Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Curb Future Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Blakely, Tony ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a   Kaye Blake, Bill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Wellington   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SWEETENING AGENTS; TAXES;

EID: 84893779155     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001583     Document Type: Article

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