{"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:\/\/stuff2host.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) &#8211; 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 &#8220;Fiscal Policies for Diet and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases&#8221;. Obesity more than doubled worldwide between 1980 and 2014, with 11 percent of men and 15 percent of women classified as obese &#8211; more than 500 million people, the WHO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211; 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:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}