{"id":3568,"date":"2009-08-12T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:10","slug":"soda-tax-is-not-fair-to-less-fortunate-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"Soda Tax is not Fair to less fortunate people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/epidem\/fac\/facBio.shtml?Drewnowski_Adam\" class=\"broken_link\">Adam Drewnowski<\/a>, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, believes taxing soda fails to target obesity&#8217;s true causes &#8212; and is unfair to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Drewnowski notes that soda consumption patterns in the general population correlate not just with obesity but with poverty, and that in focusing on the soda-obesity connection we fail to address other conditions associated with poverty, from sedentary lifestyles and television viewing to unemployment and &#8220;general hopelessness,&#8221; that contribute to weight gain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should be looking at those things,&#8221; Drewnowski says. &#8220;That&#8217;s my complaint &#8212; why aren&#8217;t we?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/checkup\/2009\/08\/is_a_soda_tax_fair.html?wprss=checkup\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, believes taxing soda fails to target obesity&#8217;s true causes &#8212; and is unfair to boot. Drewnowski notes that soda consumption patterns in the general population correlate not just with obesity but with poverty, and that in focusing on the soda-obesity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}