News tagged with soda consumption

Current Anti-Soda Strategies Not Curbing Childhood Obesity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Efforts to curb childhood obesity through school vending machine restrictions and making soft drinks more expensive with low levels of additional taxation have had a negligible effect, to ...

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created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small soda taxes insufficient to curb consumption among children, study finds

Small sales taxes on soft drinks in the range currently in force in some states are insufficient to reduce consumption of soda or curb obesity among children, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

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created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yes, that soda will make you fat

(PhysOrg.com) -- While health officials have long suspected the link between obesity and soda consumption, research released today provides the first scientific evidence of the potent role soda and other sugar-sweetened ...

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 12