Tax junk food to cut obesity, says report

ONE of the most detailed investigations into obesity in the US has proposed increasing taxes on junk food and heavily sweetened soft drinks, a move that will be aggressively resisted by the multibillion-dollar beverage industry.

State and local government taxes, as well as credits for companies setting up healthier grocery shops in poor neighbourhoods, are among the proposals aimed at tackling a problem that has become a major drain on health spending.  Click here for full article.