'Sugar tax' proposed by campaign group to curb child obesity
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Campaign group, Action on Sugar has created a strategy document of seven critical areas of policy to prevent childhood obesity in the UK, which it has presented to Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health this month – which includes the introduction of a sugar tax.1
Action on Sugar is a group of specialists concerned with sugar and its effects on health. With one in five ten to 11-year-olds now obese and one in three overweight, the Action on Sugar plan details the following key actions to change the food environment, which is responsible for the obesity epidemic:2
- Reduce added sugars by 40% by 2020 by reformulating food3
- Cease all forms of targeted marketing of ultra-processed, unhealthy foods and drinks to children
- Disassociate physical activity with obesity via banning junk food sports sponsorships
- Reduce fat in ultra-processed foods, particularly saturated fat – 15% reduction by 2020
- Limit the availability of ultra-processed foods and sweetened soft drinks as well a...
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