Sugar 徴収する is 始める,決める to 削除する child obesity 率s by 10%: 税金 on soft-drinks could lead to 144,000 より小数の 事例/患者s?

  • Scientists have calculated there will be 144,000 より小数の 事例/患者s of obesity の中で adults and children alike if the 徴収する on sugar-laden soft drinks 達成するs its goals?
  • Biggest 衝撃 will be for under-11s, where there would be 45,700 より小数の 事例/患者s?
  • Soft drinks 徴収する will also result in 29,000 より小数の 事例/患者s of type two 糖尿病 a year?

事例/患者s of obesity の中で 最初の/主要な school children will be 減ずるd by a tenth when the 政府's sugar 税金 is 課すd, 専門家s 予報する.

Scientists at Oxford University have calculated there will be 144,000 より小数の 事例/患者s of obesity の中で adults and children alike if the 徴収する on sugar-laden soft drinks 達成するs its goals.

But the biggest 衝撃 will be の中で under-11s, の中で whom there would be 45,700 より小数の 事例/患者s - 9.8 per cent of the total.

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Scientists at Oxford University have calculated there will be 144,000 fewer cases of obesity among adults and children alike if the levy on sugar-laden soft drinks achieves its goals

Scientists at Oxford University have calculated there will be 144,000 より小数の 事例/患者s of obesity の中で adults and children alike if the 徴収する on sugar-laden soft drinks 達成するs its goals

The soft drinks 徴収する will also result in 29,000 より小数の 事例/患者s of type two 糖尿病 a year, mostly の中で adults, and 269,000 より小数の people 報告(する)/憶測ing tooth decay 毎年, it is 予報するd.

The 徴収する - 予定 to be introduced in April 2018 - will 税金 drinks at two 禁止(する)d によれば how much sugar they 含む/封じ込める.

Those with 'high' sugar content - more than 8g per 100 millilitres ? are 推定する/予想するd to be 税金d at 24p per litre, and those with 'medium' sugar content of 5g per 100ml are 推定する/予想するd to be 徴収するd at 18p per litre.

The 研究員s, 令状ing in the Lancet Public Health 医療の 定期刊行物, 予報する 製造業者s will 'reformulate' their 製品s to 減ずる the 税金 they have to 支払う/賃金.

They 見積(る) a 削減 of 30 per cent in the sugar content of high-sugar drinks ? a step already 存在 器具/実施するd by some 製造業者s ? and a 15 per cent 削減 in 中央の-sugar drinks.

If this 的 is 攻撃する,衝突する, the health 衝撃s will be 重要な.

全体にわたる, they 予報する the number of obese people in the UK will 減少(する) by 144,000 from 15.5million - a 落ちる of 0.9 per cent.

Most of those 影響する/感情d will be under-18s, with 95,000 より小数の obese children out of the 現在の total of 1.36million, a 7 per cent 減少(する).

But when the 研究員s just looked at four to ten-year olds, they 設立する the biggest 衝撃 of all, with 45,700 より小数の 事例/患者s of obesity 推定する/予想するd out of a 現在の total of 465,900 obese children in this age group.

That would equate to a 減少(する) of 9.8 per cent.

The researchers, writing in the Lancet Public Health medical journal, predict manufacturers will 'reformulate' their products to reduce the tax they have to pay

The 研究員s, 令状ing in the Lancet Public Health 医療の 定期刊行物, 予報する 製造業者s will 'reformulate' their 製品s to 減ずる the 税金 they have to 支払う/賃金

熟考する/考慮する leader Dr Adam Briggs said: 'Our 熟考する/考慮する 供給するs the first 見積(る)s of the likely health 衝撃 of the UK soft drinks 徴収する.

'The good news is that our 熟考する/考慮する 示唆するs that all of the most likely 産業 返答s to the 税金 含むing 減ずるing sugar content of soft drinks, raising prices of high-sugar drinks and 増加するing the market 株 of low-sugar drinks have the 可能性のある to 改善する health by 減ずるing 率s of obesity, 糖尿病 and tooth decay.

'The extent of the health 利益s of the 税金 will depend on 産業's 返答.

'We must therefore be vigilant to 確実にする the food 産業 行為/法令/行動するs to 除去する sugar from soft drinks, and that where the 税金 is passed on to 消費者s it 増加するs the price of 的d 製品s only - drinks with high levels of sugar.'

Professor Susan Jebb, the 政府's former obesity tsar and co-author on the 熟考する/考慮する, 追加するd: 'In spite of the 不確定s, the direction of the 影響 is (疑いを)晴らす - this 徴収する will have a 肯定的な 衝撃, 特に on children's health.'

She 追加するd: 'Of course, on its own a soft drinks 徴収する cannot solve the obesity 危機, but we should not underestimate the importance of this step, both for the UK and as a 事例/患者 熟考する/考慮する for other parts of the world.'

Soft drinks are the biggest source of sugar in the diet of children and 十代の少年少女s, によれば Public Health England.

Children's 消費 of 甘い drinks has dropped very little in the six years health 公式の/役人s have been collecting data, にもかかわらず 悲惨な 警告s of the health dangers.

Even the 長,指導者 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある of the NHS, Simon Stevens, has 警告するd there is '絶対 no 推論する/理由' that children should drink sugar-laden liquids at all, and 警告するd that 癌 and heart 病気 may を待つ those who do.

Yet for 11-to 18-year-olds fruit juice, smoothies and fizzy drinks made up 38 per cent of sugar intake in 2014 ? only a small 削減 on the 41 per cent 記録,記録的な/記録するd when the data was first 記録,記録的な/記録するd in 2008.

For younger children, 老年の four to ten, 甘い drinks made up 27 per cent of sugar intake in the 最新の data collection, 負かす/撃墜する from 30 per cent 以前.

Professor Neena Modi, 大統領,/社長 of the 王室の College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: 'This 研究 into the likely 有効性 of a sugar 徴収する is very encouraging.

'Their 結論s 供給する a powerful steer to 産業 to 減ずる the sugar content of soft drinks, and also 増加する the price of high and 中央の-sugar drinks, and 説得する 消費者s to switch to low sugar drinks.'?

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