healthy weight, but the diets are also rich in fats, particularly saturated fats, sugars and sodium, and poor in fruits and … groups as well as the intermediate risks factors linked to these diets, such as overweight and obesity, high blood pressure …

evidence shows that they are interdependent, which implies that policies against smoking or obesity may have larger scope than … more effective than tobacco taxes at simultaneously fighting obesity and smoking. …

. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of food items while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and … vegetable items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral so the subsidy exactly offsets the revenue from the fat tax. A …. Results show that although the fat tax decreases saturated fat intake, consumption of other important nutrients is also …

. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of food items while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and … vegetable items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral so that the subsidy exactly offsets the revenue from the fat tax … policy. Results show that while the fat tax decreases saturated fat intake, consumption of other important nutrients is also …

evidence shows that they are interdependent, which implies that policies against smoking or obesity may have larger scope than … more effective than tobacco taxes at simultaneously fighting obesity and smoking. …

and/or salt are popularised for this segment. At the same time nearly 7 people die of obesity or from complications of … obesity in Hungary each hour – one every 9 minutes. Less than 10% of youth are of the belief of eating healthy and more then …

What would be the effect of a "fat tax" on obesity? This paper shows that the sign of the price-weight correlation is … snacks, and negative correlations for sea products and fruits. It is thus unlikely that the epidemic of obesity will react in …

tax-subsidy combination on different food groups. Using the methods derived from marginal tax reform theory, a formal … and approximate welfare measures of prices changes caused by a tax-subsidy combination. The distributional characteristics … reveal that many of the food groups target by a fat tax are consumed in greater concentration by low-income households than …