Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
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Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
Rwanda’s food policies focus on production to make sure people have livelihoods and enough nutritious food. Not much attention is given to overnutrition.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Between 2018 and 2019 Kenya registered a 30% spike in sugar production and an increase in sugar consumption.
A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may be intended to improve health, but for Indigenous consumers, such a tax would be unethical, contravene tax law and undermine Indigenous rights.
We’re hardwired to love sweet things, but too much sugar is leading to an increase in type 2 diabetes. Here’s what individuals and policymakers can do cut our collective sugar intake.
Myths that taxes on sugary drinks unfairly disadvantage the poor and will result in job losses don’t hold up. Here’s what the evidence says.
Many argue the key to helping low-income Americans eat healthier is eliminating food deserts. A new study suggests this doesn’t help.
We found that evidence cited by three organisations - a big corporate and two industry lobby groups - was either not evidence at all, or had been twisted to suit the industry’s narrative.
Sugar taxes may not prevent obesity and associated conditions overnight, but they can be part of the solution.
Our research estimates how much benefit taxing sugary drinks could bring to Indonesia.
How a price-hiking “meat tax” could prevent 220,000 deaths and save more than US$40 billion in health care costs around the world every year.
Obesity is not a rational choice. But there is scope for governments to get involved and improve our options.
Australia needs a sugar tax, as part of a broader national nutrition policy, to combat the obesity crisis. And the sugar industry is getting in the way.
Tonight, Four Corners looks at the tactics Big Sugar has used to influence health policy. Here’s our pick of five analysis pieces that will get you informed on the issue before the program airs.
A new study in rats adds to the evidence that artificial sweeteners may be bad for your health.
Sugar taxes fail to tackle the root of the problem – the production and marketing of foods that cause chronic disease.
Why you might soon be paying more for your favourite sugary drink.
Too much refined sugar in your diet is not just a risk factor for obesity and diabetes, it also increases your chances of heart disease.
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Director of the SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Manitoba
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Professor of Food Policy, City St George's, University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Nutrition and Food Science, University College Dublin
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Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Professor, Public Health Policy, The University of Queensland