Mexico’s Soda Tax Could Reduce Diabetes, Heart Disease and Health Costs

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

The tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Mexico could prevent hundreds of thousands of adults from developing Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease while also saving approximately $1 billion in direct health care costs over the next decade, according to an international study that is the first to project potential long-term health and economic effects of […]

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