{"id":2994,"date":"2013-01-29T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T09:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T09:02:46","slug":"proposed-tax-on-sugary-soft-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/01\/29\/proposed-tax-on-sugary-soft-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed tax on sugary soft drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60 organisations, including the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Healthare are calling for a 20p-per-litre tax on soft drinks to be included in this year&#8217;s Budget. This could raise up to \u00a31bn a year in duty, which could be used to fund free fruit and healthy meals in schools. The tax could drive people towards no added sugar drinks.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cf\/Tumbler_of_cola_with_ice.jpg\/437px-Tumbler_of_cola_with_ice.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"pop\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Image courtesy of Simon Cousins<\/em>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<p>A 330-millilitre can of sugary pop typically contains something like  35g of sugar, that is  nine lumps. There are about 4 calories per gram of sugar, so that is 140 calories per can of sugary pop.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The  Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) for sugar is 90 grams. That is less than three cans of sugary pop, which is in &#8220;old money&#8221; is a pint and a half.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-21228122\" title=\"BBC News\" target=\"_blank\">Call for soft drink sugar tax in Budget<\/a> BBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60 organisations, including the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Healthare are calling for a 20p-per-litre tax on soft drinks to be included in this year&#8217;s Budget. This could raise up to \u00a31bn a year in duty, which could be used to fund free fruit and healthy meals in schools. The tax could drive people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/01\/29\/proposed-tax-on-sugary-soft-drinks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proposed tax on sugary soft drinks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}