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Sugar and Diabetes in Postwar South Africa (2021)

Vaughan, Megan (Author)

UCL Press
Pages: 162-178
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv14t4769.11

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Soda and soda industry Diabetes Metabolism; physiological chemistry Nutrition; dietetics 20th century 21st century South Africa

In April 2018 South Africa joined a handful of countries that have introduced a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.¹ The implementation of the new levy was the culmination of a long campaign by activists, including public health professionals, and the growing evidence, derived from both local and international studies, of the relationship between sugar consumption (particularly sugary sweetened beverages or SSBs) and a range of health conditions. The South African evidence presented in the 2000s showed a marked increase in sugar consumption over the previous two decades and is often viewed as part of a larger ‘nutrition transition’ in the country

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