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Substitution Patterns Can Limit the Effects of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Obesity

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Dramatic increases in obesity and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption over the past several decades have become major public health and clinical concerns. Obesity rates tripled in 30 years, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among children more than doubled in the last 2 decades of the twentieth century.

Source: Preventing Chronic Disease

DOI: 10.5888/pcd10.120195

Authors: Jason Fletcher, David Frisvold, Nathan Tefft

Institutions: Yale University, Emory University, University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2006725300