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Sugar tax needed, say US experts

From the BBC. Sugar is as damaging and addictive as alcohol or tobacco and should be regulated, claim US health experts. According to a University of California team, new policies such as taxes are needed to control soaring consumption of sugar and sweeteners. Prof Robert Lustig argues in the journal Nature for major shifts in [...]

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Jimmy Steele’s Report 1) It’s out

By alun | June 22, 2009

The report has been released today (all 88 pages of it) and will be available from the DoH website & here ASAP.

Download from here.

Some comments:

BBC

HSJ

I’m afraid that this will make very little difference to the provision of NHS care. The fact remains that the provision of dentistry is expensive and the repeated attempts of HMG to prove otherwise is only done to the detriment of the dental health of the “public”.

I’ll write more when I have read the report fully.

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