Adopting soda taxes in 21 major cities could save thousands of lives and $1.2...
Taxing sugary drinks in America’s cities could save and extend the lives of millions of Americans while averting vast sums in health costs and raising millions of dollars for local communities,...
View ArticleLooking back on a milestone year in the movement to curb sugar
Wow. What a groundbreaking year for the movement to bring sugar back to healthy levels! At the start of 2016, Berkeley CA was the only community in the United States with a tax on sugary drinks. We...
View ArticleSugar battle heating up for 2017
The year 2016 was a milestone in the movement to curb sugar, and last year’s gains are starting to bear fruit in 2017. Philadelphia’s sweetened beverage tax took effect on January 1st and the city...
View ArticleThe facts on sugar and chronic disease: Four new tools to help you...
Regular readers of this blog no doubt are familiar with the sour truth: Thanks to the sugar added to processed foods and drinks, American kids gobble up 70 percent more than their recommended “safe”...
View ArticleAs Seattle joins the parade, soda tax news keeps coming
Amid a flurry of other tax-related news, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced Feb. 21 that he would champion a sugary drinks levy to raise $16 million a year to reduce the “opportunity gap” between the...
View ArticleIs 100% juice as bad as soda? Read our journal article to find out
This is a summary of the findings of an HFA-commissioned survey of research into the health effects of 100% fruit juice, appearing in the April 2017 issue of Pediatriacs, the journal of the American...
View ArticleWebinar: Insights on soda tax victories from their political strategists
Are you working to pass a tax on sugary drinks in your community, considering whether to pursue one, or counseling others on how to get one adopted? Do you want to learn what it took to field and win...
View ArticleGreat new tool helps cities and states estimate revenue from sugary drink taxes
For the first time, localities of all sizes will be able to estimate potential revenue from a sugary drinks tax under a range of scenarios, thanks to a newly upgraded online calculator.The update to...
View ArticleIs soda consumption headed up or down? Our new research brief tracks the trends
Healthy Food America today released Trends in Sugary Drinks Consumption in the US, 2005-2012, a research brief analyzing the four most recent waves of data from the National Health and Nutrition...
View ArticlePhilly soda tax gets its day in court as judges consider beverage industry suit
Four months into collecting its tax on sweetened beverages, the city of Philadelphia was in court Wednesday battling the beverage industry over whether it has the right to do so. Meanwhile, thousands...
View ArticleBerkeley sugary drink tax is working, new study shows
What if there were a public policy that rewarded industry for selling healthier products and led consumers to buy fewer health-harming ones, while at the same time raising revenue to improve people’s...
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New profiles share key lessons from Bay Area soda tax campaigns
In November, three more Bay Area cities joined Berkeley in adopting sugary drink taxes of one cent per ounce. How did they do it?Three new profiles tell a little of the story in facts, figures and...
View ArticleIllinois sugary drink tax would save millions of lives and dollars, Harvard...
A tax on sugary drinks in Illinois would reduce consumption of health-harming beverages enough to reduce incidence of diabetes, prevent about 116,000 of cases of obesity and avert millions in...
View ArticleSanta Fe Sugary Drink Tax Loss Ends a Streak of Seven Soda Tax Wins
Santa Fe voters have rejected a 2 cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks that would have raised nearly $8 million for expanded pre-K.The tax was proposed and spearheaded by Santa Fe’s Mayor Javier...
View ArticleOpportunities Ahead And Lessons Learned from Santa Fe
Disappointed but undaunted. It would be easy to languish in the loss of a hard-fought effort to pass a sugary drink tax in Santa Fe. But this loss will become a distant memory as more and more cities...
View ArticleWebinar: Implementing Sugary Drink Taxes: Outreach, Collection, and Fighting...
If your municipality is implementing a sugary drink tax or considering a tax policy, this webinar offers advice about what to prepare for after that win. Panelists from Berkeley and Philadelphia’s tax...
View ArticleEarly Evidence Says That Sugary Drink Taxes Are Working
Healthy Food America today released Are Sugary Drink Taxes Working? Early Evidence Says Yes, a research brief analyzing studies of sugary drink taxes designed to reduce consumption. Read the brief...
View ArticleSeattle Becomes the Eighth U.S. Locale to Pass a Sugary Drink Tax
The Seattle City Council approved a 1.75 cent-per-ounce sugary drink tax on Monday June 5th, becoming the eighth locale in the U.S. to adopt such a measure. The tax, which was proposed by Mayor Ed...
View ArticleAMA Adopts Policies to Reduce Consumption of Sugary Drinks
If America’s largest and most powerful physician association has its way, unhealthy sugary drinks will cost more and will no longer be served or sold in the nation’s hospitals or medical facilities.At...
View ArticleHealthy Food America strongly opposes delay of the updated Nutrition Facts...
The FDA recently proposed delaying the updated Nutrition Facts label from July 2018 to January 2020 for large companies the deadline to use the new labels from July 2018 to January 2020 for large...
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