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Did the Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages Curb Consumption?
Category: Health
Duration: 00:09:28
Publish Date: 2024-01-08 01:23:00
Description:

Five U.S. cities implemented a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages between 2017 and 2018, as a key policy to reduce cardiometabolic diseases and other health conditions. Did consumers reduce their consumption? Listen in this week as Dee discusses the results of a recent study that examined the correlation between increases in prices of sugar-sweetened beverages and purchases.

Reference:

Kaplan, S., White, J. S., Madsen, K. A., Basu, S., Villas-Boas, S. B., & Schillinger, D. (2024). Evaluation of changes in prices and purchases following implementation of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes across the US. JAMA Health Forum, 5(1), e234737. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2813506
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