{"id":918,"date":"2009-04-09T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=918"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:41:28","slug":"the-public-policy-case-for-taxes-on-sugared-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"The Public Policy Case for Taxes on Sugared Beverages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Brownell of the Yale Rudd Center and Tom Friedan of the New York City Health Department wrote this paper about taxes on sodas &#8211; a sensible a way to get people to consume less of them in the April 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodpolitics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brownellfriedensodataxesnewengljmed09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 20th The Times ran<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/20\/business\/economy\/20leonhardt.html?_r=3&amp;ref=business\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"> a great article<\/a> to followup on Kelly and Toms article. Please notice the graphs which will be useful in any presentation on public health nutrition. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2009\/05\/20\/business\/20leonhardt.graf01.ready.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/modefrugt.dk\/kb\/2009\/20leonhardt-graf01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Brownell of the Yale Rudd Center and Tom Friedan of the New York City Health Department wrote this paper about taxes on sodas &#8211; a sensible a way to get people to consume less of them in the April 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more On May 20th The [&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\/918"}],"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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}