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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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[–] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 months ago (7 children)

So is there study that would have looked into how much of the sugar was just replaced with other sweeteners? Or how much soda consumption itself has changed?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

What's wrong with other sweeteners?

[–] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

Most sweeteners have their own health risks. Generally probably still better than sugar, but just moving to sweeteners isn't all sunshine and happiness.

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