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Rich Britons retiring abroad are 'cheating' UK taxpayer of millions
guardian.co.uk, UK - Jun 15, 2008
A 50% tax charge would apply to income from savings above a fund cap of ?1.65m. The reforms, branded a "fat cats charter" at the time, were budgeted to cost ...
Walk to a Healthier You
Reader's Digest, NY - Jun 25, 2008
The result: Their blood pressure and cholesterol levels improved and the amount of body fat around their abdomen -- the dangerous kind of fat that leads to ...
The unfortunate hoi polloi
The Post, Pakistan - Jun 22, 2008
Moreover, there is a fat chance of government?s retreating from its adventurism into mismanagement. So it would not be a pushover to constrain the ...
VIEW: Economic benefits of disease control ?Dean T Jamison & Bj?rn ...
Daily Times, Pakistan - Jun 2, 2008
Measures to reduce risk factors other than smoking ? high intake of saturated animal fat, obesity, binge drinking of alcohol, physical inactivity, ...
The Poverty of Reaganism-Bushism
OpEdNews, PA - Jun 19, 2008
But even steering fat, no-bid, no supervision, secret contracts to favored corporations in order to pay for military hardware we don?t need, or services in ...
Unrealistic budgetary claims
The Nation, Pakistan, Pakistan - Jun 18, 2008
Moreover there is a fat chance of government's retreating from its adventurism into mismanagement. Given this situation, it would not be a pushover to ...
Grow your own future
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Jun 8, 2008
They ate less fat, meat, eggs and sugar. They made do. How did they cope with such deprivation? Infant mortality rates declined and the average age at which ...
Royal Bank of Scotland Puts a Scare into the Market?
istockAnalyst.com, OR - Jun 18, 2008
... rates to bail out the banks and prevent an economic hard-landing, (that's how we solve everything, print more wortheless US pesos and make sure the fat ...RBS - FDX
Soaring fuel costs ground airline profits
Toronto Star,  Canada - Jun 3, 2008
"There is no fat left," Bisignani said in a statement. As a result, IATA is now turning its focus to governments and pleading for action on a number of ...
WILL YOU OUT LIVE YOUR MONEY?
NewsWithViews.com, OR - Jun 18, 2008
How many of the 170 million adult aged Americans in this country understand our monetary system, fiat currency and the federal income tax scheme? ...
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Law as a Tool to Facilitate Healthier Lifestyles and Prevent Obesity -
LO Gostin - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007 - jama.waldenu.edu
... be used as a tool to prevent overweight and ... support, noting that food purchasing
patterns could be influenced ... 14 A fat tax is thought to be paternalistic and ...
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Conceptualizing the'Fat Tax': The Role of Food Taxes in Developed Economies -
J STRNAD - papers.ssrn.com
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[BOOK] The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Cause Heart Disease
U Ravnskov - 2000 - New Trends Publishing,

Gaining on fat -
WW Gibbs - Sci Am, 1996 - sciamdigital.com
... changing those conditions by levying a ?fat tax? on high ... next, West has proved that
the fat sensitivity is ... the chromosome segments on which they could lie. ...

[PDF] Fat is an economic issue! Combating chronic diseases in Europe -
G Rayner, M Rayner - Eurohealth, 2003 - epsl.asu.edu
... of processed foods and drinks with high fat, high salt ... sugar content, and a hypothecated
tax could contribute towards ... s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease ...
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Exploring a fiscal food policy: the case of diet and ischaemic heart disease -
T Marshall - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 2000 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... framework would be to extend value added tax (currently 17.5 ... and pastries, puddings,
and ice cream could be taxed ... raising, so intake of saturated fat would fall ...

Taxing food: implications for public health nutrition -
M Caraher, G Cowburn - Public Health Nutrition, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press
... a ?fat? tax, as some foods will naturally be high in fat and others ... 17 claimed that
the imposition of a fiscal food tax could help prevent 1000 deaths ...

[BOOK] Analyzing the Daily Risks of Life
R Wilson - 1979 - books.google.com
... do I use sugar which makes me fat and gives me ... insisting on better mine ventilation
to prevent black lung ... This tax could pay for medical care, for compensating ...

Attacking Obesity Lessons From Smoking -
A Garson, CL Engelhard - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2007 - Elsevier
... tax equal to the 42% cigarette tax, we could pay for ... 6 Bhatnager P. Burger, fries
and fast food tax to go? ... New guide reveals calories and fat in restaurant food ...

[CITATION] Living on the Fat of the Land: How to Have Your Burger and Sue It Too
JH Rogers - Wash. ULQ, 2003 - HeinOnline

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"Fat" Tax On Food Could Prevent 3000 Heart Attack And Stroke Deaths Every Year
Taxing certain foodstuffs in the UK could prevent up to 3200 deaths from heart attacks and stroke every year, suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health .

Value Added Tax (VAT), charged at 17.5%, is already applied to confectionery, ice cream, savoury snacks, and most drinks.

The authors assessed economic data on food consumption in the UK and applied a mathematical formula to calculate the likely impact of price rises on demand of a range of complementary foodstuffs.

They used three different approaches.
They first applied the tax to dairy products containing high levels of saturated fats, such as whole butter and cheese, baked goods, puddings.

In the second approach, they applied the tax to foods attracting an SSCg3d score of more than 9. This is a validated measure of the "healthiness" of a food. For example, spinach scores -12, while chocolate digestive biscuits score +29.

In the third approach they widened the range of foodstuffs taxed to cut fat, salt, and sugar intake for maximum health.

The calculations showed that applying VAT to foodstuffs high in saturated fats would increase salt intake instead, and could actually increase deaths from heart disease and stroke. It would also increase weekly household food expenditure by 3.2%.

Taxing foods attracting a high SSCg3d score would prevent around 2300 deaths a year and add 4% to weekly food bills.

Widening the range of foodstuffs for maximum health would boost weekly household food expenditure by 4.6% or £0.67 a person a week.

But it would prevent up to 3200 deaths from heart disease and stroke every year, equivalent to a drop of 1.7% across the nation.

The authors conclude that food taxes would change dietary habits and cut deaths from cardiovascular disease, but would need to be carefully targeted to prevent unhealthy compensatory behaviour in food choices.

"Could targeted food taxes improve health?"
J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61: 689-94
http://www.jech.bmj.com
 
 
 
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