The Danish fat tax-Effects on consumption patterns and risk of ischaemic heart disease

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 200-203

  Bødker, Malene ^a,b   Pisinger, Charlotta ^a,b   Toft, Ulla ^a   Jørgensen, Torben ^a,b,c  

^a Research Centre for Prevention and Health   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumption; Fat tax; IHD

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID; FAT INTAKE;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DENMARK; FAT INTAKE; FAT TAX; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID DIET; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAX; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

DENMARK; DIETARY FATS; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RISK FACTORS; TAXES;

EID: 84932194493     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.03.031     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Aburto N.J., Ziolkovska A., Hooper L., Elliott P., Cappuccio F.P., Meerpohl J.J. Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses. BMJ 2013, 346. (f1326-f1326). 10.1136/bmj.f1326.
2. Berlingske Business [Fat tax to blame for more special offers on fat] [WWW Document]. Berlingske URL, (accessed 7.7.14). http://www.business.dk/detailhandel/fedtskat-skyld-i-flere-fede-tilbud.
3. Bødker M., Pisinger C., Toft U., Jørgensen T. The rise and fall of the world's first tax on saturated fat. Prev. Med. 2015, 119:737-742.
4. Chouinard H.H., Davis D.E., LaFrance J.T., Perloff J.M. Fat taxes: big money for small change. Forum Health Econ. Policy 2007, 10. 10.2202/1558-9544.1071.
5. Clarke R., Frost C., Collins R., Appleby P., Peto R. Dietary lipids and blood cholesterol: quantitative meta-analysis of metabolic ward studies. BMJ 1997, 314:112. 10.1136/bmj.314.7074.112.
6. Hansen S.B. Fedtafgift gør Kærgården mindre (Fat tax mankes Kærgaarden smaller) [WWW Document]. Food Supply DK URL, (accessed 11.27.14). http://www.food-supply.dk/article/view/80174/fedtafgift_gor_kaergarden_mindre.
7. Jensen J.D., Smed S. Cost-effective design of economic instruments in nutrition policy. Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act. 2007, 4:10. 10.1186/1479-5868-4-10.
8. Jensen J.D., Smed S. The Danish tax on saturated fat-short run effects on consumption, substitution patterns and consumer prices of fats. Food Policy 2013, 42:18-31. 10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.06.004.
9. Law M.R., Wald N.J., Rudnicka A.R. Quantifying effect of statins on low density lipoprotein cholesterol, ischaemic heart disease, and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2003, 326:1423. 10.1136/bmj.326.7404.1423.
10. Maniadakis N., Kapaki V., Damianidi L., Kourlaba G. A systematic review of the effectiveness of taxes on nonalcoholic beverages and high-in-fat foods as a means to prevent obesity trends. Clin. Outcomes Res. 2013, 519. 10.2147/CEOR.S49659.
11. Marshall T. Exploring a fiscal food policy: the case of diet and ischaemic heart disease. Br. Med. J. 2000, 320:301-305. 10.1136/bmj.320.7230.301.
12. Mytton O., Gray A., Rayner M., Rutter H. Could targeted food taxes improve health?. J. Epidemiol. Community Health 2007, 61:689-694. 10.1136/jech.2006.047746.
13. Mytton O., Clarke D., Rayner M. Taxing unhealthy food and drinks to improve health. BMJ 2012, 344:e2931. 10.1136/bmj.e2931.
14. Nederkoorn C., Havermans R.C., Giesen J.C.A.H., Jansen A. High tax on high energy dense foods and its effects on the purchase of calories in a supermarket. An experiment. Appetite 2011, 56:760-765. 10.1016/j.appet.2011.03.002.
15. Nnoaham K.E., Sacks G., Rayner M., Mytton O., Gray A. Modelling income group differences in the health and economic impacts of targeted food taxes and subsidies. Int. J. Epidemiol. 2009, 38:1324-1333. 10.1093/ije/dyp214.
16. Nordström J., Thunström L. Can targeted food taxes and subsidies improve the diet? Distributional effects among income groups. Food Policy 2011, 36:259-271. 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.11.023.
17. Rose G. Sick individuals and sick populations. Int. J. Epidemiol. 1985, 14:32-38. 10.1093/ije/14.1.32.
18. Sacks F.M., Katan M. Randomized clinical trials on the effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate on plasma lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease. Am. J. Med. 2002, 113(Suppl. 9B):13S-24S. 10.1016/S0002-9343(01)00987-1.
19. Smed S., Jensen J.D., Denver S. Socio-economic characteristics and the effect of taxation as a health policy instrument. Food Policy 2007, 32:624-639. 10.1016/j.foodpol.2007.03.002.
20. The Danish National Institute of Public Health KRAM-undersøgelsen i tal og billeder (The KRAM survey in numbers and pictures) 2009, Ministry of Health and TrygFonden, Copenhagen.
21. Tiffin R., Salois M. Inequalities in diet and nutrition. Proc. Nutr. Soc. 2011, 71:105-111. 10.1017/S0029665111003284.
22. Vallgårda S., Holm L., Jensen J.D. The Danish tax on saturated fat: why it did not survive. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 2014, 10.1038/ejcn.2014.224.
23. Waterlander W.E., Steenhuis I.H.M., de Boer M.R., Schuit A.J., Seidell J.C. Introducing taxes, subsidies or both: the effects of various food pricing strategies in a web-based supermarket randomized trial. Prev. Med. 2012, 54:323-330. 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.02.009.
24. World Health Organization Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2010 2011, World Health Organization, Geneva.