They’re cloyingly sweet, nutritionally empty—and, increasingly, subject to taxation. More than 35 countries and seven cities in the US — now impose a tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages, and several more places are considering it.
A US sugar industry trade group appears to have pulled the plug on a study that was producing evidence linking sucrose to disease nearly 50 years ago.
An international study finds thousands of cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented every year if people stopped drinking sugary drinks.
A recent discovery of documents that are nearly 50 years old has shown how the practice of funding specific research has been employed by the sugar industry for decades, producing influential evidence that diminishes the impact that sugar has on heart disease.
