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NIN-Led Consortium Advocates For Added Fitness Tax On Sugary Drinks,
03 Apr 2025 06:29 GMT
… Advocates For Added Fitness Tax On Sugary Drinks, Salty Meals
The … tax on excessive fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS) foods and sugar-sweetened drinks … overweight/obesity by using three percent and type 2 diabetes … by using 1.6 percent.
• Taxes will …
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NIN led consortium advocates for additional health tax on sugary drinks, salty foods
02 Apr 2025 11:42 GMT
The consortium, titled ‘Let’s Fix Our Food’ and led by NIN, recommended additional health tax of 20 percent to 30 percent on sweets and confectionaries, health tax of 32 percent on SSBs and HFSS. The group recently submitted its report to ICMR and NITI …
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Experts urge caution over proposed sugary drink tax in Việt Nam
04 Apr 2025 16:24 GMT
… the Law on Special Consumption Tax (SCT) for the … of obesity than their rural peers, despite consuming sugary drinks less … Mexico have introduced sugar taxes, yet obesity rates continue to rise …
They stressed that any tax policy must adhere to principles …
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RFK Jr. wants to stop people using SNAP benefits to buy soda. Will it help?
03 Apr 2025 11:06 GMT
… — SNAP — from buying soda is getting mixed reviews.
Health … question about it."
Sugary drinks including soda are the leading source … obesity and heart disease.
But Berg doesn't believe soda … nutrition is the expanded child tax credit, says Berg. He …
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Pakistan’s Health Crisis to Worsen as FBR Proposes Tax Cuts on Tobacco and Sugary Drinks
23 Mar 2025 20:45 GMT
… avoided.
Pakistan has the highest diabetes prevalence in the world. Over … showing that excessive consumption increases diabetes risk by 30%. And yet … condemns the proposed tax reduction. “Lowering taxes on sugary drinks and tobacco directly encourages …
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Incremental excise tax on sugary drinks in the offing
22 Mar 2025 09:58 GMT
… countries and territories apply excise tax on sugary drinks. In the 2016-2024 … applied such a tax.
The rate of overweight or obese Vietnamese children has … overweight or obese is not only caused by the consumption of sugary drinks but …
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Health Experts Back IMF’s Sweet Drink Tax Proposal
29 Mar 2025 16:21 GMT
… based financial institution, these taxes could help reduce the … Medical Journal, the 2014 soda tax led to a decline … sugar consumption, with obesity and diabetes reaching crisis levels,” … funded by tax revenue
Restricting the marketing of sugary drinks to …
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States can bar food benefit recipients from buying soda, Kennedy says
29 Mar 2025 10:16 GMT
… Potter. “Soda is not what’s driving obesity. Soda calories, beverage … calories overall, have been coming down while obesity … better plan for reducing obesity, he said, would … decade to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans, …
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RFK Jr. says states can – and should – block soda from food stamps benefits
28 Mar 2025 22:02 GMT
… be eliminating taxpayer-funded soda subsidies for lower income … from paying for bottled water, soda, chips, ice cream, decorated … or reduce conditions such as obesity. What’s different this … their tax dollars to feed really bad food and sugary drinks to …
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A Gringa’s take on the Mexican childhood obesity crisis
27 Mar 2025 19:15 GMT
… the mortality rate from diabetes in Chiapas increased 30 … children were overweight or obese.
Diet culture and obesity in Mexico … schools are currently allowing sugary drinks on their school grounds. … to combat the obesity epidemic, including taxes on sodas and …