone came up with some great evidence that the #SugarTax is also improving public health to a meaningful degree, then I would probably support it, but in the absence of that evidence, I think the tax equity argument wins for sugar.
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I guess we're going to be talking about the #SugarTax a lot tomorrow.
This is your periodic reminder that it's mainly a tax-raising measure rather than a health thing. Proponents of it claim it makes people healthier, but there is almost no evidence to back that up.
It's also a highly regressive tax.
And from personal experience, the idea that it will encourage soft drinks manufacturers to formulate healthier low-sugar drinks seems unlikely. It's still hard to buy nice sugar-free soft drinks
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Dear @Sainsburys, why do you add sweetners to your cola & still charge more for it as if paying the sugar tax? Couldn't you be accused of trying to rip off customers?
#sainsburys #sugartax #ripoff #cola #lbc #talkradio #shopping #food #drink #coke #pepsi
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Santa Cruz becomes first California city to implement sugary drink tax since 2018, generating $1.3M annually for community health initiatives. A major victory against beverage industry misinformation. #PublicHealth #SugarTax
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(6/6) For all households, lower #prices have the largest impact on choosing #plant-based protein. While #taxes may have less public support, learning from #sugartax, they can be effective given the right design, compensatory measures, and public messaging: https://doi.org/10.1787/97c4041a-en #meattax
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#Taxes on sugar-sweetened #drinks can reduce consumption & improve population #health. In the UK, households with the lowest incomes & with #children had the largest #sugar reductions from #softdrinks after implementation of such a levy: https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2025/01/16/bmjnph-2024-000981 #soda #sugartax #nutrition
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#Soda taxes don’t just affect #sales, they help change people’s minds. #Taxes on sugary #beverages, coupled with #media attention, coincided with real changes in social #norms & attitudes about the healthfulness of such drinks... (1/2) https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/10/bay-area-soda-taxes-dont-just-affect-sales-they-help-change-peoples-minds/ #sugartax #sugar #nutrition
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#Taxes on sweetened beverages are an important policy response to #obesity & #diabetes. Poorer households reduce purchases of those beverages more than richer households, i.e. a #sugartax may promote population #health & reduce inequalities: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4905 #nutrition
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EPRONZPcew
What #BigSugar Doesn't Want You To Know
#sugar #consumerknowledge #lobbying #corporategreed #sugartax #food
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#NAFTA removed restrictions on #sugar imports to the US, leading to a sharp decline in prices. #Diabetes in the US went up instantly. #Trade agreements can have consequences on public #health outcomes: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980024001472 #imports #prices #sugartax #nutrition
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How do we know the UK’s sugar tax is working?
There used to be a time when #NZ led the world in things like this.
https://theconversation.com/how-do-we-know-the-uks-sugar-tax-is-working-234418
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#Children’s daily #sugar consumption halved just a year after #tax study finds
Experts say success shows expansion of tax to cover other foods and drinks is a ‘no brainer’https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/09/uk-sugar-tax-explained-what-is-it-and-has-it-worked
#SugarTax #UK [Is this the last thing the #Tories got right?] -
But anyway, focusing on grams of sugar consumed is not really the point. What I want to know if someone is going to convince me that the #SugarTax is a successful policy is whether it has any impact on health outcomes. Does it lead to less tooth decay? Fewer obesity-related diseases? Anything at all that could be described as a health outcome?
Those are the only things that matter. Show me the evidence that the sugar tax has benefited them, and I will be a fan. Without it, I remain sceptical.
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Wow, this is a hideously misleading headline.
Sugar consumption has been falling anyway, so children's sugar consumption was not halved by the intervention. Quite apart from the fact that going from 70g to 45g is not halving anyway by conventional standards in arithmetic, that doesn't take account of the secular trend.
When the authors adjusted for that, they found the reduction in sugar consumption was a little under 10%. Very different from halving.
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The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced.
"Extending it to the likes of cereals is a no-brainer for any government that cares about prevention. This needn’t add to the cost of living. Where voluntary action on reformulation has failed, the levy forces the food industry to do the right thing.”
Eddie Crouch, British Dental Association