Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages to reduce overweight and obesity in middle-income countries: A systematic review

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Nakhimovsky, Sharon S ^a   Feigl, Andrea B ^b   Avila, Carlos ^a   O'Sullivan, Gael ^a   MacGregor Skinner, Elizabeth ^a   Spranca, Mark ^a  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; ECUADOR; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MEXICO; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; OBESITY; PERU; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAX; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84992195325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163358     Document Type: Review

References (65)

1. Popkin BM, Hawkes C. Sweetening of the global diet, particularly beverages: patterns, trends, and policy responses. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 2016; 4(2):174-86. doi: 10.1016/s2213-8587 (15)00419-2
2. Hu FB. Resolved: there is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Obesity Reviews. 2013; 14(8):606-19. doi: 10.1111/obr.12040 PMID: 23763695
3. Malik VS, Popkin BM, Bray GA, Despres JP, Hu FB. Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk. Circulation. 2010; 121(11):1356-64. doi: 10.1161/circulationaha.109.876185 PMID: 20308626
4. Singh GM, Micha R, Khatibzadeh S, Lim S, Ezzati M, Mozaffarian D. Estimated Global, Regional, and National Disease Burdens Related to Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in 2010. Circulation. 2015; 132(8):639-66. doi: 10.1161/circulationaha.114.010636 PMID: 26124185
5. Carbonating the world: the marketing and health impact of sugar drinks in low-and middle-income countries [Internet]. Center for Science in the Public Interest; 2016. Available: www.cspinet.org/ carbonating/.
6. Popkin BM, Adair LS, Ng SW. Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries. Nutrition Reviews. 2012; 70(1):3-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00456.x PMID: 22221213
7. Chisholm D, Baltussen R, Evans DB, Ginsberg G, Lauer JA, Lim S, et al. What are the priorities for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and injuries in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia? Bmj. 2012; 344:e586. Epub 2012/03/06. doi: 10.1136/bmj.e586 PMID: 22389336.
8. WHO. Tobacco Control Economics: WHO; 2016 [cited 2016 January 25, 2016]. Overview of WHO's approach to tobacco control and WHO resources on the topic].
9. WHO. Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. Italy: WHO, 2010.
10. Wipfli HL, Samet J. Framing progress in global tobacco control to inform action on noncommunicable diseases. Health Affairs. 2015; 34(9):1480-8. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0361 PMID: 26355049
11. Lustig RH, Schmidt LA, Brindis CD. The toxic truth about sugar. Nature 2012; 482:27-9. Epub February 2, 2012. doi: 10.1038/482027a PMID: 22297952
12. Brownell KD, Farley T, Willett WC, Popkin BM, Chaloupka FJ, Thompson JW, et al. The public health and economic benefits of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2009; 361(16):1599-605. doi: 10.1056/NEJMhpr0905723 PMID: 19759377
13. WHO. Report of the commission on ending childhood obesity. Geneva: WHO, 2016 January. Report No.: WS 130.
14. Zheng M, Allman-Arinelli M, Heitmann BL, Toelle B, Marks G, Cowell C, et al. Liquid versus solid energy intake in relation to body composition among Australian children. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 2014; 28(Supplement s2):70-9. Epub February 18, 2014. doi: 10.1111/jhn.12223
15. World Cancer Research Fund International. Use economic tools to address food affordability and purchase incentives: WCRF International; 2015 [updated November 24, 2015December 15, 2015]. Available: http://www.wcrf.org/int/policy/nourishing-framework/use-economic-tools.
16. Jou J, Techakehakij W. International application of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation in obesity reduction: Factors that may influence policy effectiveness in country-specific contexts. Health Policy. 2012; 107(1):83-90. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.05.011 PMID: 22727243
17. Manyema M, Veerman LJ, Chola L, Tugendhaft A, Sartorius B, Labadarios D, et al. The potential impact of a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages on obesity in South African adults: A mathematical model. PLoS ONE. 2014.
18. Hong V. Carbonated soft drinks: considering a special tax on purchasing. Vietnam Customs Newspaper. 2014 July 17.
19. Chaloupka FJ, Powell LM, Chriqui JF. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as public health policy-lessons from tobacco. Choices: the magazine of food, farm and resource issues. 2011.
20. WHO. WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration. Geneva: WHO, 2011.
21. Anderson SP, de Palma A, Kreider B. Tax incidence in differentiated product oligopoly. Journal of Public Economics. 2001; 81(2):173-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00079-7.
22. Berardi N, Sevestre P, Tepaut M, Vigneron A. The Impact of a "Soda Tax" on Prices. Evidence from French micro data. Banque de France Direction Generale des Etudes et des Relations internationales2012.
23. Thow AM, Downs S, Jan S. A systematic review of the effectiveness of food taxes and subsidies to improve diets: understanding the recent evidence. Nutrition Reviews. 2014; 72(9):551-65. doi: 10.1111/nure.12123 PMID: 25091552
24. Powell LM, Chriqui JF, Khan T, Wada R, Chaloupka FJ. Assessing the potential effectiveness of food and beverage taxes and subsidies for improving public health: a systematic review of prices, demand and body weight outcomes. Obesity Reviews. 2013; 14(2):110-28. doi: 10.1111/obr.12002 PMID: WOS:000313258900002.
25. Cabrera Escobar MA, Veerman JL, Tollman SM, Bertram MY, Hofman KJ. Evidence that a tax on sugar sweetened beverages reduces the obesity rate: a meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 2013; 13:1072-. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1072 PMID: MEDLINE:24225016.
26. Eyles H, Ni Mhurchu C, Nghiem N, Blakely T. Food pricing strategies, population diets, and non-communicable disease: a systematic review of simulation studies. PLoS Medicine. 2012; 9(12):e1001353. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001353 PMID: 23239943
27. Seale JJ, Regmi A, Bernstein J. International evidence on food consumption patterns. 2003 October. Report No.
28. Green R, Cornelsen L, Dangour AD, Turner R, Shankar B, Mazzocchi M, et al. The effect of rising food prices on food consumption: systematic review with meta-regression. BMJ. 2013; 346:f3703. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3703 PMID: 23775799; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC3685509.
29. Donnelly L. Sugar tax in Mexico cuts sales of sugary drinks by 12 percent. The Telegraph. 2016 January 6.
30. 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. ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research: CEOR. 2013; 5:519-43. doi: 10.2147/CEOR.S49659 PMID: PMC3810203.
31. Liberati A, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Mulrow C, Gotzsche PC, Ioannidis JP, et al. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration. PLoS Medicine. 2009; 6(7):e1000100. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed. 1000100 PMID: 19621070; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC2707010.
32. World Bank. Country and Lending Groups 2016 [cited 2016 February 23]. Available: data.worldbank. org/about/country-and-lending-groups.
33. 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. ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research: CEOR. 2013; 5:519-43. doi: 10.2147/ceor.s49659 PMID: MEDLINE:24187507.
34. Ritter Burga PI. Essays on obesity and oral health in developing countries. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. 2016. 10129554.
35. Colchero MA, Popkin BM, Rivera JA, Ng SW. Beverage purchases from stores in Mexico under the excise tax on sugar sweetened beverages: observational study. BMJ. 2016; 352:h6704. doi: 10.1136/ bmj.h6704 PMID: 26738745.
36. Barquera S, Hernandez-Barrera L, Tolentino ML, Espinosa J, Ng SW, Rivera JA, et al. Energy Intake from Beverages Is Increasing among Mexican Adolescents and Adults. Journal of Nutrition. 2008; 138 (12):2454-61. doi: 10.3945/jn.108.092163 PMID: 19022972
37. Company C-C. How many calories are there in a 330 ml can of Coca-Cola? 2016 [cited 2016 February 15]. Available: www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/health/calories-in-330ml-can-of-coca-cola/.
38. DeVoe H. Thermodynamics and Chemistry [Website]2016. Available: http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/ Textbook-Maps/Physical-Chemistry-Textbook-Maps/DeVoe%27s-%22Thermodynamics-and- Chemistry%22.
39. Claro RM, Levy RB, Popkin BM, Monteiro CA. Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes in Brazil. American Journal of Public Health. 2012; 102(1):178-83. doi: 10.2105/ajph.2011.300313 PMID: 22095333
40. Basu S, Vellakkal S, Agrawal S, Stuckler D, Popkin B, Ebrahim S. Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study. PLoS Medicine. 2014; 11(1). e100158210.1371/journal.pmed.1001582. PMID: WOS:000337975600002.
41. Grogger J. Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, NBER Working Papers: 21197; 2015.
42. Colchero MA, Salgado JC, Unar-Munguia M, Hernandez-Avila M, Rivera-Dommarco JA. Price elasticity of the demand for sugar sweetened beverages and soft drinks in Mexico. Econ Hum Biol. 2015; 19:129-37. Epub 2015/09/20. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2015.08.007 PMID: 26386463.
43. Arroyo P, Loria A, Méndez O. Changes in the Household Calorie Supply during the 1994 Economic Crisis in Mexico and Its Implications on the Obesity Epidemic. Nutrition Reviews. 2004; 62(7):163-8. doi: 10.1301/nr.2004.jul.S163-S168
44. Paraje G. The Effect of Price and Socio-Economic Level on the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB): The Case of Ecuador. PLoS One. 2016; 11(3):e0152260. Epub 2016/03/31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152260 PMID: 27028608.
45. Colchero MA, Salgado JC, Unar-Munguía M, Hernández-Ávila M, Rivera-Dommarco JA. Price elasticity of the demand for sugar sweetened beverages and soft drinks in Mexico. Economics & Human Biology. 2015; 19:129-37. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2015.08.007
46. Global Health Observatory [Internet]. WHO. 2016 [cited January 25, 2016]. Available: www.who.int/ gho/en/.
47. Andreyeva T, Luedicke J, Tripp AS, Henderson KE. Effects of reduced juice allowances in food packages for the women, infants, and children program. Pediatrics. 2013; 131(5):919-27. Epub 2013/05/01. doi: 10.1542/peds.2012-3471 PMID: 23629613; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4074658.
48. Bergman UM. Are excise taxes on beverages fully passed through to prices? The Danish evidence. [Working Paper]. In press 2013.
49. Falbe J, Rojas N, Grummon AH, Madsen KA. Higher Retail Prices of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages 3 Months After Implementation of an Excise Tax in Berkeley, California. American Journal of Public Health. 2015; 105(11):2194-201. doi: 10.2105/ajph.2015.302881 PMID: 26444622
50. Colchero MA, Salgado JC, Unar-Munguia M, Molina M, Ng S, Rivera-Dommarco JA. Changes in Prices After an Excise Tax to Sweetened Sugar Beverages Was Implemented in Mexico: Evidence from Urban Areas. PLoS One. 2015; 10(12):e0144408. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144408 PMID: 26675166; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC4682930.
51. Bonnet C, Requillart V. Impact of Cost Shocks on Consumer Prices in Vertically-Related Markets: The Case of the French Soft Drink Market. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2013; 95(5):1088-108. PMID: 1462179064; 1401430.
52. Nestle M. Soda politics: taking on big soda (and winning). New York: Oxford University Press; 2015.
53. International E. Trends and insights in the global soft drinks market 2014. Euromonitor International and Passport; 2015.
54. Bhushan R. Small local brands with deeper reach & lower price give Pepsi, Coke a run for their fizz. The Economic Times of India. 2015 July 1, 2015.
55. Finkelstein EA, Trogdon JG, Brown DS, Allaire BT, Dellea PS, Kamal-Bahl SJ. The lifetime medical cost burden of overweight and obesity: implications for obesity prevention. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008; 16(8):1843-8. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.290 PMID: 18535543.
56. Dror DK, Allen LH. The importance of milk and other animal-source foods for children in low-income countries. Food and nutrition bulletin. 2011; 32(3):227-43. PMID: 22073797
57. UNICEF, WHO, Group WB. Levels and trends inchild malnutrition: UNICEF - WHO - World Bank Group joint child malnutrition estimates: key findings of the 2015 edition. UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank Group, 2015.
58. WHO. Global Status Report on noncommunicable diseases 2014. World Health Organization, 2014.
59. Manyema M, Veerman JL, Chola L, Tugendhaft A, Labadarios D, Hofman K. Decreasing the Burden of Type 2 Diabetes in South Africa: The Impact of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages. PLoS One. 2015; 10(11):e0143050. Epub 2015/11/18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143050 PMID: 26575644; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC4648571.
60. Hall KD, Sacks G, Chandramohan D, Chow CC, Wang YC, Gortmaker SL, et al. Quantification of the effect of energy imbalance on bodyweight. The Lancet. 2011; 378(9793):826-37. http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/S0140-6736(11)60812-X.
61. Sacks G, Veerman JL, Moodie M, Swinburn B. /'Traffic-light/' nutrition labelling and /'junk-food/' tax: a modelled comparison of cost-effectiveness for obesity prevention. Int J Obes. 2011; 35(7):1001-9.
62. Wang EY. The Impact of Soda Taxes on Consumer Welfare: Implications of Storability and Taste Heterogeneity. RAND Journal of Economics. 2015; 46(2):409-41. PMID: 1708502551; 1514206.
63. Guo CY, Wang HY, Liu XP, Fan LY, Zhang L, Cao CX. Fast and selective determination of total protein in milk powder via titration of moving reaction boundary electrophoresis. Electrophoresis. 2013; 34(9-10):1343-51. Epub 2013/03/14. doi: 10.1002/elps.201300007 PMID: 23483553.
64. Wansink B, Cao Y, Saini P, Shimizu M, Just DR. College cafeteria snack food purchases become less healthy with each passing week of the semester. Public Health Nutr. 2013; 16(7):1291-5. Epub 2012/ 11/24. doi: 10.1017/s136898001200328x PMID: 23174136.
65. Mytton OT, Eyles H, Ogilvie D. Evaluating the Health Impacts of Food and Beverage Taxes. Current Obesity Reports. 2014; 3(4):432-9. doi: 10.1007/s13679-014-0123-x PMID: 26626920