Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Reach a Turning Point
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Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Curb Future Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics
Diet is the leading cause of health loss globally according to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010, contributing 10% of all health loss [1]. Requiring many assumptions, the GBD team also estimated that 300,000 (95% uncertainty interval: 212,000 to 404,000) deaths per year were attributable to diets high in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) [1], or about 0.6% of all deaths globally per year. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2017.272310