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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 25 Jan 2020

      Apparently everyone wants to know my opinion about sugar today, so I'll remind you that it's not addictive and that there's no good evidence that it's any more harmful to you than any other source of excess calories

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 25 Jan 2020

      That being said, a sugar tax that is used to fund healthy eating programs is a solid public health intervention with very strong evidential backing

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        1. Thomas Crow‏ @scicrow 25 Jan 2020
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        2. Fibreman‏ @TheFibreman 26 Jan 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Unless you're poor, in which case it amounts to little more than a tax on being poor. If you're middle class-upwards, you won't notice anyway. So many better ways to educate people about health and balanced diets, the sugar tax is lazy interventionism.

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        3. Phoenix Blue (They/Them)‏ @Phoenix_Blue 26 Jan 2020
          Replying to @TheFibreman @GidMK

          Came here to say this.

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        1. Karen Throsby‏ @thelongswim 26 Jan 2020
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          But isn’t that an argument for well-funded public health interventions rather than a sugar tax?

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        1. Carrie Rayfield‏ @carrierayfield 26 Jan 2020
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          Unless you’re poor and lack access to healthier, low cost alternatives. A tax on it is stupid and won’t change rates for obesity or improve general public health.

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        2. Nick Efthimiou‏ @NickEfthimiou 26 Jan 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Processed foods are already taxed (GST), fresh produce is not. Let's not add more tax burden to consumers.

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        3. Andrew Kelly‏ @andrewkelly58 27 Jan 2020
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          Why not? Given impact on NHS, and it's underfunding, might be quite a good way of raising revenue.

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        1. superbirdman  😊‏ @superbirdman1 26 Jan 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          sugar tax today=meat tax tomorrow...forget about it

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        1. Raven Onthill‏ @RavenOnthill 26 Jan 2020
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          Teeth. Type II diabetes. Childhood obesity. Small quantities would be ok, but we subsidize the production and underprice it. Pull the subsidies, price it fairly, maybe we'd be ok. Oh, and people die in the cane fields.

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        1. Darren Powell‏ @darrenapowell 27 Jan 2020
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          I'm really hoping you're being facetious about their being strong evidence that health education/healthy eating programmes 'work'! Especially if you're talking about school-based ones.

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