{"id":27846,"date":"2021-03-11T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=27846"},"modified":"2021-03-11T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:49:00","slug":"fizzy-drinks-tax-helped-us-cut-our-sugar-intake-by-10-a-year-after-it-was-introduced-as-experts-hail-the-policy-as-a-win-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/11\/fizzy-drinks-tax-helped-us-cut-our-sugar-intake-by-10-a-year-after-it-was-introduced-as-experts-hail-the-policy-as-a-win-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Fizzy drinks tax helped us cut our sugar intake by 10% a year after it was introduced as experts hail the policy as a &#8216;win-win&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26186\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fizzy-drinks-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fizzy-drinks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fizzy-drinks-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fizzy-drinks-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fizzy-drinks.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Households consumed 10 per cent less sugar from soft drinks the year after the sugar tax was introduced in a major \u2018win-win\u2019 for public health.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9348695\/Fizzy-drinks-tax-helped-cut-sugar-intake-10-year.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Households consumed 10 per cent less sugar from soft drinks the year after the sugar tax was introduced in a major \u2018win-win\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fizzy-drinks.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27847,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27846\/revisions\/27847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}