Photo via City Pages The USDA has recently been delving into the potential benefits of enacting a tax on sugary beverages like sodas and fruit juices. Clearly, there’s plenty to debate about such a tax — whether it would raise soda prices enough to discourage consumption, whether it would unfairly impact the poor, how much revenue it would raise, and whether it would actually make anyone healthier. Well, according to the USDA’s just-released study, it would at least do the latter — the projections show that a sugar tax on sweet drinks would reduce caloric intake from beverages by 13% in adults. For the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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National Soda Tax Would Make Americans 4% Less Fat
