{"id":8220,"date":"2016-10-11T10:11:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyonhealth.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/tax-sugary-drinks-to-fight-obesity-and-diabetes-world-health-organization-says\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:11:03","slug":"tax-sugary-drinks-to-fight-obesity-and-diabetes-world-health-organization-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/11\/tax-sugary-drinks-to-fight-obesity-and-diabetes-world-health-organization-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax sugary drinks to fight obesity and diabetes, World Health Organization says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) \u2013 The World Health Organization said on Tuesday governments should raise taxes on sugary drinks to fight what it says are global obesity and diabetes epidemics. If retail prices of sugar-sweetened drinks are increased by 20 percent through taxation, there is a proportional drop in consumption, it said in a report titled \u201cFiscal Policies for Diet and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases\u201d. Obesity more than doubled worldwide between 1980 and 2014, with 11 percent of men and 15 percent of women classified as obese \u2013 more than 500 million people, the WHO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) \u2013 The World Health Organization said on Tuesday governments should raise taxes on sugary drinks to fight what it says are global obesity and diabetes epidemics. If retail prices of sugar-sweetened drinks are increased by 20 percent through taxation, there is a proportional drop in consumption, it said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-8220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}