It was announced in this year's budget that the soft drinks industry would be levied with a sugar tax, to be implemented in April 2018, as part of efforts to combat child obesity. This was good news for Jamie Oliver and his campaign for an introduction of a tax on soft drinks; he has also produced his own strategy to help tackle childhood obesity. Sugar was first highlighted as a key cause for poor health back in 1972 by John Yudkin who wrote on this subject. Robert Lustig echoed the same theory in his lecture on sugar in 2009. This article aims to clarify why sugar is being blamed for a string of ailments including obesity.
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