Soda Tax

East Bay City Puts Controversial Soda Tax On November Ballot

AP | Posted 05.17.2012

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RICHMOND, Calif. -- Voters in Richmond are set to decide whether to make the San Francisco Bay area city the nation's first municipality to tax soda a...

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Public Policy and Obesity

Lora Rosenblum | Posted 05.07.2012

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What was it that calorie labeling had that the soda tax did not -- or vice versa -- and more generally, what does this say about the current opportunity for obesity related legislation?

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Will A New Tax On Soda Help Young, Obese Chicagoans?

Posted 05.01.2012

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Chicago aldermen on Tuesday are slated to consider increasing a tax on soda and other sugary beverages in the city. The resolution proposing a tax ...

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UN Report Supports Taxes On Junk Food

Posted 03.13.2012

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Most of the overlap between the food world and the United Nations' mandate is about life-threatening hunger. The UN steps in to facilitate the distrib...

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Alderman Proposes Tax Hike On Soda, Sugary Drinks

Posted 02.17.2012

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A Chicago alderman on Thursday introduced a resolution calling on the City Council to look into a new tax on soft drinks and energy drinks -- a propos...

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Save Lives, Tax Soda

Maria Rodale | Posted 03.18.2012

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by guest blogger Wendy Gordon, pioneer in the green consumer movement Forty-five can be a sizeable number. Especially when it's the number of gal...

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Soda Taxes Might Save 2,600 Lives A Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 01.16.2012

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People get emotional when you bring up the idea of a soda tax. Proponents of the tax are quick to compare it to excise taxes on cigarettes. They argue...

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Save Lives, Tax Soda

Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.12.2012

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Let's make 2012 the year we get smart about taxes, and tax less of those things we want more of, like jobs and income, and more of the things we want less of, like health damaging sugars. You can have your cake, just pay for it.

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Sugary Beverages and Their Bitter Effects

Eric Ding, Ph.D. | Posted 01.23.2012

I'm often asked the question, "What is the single most harmful food in our diet today?" The evidence is mounting that it is the excess consumption of sugary beverages in our diet.

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Coca-Cola Protests New Tax On Sugary Sodas

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

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By Associated Press PARIS -- Coca-Cola said Thursday it has suspended plans for a euro17 million ($24 million) investment in France to protest a ta...

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The Case For Taxing Soda And Subsidizing Produce

NYTimes.com | by MARK BITTMAN | Posted 09.24.2011

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What will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large pa...

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Junk Food Companies Pay Scientists To Fudge Nutrition Research

Posted 08.23.2011

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Yet another major long-term study, this one published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has conclusively demonstrated the link between weight ga...

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Sugary Drinks Dull Tastebuds, Increase Cravings

The Huf | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.09.2011

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away, and just two sugary drinks can have the opposite effect. According to the Guardian, UK researchers are sugges...

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For Scientists, GOP Chairman's Cuts To 'Silly-Sounding' Research Are No Laughing Matter

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Condoms, yoga and pot were among the subjects of research projects House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) proposed defunding in ...

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Why Tax Amnesty Went Wrong in New York

Jerry Kremer | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York State is currently in a serious financial condition. But each time it looks like there is an idea that might work, the state finds a way to shoot itself in the foot.

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Obesity: We Need an All-Out Campaign

James R. Knickman | Posted 05.25.2011

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If ever a challenge vexes us in the public health world, it is how to take on the obesity epidemic.

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Food Stamps Soda Ban: The Wrong Way to Fight Obesity

Joel Berg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Well-heeled conservatives and progressives always seem to unite on one issue: dictating that poor people should behave more virtuously than they themselves do.

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Science vs. Politics: Will A Soda Tax Really Lower Obesity Rates?

John E. Calfee | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the case of diet and obesity, research based on correlations has provided contradictory evidence on the impact of soda prices or taxes; the most rigorous statistical studies tend to find no impact at all.

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Why We Should Tax Soda

Susan Yager | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is no question about it, smoking is bad for your health. But obesity is, perhaps, worse. And yet, we heavily tax tobacco but not soda.

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Is Soda Food?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Soda is not cocaine, or tobacco, but it is an at least nominally addictive substance, corrosive if not abruptly toxic to health, and devoid of any nutritional value food assistance is intended to help obtain.

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The Problem With Banning Soda Purchases With Food Stamps

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Apparently, the public has spoken, and people support banning the use of food stamps to buy soda. But I wonder if it would be different though if the ban were to be extended to all citizens, and not just those on the welfare end?

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Cancer Cells Slurp Up Fructose, Study Finds

Reuters | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all s...

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Paterson To Reintroduce Soda Tax Plan

dnainfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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MANHATTAN -- Gov. David Paterson is making one last push for his soda tax plan in the state budget. Paterson will reportedly reintroduce the plan dur...

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As American as Apple Pie: Policies that Protect Health

Larry_Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Something transformative is happening in America. Federal recommendations limiting food marketing to kids. Building sidewalks so that kids can be ph...

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Our big problem

Alan Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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In this weekend's Wall Street Journal Theodore Dalrymple (the pen name for Anthony Daniels, a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist) was only the lat...

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