The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · edit-2 7 months ago

I mean, there’s also

Second, although adiposity has been consistently shown to be an independent risk factor for several NCDs in individual-level epidemiological studies

in the same exact excerpt.

Yes, being poor and starving still sucks. Nobody cares because it happens outside of the magic Western bubble, but that’s another issue for another thread.

I think I’ve proven my point here, so I’ll just duck out.

The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

Children’s sugar consumption halved since tax announcement, study finds