Current Anti-Soda Strategies Not Curbing Childhood Obesity
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 08:35
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Efforts to curb childhood obesity through school vending machine restrictions and making soft drinks more expensive with low levels of additional taxation have had a negligible effect, to date, on the waistline of America`s youth, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The paper appears online in Health Affairs.