ABSTRACT This article provides a critical review about the challenges that taxes on sugary drinks as an instrument of health policy must face to reverse the trend of the current epidemics of obesity. We analyzed the experiences of the leading countries, particularly Mexico, and reflect on the counterweight exerted by the industry against obesity policies, and on the power of lobbyists. Those tax policies for public health have to overcome the enormous strength of the industry, which is exerted in several-science and research, brand reputation, influence on regulators-levels. We suggest that a specific tax on sugary drinks has enough potential to reduce noncommunicable diseases and risk -diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia, lipoproteins,...
It is common knowledge nowadays that consuming sugar-sweetened beverages (“SSBs”) is associated with...
This article examines the policy change process that resulted in the current sugar-sweetened beverag...
American waistlines are an international punchline, and United States taxpayers spend hundreds of bi...
Este artículo aporta una revisión crítica acerca de los retos a los que se enfrentan los impuestos s...
In 2014 the Mexican government implemented taxes to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened bevera...
La alta prevalencia de obesidad en Chile en conjunto con el creciente consumo de bebidas azucaradas ...
This article discusses overweight and obesity and its implications as a huge public health problem i...
In Spain, one third of all children and two-thirds of adults suffer from excess weight, a condition ...
Abstract: Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has reached alarming rates in Mexico....
What effect on body mass index, obesity and diabetes can we expect from the 1-peso-per-litre tax to ...
Mexico is the largest soft drink market in the world, with high rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes...
In the past few years Mexico has passed the United States as the fattest country in the world. This ...
Mexico is the largest soft drink market in the world, with high rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes...
The adoption of fiscal policies based on the specific taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) h...
As incidences of overweight and obese populations continue to increase around the world, countries a...
It is common knowledge nowadays that consuming sugar-sweetened beverages (“SSBs”) is associated with...
This article examines the policy change process that resulted in the current sugar-sweetened beverag...
American waistlines are an international punchline, and United States taxpayers spend hundreds of bi...
Este artículo aporta una revisión crítica acerca de los retos a los que se enfrentan los impuestos s...
In 2014 the Mexican government implemented taxes to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened bevera...
La alta prevalencia de obesidad en Chile en conjunto con el creciente consumo de bebidas azucaradas ...
This article discusses overweight and obesity and its implications as a huge public health problem i...
In Spain, one third of all children and two-thirds of adults suffer from excess weight, a condition ...
Abstract: Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has reached alarming rates in Mexico....
What effect on body mass index, obesity and diabetes can we expect from the 1-peso-per-litre tax to ...
Mexico is the largest soft drink market in the world, with high rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes...
In the past few years Mexico has passed the United States as the fattest country in the world. This ...
Mexico is the largest soft drink market in the world, with high rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes...
The adoption of fiscal policies based on the specific taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) h...
As incidences of overweight and obese populations continue to increase around the world, countries a...
It is common knowledge nowadays that consuming sugar-sweetened beverages (“SSBs”) is associated with...
This article examines the policy change process that resulted in the current sugar-sweetened beverag...
American waistlines are an international punchline, and United States taxpayers spend hundreds of bi...