FRANCE EYES FOOD TAX TO COMBAT OBESITY
September 1st, 2016
Taxing high-calorie or lower nutritional quality foods would reduce France’s growing obesity problem, a study released on September 1 by Trésor (the Treasury), an economics and finance ministry agency, has concluded.
The ‘Obesity: what economic consequences and how can we limit them?’ report argued obesity cost France EUR20.4 billion in healthcare costs in 2012 – with 15% of the population obese and 32.3% overweight.
Drawing on the experience of the high-calorie food tax imposed by Mexico in 2014, the treasury said: “Nutritional taxes are the only ...
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