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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Mitchell H. Katz, MD; Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH

Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(5):405-406.

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Obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus are epidemic in the developed world. Exhorting our patients to eat better and exercise more is necessary, but insufficient, to reverse these trends. We need additional methods for decreasing caloric consumption and increasing energy expenditure.

One strategy that has been receiving increased attention is the use of surcharges (added taxes or fees) on sugar-sweetened beverages to discourage their use and/or to fund interventions that promote alternative beverages.^1-3 Several lines of evidence support focusing on sugared beverages. First, experimental, cross-sectional, and longitudinal studies have demonstrated that increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with energy surplus, weight gain, obesity, and diabetes.^{1, 4-5} Second, the increase in the prevalence of obesity in developed countries has occurred in parallel with an increase in the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.¹ Third, the direct and indirect social costs of sweetened beverage consumption is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Author Affiliations: San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California.

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