The global context for public health nutrition taxation

Thow, Anne Marie; Heywood, Peter; Leeder, Stephen; Burns, Lee

doi:10.1017/s1368980010002053

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“…For example, rather than taxing vegetable oils, as per a former Danish saturated fat tax [52], it seems desirable that such oils are exempted from taxes. While there is an international trend against exemptions from VAT-like taxes [53], countries with such exemptions could ensure that they applied to the “optimized” foods identified by this type of modeling.…”

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confidence: 99%

Foods and Dietary Patterns That Are Healthy, Low-Cost, and Environmentally Sustainable: A Case Study of Optimization Modeling for New Zealand

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ObjectiveGlobal health challenges include non-communicable disease burdens, ensuring food security in the context of rising food prices, and environmental constraints around food production, e.g., greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions. We therefore aimed to consider optimized solutions to the mix of food items in daily diets for a developed country population: New Zealand (NZ).MethodsWe conducted scenario development and linear programming to model 16 diets (some with uncertainty). Data inputs included nutrients in foods, food prices, food wastage and food-specific GHG emissions.FindingsThis study identified daily dietary patterns that met key nutrient requirements for as little as a median of NZ$ 3.17 per day (US$ 2.41/d) (95% simulation interval [SI] = NZ$ 2.86 to 3.50/d). Diets that included “more familiar meals” for New Zealanders, increased the cost. The optimized diets also had low GHG emission profiles compared with the estimate for the ‘typical NZ diet’ e.g., 1.62 kg CO2e/d for one scenario (95%SI = 1.39 to 1.85 kg CO2e) compared with 10.1 kg CO2e/d, respectively. All of the optimized low-cost and low-GHG dietary patterns had likely health advantages over the current NZ dietary pattern, i.e., lower cardiovascular disease and cancer risk.ConclusionsWe identified optimal foods and dietary patterns that would lower the risk of non-communicable diseases at low cost and with low greenhouse gas emission profiles. These results could help guide central and local government decisions around which foods to focus policies on. That is which foods are most suitable for: food taxes (additions and exemptions); healthy food vouchers and subsidies; and for increased use by public institutions involved in food preparation.

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Foods and Dietary Patterns That Are Healthy, Low-Cost, and Environmentally Sustainable: A Case Study of Optimization Modeling for New Zealand

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“…Taxes may also serve to educate the public (137,138). When a tax on a good comes into public view for debate, there is an opportunity to provide public health education about why the tax is being proposed.…”

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Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Children's Health

Scharf¹,

DeBoer

2016

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Temporal trends in the epidemic of childhood obesity have been paralleled by increases in the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) during childhood. Consumption has increased dramatically over the past several decades in all age ranges, with some moderation over the past 10 years. Evidence from cross-sectional, longitudinal, and interventional studies supports links between SSB consumption in childhood and unhealthy weight gain, as well as other untoward health outcomes. These data have stimulated public health efforts to curtail consumption as a means of improving childhood weight status and related health outcomes. Reducing ready access to SSBs, changing the message environment to which children are exposed, and replacing SSBs with healthier beverages have had moderate success in decreasing SSB consumption and curbing unhealthy weight gain.

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“…Though proponents assert that a volumebased excise tax delivers extra benefits by discouraging bulk buying [3,49], a high existing tax rate might already limit soft drink consumption to a satisfactory level, such that switching to a volume-based excise tax may not make a significant difference. In addition, careful consideration of local markets is necessary, as the application of excise taxes is recommended by experts only when they correct for externalities [50]. Negative reactions from the soft drink industry may also deter policymakers.…”

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confidence: 99%