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Substitution patterns can limit the effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on obesity
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Substitution patterns can limit the effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on obesity

Jason Fletcher, David Frisvold and Nathan Tefft
Preventing chronic disease, Vol.10(2), pp.E18-E18
2013
DOI: 10.5888/pcd10.120195
PMCID: PMC3567924
PMID: 23391294
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https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd10.120195View
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Abstract

Dramatic increases in obesity and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption over the past several decades have become major public health and clinical concerns. Obesity rates tripled in 30 years, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among children more than doubled in the last 2 decades of the twentieth century (1). Many children drink more sugar-sweetened beverages than milk, and sugar-sweetened beverages represent the largest category of daily caloric intake (7%-12%) for many demographic groups (1). Emerging evidence suggests that increasing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages raises weight and obesity rates.
United States Beverages - economics Humans National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division Obesity - epidemiology Obesity - etiology Sweetening Agents - economics Taxes - legislation & jurisprudence

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