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In 2017, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa voluntarily announced that it would stop supplying sugary beverages to primary school outlets. The company also pledged to remove all branding and advertising from schools. The announcement took the form of a letter noting that that Coca-Cola Beverages wanted to play “an active role in addressing rising obesity rates in South Africa, especially among children”.
Childhood obesity is a serious and growing problem is South Africa. More than 13% of children are either obese or overweight. The consumption of liquid sugar is particularly harmful because it is absorbed so quickly into the bloodstream. Not surprisingly, sugary drinks and their marketing has been linked to obesity especially among children. Just a single sugary beverage per day increases that child’s chance of overweight by 55%. Similarly, once they become an overweight teen, there is a 70% chance they will not be able to lose the weight.
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PROVIDENCE Should Rhode Island impose an extra tax on sugary drinks? Cola-Cola? Gatorade? Sweetened lemonade mix?
In past years, the drive focused on the potentially unhealthy results of ingesting too much sugar, including the obesity epidemic in America. Advocates have revised their pitch this year.
They are proposing to divert the money raised by the proposed new tax on sugary drinks and powders to a 50% discount on the price paid for fruits and vegetables by people with SNAP benefits (formerly known as Food Stamps).
The end-goal: reducing the consumption of sugary drinks . [which raise] the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and obesity . conditions that disproportionately harm people of color, Dr.