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The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found. (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Okay now we are getting somewhere. It's admittedly carcinogenic but the dose is debatable. I think the revised threshold is 8 glasses of soft drink or 2L per day but seems to be dropping every few years