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Current Soda Taxes Not High Enough to Curb Obesity, Study Finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current state taxes and levies on soft drinks are slowing consumption and resulting in slimmer waistlines, but the effect is generally small in magnitude, newly published research by the Yale ...

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created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 2




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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

The big gulp: consumers avoid extremes in soda sizes

As portion sizes have increased, Americans' waistlines have expanded. And as a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research demonstrates, consumers are tricked into drinking more soft drinks when retailers eliminate small ...

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created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2


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