Mexico Dares to Do What the United States Has Not: Tax Sugar Eric Berger - Chron
go to original January 2, 2014

U.S. scientists have long suggested that the government should tax junk food and sugary beverages as a deterrent to their consumption. Many food and nutrition scientists say sugar should be regulated nearly to the extent tobacco is.

But would such regulations work in reducing our intake of junk food and soft drinks?

Thanks to Mexico we’ll soon find out. The world’s fattest country — yes, Mexico recently claimed that dubious honor from the United States — launched a tax on sugar-sweetened soft drinks and junk food on New Year’s Day. It increases the price of junk food and soda by about 8 to 10 percent.

Beverage companies, such as Coca Cola, are concerned that the tax, if successful, could spread to other Latin American countries and eventually even into the United States.

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