date:Jun 28, 2019
The purchase and consumption of sugary drinks has been slashed by 10% in places where a 10% sugary drinks tax has been introduced, a major review shows.
Researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand combined evidence from settings where a sugary drinks tax had been applied and evaluated it into a meta-analysis.
Studies included four cities in the US: Cleveland, Portland, Berkeley, and Philadelphia. A regional tax was studied in Catalonia, Spain, and the effects of country-wide taxes